Teens and pre-teens flock to any new offering from New York Times best-selling author Gordon Korman. Told through multiple viewpoints, Ungifted follows Donovan Curtis through his year at a magnet school for gifted and talented kids. Thanks to an admi...

Ungifted

The godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a super family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using trust, respect, independence, collaboration, and kindness: TRICK.  Esther Wojci...

How to Raise Successful People

Having returned to Chicago, young socialite Anna Nicholson can't seem to focus on her upcoming marriage. The new information she's learned about her birth mother continues to pull at her, and she hires Pinkerton detectives to help her find the truth....

Legacy of Mercy

The author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first and second women to serve as Supreme Court justices.  The relationship between Sandra Day O'Connor and...

Sisters in Law

From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution and how it will change our lives.  A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telepho...

The Age of Living Machines

Temple Grandin’s professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have given her a perspective like that of no other expert in the field. Grandin and coauthor Catherine Johnson present their powerful theory that au...

Animals in Translation

The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families - many US citizens - were incarcerated.  From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians f...

The Train to Crystal City

A funny and deeply felt novel that illuminates the pivotal role of work in our lives - a riveting fusion of The Nest, Up in the Air, and Then We Came to the End that captures the emotional complexities of five HR colleagues trying to balance ambition...

This Could Hurt

With her best-selling mix of thrilling twists and characters to cheer for, Fern Michaels delves inside Washington, D.C.'s halls of power - and into the heart of an independent woman driven by passion and bound by duty.  Raised by her loving but eccen...

The Real Deal

Lucy Baker walks away from her high-flying legal career when she successfully defends yet another heinous criminal. Almost a year after her life-changing decision, Lucy has never been happier. Leaving New York City for the suburbs, tending her garden...

The Nosy Neighbor

A sequel to the best-selling, much-beloved Wish You Were Here, Stewart O'Nan's intimate new novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose grown children have long moved away. She dreams of vists by her grandchildren while mourning the turnover of her qu...

Emily, Alone

From the coauthor of the million-copy best seller The Last Lecture comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of 11 girls and the 10 women they became.  Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who formed a special bo...

The Girls from Ames

New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw.  The phone rings; the doctor has the results. "Are you ready, Amanda?"...

Mercies in Disguise

In A Table by the Window, best-selling Christian author Lawana Blackwell combines inspiration and intrigue. Carley Reed didn't have an easy childhood, but now, as a settled adult living in San Francisco, she has managed to make a peaceful life for herself. Everything turns upside down, though, one morning when a private investigator finds her and informs her that she has inherited her grandmother's house in a small town in Mississippi.

A Table by the Window

In this Romantic Times Top Pick, Christy Award finalist Linda Nichols follows the wanderings of Miranda DeSpain, a young woman still haunted by a painful adolescent experience. When Miranda finds a clue to this troubling mystery from her past, she tr...

In Search of Eden

"Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided 20th-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post...

American Mirror

Roberta Kaplan's gripping story of her defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) before the Supreme Court.  Attorney Roberta Kaplan knew it was the perfect case. Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had stayed together, for better or worse, for 44 years - ...

Then Comes Marriage

Since employees who walk out the door cost their companies up to 200 percent of their annual salaries to replace, retention is one of the most important issues facing businesses today. And with so many surveys reporting that employees are unhappy and...

Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, Fifth Edition

A dramatic untold "people’s history" of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution  The story of the Boston Massacre - when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death - is familiar to generation...

The Boston Massacre

Author of the award-winning novel Finn, Jon Clinch has drawn favorable comparisons to William Faulkner. With Kings of the Earth, he takes listeners to an upstate New York farm where the three Procter brothers live in stasis. When one dies in his sleep, the other two are soon suspected of murder.

Kings of the Earth

USA Today best-selling author Stef Ann Holm's Leaving Normal features the growing relationship between two divorced neighbors. After ending her marriage, 43-year-old Natalie Goodwin opens the floral shop of her dreams. But pouring all of her energy i...

Leaving Normal

One of the nation's chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience.  Takin...

Welcome to Your World

Vicki Myron follows up her number-one New York Times best-seller Dewey with stories of cats who inspire their owners and includes two brand-new Dewey stories!   Dewey's Nine Lives offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats - al...

Dewey's Nine Lives

Random House presents the audiobook edition of How to Raise Successful People written by Esther Wojcicki, read by Andrea Gallo. Being a parent is complicated - but the trick to succeed is simpler than you think. There are no Nobel Prizes for parentin...

From a contemporary master of the short story, a dazzling new collection--his first in 15 years--that explores the unpredictable and mysterious in seemingly ordinary experience.  These interrelated stories are arranged in two sections, one devoted to...

There's Something I Want You to Do

On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds - the largest and most unusual parrots on earth - have suffered devastating population loss. Now,...

Kakapo Rescue

The fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell has been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the AWP Award for Short Fiction, and Southern Review’s Eudora Welty Prize. In this stunning collection - a National Book Award finalist - Campbell’s rural Michigan characters...

American Salvage

Award-winning author Helen Frost takes us into the breathtaking Alaskan winter landscape in this thrilling adventure with a touch of fantasy. Twelve-year-old Willow - whose heritage is both Athabascan Indian and European - wants nothing more than to ...

Diamond Willow

Discover a "compelling" and revelatory framework for setting and achieving your goals (Carol Dweck, author of Mindset), from a psychologist on the cutting edge of motivational science.   A great deal of ink has been spilled on the subject of motivati...

Get It Done

A revealing biography of Lady Bird Johnson with startling new insights into her marriage to Lyndon Baines Johnson and her unexpectedly strong impact on his presidency.  Long obscured by her husband's shadow, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson emerges in thi...

Lady Bird

After a violent incident with a patient leaves scars on both her mind and body, psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Levine craves isolation. A radio talk-show host seems to be the perfect profession, a job where she can help people from a distance while staying ...

Only Fear

The story of a dog so brave he saved lives and won hearts. This is the true heart-warming story of Stubby, a small, stump-tailed terrier who fought alongside Allied forces on the Western Front during World War I. This brave and clever dog could detec...

Stubby the War Dog

In the summer of 1969, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel carried out horrific acts of butchery on the orders of the charismatic cult leader Charles Manson. At their murder trial the following year, lead prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi described t...

The Manson Women and Me

A captivating memoir of one woman's extraordinary upbringing and her search for redemption in the face of staggering tragedy.  Kelly Carlisle was three weeks old when her mother was strangled in downtown Los Angeles, leaving Kelly in the care of her ...

We Are All Shipwrecks

Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host and New York Times best-selling author of Knowing Your Value, has built a career on inspiring women to assess and then obtain their true value in the workplace. In her books and in her conferences, Mika gives wome...

Grow Your Value

Did you know your brain has superpowers? Berit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow study people with astonishing talents - memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos, math geniuses, and synesthetes who taste colors and hear faces. But as ...

The Superhuman Mind

The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs. In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with...

Animals Make Us Human

A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate. When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in 88 children diagnosed on the s...

The Autistic Brain

Best known for her debut novel, How to Be an American Housewife, Margaret Dilloway is a John Gardner Fiction Book Award finalist. In The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns, 36-year-old Gal Garner lives according to a strict plan. Only happy when caring for her roses, she dreams of one day bringing her own variety to market. But when her teenage niece arrives for an unexpected visit, the organization of Gal’s life evaporates.

The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns

An incisive examination of bioethics and American healthcare, and their profound affects on American culture over the last 60 years, from two eminent scholars.  An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medic...

Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die

While the global economy languishes, one place just keeps growing despite failing banks, uncertain markets, and high unemployment: Silicon Valley. In the last two years, more than 100 incubators have popped up there, and the number of angel investors...

Secrets of Silicon Valley

Patti Hill crafts inspirational tales of romance that critics and fans call "charming, touching, encouraging, affirming, quaint, funny, and poignant." Always Green continues the spiritual journey that began in Like a Watered Garden.  A self-employed landscape gardener, Mibby Garrett is raising her teenage son and struggling to make ends meet. What she really wants is plenty of prayer and more of her mother's fragrant French toast.

Always Green

After Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, over 100,000 Japanese Americans were ordered to leave their homes. The government was afraid that because they looked like “the enemy,” they might be spies. One American, librarian Clara Breed, was heartbrok...

Dear Miss Breed

First-time novelist Patti Hill has won over critics with this appealing look at a widow's efforts to keep her life together and her faith strong. Owner of Perennially YoursGarden Design, Mibby Garrett loves her eccentric customers and her teenage son. She will need much support, though, when she finds out an intriguing secret about her former husband's past - he had a daughter he never told Mibby about.

Like a Watered Garden

The untold story of the mother and daughter who opened the door to Emily Dickinson's poetry. Emily Dickinson may be the most widely read and beloved of all American poets, but the story behind her work's initial, posthumous publication in 1890 and th...

After Emily

Over the last 20 years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, pandemic. New Yorkers is a grand portrait of the irrepressible city and a hymn to the vitality and resilience of its pe...

New Yorkers

A compelling exploration of how reputation affects every aspect of contemporary life  Reputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded in mystery. Why is it so powerful when the criteri...

Reputation

The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.  In 1934, Irene Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery tha...

Radioactive!

Another "dazzling epic" from the author of Brilliant, exploring an overlooked yet elemental force in our lives - silence - from contemporary Cistercian monks to an extraordinary 19th-century prison. The author of the "dazzling epic" (Lev Grossman, Ti...

Silence

People have always been curious about what it feels like to die, but with all the medical testing available today, it is estimated that 90% of all Americans will die after living for weeks, months, or even years with the knowledge that they have a fa...

What Does It Feel Like to Die?

Officer Zoe is busy training new recruits when one of her cadets is found dead and violated. Teaming with the FBI, Zoe tries to bring the villain to justice while searching for her husband, who has mysteriously disappeared.

Dark Blue Death

The inspiring, true story of the first female pilots taking their rightful place in the exciting world of aviation.  In 1929, 19 gutsy women blazed out of the darkness by setting out from California in propeller-driven planes, each competing to be th...

Sky Girls

If we face America’s racial history squarely, will it mean that the American project is a failure? Conversely, if we think the American project is a worthy endeavor, do we have to lie, downplay, or equivocate about our past?   In this book, we use th...

Black Liberation Through the Marketplace

In 1926, before skirt lengths inched above the knee and before anyone was ready to accept that a woman could test herself physically, a plucky American teenager named Trudy Ederle captured the imagination of the world when she became the first woman ...

Young Woman and the Sea

While obvious on the surface, understanding the subtle difference between a life journey to "somewhere" and a life journey to "somewhere you desire to be" will determine how satisfied you are with your life and the decisions you make along the way. J...

Start Here

2021, The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people - from the best-selling author of Londoners. In the first 20 years of the 21st century, New York City has been convulsed ...

Terror Blackout Hurricane  Recession Pandemic A symphony of contemporary New York told through the magnificent words of its people - from the best-selling author of Londoners. In the first 20 years of the 21st century, New York City has been convulse...

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