Good Poems for Hard Times
by Garrison Keillor

Often considered the most impracticable of art forms, poetry has been infused with a new purpose thanks to popular author and radio personality Garrison Keillor. He has long championed the genre on his NPR show "The Writer's Almanac," and Keillor now offers a new book, Good Poems for Hard Times, the follow-up to his 2002 anthology Good Poems—in support of his belief that poetry is the ideal antidote for the everyday pressures and concerns that plague us all. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Scarecrow
by Michael Connelly

Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Middle Place
by Kelly Corrigan

Corrigan's beautifully written memoir intertwines her own story with that of her larger-than-life, Irish-American, born-salesman fathers, and illustrates both an unbelievably powerful and healing father/daughter relationship and the unbreakable bonds of family. Read More... | Request a copy »

1001 Natural Wonders: You Must See Before You Die
by Michael Bright

Let us take you on an incredible journey to the most spectacular natural wonders in the world. Spanning every continent and ocean on the planet, here is a conglomerate of once-in-a-lifetime experiences that you can revisit time and time again. Natural history writer Michael Bright has selected 1001 of mother nature's most spectacular, heart-stirring creations--sights and locations so breathtaking that once seen, are never forgotten. Read More... | Request a copy »

Dead and Gone
by Charlaine Harris

Now an HBO original series, True Blood, the New York Times-bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues. In this installment, the weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. Read More... | Request a copy »

Sanibel Flats
by Randy Wayne White

Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him. After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a cold beer lulled him into letting his guard down. Read More... | Request a copy »

Lavender Morning
by Jude Deveraux

From the perennial New York Times-bestselling author comes a romance about a woman who has been an outsider her whole life--until an unexpected bequest leads her to an intriguing village where she discovers a secret that will change her forever. Read More... | Request a copy »

Liberty
by Garrison Keillor

A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But what is going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty? It's Lake Wobegon as it's always been--good, loving people who drive each other crazy. Read More... | Request a copy »