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Life after Life by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.59 Sale - Hardcover
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That Is Not a Good Idea! by Mo Willems Publisher Comments That Is Not a Good Idea! is a hilarious, interactive picture book from bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems, the creator of books like Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, the Knuffle Bunny series, the Elephant and Piggie series, Goldilocks and... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.59 Sale - Hardcover
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The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey Publisher Comments Fifteen-year-old Cassie is the girl who lost it all. Her world ripped apart. Her mother and father dead. Her little brother captured. On a lonely stretch of highway, she runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $13.29 Sale - Hardcover
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Forest Animals Journal by Susie Ghahremani Publisher Comments Hand-painted bunnies, foxes, and beavers greet the first signs of spring in this sweet-as-can-be journal. Includes a bonus sheet of sticker tabs in animal shapes that fold over to flag — and add cuteness to — important pages. 5 x 7 1/8... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.67 Sale - Trade Paper
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Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with Over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes by Deborah Madison Publisher Comments In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $28.00 Sale - Hardcover
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The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers Publisher Comments A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book) by Hilary Mantel Staff Pick Would the sequel live up to expectations? Actually, yes. Hilary Mantel's talent for rich detail and sensuous atmosphere is still apparent, and Bring Up the Bodies is, in some ways, a much more gripping, riveting, and textured read than Wolf Hall. For one... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Publisher Comments Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander Publisher Comments Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prizewinning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Red Moon by Benjamin Percy Publisher Comments Acclaimed, award-winning author Benjamin Percy joins the GCP list with an epic and terrifying thriller set in the American West. They live among us. They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers. They change. When government... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $18.19 Sale - Hardcover
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NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Publisher Comments Joe Hill, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, plunges you into the dark side of imagination with a thrilling novel of supernatural suspense that will have you flinching at shadows and checking... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $20.29 Sale - Hardcover
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The Stud Book by Monica Drake Publisher Comments A sharp-edged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the rise. In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world. Sarah studies animal behavior... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Dog Stars (Vintage Contemporaries) by Peter Heller Staff Pick A post-apocalyptic story with an open, elegant heart, Heller's debut novel follows a pilot, Hig, and an ex-military man, Bangley, in their fight for survival. Although stuck together in an uneasy partnership, they each flawlessly compensate for the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt Publisher Comments Tackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.87 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud Publisher Comments From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen by Edward Lee Publisher Comments Chef Edward Lee's story and his food could only happen in America. Raised in Brooklyn by a family of Korean immigrants, he eventually settled down in his adopted hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, where he owns the acclaimed restaurant 610 Magnolia. A... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $20.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek Publisher Comments A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate Temple Grandin is a star, a Time Magazine top 100 Hero and an inspiration to millions worldwide. Since she started writing and speaking about autism, the... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.60 Sale - Hardcover
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Steam Train, Dream Train by Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld Publisher Comments The team behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site returns with another fabulous book for bedtime! The dream train pulls into the station, and one by one the train cars are loaded: polar bears pack the reefer car... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.89 Sale - Hardcover
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff Publisher Comments Two harrowing crashes... A vanished rescue plane... A desperate fight for life in a frozen, hostile land... The quest to solve a seventy-year-old mystery The author of the smash New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La delivers a gripping true story... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $20.29 Sale - Hardcover
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