Adult

In Jo Baker's reimagining of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Sarah, an orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended.

Eight-year-old Karen’s parents are lifelong workers at the Anchor Glass plant, where one Saturday, an employee goes on a shooting spree, killing four supervisors, then himself. This beautifully evocative memoir chronicles the next fourteen years as Karen seeks comfort in obsessive rituals and superstition.

Suzanne McMinn, a former romance writer and founder of the popular blog chickensintheroad.com, shares the story of her search to lead a life of ordinary splendor in CHICKENS IN THE ROAD, her inspiring and funny memoir.

'Gorgeously sexy' story about a guy tracking down a 'magical cheese'

Remarkable for nonfiction in that it uses" lyrical, measured prose to lift the 'redwood curtain' on the lives of 4 people who are involved in the major drives of Humboldt County's economy --- the raising of marijuana. It gives a real sense of what life is like in the underground business"

Every Old Master painting on display in the Vatican, as well as hundreds of additional masterpieces and treasures in the papal collection, is included in this deluxe slipcased volume with companion DVD.

The new generation of workers needs a new workplace manual designed to explain the particular norms, boundaries, and expectations of the contemporary office environment and help them navigate the cutthroat reality of a cubicled 9 to 5. Enter STOP TWEETING BORING SH*T, a handbook of vintage-style public service announcements addressing modern office issues, including such gems as: "If you don't have something nice to say, e-mail it," "If it doesn't have a meeting invite, it didn't happen," and "Nothing good comes from hitting 'reply all.'

Before his escape from the Death Star, a contemplative Luke Skywalker holds a stormtrooper helmet as he laments, “Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not”. Quirk has put Hamlet and Star Wars in a cement mixer with dramatic and comedic effect. Think Luke as Hamlet, R2D2 & C-3PO as Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, with direction from Yoda. For anglophiles, scifi nerds, and probably 9th grade English students.

Former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk works to track down and recover children who were kidnapped by their own estranged parents. However, haunted by the disappearance of his own daughter years ago, he won’t touch stranger abduction cases. Until, that is, six-year-old Lindsay Sorkin disappears, and the French police deliver Simon an ultimatum: he can spend years in a French jail for his actions during a past case, or he can work with them now to find Lindsay.

Andrea Barrett, winner of the National Book Award for her collection of stories SHIP FEVER, unfolds five pivotal moments in the lives of her characters and in the history of knowledge. She explores the thrill and sense of loss that come with scientific progress, and the personal passions and impersonal politics that shape all human knowledge.