Oath of Loyalty by Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills
The 21st book in the Mitch Rapp series. President Cook, a team of assassins, and a killer known as Legion confront Rapp on different fronts.
View in CatalogBlowback by James Patterson, Brendan DuBois
President Keegan Barrett's power grab tests the loyalties of two C.I.A. agents.
View in CatalogCarrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A tennis player comes out of retirement and trains with her father to defend her record.
View in CatalogThe 6:20 Man by David Baldacci
When his ex-girlfriend turns up dead in his office building, an entry-level investment analyst delves into the halls of economic power.
View in CatalogLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.
View in CatalogThe Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
In 1550s Florence, the future of the third daughter of the grand duke seems uncertain after she is thrust into a marriage.
View in CatalogI'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.
View in CatalogDinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg
The NPR legal affairs correspondent details her professional accomplishments and friendship with the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
View in CatalogRed Comet by Heather Clark
The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer—even…
View in CatalogOn Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. All too aware…
View in CatalogInvisible Child by Andrea Elliott
The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America—from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott of The New York Times. Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter.…
View in CatalogHow the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves. It is the story of the…
View in CatalogThe Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the…
View in CatalogWhen We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining.
View in CatalogNo One Is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood
Is there life after the internet? A woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast…
View in CatalogThe Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
This moving coming-of-age sage and examination of race and an excavation of American history tells the tale of Ailey Pearl Garfield, a Black girl growing up at the end of the 20th century, and the "songs" of her ancestors, Native Americans and enslaved African Americans who lived through the formation of the United States.
View in CatalogIntimacies by Katie Kitamura
An unnamed court translator in The Hague is tasked with intimately vanishing into the voices and stories of war criminals whom she alone can communicate with; falling meanwhile into a tumultuous entanglement with a man whose marriage may or may not be over for good.
View in CatalogHow Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
Beginning in 1980 in the fictional African village of Kosawa, where representatives from an American oil company have come to meet with the locals, whose children are dying because of the environmental havoc (fallo fields, poisoned water)wrecked by its drilling and pipelines. This decades-spanning fable of power and corruption turns out to be something much…
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