Last updated: 6/16/2013
# 1 - Inferno - by Dan Brown
4 weeks on the list
In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno.
Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered.
# 2 - And the Mountains Echoed - by Khaled Hosseini
3 weeks on the list
An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else.
Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.
# 3 - Revenge Wears Prada - by Lauren Weisberger
First week on the list
The sequel you’ve been waiting for: the follow-up to the sensational #1 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada.
Almost a decade has passed since Andy Sachs quit the job “a million girls would die for” working for Miranda Priestly at Runway magazine—a dream that turned out to be a nightmare. Andy and Emily, her former nemesis and co-assistant, have since joined forces to start a highend bridal magazine. The Plunge has quickly become required reading for the young and stylish. Now they get to call all the shots: Andy writes and travels to her heart’s content; Emily plans parties and secures advertising like a seasoned pro. Even better, Andy has met the love of her life. Max Harrison, scion of a storied media family, is confident, successful, and drop-dead gorgeous. Their wedding will be splashed across all the society pages as their friends and family gather to toast the glowing couple. Andy Sachs is on top of the world. But karma’s a bitch. The morning of her wedding, Andy can’t shake the past. And when she discovers a secret letter with crushing implications, her wedding-day jitters turn to cold dread. Andy realizes that nothing—not her husband, nor her beloved career—is as it seems. She never suspected that her efforts to build a bright new life would lead her back to the darkness she barely escaped ten years ago—and directly into the path of the devil herself...
# 4 - The Kill Room - by Jeffery Deaver
First week on the list
It was a "million-dollar bullet," a sniper shot delivered from over a mile away. Its victim was no ordinary mark: he was a United States citizen, targeted by the United States government, and assassinated in the Bahamas. The nation's most renowned investigator and forensics expert, Lincoln Rhyme, is drafted to investigate. While his partner, Amelia Sachs, traces the victim's steps in Manhattan, Rhyme leaves the city to pursue the sniper himself. As details of the case start to emerge, the pair discovers that not all is what it seems.
When a deadly, knife-wielding assassin begins systematically eliminating all evidence-including the witnesses-Lincoln's investigation turns into a chilling battle of wits against a cold-blooded killer.
# 5 - Ladies Night - by Mary Kay Andrews
First week on the list
Take a splash of betrayal, add a few drops of outrage, give a good shake to proper behavior and take a big sip of a cocktail called…Ladies' Night!
Grace Stanton’s life as a rising media star and beloved lifestyle blogger takes a surprising turn when she catches her husband cheating and torpedoes his pricey sports car straight into the family swimming pool. Grace suddenly finds herself locked out of her palatial home, checking account, and even the blog she has worked so hard to develop in her signature style. Moving in with her widowed mother, who owns and lives above a rundown beach bar called The Sandbox, is less than ideal. So is attending court-mandated weekly "divorce recovery" therapy sessions with three other women and one man for whom betrayal seems to be the only commonality. When their “divorce coach” starts to act suspiciously, they decide to start having their own Wednesday "Ladies' Night" sessions at The Sandbox, and the unanticipated bonds that develop lead the members of the group to try and find closure in ways they never imagined. Can Grace figure out a new way home and discover how strong she needs to be to get there?
Heartache, humor, and a little bit of mystery come together in a story about life’s unpredictable twists and turns. Mary Kay Andrews' Ladies' Night will have you raising a glass and cheering these characters on.
Last updated: 6/16/2013
# 1 - Happy, Happy, Happy - by Phil Robertson
5 weeks on the list
LIVING THE DREAM
Duck calls—though the source of his livelihood—are not what makes Phil Robertson the man he is today. When asked what matters in his life, he's quick to say, "Faith, family, ducks—in that order."
It isn't often that a person can live a dream, but Phil Robertson, aka The Duck Commander, has proven that it is possible with vision, hard work, helping hands, and an unshakable faith in the Almighty. Phil's is the remarkable story of one man who followed the call he received from God and soon after invented a duck call that would begin an incredible journey to the life he had always dreamed of for himself and his family. In the love of his country, his family, and his maker, Phil has finally found the ingredients to the "good life" he always wanted.
If you ever wind up sitting face-to-face with Phil, you'll see that his enthusiasm and passion for duck hunting and the Lord is no act—it is truly who he is.
# 2 - Lean In - by Sheryl Sandberg
13 weeks on the list
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.
Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which became a phenomenon and has been viewed more than two million times, encouraged women to "sit at the table," seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.
In Lean In, Sandberg digs deeper into these issues, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to cut through the layers of ambiguity and bias surrounding the lives and choices of working women. She recounts her own decisions, mistakes, and daily struggles to make the right choices for herself, her career, and her family. She provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career, urging women to set boundaries and to abandon the myth of "having it all." She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women in the workplace and at home.
Written with both humor and wisdom, Sandberg's book is an inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth. Lean In is destined to change the conversation from what women can't do to what they can.
# 3 - American Gun - by Chris Kyle
First week on the list
Chris Kyle—fallen hero and #1 bestselling author of American Sniper—reveals how ten legendary guns forever changed U.S. history.
At the time of his tragic death in February 2013, former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the top sniper in U.S. military history, was finishing one of the most exciting missions of his life: a remarkable book that retold American history through the lens of a hand-selected list of firearms. Kyle masterfully shows how guns have played a fascinating, indispensable, and often underappreciated role in our national story.
"Perhaps more than any other nation in the world," Kyle writes, "the history of the United States has been shaped by the gun. Firearms secured the first Europeans' hold on the continent, opened the frontier, helped win our independence, settled the West, kept law and order, and defeated tyranny across the world."
Drawing on his unmatched firearms knowledge and combat experience, Kyle carefully chose ten guns to help tell his story: the American long rifle, Spencer repeater, Colt .45 revolver, Winchester rifle, Springfield 1903 rifle, Thompson sub-machine gun, 1911 pistol, M1 Garand, .38 Special police revolver, and the M-16 rifle platform Kyle himself used as a SEAL. Through them, he revisits thrilling turning points in American history, including the single sniper shot that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War, the firearms designs that proved decisive at Gettysburg, the "gun that won the West," and the weapons that gave U.S. soldiers an edge in the world wars and beyond. This is also the story of how firearms innovation, creativity, and industrial genius has constantly pushed American history—and power—forward.
Filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, Chris Kyle's American Gun is a sweeping epic of bravery, adventure, invention, and sacrifice.
# 4 - The Guns at Last Night - by Rick Atkinson
4 weeks on the list
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II
It is the twentieth century’s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all—the titanic battle for Western Europe.
D-Day marked the commencement of the final campaign of the European war, and Atkinson’s riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the disaster that was Operation Market Garden, the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and finally the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich—all these historic events and more come alive with a wealth of new material and a mesmerizing cast of characters. Atkinson tells the tale from the perspective of participants at every level, from presidents and generals to war-weary lieutenants and terrified teenage riflemen. When Germany at last surrenders, we understand anew both the devastating cost of this global conflagration and the enormous effort required to win the Allied victory.
With the stirring final volume of this monumental trilogy, Atkinson’s accomplishment is manifest. He has produced the definitive chronicle of the war that unshackled a continent and preserved freedom in the West.
# 5 - Eleven Rings - by Phil Jackson
3 weeks on the list
During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. Even more important, he succeeded in never wavering from coaching his way, from a place of deep values. Jackson was tagged as the “Zen master” half in jest by sportswriters, but the nickname speaks to an important truth: this is a coach who inspired, not goaded; who led by awakening and challenging the better angels of his players’ nature, not their egos, fear, or greed.
This is the story of a preacher’s kid from North Dakota who grew up to be one of the most innovative leaders of our time. In his quest to reinvent himself, Jackson explored everything from humanistic psychology and Native American philosophy to Zen meditation. In the process, he developed a new approach to leadership based on freedom, authenticity, and selfless teamwork that turned the hypercompetitive world of professional sports on its head.
Eleven times, Jackson led his teams to the ultimate goal: the NBA championship—six times with the Chicago Bulls and five times with the Los Angeles Lakers. We all know the legendary stars on those teams, or think we do. What Eleven Rings shows us, however, is that when it comes to the most important lessons, we don’t know very much at all. This book is full of revelations: about fascinating personalities and their drive to win; about the wellsprings of motivation and competition at the highest levels; and about what it takes to bring out the best in ourselves and others.
Last updated: 6/16/2013
# 1 - Lean In - by Sheryl Sandberg
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.
Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which became a phenomenon and has been viewed more than two million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.
In Lean In, Sandberg digs deeper into these issues, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to cut through the layers of ambiguity and bias surrounding the lives and choices of working women. She recounts her own decisions, mistakes, and daily struggles to make the right choices for herself, her career, and her family. She provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career, urging women to set boundaries and to abandon the myth of “having it all.” She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women in the workplace and at home.
Written with both humor and wisdom, Sandberg's book is an inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth. Lean In is destined to change the conversation from what women can't do to what they can.
# 2 - The One Thing - by Gary Keller
YOU WANT LESS.
You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demands of work and family are taking a toll. And what's the cost? Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller paychecks, fewer promotions—and lots of stress.
AND YOU WANT MORE.
You want more productivity from your work. More income for a better lifestyle. You want more satisfaction from life, and more time for yourself, your family, and your friends.
NOW YOU CAN HAVE BOTH—LESS AND MORE.
# 3 - The Duck Commander Family - by Willi & Korie Robertson
This book gives readers an up-close and personal, behind-the-scenes look at the family in the exploding A&E show—Duck Dynasty. This Louisiana bayou family operates Duck Commander, a booming family business that has made them millions. You’ll hear all about the Robertson clan from Willie and what it was like growing up in the Robertson household. You’ll sample some of Willie’s favorite family recipes from Phil, Kay, and even some of his own concoctions; and you’ll get to know the beautiful Robertson women. You’ll hear from Korie about the joys and hardships of raising a family, running a business, and wrangling the Robertson men while staying fashionable and beautiful inside and out. Discover more about the family dynamics between brothers Willie, Jase, Jep, and parents Phil and Kay. You’ll even meet a fourth brother who isn’t in the show.
The popularity of Duck Dynasty is skyrocketing, garnering a Wednesday-night top two finish in all of cable. The book releases in time for season two of the show in October 2012.
# 4 - Eleven Rings - by Phil Jackson
During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. Even more important, he succeeded in never wavering from coaching his way, from a place of deep values. Jackson was tagged as the “Zen master” half in jest by sportswriters, but the nickname speaks to an important truth: this is a coach who inspired, not goaded; who led by awakening and challenging the better angels of his players’ nature, not their egos, fear, or greed.
This is the story of a preacher’s kid from North Dakota who grew up to be one of the most innovative leaders of our time. In his quest to reinvent himself, Jackson explored everything from humanistic psychology and Native American philosophy to Zen meditation. In the process, he developed a new approach to leadership based on freedom, authenticity, and selfless teamwork that turned the hypercompetitive world of professional sports on its head.
Eleven times, Jackson led his teams to the ultimate goal: the NBA championship—six times with the Chicago Bulls and five times with the Los Angeles Lakers. We all know the legendary stars on those teams, or think we do. What Eleven Rings shows us, however, is that when it comes to the most important lessons, we don’t know very much at all. This book is full of revelations: about fascinating personalities and their drive to win; about the wellsprings of motivation and competition at the highest levels; and about what it takes to bring out the best in ourselves and others.
# 5 - Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace - by Cy Wakeman
The key to understanding how your manager calculates your real value—and how to boost it.
More than anything else, you need to understand exactly how your employer evaluates you, and your annual performance review doesn't tell the whole story. In The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace, Cy Wakeman shows how to calculate how your true value to your organization by understanding your current and future potential against your "emotional expense"—the toll your actions and attitudes take on the people around you. With Cy's clear, straight-to-the-point advice, you can confront and reduce your emotional costliness, become an invaluable member of your team, and even learn to love your job again.
- Reveals a formula for measuring your current performance, future potential, and the biggest detractor, your emotional expense
- Shares real-world advice for quickly boosting your value and becoming a highly-valued, sought after employee and teammate
- Builds on the lessons in Reality-Based Leadership, Cy Wakeman's first book for leaders and managers
The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace is the essential guide for boosting your value, owning your career, and becoming the kind of employee no organization can afford to lose.
Last updated: 6/16/2013
# 1 - Eat to Live - by Joel Fuhrman
The Eat To Live 2011 revised edition includes updated scientific research supporting Dr. Fuhrman's revolutionary six-week plan and a brand new chapter highlighting Dr. Fuhrman's discovery of toxic hunger and the role of food addiction in weight issues. This new chapter provides novel and important insights into weight gain. It explains how and why eating the wrong foods causes toxic hunger and the desire to over consume calories; whereas a diet of high micronutrient quality causes true hunger which decreases the sensations leading to food cravings and overeating behaviors. It instructs readers on how to leave behind the discomfort of toxic hunger, cravings, and addictions to unhealthy foods.
New recipes and menus are included as well as new and updated Frequently Asked Questions.
This is a book that will let you live longer, reduce your need for medications, and improve your health dramatically. It is a book that will change the way you want to eat. Most importantly, if you follow the Eat To Live™ diet, you will lose weight faster than you ever thought possible.
# 2 - The 100 - by Jorge Cruise
3 weeks on the list
Be a part of the diet revolution and change your relationship with calories forever
America's favorite diet and fitness expert, Jorge Cruise, will change the way you think about calories. For years, conventional wisdom has continued to state the wrong and outdated research that says simply counting calories is the key to weight loss, and if you cannot follow that plan, you must lack willpower. Now Jorge Cruise's passion for dietary science has revealed the true cause of the obesity epidemic—counting the wrong calories!
The 100 will free you from counting calories and points and constantly trying to eat less with the conclusive truth: all calories are not created equal. Jorge has been working to uncover the latest advances in dietary science for more than a decade, and now the newest science confirms that Sugar Calories are the only calories you'll need to keep track of on this simple, fast, and guilt-free weight-loss plan. Enjoy unlimited amounts of delicious and healthy no-count calories and still eat the foods you love. Learn the right foods to eat without ever feeling hungry or deprived on a plan that is so easy to incorporate and maintain that you can finally put an end to the vicious cycle of dieting.
In addition to the 4-week plan, you get shopping lists and recommended food guides that can help you drop up to 18 pounds of stubborn belly fat. The 100 is the only plan you'll ever need. Stop counting the wrong calories and start losing weight and changing your life today with the help of Jorge Cruise and the no-count calorie revolution!
# 3 - Finerman's Rules - by Karen Finerman
First week on the list
Karen Finerman likes to tell people she was raised Calvinist. Or as her mother used to say, "I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes... Then when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves." In order to keep herself in Calvin, Karen went to work on Wall Street.
As a woman working in finance she noticed numerous ways that she and her female colleagues sabotaged themselves both professionally and personally. Why were her friends unable to bring the same logic they applied at work to personal decisions? Why did they often let personal baggage undermine them in the office in a way that her male colleagues never did? A classic illustration is that women tend to Poll (Do I look good in these shoes?) rather than Decide, often giving too much weight to the input from a random stranger rather than rely on their own gut.
Covering three major topics (Career, Money, Love), Finerman's Rules serves up unvarnished advice about getting ahead in your career, overcoming failure, meeting your ideal mate, and navigating the [cut "cons" add "challenges"] of work-life balance. Most importantly, she offers the reader a crash course in taking control of her financial destiny. Or as Karen puts it, "You wouldn't let a man tell you where to live, how to vote, or what to wear. Then tell me why 80 percent of women have a man in charge of their money?"
# 4 - The End of Diabetes - by Joel Fuhrman
First week on the list
The New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live and Super Immunity and one of the country’s leading experts on preventive medicine offers a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse diabetes—without drugs.
At last, a breakthrough program to combat the rising diabetes epidemic and help millions of diabetics, as well as those suffering with high blood pressure and heart disease. Dr. Joel Fuhrman, the research director of the nutritional research project of the National Health Association, shows you how to live a long, healthy, and happy life—disease free. He offers a complete health transformation, starting with a diet with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratio that can be adapted for individual needs.
Dr. Fuhrman makes clear that we don’t have to “control” diabetes. Patients can choose to follow better nutritional guidelines that will control it for them, even before they have lost excess weight. The end result is a medical breakthrough—a comprehensive reversal of the disease.
# 5 - Wheat Belly - by William Davis
A renowned cardiologist explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shrink unsightly bulges, and reverse myriad health problems.
Every day, over 200 million Americans consume food products made of wheat. As a result, over 100 million of them experience some form of adverse health effect, ranging from minor rashes and high blood sugar to the unattractive stomach bulges that preventive cardiologist William Davis calls “wheat ellies.” According to Davis, that excess fat has nothing to do with gluttony, sloth, or too much butter: It’s due to the whole grain wraps we eat for lunch.
After witnessing over 2,000 patients regain their health after giving up wheat, Davis reached the disturbing conclusion that wheat is the single largest contributor to the nationwide obesity epidemic— and its elimination is key to dramatic weight loss and optimal health. In Wheat Belly, Davis exposes the harmful effects of what is actually a product of genetic tinkering and agribusiness being sold to the American public as “wheat”—and provides readers with a user-friendly, step-by-step plan to navigate a new, wheat-free lifestyle.
Informed by cutting-edge science and nutrition, along with case studies from men and women who have experienced life-changing transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at what is truly making Americans sick and an action plan to clear our plates of this seemingly benign ingredient.
Last updated: 6/16/2013
# 1 - The Fault in Our Stars - by John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
# 2 - Divergent - by Veronica Roth
In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.
Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the YA scene with the first book in the Divergent series—dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.
# 3 - The Moon and More - by Sarah Dessen
Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough.
Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby.
Emaline's mostly-absentee father, too, thinks Emaline should have a bigger life, and he's convinced that an Ivy League education is the only route to realizing her potential. Emaline is attracted to the bright future that Theo and her father promise. But she also clings to the deep roots of her loving mother, stepfather, and sisters. Can she ignore the pull of the happily familiar world of Colby?
Emaline wants the moon and more, but how can she balance where she comes from with where she's going?
Sarah Dessen's devoted fans will welcome this story of romance, yearning, and, finally, empowerment. It could only happen in the summer.
# 4 - Looking for Alaska - by John Green
Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same.
# 5 - Insurgent - by Veronica Roth
One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth's much-anticipated second book of the dystopian Divergent series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature.
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10th Anniversary, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
11/22/63, Stephen King
11th Hour, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
1225 Christmas Tree Lane, Debbie Macomber
12th of Never, James Patterson
44 Charles Street, Danielle Street
77 Shadow Street, Dean Koontz
A Dance With Dragons, George R.R. Martin
A Discovery of Witches, Deborah E. Harkness
A Memory of Light, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
A Perfect Blood, Kim Harrison
A Rising Thunder, David Weber
A Step of Faith, Richard Paul Evans
A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny
A Turn in the Road, Debbie Macomber
A Wanted Man, Lee Child
A Week in Winter, Maeve Binchy
Abuse of Power, Michael Savage
Against All Enemies, Tom Clancy
Agenda 21, Glenn Beck
Alex Cross, Run, James Patterson
American Assassin, Vince Flynn
And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe
Backfire, Catherine Coulter
Bad Blood, John Sandford
Bearers of the Black Staff, Terry Brooks
Bel Air Dead, Stuart Woods
Believing the Lie, Elizabeth George
Best Kept Secret, Jeffrey Archer
Betrayal, Danielle Steel
Black List, Brad Thor
Bloodline, James Rollins
Bones are Forever, Kathy Reichs
Bonnie, Iris Johansen
Breaking Point, C. J. Box
Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
Buried Prey, John Sandford
Calculated in Death, J. D. Robb
Calico Joe, John Grisham
Canada, Richard Ford
Carte Blanche, Jeffery Deaver
Catch Me, Lisa Gardner
Celebrity in Death, J. D. Robb
Charon's Claw, R. A. Salvatore
Chasing Fire, Nora Roberts
Cold Days, Jim Butcher
Cold Vengeance, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Collateral Damage, Stuart Woods
Come Home, Lisa Scottoline
Conviction, Aaron Allston
Creole Belle, James Lee Burke
Crescent Dawn, Clive Cussler
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Cross Fire, James Patterson
Cyrstal Gardens, Amanda Quick
Daddy's Gone A Hunting, Mary Higgins Clark
Dark Peril, Christine Feehan
Dark Predator, Christine Feehan
Dead Ever After, Charlaine Harris
Dead or Alive, Tom Clancy, with Grant Blackwood
Dead Reckoning, Charlaine Harris
Deadlocked, Charlaine Harris
Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James
Death of Kings, Bernard Cornwell
Deeply Odd, Dean Koontz
Defending Jacob, William Landay
Delusion in Death, J.D. Robb
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Don't Go, Lisa Scottoline
Dreams of Joy, Lisa See
Elegy for Eddie, Jacqueline Winspear
Empire and Honor, W.E.B. Griffin
Ever After, Kim Harrison
Explosive Eighteen, Janet Evanovich
Fair Game, Patricia Briggs
Fall of Giants, Ken Follett
Feast Day of Fools, James Lee
Flash and Bones, Kathy Reichs
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
Fly Away , Kristin Hannah
Folly Beach, Dorothea Benton Frank
Force of Nature, C. J. Box
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Friends Forever, Danielle Steel
Frost Burned, Patricia Briggs
Full Black, Brad Thor
Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King
Getting to Happy, Terry McMillan
Ghost Story, Jim Butcher
Gideon's Corpse, Douglas Preston
Gideon's Sword, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Guilt, Johnathan Kellerman
Guilty Wives, James Patterson and David Ellis
Happy Birthday, Danielle Steel
Heat Rises, Richard Castle
Hell's Corner, David Baldacci
Hit List, Laurell K. Hamilton
Home Front, Kristin Hannah
Hotel Vendome, Danielle Steel
I, Michael Bennet, James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
I'll Walk Alone, Mary Higgins Clark
In One Person, John Irving
In the Company of Others, Jan Karon
Indulgence in Death, J.D. Robb
Inferno, Dan Brown
IQ84, Haruki Murakami
I've Got Your Number, Sophie Kinsella
Kill Alex Cross, James Patterson
Kill Me If You Can, James Patterson and Marshall Karp
Kill Shot, Vince Flynn
Kinsey and Me, Sue Grafton
Kiss the Dead, Laurell K. Hamilton
Ladies Night, Mary Kay Andrews
Last to Die, Tess Gerritsen
Leaving Everything Most Loved, Jacqueline Winspear
Lethal, Sandra Brown
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Live Wire, Harlen Coben
Locked On, Tom Clancy, with Mark Greaney
Lone Wolf, Jodi Picoult
Lost December, Richard Paul Evans
Lost Empire, Clive Cussler
Love in a Nutshell, Janet Evanovich
Love You More, Lisa Gardner
Lover at Last, J. R. Ward
Lover Reborn, J. R. Ward
Lover Unleashed, J. R. Ward
Low Pressure, Sandra Brown
Mad River, John Sandford
Manuscript Found in Accra, Paulo Coelho
Merry Christmas Alex Cross, James Patterson
Miles to Go, Richard Paul Evans
Minding Frankie, Maeve Binchy
Mini Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella
Mystery, Johnathan Kellerman
Neverwinter, R. A. Salvatore
New York to Dallas, J.D. Robb
Night Road, Kristin Hannah
No Mercy, Sherrilyn Kenyon
NOS4A2, Joe Hill
Notorius Nineteen, Janet Evanovich
Now You See Her, James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
NYPD Red, James Patterson
Odd Apocalypse, Dean Koontz
One Summer, David Baldacci
Pale Demon, Kim Harrison
Paris , Edward Rutherfurd
Porch Lights, Dorothea Benton Frank
Port Mortuary, Patricia Cornwell
Portrait of a Spy, Daniel Silva
Poseidon's Arrow, Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
Prey, Linda Howard
Private Berlin, James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
Private Games, James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
Private: #1 Suspect, James Patterson with Maxine Paetro
Quinn, Iris Johansen
Reamde, Neal Stephenson
Red Mist, Patricia Cornwell
Retribution, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Revenge Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
River Marked, Patricia Briggs
Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues, Michael Brandman
Sacre Bleu, Christopher Moore
Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks
Shadow of Night, Deborah Harkness
Shadowfever, Karen Marie Moning
Shock Wave, John Sandford
Side Jobs, Jim Butcher
Silken Prey, John Sandford
Sing You Home, Jodi Picoult
Six Years, Harlen Coben
Sixkill, Robert B. Parker
Smokin' Seventeen, Janet Evanovich
Snuff, Terry Pratchett
Son of Stone, Stuart Woods
Spider Bones, Kathy Reichs
Split Second, Catherine Coulter
Spring Fever, Mary Kay Andrews
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris
Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi - Apocalypse, Troy Denning
Star Wars: Darth Plagueis, James Luceno
Starting Now, Debbie Macomber
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
Stay Close, Harlen Coben
Stolen Prey, John Sandford
Strategic Moves, Stuart Woods
Summer Rental, Mary Kay Andrews
Summerland, Elin Hilderbrand
Survivors, James Wesley Rawles
Suspect, Robert Crais
Sweet Talk, Julie Garwood
Sweet Tooth, Ian McEwan
Taken, Robert Crais
Taking Eve, Iris Johansen
Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon
Tenth of December, George Saunders
The Affair, Lee Child
The Beautiful Mystery, Louise Penny
The Best of Me, Nicholas Sparks
The Black Box, Michael Connelly
The Bone Bed, Patricia Cornwell
The Bridge, Karen Kingsbury
The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout
The Casual Vacancy, J. K. Rowling
The Christmas Wedding, James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
The Cobra, Frederick Forsyth
The Columbus Affair, Steve Berry
The Confession, John Grisham
The Devil Colony, James Rollins
The Drop, Michael Connelly
The Fallen Angel, Daniel Silva
The Fifth Assassin, Brad Meltzer
The Fifth Witness, Michael Connelly
The Forgotten, David Baldacci
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson
The Hit, David Baldacci
The Ideal Man, Julie Garwood
The Inn at Rose Harbor, Debbie Macomber
The Inner Circle, Brad Meltzer
The Innocent, David Baldacci
The Jefferson Key, Steve Berry
The Jungle, Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul
The Kill Room, Jeffery Deaver
The Kingdom, Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood
The Kingmaker's Daughter, Philippa Gregory
The Land of Painted Caves, Jean Auel
The Last Man, Vince Flynn
The Light Between Oceans, M. L. Stedman
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, Alexander McCall Smith
The Litigators, John Grisham
The Lost Years, Mary Higgins Clark
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
The Measure of the Magic, Terry Brooks
The Mission to Paris, Alan Furst
The Next Best Thing, Jennifer Weiner
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Omen Machine, Terry Goodkind
The Outlaws, W.E.B. Griffin
The Panther, Nelson DeMille
The Postcard Killers, James Patterson & Liza Marklund
The Race, Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
The Racketeer, John Grisham