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Dead Letters : An Anthology of the Undelivered, the Missing, the Returned...
by Conrad Williams
The Dead Letters Office: the final repository of the undelivered. Love missives unread, gifts unreceived, lost in postal limbo. Dead Letters: An Anthology features new stories from the masters of horror, fantasy and speculative fiction, each inspired by an inhabitant of the Dead Letters Office, including tales from Joanne Harris, China Miéville & Maria Dahvana Headley, Adam LG Nevill and Michael Marshall Smith.
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Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
by Becky Chambers
Joining the crew of the aging Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that has seen better days, loner Rosemary Harper must unexpectedly risk her life when they are offered the job of a lifetime, which teaches her valuable lessons about love and trust, and that having a family isn't the worst thing in the universe.
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Nora Webster
by Colm Tóibín
Struggling with grief and financial hardships after the death of her beloved husband, widow Nora Webster struggles to support her four children and clings to secrecy in the intrusive community of her childhood before finding her voice
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Pachinko : A Novel
by Min Jin Lee
In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and move with her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question.
The narrator of this Book on Compact Disc is Allison Hiroto.
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Scythe
by Neal Shusterman
Forced to become trained killers in a disease-free world where people can only die if eliminated by professional assassins, teens Citra and Rowan reluctantly train under a master reaper who informs them that the one who successfully kills the other will become his apprentice.
By the best-selling author of the Unwind dystology.
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Salt to the Sea : A Novel
by Ruta Sepetys
Frantically racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive.
By the award-winning author of Out of the Easy.
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union : A Novel
by Michael Chabon
An alternate historical work based on a premise that Alaska became the Jewish homeland after World War II finds detective Meyer Landsman investigating a heroin-addicted chess prodigy's murder, a case with ties to an extremist Orthodox sect.
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Brief History of Time
by Stephen W. Hawking
Updated throughout, a tenth anniversary edition of a now-classic survey of the origin and nature of the universe features a new introduction by the author and a new chapter on the possibility of time travel and "wormholes" in space.
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Climate Changed : A Personal Journey Through the Science
by Philippe Squarzoni
A graphic novel offers an up-to-date look at our planet and how we live on it and explains what global warming is all about. What are the causes and consequences of climate change? When the scale is so big, can an individual make any difference? Documentary, diary, and masterwork graphic novel, this up-to-date look at our planet and how we live on it explains what global warming is all about. With the most complicated concepts made clear by investigative journalist and artist Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Changed weaves together scientific research, extensive interviews with experts, and a call for action.
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Commanding Voices of Blue & Gray : General William T. Sherman, General George Custer, General James Longstreet, & Major J.S. Mosby, Among Others, in Their Own Words
by Brian M. Thomsen
Documents the Civil War as experienced by the commanders on both sides, in an anthology that features the writings of such figures as Sherman, McClellan, Mosby, Longstreet, Custer, and others.
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Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness,Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean
Explores intriguing tales about every element of the periodic table, sharing their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, evil, love, the arts, and the lives of the colorful scientists who discovered them.
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I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
by Caitlin Alifirenka
Traces the friendship between an American girl and her pen pal from an impoverished region of Zimbabwe, describing how 12-year-old Caitlin wrote to an unknown student for a class assignment and shared a life-changing six-year correspondence. Simultaneous eBook. 35,000 first printing.
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