Monkeewrench
by P. J. Tracy

Haunted by their pasts, Grace McBride and the crew of her software company, Monkeewrench, create a computer game in which a serial killer is always caught. But their game becomes a nightmare when someone begins duplicating the fictional murders in real life. Read More... | Request a copy »

Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls

Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did. So begins the story of Lily Casey. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony to get to her post. She learned to drive a car, fly a plane, and with her husband, managed a vast ranch in Arizona. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Eagle Has Landed
by Jack Higgins

Re-released on its 25th anniversary, this classic novel is widely considered to be Higgins' greatest work. Threatened on all sides, a desperate Adolph Hitler orders that Winston Churchill be kidnapped or killed. Meanwhile, a beautiful widow and IRA assassin have laid the groundwork for the most treacherous plot of the war, beginning when Berlin receives the message, "The eagle has landed". Read More... | Request a copy »

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
by Lauren Willig

Even a modern girl could use a hero. Eloise Kelly, a smart but slightly fumbling Jimmy Choo-clad American, has had her nose in the books, but she's about to uncover The Secret History of the Pink Carnation--a tale of espionage, adventure, and romance. And she just might find a hero of her own along the way. Read More... | Request a copy »

Flying Crows
by Jim Lehrer

With Flying Crows, veteran newsman and bestselling author Jim Lehrer has written his most powerful novel, a work that moves masterfully from past to present and back again to solve the mystery that is American mayhem. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Most They Ever Had
by Rick Bragg

In spring of 2001, across the South, padlocks and logging chains bind the doors of silent mills, and it seems a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill survived. In these real-life stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Bragg brilliantly evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an American cotton mill. Read More... | Request a copy »

I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?
by Suzy Becker

For years Suzy Becker, author of the New York Times bestseller All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat, literally lived by her wits. Then brain surgery left her temporarily unable to speak, read, or write. I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse? is a story that grapples with the question " What makes me me?" By turns philosophical and whimsical, rivetingly dramatic and unexpectedly light, it is illustrated with drawings, charts, pseudoserious graphs, real EEGs. The result is a book filled with insights into creativity, identity, love, relationships, family, and that intangible something that gives each of us our spark. Read More... | Request a copy »

My Abandonment
by Peter Rock

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild Rock's My Abandonment, inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of his young protagonist, offers a riveting and unsettling account of a girl and her father who live off the grid. Read More... | Request a copy »