A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition --- and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back.

A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition --- and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back.

2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Toni Morrison's first novel, THE BLUEST EYE. Here, the Nobel Prize winner powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity --- and asks questions about race, class and gender with her characteristic subtlety and grace.

2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Toni Morrison's first novel, THE BLUEST EYE. Here, the Nobel Prize winner powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity --- and asks questions about race, class and gender with her characteristic subtlety and grace.

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity --- and asks questions about race, class and gender with her characteristic subtlety and grace.
 
In Morrison’s bestselling first novel, Pecola Breedlove --- an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others --- prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
 
Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).

Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. Reese Witherspoon calls KJ Dell’Antonia's debut novel "[a] charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds and rivalries only sisters can share. Also, a great present for your sister for the holidays!”

Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. Reese Witherspoon calls KJ Dell’Antonia's debut novel "[a] charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds and rivalries only sisters can share. Also, a great present for your sister for the holidays!”

Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster.

In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state --- and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long. No one feels the impact more than 35-year-old widow Amanda Moore, who grew up working for her mom at Mimi's before scandalously marrying Frank Pogociello and changing sides to work at Frannie's. Tired of being caught in the middle, Amanda sends an SOS to "Food Wars," the reality TV restaurant competition that promises $100,000 to the winner. But in doing so, she launches both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire.

The last thing Brooklyn-based organizational guru Mae Moore, Amanda's sister, wants is to go home to Kansas. But when her career implodes, helping the fading Mimi's look good on "Food Wars" becomes Mae's best chance to reclaim the limelight --- even if doing so pits her against Amanda and Frannie's. Yet when family secrets become public knowledge, the sisters must choose: Will they fight with each other, or for their heritage?

#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory’s new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice and New England.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory’s new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice and New England.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory’s new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice and New England.

Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted 21 years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy --- his son and heir.

The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon.

Alinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and trying to make a life between the worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move toward inevitable war. Alinor tells him that she knows --- without doubt --- that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter.

Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child and for home.

Mma Ramotswe must balance family obligations with the growing needs of one of Charlie's pet projects in this 21st installment in the cherished No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

Mma Ramotswe must balance family obligations with the growing needs of one of Charlie's pet projects in this 21st installment in the cherished No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

Mma Ramotswe must balance family obligations with the growing needs of one of Charlie's pet projects in this latest installment in the cherished No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

Precious Ramotswe loves her dependable old van. Yes, sometimes it takes a bit longer to get going now, and it has developed some quirks over the years, but it has always gotten the job done. This time, though, the world --- and Charlie --- may be asking too much of it, for when he borrows the beloved vehicle he returns it damaged. And, to make matters worse, the interior seems to have acquired an earthy smell that even Precious can't identify.

But the olfactory issue is not the only mystery that needs solving. Mma Ramotswe is confronted by a distant relative, Blessing, who asks for help with an ailing cousin. The help requested is of a distinctly pecuniary nature, which makes both Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni and Mma Makutsi suspicious. And there is no peace at home, either, as the new neighbors are airing their marital grievances rather loudly. Still, Mma Ramotswe is confident that there are solutions to all of these difficulties, there to be discovered as long as she is led by kindness, grace and logic, and can rely on the counsel of her friends and loved ones.