The Devil Reached Toward the Sky
By Garrett M. Graff
Marking the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Masterfully blended memories and perspectives from over 25 oral history archives across the US, Japan, and Europe, including the haunting stories of those at ground zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Let’s Call Her Barbie
By Renée Rosen
She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. In 1956, the only dolls on the market for little girls let them pretend to be mothers. One woman’s vision for a doll shaped like a grown woman and outfitted in an enviable wardrobe will let them dream that they can be anything.
Sunrise on the Reaping
By Suzanne Collins
When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.
Mark Twain
By Ron Chernow
The full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain, is illustrated more than one hundred years after his death, revealing the magnificent and often maddening life of one of the most original characters in American history.
A Walk in the Park
By Kevin Fedarko
The Grand Canyon is an American treasure, with many of its 6 million annual visitors rendered speechless by its vast beauty, mystery, and complexity. Fedarko chronicles his year-long effort to find a 750-mile path along the length of this incredible masterpiece, through a vertical wilderness suspended between the caprock along the rims of the abyss and the Colorado River down below.
A Marriage at Sea
By Sophie Elmhirst
This is the electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits. An adrenaline-fueled high seas adventure is paired with a gutting love story that asks why we love difficult people, and who we become under the most extreme conditions imaginable.
Poems & Prayers
By Matthew McConaughey
From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Time bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief.
People We Meet On Vacation
By Emily Henry
Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. They vacation together one more time in hopes of saving their relationship.
Mona’s Eyes
By Thomas Schlesser
A vivid exploration of art through a young girl’s museum adventures with her beloved grandfather. Ten-year-old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory “all that is beautiful in the world” before Mona loses her sight forever.
Beyond Anxiety
By Martha Beck
A new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity within, Beck provides instructions for engaging the “creativity spiral,” in a process that not only shuts down anxiety but leads to innovative problem solving, a sense of meaning and purpose, and joyful, intimate connection with others — and with the world.
