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In his first audiobook since the bestselling "Forever," Hamill returns with alove story set during the Depression against the backdrop of some of New YorkCitys toughest streets. …More

One of my first vivid recollections is being buried in the snow by three of Hitlers young hooligans So begins the remarkable story of a six-year old girl who, in the winter of 1938, is uprooted overnight from her rabbinic family in Vienna, and sent on the Kindertransport to England. Eventually she finds herself in the village of Shefford as part of Rabbi Schonfelds Jewish day school which had been evacuated there in its entirety at the outbreak of World War II. At the end of the war, Frieda returns to London where she and her fellow refugees exist in a state of animated suspension while waiting to hear news of their parents fate. …More

Dr. Deborah Tannen, "New York Times" bestselling author of the blockbuster hits "You Just Don't Understand" and "You're Wearing THAT?" delivers the last word on sisters. …More

On the farm of Ruth and Charles Standard is a tiny cemetery of mostly uncut rock and stones. It is a remnant from the days when their land was a small patch of a great tobacco plantation. Residing there, from generations long past, are slaves who were laid to rest under the ground they once worked. One marker tells a far different story. It is the marker of an infant that reads, "Kate. Born and died the same week. Budded on earth to blossom in heaven". And the baby is not all that lies buried in the garden.

The Colored Garden is a story about storytellers: a boy called Sarge and his grandmother, Ruth, whose farm he visits in the wake of his parents' separation. Ruth tends the old slave cemetery as a beautiful flower garden and, during this pivotal summer in Sarge's life, she tells him the adventures of the dead slaves. Listening to Ruth and observing the behavior of the adults around him, Sarge learns that some secrets we keep, while others keep us. …More

Orphaned in a tenement fire, three Irish immigrant children, hoping to be adopted, are sent to Missouri aboard an orphan train. The oldest is Maelle, and at only eight-years-old, she devises a scheme to keep what's left of her little family together. Maelle slips a keepsake into the packs of her younger brother and sister just before they're taken away. Despite her desperate attempts to keep her siblings together, each child is sent to live with a different family. Maelle vows she will never stop searching for her siblings, and swears that she will find them again someday. Sixteen years later, Maelle is still searching. And so are her brother and sister. United by blood, divided by time, will they ever be reunited? …More

"A Duty to the Dead," the first book of an exciting new series, is set in England during World War I, and features a spectacular female protagonist. …More

Gillies pens a fast-paced, intriguing memoir in which she is forced to come to terms with the swift destruction of her picture-perfect life after her husband leaves her for another woman--something her rival reminds her, happens every day. …More

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann would be a perfect gift for any dad on Father's Day. Or for anyone, male or female, who enjoys a bit of history, a bit of mystery, and a lot of (true) adventure. Although reading it doesn't provide quite the same adrenaline rush as, say, Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air or Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, it definitely deserves a place next to them on any bookshelf. Certainly, fans of those two books won't be disappointed with Grann's tale. The author, a staff writer at The New Yorker, combines first rate reporting skills, an engaging style, and an adventurous spirit to tell the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett. Fawcett, his 21-year-old son, and his son's best friend disappeared in the Amazon in 1925 while looking for remnants of the fabled once-flourishing and wealthy City of Z. Before that final, fateful expedition, Fawcett had made six successful, groundbreaking, and health-destroying treks through the deepest jungles of the Amazon, all in pursuit of geographical knowledge. But he was determined not to give up his dream of finding that tantalizing lost City of Z. As Grann pores over maps and diaries and visits Fawcett relatives, he decides to retrace Fawcett's last journey through the "green hell" of the Amazon (which he does, accompanied by his samba dancer guide and despite the fact that he's unable to read a map, likely to get lost in his home borough of Brooklyn, has bad eyesight, and has never been what you would call an outdoorsy sort of guy) to see what he can find out for himself. One of the reasons I like books like this is that you tend to pick up a lot of tangential information as you're reading. Following Grann as he follows Fawcett, we learn about the founding of Britain's Royal Geographic Society, the great explorers of the 19th century, the influence of Fawcett on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World, and of the many dangerous, and frequently deadly, insects, fish, and parasites that would seemingly put anyone in their right mind off a trip into the great rainforest of the Amazon. Luckily for those of us who take our adventures vicariously, it didn't deter either Fawcett or Grann.

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From the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland, comes a powerful story of love and courage in an exotc southwestern landscape. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American myths, thisis a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's greatest commitments. …More

Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel.

At the close of "Ender's Game," Andrew Wiggin - called Ender by everyone - is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but instead the twelve-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies. With him went his sister Valentine, and the core of the artificial intelligence that would become Jane.

The story of those years has never been told... until now. …More