Summer Reads

"Hard pass on that guy, right?"Mackenzie "Mac" Austin just wants what any modern, commitment-phobic woman in New York City wants: a no-strings-attached hookup steamy enough to brag about over brunch mimosas the next morning. Not on Mac's list of wants is...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, a moving tale of forbidden love and extraordinary courage in the face of disaster.Eighteen-year-old Niri and his family live a modest but secure life working in the villa of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Christmas is the season of the heart, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber is here to warm yours with a delightful holiday novel of first impressions and second chances.Merry Knight is pretty busy these...

Introduction by Amal Clooney   From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account.  Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades,...

How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list? What equations should you use to decorate the Christmas tree? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner—shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole...

"If you're ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [his lessons inspire] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."—LA WeeklyJohn Truby is one of the most...

(Available after 3-20 days)The answers lie within.Boarding school student Talia Morris has no idea her boyfriend, Nathaniel, is a Mystic, let alone second in line to the throne of a secretive, aspirational magical community—one no mortal has ever been...

(Available after 3-20 days) For those wondering what Agatha Christie thought about the holidays and winter, in general, tuck into a hot beverage and this collection of stories. And leave the front porch light on. INSTANT NEW YORK...

In this joyous and warm-hearted first part of the Tiffany Aching Series, we meet an aspiring young witch, whom her brother’s sudden disappearance propels into full-blooded sorcery action. Part of the phenomenal Discworld novels, The Wee Free Men brims...

EVERY LAND NEEDS ITS OWN WITCH.There's a monster in the river, a headless horsemen in the drive. And now Granny Aching has gone, there's only young Tiffany Aching left to guard the boundaries.It's her land. Her duty.But it's amazing how useful a horde of...

(Available after 3-20 days)A Time Magazine 100 Best YA Books of All Time SelectionThe tour de force that set the gold standard for dystopian YA fiction — in a compelling paperback edition.For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip...

The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval EnglandMedieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed...

(Available after December 30th, 2022)In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which...

“Truly a great book—unique, invaluable and unapproachable as the gold standard of the genre… Bemelmans got there first, more frequently, and better.” —Anthony BourdainAcerbic, colorful, and spirited stories from a bygone era: behind the scenes in a grand...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorized biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor.   No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor’s glamour and guts or her...

The fully authorized and official biography of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, one of the world’s most revered and celebrated musicians of the last half century.   Forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Charlie Watts was one of the...

Instant New York Times bestseller The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as...

(Available after January 30th, 2023) The author of Diana: Her True Story and Elizabeth and Margaret delivers a typically robust assessment of both The Queen's professional and personal life, identifying the recurring theme of divorce - from Edward VIII...

(Available after 3-20 days)“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!”—Valerie BertinelliFrom the bestselling author and host of the wildly...

"Sullivan remains the critic American journalism requires, a veteran practitioner with street cred, still in touch with the ‘unaccountable joy’ of reporting and writing that continues to draw talented young people to the field.” —Steve Coll, The New York...