New in Hardcover
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
A memoir of pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. With a frankness that is disarming, Carter recalls with detail and emotion his youth in rural Georgia, its racism, and the isolation of the Carters. He describes the brutality of the hazing regimen at Annapolis, and how he nearly lost his life twice serving on submarines. He describes the profound influence his mother had on him, and how he admired his father even though he didn’t emulate him. He admits that he decided to quit the Navy and later enter politics without consulting his wife, Rosalynn, and how appalled he is in retrospect. From rural obscurity to world fame, universal respect, and contentment, Carter has lived one of our great American lives. We’re honored President Carter will be signing A Full Life in our store Saturday, August 1. Tickets are available in our store and online.
The Hand that Feeds You by A.J. Rich (Our Top Shelf Pick for July!)
Morgan Prager is newly engaged to Bennett, a seductive but possessive and secretive man, until one day she finds him mauled to death, her two dogs covered in blood. When she tries to locate his parents to tell them about their son’s hideous death, she discovers he was not the man he said he was. Everything he has told her–where he was born, where he lives and works–was a lie. In fact, he has several fiancees, who are murdered, one by one. Suddenly, Morgan’s research into Bennett takes on the urgency of survival. Read the Top Shelf review on our blog.
The Land of Stories 4: Beyond the Kingdoms by Chris Colfer
Fairy tales and classic stories collide in the fourth adventure in the bestselling Land of Stories series as the twins travel beyond the kingdoms! The Masked Man is on the loose and it’s up to Alex and Conner Bailey to stop him…except Alex has been thrown off the Fairy Council, and no one will believe they’re in danger. With only the help of the ragtag group of Goldilocks, Jack, Red Riding Hood, and Mother Goose and her gander, Lester, the Bailey twins discover the Masked Man’s secret scheme: He possesses a powerful magic potion that turns every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army of literature’s greatest villains! Chris will be in our store Monday, July 13! Tickets are available in our store and online.
Bradstreet Gate by Robin Kirman
Georgia, Charlie and Alice each arrive at Harvard hopeful for the future. But when a classmate is found murdered on campus, the professor who loomed large in their lives is suspected of the crime. Over the course of the next decade, as they grapple with the challenges of adulthood and witness the unraveling of a teacher’s once-charmed life, they must reckon with their own deceits and shortcomings, each desperately in search of answers and the chance to be forgiven.
Speak by Louisa Hall
A young Puritan woman travels to the New World with her unwanted new husband. Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician and code-breaker, writes letters to his best friend’s mother. A Jewish refugee and professor of computer science struggles to reconnect with his increasingly detached wife. An isolated and traumatized young girl exchanges messages with an intelligent software program. A former Silicon Valley wunderkind is imprisoned for creating illegally lifelike dolls. In dazzling and electrifying prose, Louisa Hall explores how the chasm between computer and human shrinking rapidly with today’s technological advances echoes the gaps that exist between ordinary people. Louisa will be speaking and signing in our store Wednesday, July 15.
Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont
Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist who doesn’t mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack’s secret life. It’s addressed to Deb, but it’s delivered into the wrong hands: her children’s. As the Shanleys spin apart into separate orbits, leaving New York in an attempt to regain their bearings, fifteen-year-old Simon feels the allure of adult freedoms for the first time, while eleven-year-old Kay wanders precariously into a grown-up world she can’t possibly understand.
Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
Set in Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Bull Mountain is a rich story of crime, family, and vengeance in which two brothers find themselves pitted against each other when a federal agent bent on taking down the family meth business shows up in town. (We’re celebrating this debut with a happy hour in our store with local favorites The Dan Adams Band. Join us this this Saturday at 5!)
New in Paperback
A, B, C: Three Short Novels (Vintage Original) by Samuel R. Delan
In the words of Joe T: “Samuel R. Delany is America’s greatest living novelist and his epic tome Dhalgren is the defining book of the last quarter of the 20th century. After a break of too many years, Vintage Books continues its Delany reissue campaign with A, B, C: Three Short Novels. Collecting his first three novels, it is a necessary book for all fans of “Chip” Delany. Now if they only reissue Mad Man, all will be right with the world.”
Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
“I read this book in under 48 hours, stopping only to go to work. Amy Bloom spins a non-stop tale of the lives of two sisters as they move from Detroit to Hollywood to New York. Old Hollywood, World War II, love and lust and family and forgiveness – Amy Bloom is a natural, masterful storyteller who will move you, make you laugh, and pin you to your seat until you’re done. Your summer will not be complete until you’ve read this book.” – Julie W
Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy #2 ) by Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown’s genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom. As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds and their only path to liberation is revolution.
Remember Mia by Alexandra Burt
Estelle Paradise wakes up in a hospital after being found near dead at the bottom of a ravine with a fragmented memory and a vague sense of loss. Then a terrifying reality sets in: her daughter is missing. Frustrated and unable to explain her daughter’s disappearance, Estelle begins a desperate search. But when the lack of evidence casts doubt on her story, Estelle becomes the number one suspect in the eyes of the police and the media. As hope of reuniting with Mia becomes all she has left, Estelle will do anything to find answers: What has she done to her baby? And what has someone else done to her? Alexandra will be speaking and signing in our store Saturday, July 25 at 4PM.
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