Summer Reads

Richard Dawkins’s classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution.   The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous...

From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the...

Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so...

This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology.Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal in love,...

"A profoundly intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain." —Oliver Sacks   In this landmark work, V. S. Ramachandran investigates strange, unforgettable cases—from patients who believe they are dead to sufferers of phantom limb...

“Cameron’s books are riveting page-turners.” —Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe bestselling author of the latest Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan novels delivers an adrenaline-filled new thriller featuring Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter!...

A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company—Chrysalis—whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live . . . and possibly introducing a catastrophic...

Don't you wish there were a word that combined "lark," "escapade," "hijinks," and "mischief?" Give us some wiggle room to use two—Stephanie Plum. Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum is pictured under each of those definitions in the dictionary. Have fun. We...

(Available after November 30th, 2022)LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale”—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard...

(Available after October 30th, 2022)In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell’s #1 bestselling series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself a reluctant star witness in a sensational televised murder trial causing chaos in...

(Available after October 30th, 2022)Killer twists. Heroes to believe in. Trust Baldacci.Memory man FBI agent, Amos Decker, returns in this action-packed thriller to investigate the mysterious and brutal murder of a federal judge and her bodyguard at her...

The fiftieth anniversary edition of the National Book Award–winning bestseller that is the definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II. This special edition now features a new introduction by Ron Rosenbaum,...

America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time...

On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenager named Gavrilo Princip took a pistol out of his pocket and fired the opening rounds of the First World War. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo...

(Available after 3-20 days) Is age really just a number? Alice McAllister is a successful solicitor who likes a quiet, disciplined life. But when her business partner Miranda forces her to take a vacation at her holiday home in Portugal, the presence of...

(Available after 3-20 days) Two women lose the man they love. All they have left is each other. Sophie’s life is turned upside down when her partner, Ian, dies in a tragic accident. The only one who can understand her devastation is Ian’s stepmother,...

(Available after 3-20 days) What if the greatest role of your life is playing your true self?   Ida Burton used to be Hollywood's sweetheart until the best roles started drying up in her forties.   When Ida lands one of the leads in a big-budget...

(Available after 3-20 days) She should have kissed her...   The Lady Kings and their singer, Lana Lynch, have been out of the limelight since Lana's partner's sudden death ten years ago. They're ready for an epic comeback tour, but have to take a young...

(Available after 3-20 days)Leigh Sterling and Jodie Whitehouse share a deep love and extreme passion in the bedroom. But when Jodie's desire for a child becomes inevitable, it clashes with Leigh's career ambitions as well as with her lack of maternal...