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American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Bird, Kai.

Paper Book

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER * "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The definitive biography of J. Robert...

Any day now

Carr, Robyn.

Ebook

Sullivan's Crossing series book 2

Apples never fall

Moriarty, Liane

Paper Book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty is back with a novel that looks at marriage, sibling rivalry, and the lies we tell others and ourselves. Apples Never Fall is the work of a writer at the top of her game. The Delaney family love one another dearly...

Argylle

Conway, Elly

Paper Book

'An excellent action-thriller' Daily Telegraph 'The action never lets up for a moment' Daily Mail 'Very entertaining' Guardian 'An old-fashioned blockbuster...Conway writes with brio and ambition' Financial Times ...

Bad luck and trouble

Child, Lee

Paper Book

The inspiration for season two of the hit streaming series Reacher! This thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series follows Jack Reacher as he plunges into a terrifying conspiracy. From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent...

The best of us

Carr, Robyn

Paper Book

A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Sullivan's Crossing NovelDr. Leigh Culver loves practicing medicine in Timberlake, Colorado, but she misses her aunt Helen, who lovingly raised her after she was orphaned. After retiring from teaching, Helen has become a successful mystery writer who loves to...

Sullivan's Crossing series book 4

Book Club kete. Black cake

Wilkerson, Charmaine

Paper Book

Crossing continents and juggling lives, Black Cake is a powerful story of love and loss, kinship and separation, heartache and hope, spanning sixty years in the life of one family THE INSTANT NO. 2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **Featured on Barack...

The boys in the boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Brown, Daniel James

Paper Book

Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany--from the author of Facing the Mountain. For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the...

The Duke and I

Quinn, Julia

Paper Book

A #1 New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Daphne Bridgerton, in the first of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created...

Bridgerton series book 1

Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era

Leamer, Laurence

Paper Book

DON'T MISS FX's FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS--THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK--NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU! New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman...

The changeling : a novel

LaValle, Victor D.

Paper Book

"[This] haunting tale weaves a mesmerizing web around fatherhood, racism, horrific anxieties and even To Kill a Mockingbird. And the backdrop for this rich phantasmagoria? The boroughs of New York."--The New York Times Winner of an American Book Award, a...

The color purple

Walker, Alice

Paper Book

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence. With a new Preface by the author.

The country guesthouse

Carr, Robyn

Paper Book

From the Bestselling Author of the hit Netflix series, Virgin River #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr delivers an emotional and triumphant novel about the fierce power of a mother's love. A summer rental, a new beginning... ...

Sullivan's Crossing series book 5

Daisy Jones & the Six : a novel

Reid, Taylor Jenkins

Paper Book

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup--from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu...

Dear Edward

Napolitano, Ann

Paper Book

A heart-wrenching, life-affirming novel alternating between the story of the passengers aboard an airplane hurtling toward a deadly crash and the coming of age of the flight's only survivor, a 12-year-old boy. One summer morning, Flight 2977 takes off from Newark Airport headed for Los...

Dune

Herbert, Frank

Paper Book

* DUNE: PART TWO * THE MAJOR MOTION PICTUREDirected by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert * Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh...

Eileen

Moshfegh, Ottessa

Paper Book

Now a major motion picture streaming on Hulu, starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize "Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing, always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious. Its first...

Erasure

Everett, Percival L.

Paper Book

Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has...

The expatriates : a novel

Lee, Janice Y. K

Paper Book

"Raise a glass: The first great book-club novel of 2016 has arrived." --USA Today, 4/4 stars "A female, funny Henry James in Asia, Janice Y. K. Lee is vividly good on the subject of Americans abroad." --The New York Times Book Review "Sex...

Find a way

Nyad, Diana.

Paper Book

Hillary Clinton said that Find a Way would stay with her through the general election: "When you're facing big challenges in your life, you can think about Diana Nyad getting attacked by the lethal sting of box jellyfishes. And nearly anything else seems doable in comparison."...

Fool me once

Coben, Harlan

Paper Book

#1 New York Times bestseller Harlan Coben delivers his next impossible-to-put-down thriller. You think you know the truth. The truth you know is nothing. In the course of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, millions of...

Foundation

Asimov, Isaac

Paper Book

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one that shaped...

A gentleman in Moscow

Towles, Amor

Paper Book

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers * A New York Times "Readers' Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century" Pick From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a...

It's in his kiss

Quinn, Julia

Paper Book

Meet Our Hero . . . Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past . . . and the key to his future. The...

Bridgerton series book 7

Killers of the Flower Moon : oil, money, murder and the birth of the FBI

Grann, David.

Paper Book

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND ROBERT DE...

Lessons in chemistry

Garmus, Bonnie

Paper Book

#1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD * Meet Elizabeth Zott: "a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention" (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a ...

The Lord God made them all /

Herriot, James

Paper Book

All Creatures Great and Small series

Masters of the air : how the bomber boys broke down the Nazi war machine

Miller, Donald L.

Paper Book

'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the Hundredth's entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew parallel' Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain's...

Midnight Promises

Woods, Sherryl.

Ebook

When Elliott Cruz first courted struggling single mom Karen Ames, it it was a romance worthy of any Sweet Magnolia fantasy. The sexy personal trainer made it his mission to restore Karen's strength--physical and emotional--and to charm her children. Now, a few years into...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 8

An offer from a gentleman

Quinn, Julia

Paper Book

The inspiration for season four of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Benedict Bridgerton in the third of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family. BENEDICT'S...

Bridgerton series book 3

On the way to the wedding

Quinn, Julia

Paper Book

A New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Gregory Bridgerton, in the final installment of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. ...

Bridgerton series book 8

One day

Nicholls, David

Paper Book

NOW A NETFLIX SERIES * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * TWO PEOPLE. ONE DAY. TWENTY YEARS. * What starts as a fleeting connection between two strangers soon becomes a deep bond that spans decades. * "[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most ...emotionally riveting...

Poor things : episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M. D. Scottish public health officer

Gray, Alasdair

Paper Book

NOW THE OSCAR-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMMA STONE, RAMY YOUSSEF, MARK RUFFALO, AND WILLEM DAFOE, DIRECTED BY YORGOS LANTHIMOS. "Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young...

Romancing Mister Bridgerton

Quinn, Julia

Paper Book

A New York Times Bestseller The inspiration for season three of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington in the fourth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring...

Bridgerton series book 4

Shogun : a novel of Japan

Clavell, James

Paper Book

NOW A MAJOR GOLDEN GLOBE-WINNING TV SERIES 'Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' Daily Mirror This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration...

Stealing Home

Woods, Sherryl.

Paper Book

"Sherryl Woods writes emotionally satisfying novels about family, friendship and home. Truly feel-great reads!" --#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber For the Sweet Magnolias, now a Netflix original series, friendship lasts a lifetime... Maddie Townsend...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 1

The three-body problem

Liu, Cixin.

Paper Book

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America "A mind-bending epic."--The New York Times * "War of the Worlds for...

Tiny Beautiful Things :

Strayed, Cheryl

Paper Book

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild--featuring a new preface and six additional columns. ...

To Sir Phillip, with love

Quinn, Julia

Paper Book

ELOISE'S STORY Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except . . . she wasn't. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and...

Bridgerton series book 5

The viscount who loved me

Quinn, Julia

Paper Book

# 1 New York Times Bestseller The inspiration for season two of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Anthony Bridgerton in the second of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming,...

Bridgerton series book 2

We were the lucky ones

Hunter, Georgia

Paper Book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive--and to reunite--We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds <...

What we find

Carr, Robyn.

Ebook

Sullivan's Crossing series book 1

When he was wicked

Quinn, Julia

Paper Book

A New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Francesca Bridgerton, in the sixth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. FRANCESCA'S...

Bridgerton series book 6

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