Adult

Grace Reinhart Sachs is the author of You Should Have Known, a book that cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

ROBICELLI’S, written by popular bloggers Allison and Matt Robicelli, shares unbelievably delicious recipes for decidedly grown-up cupcakes (Chicken ‘n’ Waffles! Fruitcake! Apple Maple Crisp!) alongside edgy, sometimes crass, and unapologetically hilarious stories about the Robicelli’s courtship, their life in Brooklyn, and how they survived working together and falling on hard times. It's a baking book like you've never seen before!

From the two Wall Street Journal reporters who broke the story at every turn, WHEELMEN is an in-depth look at the history of American competitive cycling through the lens of Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal and dramatic fall from grace, the phenomenal business success built on the back of fraud, and a living portrait of what is, without question, the greatest conspiracy in the history of sports.

The America’s Cup is the oldest trophy in international sports. In 2000, Larry Ellison, billionaire CEO of Oracle Corporation, decided to run for the coveted prize and found an unlikely partner in Norbert Bajurin, a car radiator mechanic who had recently been named Commodore of the blue collar Golden Gate Yacht Club.

Beginning with the assassination of McKinley and ending with the defeat of the League of Nations by the United States Senate, the twenty-year period covered by John Dos Passos in this lucid and fascinating narrative changed the whole destiny of America. This is the story of the war we won and the peace we lost, told with a clear historical perspective and a warm interest in the remarkable people who guided the United States through one of the most crucial periods.

Tony Corcoran examines the magnitude of the operation of Guinness’s St. James’s Gate Brewery, and the working lives of the thousands of Dubliners who have depended on Guinness for their livelihood, either directly or indirectly. The company’s unusually progressive treatment of its workers—health care, training and housing --- is revealed in detail, as is the Guinness family’s philanthropy and compassion towards the less well-off residents of the city.

THE ARIADNE OBJECTIVE tells the remarkable story of the secret war on Crete from the perspective of amateur soldiers --- scholars, archaeologists, writers --- who found themselves serving as spies in Crete because, as one of them put it, they had made “the obsolete choice of Greek at school.” In this thrilling untold story of World War II, Wes Davis offers a brilliant portrait of a group of legends in the making, against the backdrop of one of the war’s most exotic locales.