Summer Reads

Navier Ellie Trovi was the lifelong companion of Sovieshu, the emperor of the Eastern Empire, with whom she spent her youth discussing the empire they would build together. She was intelligent, compassionate, and courageous. She was the perfect empress...

“WHAT IF I’M ABANDONED YET AGAIN?”Thanks to the boisterous Carsein and her new imperial bodyguards, Aristia is able to put her desperation aside and find her smile again. But when the dreaded invitation to the crown prince’s coming-of-age ceremony...

Singer, songwriter, poet, painter, award-winning author, and extremely influential figure in the NYC punk movement, Patti Smith is an icon whose voice is a constant source of wisdom and inspiration, a voice which she shares beautifully throughout this...

This is an important, harrowing and ultimately hopeful memoir about the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War as told through the diary entries of a young Ukrainian girl. An inspiring memoir of resilience by a young survivor of the war in Ukraine, as told...

(Available after November 30th, 2022)Rock legend, activist, icon. Here, Bono invites readers in for the whole story. From his childhood in Dublin to the origin, rise and success of U2, his ongoing philanthropy, and his activism throughout the world...

(Available after December 30th, 2022) For fans of The Black Kids, We Deserve Monuments is an astounding YA debut about intergenerational trauma, first love, and how far the past can bury the truth. With a riveting mystery that will leave you breathless...

From the author of the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike books comes the first instalment in a wartime-set mystery series featuring two resourceful children desperate to be taken on as spies for the titular government ministry.   The start of a...

In this electrifying follow-up to Kwame Alexander's Newbery winner The Crossover, soccer, family, love, and friendship take center stage. A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Longlist nominee.   Twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of...

We confess, we got a little spoiled in 2021 with the release of not one but TWO Penny penned books. A year is complete when we know we are going to spend some time with Armand Gamache. A World of Curiosities continues Penny’s empathetic investigation...

Known as the foremost director of atmospheric thriller films, this is Mann's first crime novel, co-written with Edgar Award-winning writer, Meg Gardiner. To this day, images from the 1995 movie, Heat, with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro, still linger. That...

We had to wait three years between Kruger's 17th and 18th books in the Cork O'Connor series. Luckily, we've got the next in the series now! A year later. We've said this before and we will continue to say it, "the Cork O'Connor series is intriguing,...

A debut for the many fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime and The Thursday Murder Club, readers must be prepared to run around and solve this fatal mystery with the unflappable Molly Gray. For every...

Gullah Geechee cuisine is a prominent, yet too-often unsung, part of Southern food culture. Meggett's cookbook is one of the first major and comprehensive books on the subject and will fill a void in the history of American cookbooks. Stunning...

Experience the delectable down-home Southern food from chef Mason Hereford’s awarding-winning New Orleans restaurant Turkey and the Wolf from your kitchen! Mason’s style is irreverent, fun, and joyful, filled with total delight for high-end ingredients...

This is an homage to what it means to be Korean American explores how new culinary traditions can be forged to honor both past and present. In this book of recipes and thoughtful insights, especially about his mother, Jean, Eric Kim divulges not only...

One of The New Yorker’s “The Best Books We Read in 2020” picks“Jones’s great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.”—Anna Wiener, The New YorkerThe new edition of an American...

In a riveting debut thriller, Brian Freeman's Immoral weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first page to the last.Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering from an...

This book is about the way the world really works. Certain unseen principles control the translation of our desires to reality. These lie in the power of your mind. They are laid out here clearly and straightforwardly: Follow the process; success will be...

Having a clear, compelling vision—and getting buy-in from your team—is essential to effective leadership. If you don't know where you're going, how on earth will you get there? But how do you craft that vision? How do you get others on board? And how do...

In this enchanting new read in the fan-favorite series from a USA Today bestselling author, garda of County Cork, Ireland, Siobhán O’Sullivan and Macdaras Flannery, are about to get married at last. But just as the rowdy O’Sullivan brood and all the...