Summer Reads

How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian...

In this Freak 'how-to' guide, the mavericks behind the Freakonomics phenomenon teach you their secrets: how to challenge conventional wisdom, unravel life's secret codes and think differently - that is, think like a Freak. Levitt and Dubner see the world...

The world's greatest mental mathematical magician takes us on a spellbinding journey through the wonders of numbers (and more)"Arthur Benjamin . . . joyfully shows you how to make nature's numbers dance." — Bill Nye (the science guy)The Magic of Math is...

(Available after 3-20 days) A book that “speak[s] volumes about our need for connection—human, feline or otherwise” (The San Francisco Chronicle), The Travelling Cat Chronicles is a life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice that shows how the...

(Available after 3-20 days)Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years,...

Selene Ravenwood, once the heir to House Ravenwood, is now an exile. On the run and free of her family's destiny, Selene hopes to find the real reason her family was given the gift of dreamwalking. But first she must adapt to her new life as wife to Lord...

Lady Selene Ravenwood has come into her full power as a dreamwalker just as the war with the Dominia Empire begins. Working with the other Great Houses, Selene and Damien use their gifts to secure the borders and save those devastated by the war. But...

In Creativity and Taoism, Chang Chung-yuan makes the elusive principle of Tao available to the western mind with objectivity, warmth, and depth of insight. It is an important contribution to the task of making the Taoist wisdom accessible to the western...

Part of the elegant Timeless Classics series, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is comprised of 4 full-length novels and 56 short stories featuring the world's most famous pipe-smoking detective. For Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide, this stunning hardcover...

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize   A dark, haunting masterpiece by the author of The Melancholy of Resistance and Seiobo There Below Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that...

2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALIST In Colombia’s brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. “The magic of this sparse novel is its ability to talk about many...

Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeA major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literatureCan Xue’s stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is...

“You’re going to want to share copies of this book with your overbooked friends and colleagues, but before you do, take some time to read it yourself. Funt’s wisdom around making space is priceless.” —Seth Godin, author of The Practice   Do you wish you...

A New York Times bestseller, Scary Close is Donald Miller at his best.   Scary Close is a book about the risk involved in choosing to impress fewer people and connect with more; the freedom that comes when we stop acting and start loving; and knocking...

In Searching for God Knows What, best-selling author Donald Miller invites you to reconnect with a faith worth believing. With humor, intelligence, and his trademark writing style, he shows that relationship is God’s way of leading us to redemption. And...

Lester and his friends travel to the American Midwest in Book Two of Rick Riordan's uproarious Trials of Apollo series, now in paperback."A clash of mythic intrigues and centuries of pop culture to thrill die-hard and new fans alike."—Kirkus...

The first book in Chris Colfer's #1 New York Times bestselling series The Land of Stories about two siblings who fall into a fairy-tale world! Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our...

The first book in Rick Riordan's #1 New York Times best-selling Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series, based on Norse mythology, is now available in paperback.“The Sword of Summer is a propulsive, kinetic, witty rebooting of Norse mythology with all...

Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost. It has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHORA can't-live-without guide for guests of the Hotel Valhalla, this volume contains facts about the Norse gods as well as other characters and creatures you might encounter if you are fortunate enough to be chosen as...