Browse by Category
- Architecture
- Art
- Biography & Autobiography
- Body, Mind & Spirit
- Business & Economics
- Computers
- Cooking
- Crafts & Hobbies
- Drama
- Education
- Family & Relationships
- Fiction General
- Games & Activities
- Gardening
- Health & Fitness
- History
- House & Home
- Humor
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Law
- Literary Collections
california
Of the #1 New York Times bestselling Kinsey Millhone
series, NPR said, “Makes me wish there were more than 26
letters.”
Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I’d never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue.
Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I’d never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE A MAJOR
MOTION PICTURE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE
YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
Never go back—but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him.
Never go back—but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him.
It’s April 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone’s thirty-eighth birthday, and she’s alone in her office catching up on paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. Michael Sutton is twenty-seven, an unemployed college dropout.
Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir. the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything.
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir. the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything.
The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of
Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his
most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes.
the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the
murderous consequences of love’s absence.
Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins
of society, dependant on one another for both physical and
emotional survival
Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is.
Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is.
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice
and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved
novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his
novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’
Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has featured a number
of actors who have played the iconic roles of George and Lennie on
stage and film, including James Earl Jones, John Malkovich and Gary
Sinise.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION
PICTURE • Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year
by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult
Nonfiction Book of the Year award
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.
1935
I want to be on Alcatraz like I want poison oak on my private parts. But apparently nobody cares, because now I’m Moose Flanagan, Alcatraz Island Boy–all so my sister can go to the Esther P. Marinoff School, where kids wear their clothes inside out and there isn’t a book in sight.
I want to be on Alcatraz like I want poison oak on my private parts. But apparently nobody cares, because now I’m Moose Flanagan, Alcatraz Island Boy–all so my sister can go to the Esther P. Marinoff School, where kids wear their clothes inside out and there isn’t a book in sight.
When I first moved here, I thought all the bad guys were on one
side of the bars and all the good guys were on the other. But
lately, I’ve begun to wonder . . .
Moose’s family moved to Alcatraz so his father could work as a guard and his sister could attend a special school in San Francisco.
Moose’s family moved to Alcatraz so his father could work as a guard and his sister could attend a special school in San Francisco.
Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean
Koontz’s dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant
sentinel at the crossroads of life and death who offers up his
heart in these pages and will forever capture yours.
“The dead don’t talk.
“The dead don’t talk.
From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is
sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns
that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted
down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack
Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled out of his
wandering life by a code that few other people could understand.
