Summer Reads

When Hidden Tragedies Surface On Their Own... Ethan Frome is set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The...

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cruickshank. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially...

Thomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to Jude the Obscure, but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This...

The runaway bestseller with more than four million copies in print! You too can change your life with the priceless wisdom of ten ancient scrolls handed down for thousands of years.“Every sales manager should read The Greatest Salesman in the World. It...

As featured in the bestselling book The Secret, here is the landmark guide to wealth creation republished with the classic essay “How to Get What You Want.”  Wallace D. Wattles spent a lifetime considering the laws of success as he found them in the work...

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, a revised and updated edition of Jack Canfield’s classic bestseller with a brand new foreword and an afterword for succeeding in the digital age.   Since its publication a decade ago, Jack Canfield’s practical and...

The athlete's go-to guide for creating mental strength and achieving peak performance. Even among the most elite performers, certain athletes stand out as a cut above the rest, able to outperform in clutch, game-deciding moments. These athletes prove...

Acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella has advised everyone from professional golfers to NBA superstars to business executives on how to flourish under pressure and overcome challenges. "Rotella's philosophy is astonishingly simple...his success rate....

Educational practice does not, for the most part, rely on research findings. Instead, there's a preference for relying on our intuitions about what's best for learning. But relying on intuition may be a bad idea for teachers and learners alike.   This...

(Available after 3-20 days)Experience the ultimate habit formation strategy. No two days are the same. By making your habits elastic, you can adapt to conquer every unique day of your life. You will still be surprised by the crazy happenings of life, no...

(Available after 3-20 days) This ONE skill is the basis of your ability to think critically. Do you know what it is? It's the ability to ask the RIGHT questions.   What is life if not filled with questions?   There was a time you took for granted the...

(Available after 3-20 days) It was the most fashionable place to stay in London, until murder made a reservation. Solve the puzzle in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series.   December 1899. After the death of...

(Available after 3-20 days) Skelm Island, Maine has always been known for two things: lobsters and its broken lighthouse.   But when corpses start showing up in the water, the isolated town becomes the face of a cryptic investigation.   At the heart of...

(Available after 3-20 days)  Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and social outgoing twin, Pamela. But as the twins approached adolescence, Pamela began to succumb to schizophrenia,...

This is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my bones, through my blood and flesh to the bones of truth and country; there is truth here, not disguised but in the open and that truth hurts...

(Available after 3-20 days) Lily It's been almost two years since the collapse. Two years since aliens invaded, bombs were dropped, and earth was thrust into an apocalypse. Those of us trying to survive have bound together at the barracks, slowly trying...

USA Today bestselling author Liz Talley’s emotional and heart-lifting novel about facing the past, unconditional love, and a woman on the verge of a breakthrough.   After another all-night bender, one more failed stint at rehab, and a parole violation,...

(Available after 3-20 days)Lady Iolanthe of Rockmourn Keep expects to be a spinster all her days. She is very tall. She is very poor. And she is thirty. What lord could possibly want her?But then her father returns with news that he has found a...

There is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.Clara Morrow's husband is missing. When he fails to come home on the first anniversary of their separation, as promised, Clara asks...

In this charming new cozy mystery series from national bestselling author Vicki Delany, a New York City expat-turned-Cape Cod tea shop owner must solve the murder of a local real estate developer to help her feisty grandmother out of a jam . . . As the...