The Lying Game by Ruth Ware Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (July 25 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1501151811 Synopsis: “I need you.” Three small words that change everything. Isa Wilde knows something terrible has happened when she receives this text from an old friend. Why else would Kate summon her and their two friends Thea and …
Wrecked – by JB Salsbury
Wrecked by JB Salsbury Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Forever (July 18 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1455596362 Synopsis: It's been months since Aden Colt left the Army, and still the memories haunt him. When he moved into a tiny boat off the California coast, he thought he'd found the perfect place to escape life. Then Sawyer shows up and …
The Diary of Hendrik Goren – by Hendrik Goren
The Diary of Hendrik Goren by Hendrik Goren Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (July 11 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1455542178 Synopsis: Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and …
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Until It Fades – by KA Tucker
Until It Fades by KA Tucker Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Atria Books (June 27 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1501133381 Synopsis: Twenty-four-year-old truck stop waitress and single mother Catherine Wright has simple goals: to give her five-year-old daughter a happy life and to never again be the talk of the town in Balsam, Pennsylvania (population three thousand outside of …
How Churchill Saved Civilization – by John Harte
How Churchill Saved Civilization by John Harte Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (Jan. 3 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1510712379 Synopsis: How Churchill Saved Civilization resolves the lingering mysteries surrounding the causes of the Second World War, and what transpired during the war to bring its end result. It proposes answers to such questions as “Why were the …
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Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death – by Adrian Owen
Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death Hardcover by Adrian Owen Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Scribner (June 20 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1501135200 Synopsis: In this startling and thought-provoking book, which will remind readers of works by Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande, a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals his controversial, groundbreaking work with patients …
The Nuremberg Trial – by Ann Tusa and John Tusa
The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa and John Tusa Paperback: 512 pages Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (July 1 2010) ISBN-13: 978-1616080211 Synopsis: Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the …
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The German Girl – by Armando Lucas Correa
The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Atria Books (Oct. 18 2016) ISBN-13: 978-1501121142 Synopsis: A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler’s List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, …
One Tiny Lie – by K.A. Tucker
One Tiny Lie by K.A. Tucker Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Atria Books (Jan. 14 2014) ISBN-13: 978-1476740478 Synopsis: “Make me proud.” These were the last words Livie’s father ever spoke to her. In the seven years since her parents’ tragic death, Livie has done her best to live up to this standard through her every choice, …
The Muralist – by B.A. Shapiro
The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Nov. 3 2015) ISBN-13: 978-1443446617 Synopsis: In 1940, American painter Alizee Benoit vanishes in New York City amid personal and political turmoil. No one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot, Eleanor …
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter – by Scaachi Koul
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Doubleday Canada (March 7 2017) ISBN-13: 978-0385685351 Synopsis: In One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi deploys her razor-sharp humour to share her fears, outrages and mortifying experiences as an outsider …
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The Memory of Things – by Gae Polisner
The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (Sept. 6 2016) ISBN-13: 978-1250095527 Synopsis: On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down from the window of Stuyvesant High School. Moments later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge, …
