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MacDonald, Alexander

• The Private Life of Victoria: Queen, Empress, Mother of the Nation – A non-fiction book, about the Queen’s personal relationships before, and during her reign

Macintyre, Ben

• Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War – A non-fiction book about the founding and early years of the British Special Air Service (SAS).

Maeder, Thomas

The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot– A non-fiction crime book taking place in France during World War II, the killer’s defense was that he only killed Nazi sympathizers, but was he?

Maguire, Gregory

• After Alice – A novel written in the style of Lewis Carroll about a friend of Alice who follows her into Wonderland.

• Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker – A novel in which the author takes a look, from a different view point, on another beloved story.

• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – A re-imagining of the famous Wizard of Oz stories by L. Frank Baum, this time however, it is from the point of view of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Maitland-Lewis, Stephen

• Botticelli’s Bastard – A novel tak­ing place in Europe with a strange premise combining ele­ments of magic, fan­tasy, his­tor­i­cal fic­tion and art history.

Maley, Dennis W.

• Profane Fire at the Altar of the Lord – A historical fictional story taking place in Europe during the 1600s involving a dwarf Jew who cons European Jewry into thinking he’s the Messiah, an Italian actor and European royalty.

Mangan, John

• Into a Dark Frontier by John Mangan  – A novel about an ex-soldier, now a mercenary based in the near future on Africa.

Mamatas, Nick

• Quotes Every Man Should Know edited – A lit­tle book which, when read in con­text, can be help­ful and funny when needed.

Mantel, Hilary

• Wolf Hall – A historical fiction book about the life of Thomas Cromwell.  The novel won the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

Manrique, Jaime

• Cervantes Street– A historical-fiction novel about Miguel de Cer­vantes Saavedra’s jour­ney to write Don Quixote. The book is pep­pered with lit­er­ary ref­er­ences to Cer­vantes’ works as well as works of the time.

Mann, Leslie

• And Some Fell on Stony Ground: A Day in the Life of an RAF Bomber Pilot – A fic­tional nar­ra­tive of a World War II air­man. Mr. Mann was a tail gun­ner in a British bomber who was shot down and spent the war in rel­a­tive safety as a POW in Germany.

Mascarenhas, Kate

• The Psychology of Time Travel – A novel which imagines the world if time travel was invented in the late 1960s by four female scientist, and a murder being investigated across time.

Marvano

• The Jewish Brigade #1 – A graphic novel, the first of a three part series taking place in 1945. Ari and Leslie, two soldiers in the Jewish Brigade, are riding on a jeep through Italy looking for survivors and hunting Nazis, dispensing justice on the spot.

Massimino, Mike

• Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe – An autobiography of Mr. Massimino.  Mr. Massimino was an astronaut, worked on the Hubble Telescope, robotics and NASA’s PR team.

Masters, Jason

• James Bond: Vargr  (with Warren Ellis) – A graphic novel about the famous MI6 agent who returns to London from  a vengeance mission in Helsinki and resumes the boring duties of the 00 section. Soon enough he gets a new mission, this time in Berlin to break a drug trafficking cartel.

Masterson, Louis

• Morgan Kane: Without Mercy– The first book in this Western series which introduces the reader to Morgan Kane, Texas Ranger, an old world cowboy with the ethics and morality of a new world superhero.

Markham, Robert

• Colonel Sun  – The first novel featuring secret agent James Bond, 007, not written by Ian Fleming. Robert Markham is actually the pseudonym of Kingsley Amis.

Martin, George R.R.

• A Game of Thrones – a fantasy novel which is the base to the successful TV show.

• A  Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) – The second novel in this fantasy series.

• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) – The third novel in this fantasy series.

McBride, James

• The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – A memoir of the author, remembering his white-Jewish mother and tracing her history.

McCarthy, Trevor

• Batwoman, Vol. 4: This Blood Is Thick (with W. Haden Blackman and  J.H. Williams III, Illustrated by Francesco Francavilla, Walden Wong, Sandu Florea, and Derek Fridolfs, colored by Guy Major) – The Department of Extranormal Operations, the D.E.O., sets their sites on Batman and they know exactly who they can blackmail to help them identify the person underneath the mask

McCubbbin, Lisa

• Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford (with Clint Hill) – A memoir by Mr. Hill, a Secret Service agent.

McIntyre, Vonda

• The Crystal Star (Star Wars Guest Review) – The events revolve around an intrigu­ing area of space in which a white dwarf star is orbit­ing a black hole and slowly being drawn in by the immense spa­tial forces at work.

McRobbie, Linda Rodriguez

• Princesses Behav­ing Badly: Real Sto­ries from His­tory With­out the Fairy-Tale End­ings – A series of non-fiction mini –biogra­phies of famous and infa­mous women of roy­alty.

MacNeal, Susan Elia

• Mr. Churchill’s Secretary – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book tak­ing place in the early days of World War II about an American woman, a brilliant mathematician, of British origin in London working at 10 Downing Street.

• Princess Elizabeth’s Spy – The sec­ond book in the author’s fic­tional series about Mag­gie Hope, this time Maggie is tasked with keeping an eye on the young Princess Elizabeth during World War II.

Magee, Doug

• Darkness All Around – A mys­tery novel tak­ing place in a small town, the book also cap­tures the neu­ro­sis feel of small town pol­i­tics.

Mahon, Elizabeth Kerri

• Scandalous Women – A non-fictionbook ded­i­cated to… scan­dalous women. Each woman is fea­tured in a short bio­graph­i­cal chap­ter.

Makine, Andreï

• Dreams of My Russian Summers – An award winning fic­tional, semi-autobiographical book exploring the narrator’s grandmother’s life as well as the narrator’s life and how her sto­ries influ­enced him.

Malcolm, M. L.

• Heart of Lies -A fic­tional tale of a fam­ily, inspired by the author’s hus­band, which takes place after World War I until the early days of World War II.

• Heart of Deception – the fic­tional sequel to “Hear of Lies” pick­ing up with the same cast of char­ac­ters after World War II.

Marcus,Greil

• Mystery Train (Guest Review) – The essential study of the quintessential American art form. First published in 1975, Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train remains a benchmark study of rock ‘n’ roll and a classic in the field of music criticism.

Margolick, David

• Elizabeth and Hazel– A non fic­tion book about Eliz­a­beth Eck­ford and Hazel Bryan were cap­tured for pros­per­ity in a pho­to­graph by Will Counts.

Margolin, Josh

• The Jersey Sting (with Ted Sherman)- The true story of the events lead­ing up to the arrest of 44 peo­ple in New Jer­sey including cor­rupt local politi­cians, Rab­bis, money laun­der­ers and, strangest of all, a black mar­ket kid­ney dealer.

de Marigny, Gerard

• Thoughts on: The Watchman of Ephraim– A fic­tional book tak­ing place a decade after 9/11 when a multi-billionaire whose wife died in the Twin Towers opens a private security firm.

Márquez, Gabriel Garcia

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Guest Review) -The novel fol­lows the his­tory of Jose Arca­dio Buen­dia, his wife Ursula, and their prog­eny over the course of about a hun­dred years in Macondo, Colum­bia.

Martel, Yann

• Beatrice and Virgil: A novel – A a fictional book, a follow up to the author’s wildly successful “Like of Pi”, a strange story which is suppose to be an allegory for the holocaust.

Maxwell, Robin

• Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan – A reimag­in­g of the famous Bur­roughs novel. This book tells the famous story from the view point of Jane Porter, Tarzan’s love interest.

McCann, Colum

• Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann – A series of short stories which get intertwined.

McClure, Sandy

• The Soprano State: New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption (with Bob Ingle)- A non-fiction book which examines New Jersey‘s love / hate relationship with the corrupt political class.

McCullough, David

• 1776 – A non-fiction book about this remark­able year, the book has become a must on the list of every Amer­i­can his­tory buff since it came out.

• John Adams – The award winning biography, and basis for the HBO series, of the US’ second president.

McDonough, Yona Zeldis

• The Cats in the Doll Shop – A fic­tional children’s book aimed at the younger crowd. This book is a sequel to The Doll Shop Downstairs.

McMillan, Jason

• The Grey Zone – A novel taking place in 2072 when The United States has joined the Global Federation of Nations to implement the Basic Human Standard, which improved life for much of the world. Fifteen years later, many Americans still dismiss the principles of the GFN, and fight against it and its forces.

McMurtry, Larry

• Rhino Ranch– A fictional book set in Texas following famil­iar char­ac­ters from pre­vi­ous McMurtry Books.

McNabb, Andy

• Bravo Two Zero– A best­seller describ­ing a patrol by the Eng­lish Spe­cial Air Ser­vices (SAS) in Iraq dur­ing the Gulf War.

McNish, Cliff

• Breath: A Ghost Story (Guest Review) — A fic­tional book taking place after twelve-year-old Jack’s father dies sud­denly, his mother Sarah moves them to an old farm­house in the coun­try. It’s an isolated,crumbling old place, and it has a his­tory. But Jack has a special gift.

Medad, Yisrael (editor)

• Peace in the Making (with Harry Hurwitz)- The com­plete cor­re­spon­dence between the Israeli prime min­is­ter Men­achem Begin and the Egypt­ian pres­i­dent Anwar Sadat dur­ing the his­toric peace mak­ing efforts.

Mekhen­net, Souad

• The Eter­nal Nazi: From Mau­thausen to Cairo, the Relent­less Pur­suit of SS Doc­tor Arib­ert Heim (with Nicholas Kul­ish) – A non-fiction book detail­ing the tri­als and tribu­la­tions of Nazi hunters fol­low­ing an elu­sive crim­i­nal.

Metz, Lafe

• The Locksmith – The memoir of Kurt Kann, a Ger­man born Amer­i­can solider dur­ing World War II.

Mihm, Stephen

• Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (with Nouriel Roubini) – A non-fiction financial book which gives a good overview of capitalism from the point of view of the crisis that happens every once in a while, before and after reforms.

Millar, Mark

• Superman: Red Son – a classic graphic novel asking what whould happen if the Man of Steel’s rocket

• Wolverine: Old Man Logan (illustrated by Steve McNiven) – A graphic novel featuring this X-Men favorite. The comic series was the basis for the movie Logan.

Millard, Can­dice

• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Dark­est Jour­ney – A non-fiction book telling of the extra­or­di­nary expe­di­tion led by Cân­dido Mar­i­ano da Silva Ron­don and his co-commander, ex-President Theodore Roo­sevelt, down the unex­plored trib­u­taries of the Ama­zon in 1914.

• Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill  – A mini biography of the person who will become England’s most prominent and famous Prime Minister.

Miller, Angela

• Quest Holders (Guest Review) – A young woman finds out that life has more to offer her after the loss of her par­ents.

Miller, Charley

• Monticello: The Official Guide to Thomas Jefferson’s World (with Peter Miller) – A guide which tells the reader about the famous home of Thomas Jefferson, America’s 3^rd President

Miller, Frank

• All-Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder – A a fun, excit­ing, humor­ous and quick-paced book retelling the origins of Batman (using some graphic sex, violence and profanity).

• The Dark Knight Returns– A Ground breaking graphic novel written and drawn by Miller.

• Holy Terror – A graphic novel which has our heroes fight­ing Al-Qaeda. The book was writ­ten after 9/11 and it feels like it.

Miller, Peter

• Monticello: The Official Guide to Thomas Jefferson’s World (with Charley Miller) – A guide which tells the reader about the famous home of Thomas Jefferson, America’s 3^rd President

Miller, Ron

• The Art of Space: The His­tory of Space Art, from the Ear­li­est Visions to the Graph­ics of the Mod­ern Era – A book encom­pass­ing decades of space related art.

• Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined by Ron Miller – An illustrated history book of space travel. The author touches on real, as well as fictional spaceships.

Milligan, Peter

• Red Lanterns Vol. 1: Blood and Rage (illustrated by Ed Benes) – A graphic novel following Atrocitus is the founder of the Red Lantern Corps, beings who get their power from hatred and anger.

• Red Lanterns, Vol. 2: The Death of the Red Lanterns (art by Miguel Sepúlveda and Ed Benes) – A graphic novel continuing the story of the Red Lanterns, fueled by anger and rage.

Mingarelli, Hubert

• Four Soldiers (translated by Sam Taylor) – A short novel taking about members of the Russian Army fighting the Russian Civil War in 1919.

Mires, Charlene

• Capital of the World – A his­tory book doc­u­ment­ing the search for the UN’s home.

Mirsky, Stuart W.

• The King of Vinland’s Saga – A historical fiction story which provides adventure and swordplay.

Mishal, Nissim

• The Mossad: Great Operations (with Michael Bar-Zohar) -A non-fiction book by Israeli jour­nal­ists recounting some of the great suc­cesses and fail­ures of the secret Israeli agency.

Mishani, D. A.

• The Missing File– A mys­tery novel tak­ing place in Holon, Israel. The book has been trans­lated from Hebrew and is one of the few police mys­ter­ies / pro­ce­dural writ­ten in Israel.

Mitchell, David

• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – In 18^th Century in feudal Japan Dutch merchants onlly allowed on a small island. Jacob allows honor and decorum triumph over corruption and wickedness.

Mitchell, Erika

• Bai Tide – The first in a series featuring CIA agent Bai Hsu.

• Take the Bai Road – a novel which continues the adventures of CIA case officer Bai Hsu, a Chinese-American spy – this time taking on the Mexicans cartels.

Mitchell, Greg

• The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall-and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill – A non-fiction book about the infamous Berlin Wall and the tunnels being dug during the Cold War.  Mr. Mitchell has wrote many non-fiction books on US politics and history.

Mitchell, Stephen (editor)

• The Enlightened Heart (Guest Review) – Selec­tions from: the Upan­ishads, the Book of Psalms, the Tao Te Ching, the Bha­gavad Gita, the Odes of Solomon, Chi­nese nature poets, early Chris­t­ian the­olo­gians, Japan­ese haiku prac­ti­tion­ers, Sufi poet Rumi, Dante, Kabir, Shake­speare, and more.

Mitchellhill, Jennifer

• Samurai Castles (photography by David Green) – A non0fiction book featuring these fantastic Japanese castles.

Moeller, Christopher

• Justice League: A League of One – A graphic novel about the famed group of heroes, banded together for grand adventures.

Montefiore, Simon Sebag

• One Night in Winter – A a grip­ping, intel­li­gent novel about a bunch of upper class kids in Stalin’s Russia after World War II who were arrested for treason.

• Sashenka by Simon Sebag Montefiore – A novel taking place in Russia before and after the Communist revolution where sixteen year old Sashenka Zeitlin feels that she is making history. Daughter of a rich, Jewish merchant, beautiful and stubborn Sashenka plays a dangerous game with the Tsar’s secret police in 1916

• Titans of History: The Giants Who made Our World by Simon Sebag Montefiore – A non-fiction book of extremely short biographies of those people the author deemed as changing the world they lived in.

Moore, Alan

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 – A graphic novel which puts together a bunch of famous fic­tional char­ac­ters, writ­ten by dif­fer­ent authors, to a steam­punk adven­ture which spans lit­er­a­ture and imag­i­na­tion.

• The Killing Joke– A graphic novel telling the ori­gins of The Joker, Batman’s arch neme­sis. This graphic novel is con­sid­ered a “must read” for fans of the genre and the DC Universe.

Moore, Don

• Flash Gor­don: The Tyrant of Mongo: The Com­plete Flash Gor­don Library 1937–1941 (with Alex Raymond)– This hard cover coffee table book col­lects 4 years of comic strip to bring an excit­ing story to a new audience.

Moorehead, Caroline

• Vil­lage of Secrets: Defy­ing the Nazis in Vichy France– A non-fiction book which tells the story of the small vil­lage and its sur­round­ing area which were respon­si­ble for sav­ing thou­sands of peo­ple dur­ing World War II who were on the Gestapo’s wanted list.

Motion, Andrew

• Silver: Return to Treasure Island– a novel which continues the adventures of the son of Jim Hawkins, protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.

Moss, Wes

• You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think: The 5 Money Secrets of the Happiest Retirees – A finance book from the perspective that you need to be happy as well, not just well off.

Mott, Jason

• The Returned – The novel asks sev­eral very inter­est­ing ques­tions: what would you do if loved ones came back from the dead? Are they your loved ones or are they “copies”? How would the world react? What would the world do with all the over pop­u­la­tion?

Morris, Errol

• A Wilder­ness of Error : The Tri­als of Jef­frey Mac­Don­ald – A true-crime non-fiction book about the trial of Jef­frey Mac­Don­ald, for­mer Cap­tain in the Green Berets, a med­ical doc­tor, Prince­ton grad­u­ate, father and hus­band was con­victed of mur­der­ing his fam­ily in 1970.

Mouw, Gudrun

• From Ashes Into Light – A novel with a strange narrative, reading more as an adult fairytale than Holocaust fiction.

Murakami, Haruki

• 1Q84 – a fic­tional novel which takes place between two worlds, orig­i­nally writ­ten in Japan­ese and became a best seller almost immediately.

• Norwegian Wood — A fictional 1987 novel set in 1960s Tokyo, Japan where a man reminisces about his college days, love lost and life.

Murphy, Sean

• Batman: White Knight – A graphic novel which follows Jack Napier, The Joker, as he rebrand himself as the White Knight of Gotham, the man who will shine a light on all the corruption which is dragging down the city to benefit the few.

Myers, Tamar

• The Witch Doctor’s Wife – A novel about Amanda Brown, a young missionary from South Carolina, travels to the Belgian Congo in 1958 in order to oversee a missionary guest house in the town of Belle Vue. Belle Vue is a diamond mining town in which the race by the Belgian occupiers to get as many riches as they can before the forces of independence takes over is a major concern..

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Nagel, Paul C.

• John Quincy Adams– A wonderful character study / biography of the misunderstood sixth president of the US.

Naggar, Jean

• Sip­ping from the Nile: My Exo­dus from Egypt– A w mem­oir of a bygone era, an ele­gantly writ­ten mem­oir of a close knit Egypt­ian Jew­ish fam­ily and the tur­moil they encounter dur­ing the tur­bu­lent 1950s.

Nagorski, Andrew

• The Nazi Hunters– a non-fiction book which tells of the people who took it upon themselves to bring former to Nazis to justice.

Napoli, Lisa

• Radio Shangri-La – A memoir starting in 2007. The author volunteered to go to Bhutan and help launch their first radio station.

Naslund, Sena Jeter

• Adam & Eve – A fic­tional book which tries to tackle the evo­lu­tion / cre­ation­ism debate through its char­ac­ters and via the sto­ry­line.

Nesbø, Jo

• The Bat– The first in the Harry Hole series. Oslo Crime Squad Inspec­tor Harry Hole is sent to Syd­ney, Aus­tralia to rep­re­sent Nor­way in an inves­ti­ga­tion of a Nor­we­gian national’s mur­der. Harry makes friends with the local police offi­cers and leaves his offi­cial role as an observer on the side­lines to take a more active role on the case.

• Nemesis– Inspec­tor Harry Hole wakes up from a drunken stu­por after vis­it­ing an old flame with a huge mem­ory gap. Harry comes to find out that his girl­friend is dead, but he is busy inves­ti­gat­ing a vio­lent bank rob­bery which turned into a homicide.

• The Devil’s Star – The third in the Harry Hole series. The book deals with a Norwegian serial killer and incorporates a sophisticated plot where all the pieces fit together at the end.

• Macbeth – A retelling of the Shakespearean tragedy, set in a small European town as a police drama.

Nevo, Eshkol

• The Lost Solos -An Israeli novel cap­turing sev­eral aspects of Israeli soci­ety, the Russ­ian immi­grant, a sol­dier, politi­cian, reli­gious Jew, an Arab bird-lover and more.

Nyiszli, Dr. Miklós

• Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account – Memoir and cautionary tale of a Jewish doctor who became Men­gele’s per­sonal research pathologist. Non fiction and not for the faint or heart, but an excellent book.

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O’Hanlon, Michael

• The Wounded Giant – A non-fiction eBook in which the author lays out his ideas for mil­i­tary bud­get cuts.

Oksanen, Sofi

• Purge – Wonderful historical fiction about two women and they horrifying events in their lives which take Estonia, in general, and their rural village specifically through WWII, soviet rule and independence.

Omar, Manal M.

• Barefoot in Baghdad – A touching memoir of an American Muslim aid worker in Iraq.

Oren, Michael B.

• Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present – A study of the relationship the United States had towards the Middle East since its inception. Mr. Oren is an Israeli born author and historian who severed as an amabassodor to the United States from 2009 to 2013.

Orczy, Emmuska

• The Scarlet Pimpernel – A fictional adventure taking place during the French Revolution where a group of Englishman rescues French nobles from Madame Guil­lo­tine.

O’Rourke, Dan

• Göring’s Gamble – A historical fiction novel taking place in 1940 Hitler got himself an atomic bomb, however it cannot be delivered by air. Hermann Göring is tasked with delivering the bomb to London, risking his career and the war on its success.

Ostrow, Stephen L.

• How to Sue a Telemarketer– A humorous guide filled with instructions and advice on how to get your family time back.

Owen, Mark

• No Easy Day: The First­hand Account of the Mis­sion That Killed Osama Bin Laden– A non­fic­tion account from one of the man in the Navy SEALs unit who were tasked with raid­ing the com­pound in which it was thought that Usama Bin Laden is hiding.

Oz, Amos

• Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest – Award winning Israeli author Amos Oz writes a short novel which you can read to your kids

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Palmiotti, Jimmi

• Harley Quinn and Power Girl (with Amanda Conner, illustrated by Stéphane Roux) – A graphic novel featuring the adventures of Harley Quinn and an amnesiac Power Girl saving Lord Vartox of Valeron fight against Oreth Odex, a tyrant who’s objective is to destroy hedonism in the universe.

• Harley Quinn Vol. 2: Power Outage (The New 52) with Amanda Conner (illustrated by‎ Chad Hardin) – A graphic novel featuring one of DC Comics’ most popular new (relatively speaking) character in various stories.

Parnell, Sean

• Outlaw Platoon (with John Bruning) – A non-fiction book about Mr. Parnell’s expe­ri­ence as a pla­toon leader (nick­named Out­law Pla­toon) for the U.S. Army Air­borne Ranger in Afghanistan.

Patchett, Ann

• State of Wonder – A fictional fic­tional book tak­ing place, mostly, in Brazil’s Ama­zon region, Brazil when a pharmaceutical researcher from Minnesota goes looking for a missing colleague and her mentor.

Patterson, James

• Sundays at Tiffany’s (with Gabrielle Charbonnet) – A romance about a poor little rich girl has an imaginary friend as a young girl and later gets reunited with him.

Patterson, Mark W.

• National Geographic Atlas of Beer: A Globe-Trotting Journey Through the World of Beer (with Nancy Hoalst-Pullen) – A coffee table book about, you guessed, beer around the world.

Parkin, Gaile

• Baking Cakes in Kigali – A fic­tional story is about a woman named Angel Tun­garaza, who her­self is Tan­zan­ian but is liv­ing in an Inter­na­tional apart­ment com­plex in Rwanda and bakes cakes for a living.

Parssinen, Keija

• The Ruins of Us – A fic­tional book set in Saudi Ara­bia, a char­ac­ter study of mar­riage in the midst of a cul­ture clash.

Pasulka, Brigid

• A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True – a funny and touching novel about two generations of the same family in Poland. Juxtaposed between World War II and current day Poland.

Pearl, Matthew

• The Technologists – A fic­tional book about the early days of the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (MIT) in the years after the Amer­i­can Civil War dur­ing a very frag­ile time in our history.

Pearlman, Ann

• The Christmas Cookie Club – A short fictional novel which takes place on one December evening. The event is the annual Christmas Cookie party where twelve women exchange cookies and donate some for charity.

Pearson, Ridley

• The Risk Agent – a fic­tional mystery/thriller tak­ing place in China. The book is the first of a new series.

Penman, Sharon Kay

• Lionheart – a his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book about Richard I and the Third cru­sade. This is a well researched book which is fas­ci­nat­ing and exciting.

Percy, Benjamin

• James Bond: Black Box (art by Rapha Lobosco) – The third story arc from Dynamite Entertainment featuring Secret Agent 007, who travels to Tokyo to follow the only lead MI6 has before the incriminating information could get out.

• Teen Titans Vol. 1: Damian Knows Best (Rebirth) (illustrated by Jonboy Meyers) – A graphic novel where the title team find themselves helping Damian in a war against his grandfather, Ra’s al Ghul and the entire League of Assassins.

• Teen Titans Vol. 2: The Rise of Aqualad (Rebirth) (illustrated by Khoi Pham) – A graphic novel which tells of the origins of Aqualad and how he joins the Teen Titans.

Perkins-Valdes, Dolen

• Wench – A fictional story which takes place examines the relationship between white masters and their concubines slaves. The story mostly takes place in the early 1850s at an Ohio vacation resort called Tawawa House

Perlman, Elliot

• The Street Sweeper – A fic­tional book which deals with the Amer­i­can strug­gle for civil rights and the Holo­caust.

Pickard, Nancy

• The Scent of Rain and Lightning – Can a community be responsible for wrongfully sending an innocent man to prison? This tale of murder in a small Kansas town touches the subject.

Pielmeier, John

• Hook’s Tale: Being the Account of an Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself – a reimagining of the famous play Peter Pan, this time from the point of view of Captain Hook.

Pisani, Phil

• Maggie’s Wars – A novel about Mag­gie Hogan is a strong woman, an ace report who just wants to be treated fairly. She fights, and sleeps, her way through the bat­tle­fields, the Nurem­burg tri­als and the after­math of the World War II, includ­ing the cold war.

Platt, Michael Donald

• Rocamora – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book tak­ing place in 17^th Cen­tury Spain based on the life of Vicente de Rocamora a poet, fighter and Domini­can priest who was thrust into the schem­ing court of King Philip IV. This book was the 2012 final­ist in the Inter­na­tional Book Awards for His­tor­i­cal Fiction.

• House of Rocamora – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book tak­ing place in Ams­ter­dam. This is a sequel to the well received Roca­maora: Man of Masks.

Polisner, Gae

• The Memory of Things – A fictional book about two teenagers and their experience on September 11, 2001 and days afterwards.

Pollack, John

• The Pun Also Rises – A non-fiction book, in which the author tells history of puns.

Pressfield, Steven

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Bat­tle of Ther­mopyla – The Per­sian army, two mil­lion men strong, is march­ing onto Greece. The Greeks have deployed a small army, 4,000 — 7,000 men against the Per­sians and chose to make their stand at the geo­graph­i­cally advan­ta­geous Ther­mopy­lae. Lead­ing the Greeks are 300 Spar­tans who hope to delay the army enough for Greece to get together a defense plan.

• Killing Rommel – A historical fiction novel which takes place in the early 1940’s when the Dessert Fox’s troops were intent on capturing the Mid East oil fields in order to support Germany’s war machine in its attempt of world conquest.

• The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War – An excel­lent book which will give the reader much needed back­ground and sto­ries about the Six Days War. A well writ­ten book, a good read about a con­flict and the Israeli plight.

• The Profession – A fic­tional book about the project future of Amer­ica seeing through the eyes of a mercenary soldier.

Preus, Margi

• Shadow on the Mountain – A well researched, historical fiction YA novel taking place in Norway during World War II.

Prioleau, Betsy

• Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them– A non-fiction book which tries to ana­lyze what makes a ladies’ man. The book makes an inter­est­ing read and I only wish I would have read it when I was sin­gle and still look­ing for a mate for life.

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Quick, Matthew

• The Good Luck of Right Now– . The premise of the novel is that a men­tally hand­i­capped man finds a let­ter his departed mom kept from Richard Gere, the famous actor and activist, and decides to spill his heart out in let­ters to the celebrity.

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Rabb, Jonathan

• Among the Living– A fictional book about a Holocaust survivor who moves to Georgia, in the US.

Rabin, Neal

• 23 Degrees South: A Tropical Tale of Changing Whether…  – A fictional story by Neal Rabin mostly taking place in Brazil about a journey of two friends which involves a Capoeira Master, a Jesuit Priest, and an elderly Nazi.

Rabinovich, Itamar

• Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman – a biography of the famous Israeli politician. Mr. Rabinovich is a political operative who worked with Mr. Rabin.

Radcliffe, Robert

• Airborne – a historical fiction book about an English air-borne medic who became a POW in WWII.

Rakha, Naseem

• The Crying Tree – A deeply mov­ing, well plot­ted book has many themes: for­give­ness, redemp­tion, belief, jus­tice and the role of orga­nized reli­gion are among some of them.

Rankin, Nicholas

• A Genius for Deception: How Cun­ning Helped the British Win Two World Wars – A non-fiction book which tack­les the his­tory of cam­ou­flage, lies, bluffs and tricks which helped the British win World War I and World War II.

Rashke, Richard

• Escape from Sobibor – A non-fiction book which details the biggest escape from a Nazi con­cen­tra­tion camp in Poland dur­ing World War II.

Raymond, Alex

• Flash Gor­don: The Tyrant of Mongo: The Com­plete Flash Gor­don Library 1937–1941 (with Don Moore)– This hard cover coffee table book col­lects 4 years of comic strip to bring an excit­ing story to a new audience.

Reed, Ralph

• The Confirmation – A fictional story set in the late 70’s in rural Mississippi. Many profound themes of friendship, bonding, racism, cruelty and community shunning are at the forefront of this well written novel.

Remple, William C.

• At the Devil’s Table– A non-fiction nar­ra­tive of the Cali drug car­tel in the 1990’s told through the eyes of a high level informer.

Rideout, Tanis

• Above All Things– A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion account of George Mallory’s 1924 attempt to climb Mt. Ever­est.

Riding, Alan

• And The Show Went On – A non-fiction book which investigates the glimmering nightlife in an Nazi occupied Paris.

Riggs, Ransom

• • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children– A a fic­tional YA book set in two time­lines pep­pered with vin­tage pho­tographs which help it achieve a chill­ing effect.

  • Hollow City – Athe sequel to the popular YA novel, Miss Peregrine children escape the island which was attacked by the evil “wights” under the guise of a military operation

Rielly, Robert

• Karate Basics: Everything You Need to Get Started in Karate – from Basic Punches to Training and Tournaments – A guide to those interested in starting to learn Karate.

Riley, Lucinda

• The Lavender Garden– A young French aris­to­crat inher­its her child­hood château as well as debts. An art dealer finds him­self with Emi­lie help­ing her sell some of the trea­sures she inher­ited and the two fall in love. Dur­ing their time, they dis­cover that the home has its secrets, includ­ing a con­nec­tion to the French under­ground dur­ing World War IIs and an Eng­lish under­cover agent.

Roberts, Andrew

• Napoleon: A Life– An inter­est­ing and thought pro­vok­ing biog­ra­phy of this unique man. Mr. Roberts has got­ten a hold of more than 33,000 pri­vate let­ters which were recently released and, as any fresh mate­r­ial does, caused his­to­ri­ans to ana­lyze and reflect upon the subject.

Roberts, Madoc

• Snow: The Dou­ble Life of a World War II Spy (with Nigel West) – A non-fiction about a dou­ble agent for Eng­land and Ger­many during World War II.

Robinson, James

• James Bond: Felix Leiter(art by Aaron Campbell) – A spinoff the Bond comics taking his good friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter as the protagonist.

Rodriguez, Diogenes

• Don Quixote for a New Millennium – The the old story of Don Quixote with a new trans­la­tion which tries to cap­ture the spirit of the book including sections of the history, linguistics and the phi­los­o­phy of Don Quixote.

Rogers, Jane

• The Testament of Jessie Lamb – An an award win­ning science-fiction book tak­ing place in the near future where a virus is wiping out pregnant women. An idealistic 16 year old girl wants to volunteer to have a baby.

Rohmer, Sax

• The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu – The 1913 novel which first intro­duced the famous vil­lain is actually a collection of short stories.

Rooney, Padraig

• The Gilded Chalet: Off-Piste in Literary Switzerland – A non-fiction book where the author writes interesting anecdotes about famous writers who have lived, and were inspired by Switzerland.

Rose, Dilys

• Unspeakable – The story of Thomas Aikenhead, the last person to be executed for blasphemy in 17th Scotland.

Rose, M.J.

• The Rein­car­na­tion­ist Series

  • The Reincarnationist – A fic­tional story involv­ing past lives and reli­gious myth. It is the first of a series,

  • The Memorist – The second in the series dealing with a magic flute which helps people remember past lives.

  • The Hypnotist – The third installment in the series, this time from the point of view of an FBI agent.

  • The Book of Lost Fragrances – A fictional book, fourth in the Reincarnationist series, this time perfume from Cleopatra’s factory can cause people to relive past lives.

  • Seduction by M.J. Rose -The fifth book in the Rein­car­na­tion­ist series, this one involving French author Victor Hugo and takes place mostly on the Isle of Jersey .

• In Session– A unique short book which con­tains three short sto­ries, Ms. Rose uses three fic­tional char­ac­ters of other authors who visit her cre­ation – a sex therapist.

Rosen, Leonard

• The Tenth Witness – A fic­tional book in which Engi­neer Henri Poin­caré works hard to try and bring up the a sunk frigate with mil­lions worth of gold in its belly. Henri gets to know Liesel Kraus who is a direc­tor at Kraus Steel and is still haunted by a vio­lent Nazi his­tory and cor­rupt­ing wealth.

Rosenberg, Jonathan

• How Google Works (with Eric Schmidt) – A non-fiction book about the business practices of this famous company.

Roslund, Andres

• Three Seconds (with Borge Hellström) – Winner of the prestigious Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year in 2009. This crime fiction novel focuses on the prison drug trade, Swedish prisons and justice system.

Rosnay, Tatiana de

• Sarah’s Key – The novel revolves around the French roundup of Jews dur­ing WWII. A lit­tle girl, named Sarah, which escaped death and the search for her lit­tle brother whom she locked in a cup­board before the French police took their fam­ily away.

Roth, Philip

• The Plot Against America – An alter­na­tive his­tory novel which asks an ques­tion: what if Amer­ica had elected a fas­cist gov­ern­ment before World War II?

Rothman-Zecher, Moriel

• Sadness is a White Bird – A novel examining the Israeli-Palestinian issue from both sides. Jonathan is an American Jew who decided to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces, only to find himself in jail. Jonathan is friends with two Palestinians

Ross, Alex (with Mark Waid)

• Kingdom Come – Collection of the a four issue comic book mini-series pub­lished in 1996. The absolute edi­tion comes with qual­ity print­ing, hard­cover, slip­case and addi­tional mate­r­ial.

Rostan, Susan

• Digging: Lifting the Memorable from Within the Unthinkable – I found the story of bat­tling the bureau­cracy very fas­ci­nat­ing and am glad she included it, giv­ing the book another dimen­sion along­side the fas­ci­nat­ing fam­ily history.

Rubenfeld, Jed

• The Death Instinct – A fictional thriller set in the 1920’s centering around the historical Wall St. bombing of 1916.

Rubin, Emily

• Stalina – A fictional story of a Russian immigrant to the United States.

Roubini, Nouriel

• Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (with Stephen Mihm) – A non-fiction financial book which gives a good overview of capitalism from the point of view of the crisis that happens every once in a while, before and after reforms.

Rucka, Greg

• Wonder Woman, Volume 1: The Lies (art by Liam Sharp, lettered by Jodi Wynne, penciled by Matthew Clark, inked by Sean Parsons, colored by Laura Martin & Jeremy Colwell) – A graphic novel which attempts to reintroduced Wonder Woman who has lost her memory and is trying to find out who she really is by going back to her home, only that the place no longer exist.

Runyuan, Aimie K.

• Daughters of the Night Sky– A novel about the Russian women pilots of World War II known by their victims as the “Night Witches”.

Rushdie, Salman

• The Golden House by Salman Rushdie – A novel about a powerful tycoon who immigrates to the US.

Russo, Gus

• Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold Warby (with Eric Dezenhall) – A non-fiction book which narrates the relationship between KGB officer Gennady Semyovich Vasilenko and legendary CIA officer Jack Platt.

Rydell, Andres

• The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance (translated by Henning Koch) – a non-fiction book which tells of the efforts of the Nazis to ransack European libraries, bookshops and private collections.

Rylant, Cynthia

• Some Good News (A kid’s review)– The Cobble Street Cousins decided to start their own newspaper.

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Sandell, Lauie

• The Impostor’s Daughter: A True Memoir – This wonderful memoir told in an inspiring graphic novel format is both funny and touching.

Sarna, Jonathan, D.

• When General Grant Expelled the Jews – A non-fiction book about Grant’s infa­mous “Gen­eral Order No. 11”. Yes, this a non-fiction book – who would have thought?

Sattin, Samuel

• League of Sombodies – Fearghas Mur­doch Sikoph­sky wants to raise the world’s first legit­i­mate super­hero – the can­di­date: his son Lenard. How­ever, before becom­ing a hero Lenard must pass sev­eral tests from an ancient book which teaches men how to be men. In the process Lenard falls in love with the men­tally unsta­ble Laura Moskowitz.

Sattouf, Riad

• The Arab of the Future – The first part in a graphical biography of the author told from the perspective of a sensitive European boy, being torn from his comfortable home to live in a backward dictatorship in the hot dessert.

• The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984 – 1985  – An autobiographical graphic novel of the author’s childhood in Syria with his native father and French mother.

Saylor, Steven

• Roma – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book which attempts to tell 1,000 years of his­tory in 600 pages.

• The Seven Wonders: A Novel of the Ancient World – A collection of short stories starring the youthful, wise cracking Gordianus.

Scaffardi, Steven

• The Drought – A funny novel which fol­lows an unfor­tu­nate man try­ing to get laid. The book is being mar­keted as a genre called “lad lit” which, to me, seems appropriate.

Scahill, Jeremy

• Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield – A non-fiction book, examining the policies of the United States, and the consequences, on the War on Terrorism.

Schanzer, Jonathan

• State of Fail­ure: Yasser Arafat, Mah­moud Abbas, and the Unmak­ing of the Pales­tin­ian State – A non-fiction book which exam­ines if the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple have cre­ated the infra­struc­ture for an inde­pen­dent state.

Schiff, Stacy

• Cleopatra: A Life – The Pulitzer winning biography of the famous Egyptian Queen. This is a well researched and dense book –it is not easy to read.

Schlender, Brent

• Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader (with Rick Tetzeli) – Tells about the famous entrepreneur by two people who knew him. Mr.  Schlender and Mr. Tetzeli are journalists who have interviewed Mr. Jobs over many years.

Schmidt, Eric

• How Google Works (with Eric Schmid) – A non-fiction book about the business practices of this famous company.

Schwartz, Ghita

• Displaced Persons – A fic­tional novel which fol­lows a group of holo­caust sur­vivors from their lib­er­a­tion to the twi­light of their life.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

• Total Recall: My Unbe­liev­ably True Life Story – An auto­bi­og­ra­phy of the famous actor, politi­cian and cham­pion body builder, great for fans but far from a “tell all” insightful book.

Schwarzkopf, General H. Noram

• It Doesn’t Take a Hero – A grip­ping book about the career of one of America’s most celebrated generals.

Schuman, Sandor

• Adirondack Mendel’s Aufruf: Welcome to Chelm’s Pond – A fic­tional book, tak­ing place in upstate New York which reprises some of the old Jew­ish tales of the fools of Chelm.

Scott, Sir Walter

• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott – A fictional adventure story about a knight who came back from the crusades to an England struggling with modernization and a new king.

Sears, Michael

• Black Fridays – The novel follows Jason Stafford who has spent the past two years in jail after being caught run­ning a Wall Street scam. Now the unem­ploy­able trader is try­ing to put his life back together and get his Autistic son back.

Seiser, Lynn

• Aikido Basics: Everything you need to get started in Aikido – from basic footwork and throws to training (with Phong Thong Dang) – A basic guide to this martial art for those who want to learn more.

Seeley, Tim

• Batman: Preludes to the Wedding – A graphic novel which collects stories where side characters in the Batman universe react to his upcoming wedding to Catwoman.

• Nightwing Vol. 1: Better Than Batman (Rebirth) (illustrated by Javier Fernandez, colored by Chris Sotomayor) – A graphic novel featuring the grown up Dick Greyson / Robin who has resurfaced after finishing his assignment as a super-spy and steps back into his role as Nightwing, protector of the city of Blüdhaven. Batman, the former boss, insists on Nightwing working solo, not as part of the new Batman team.

• Nightwing Vol. 2: Back to Blüdhaven (Rebirth) (illustrated by Marcus To, colored by Chris Sotomayor) – A graphic novel which continues the adventures of Dick Grayson, former Robin and now Nightwing.

• Nightwing Vol. 3: Nightwing Must Die by Tim Seeley (illustrated by Christian Duce, Minkyu Jung, & Javier Fernandez) – A graphic novel which finds the original Robin with a new set of challenges including ex-villain girlfriend (who is pregnant), a low paying job, a child on the way, and the new Robin coming to visit for his own selfish reasons

Seesequasis, Paul

• Tobacco Wars – A fictional book which tra­verses two dimen­sions. One dimen­sion is the faux his­tory of Poc­a­hon­tas in rela­tion to the famous crop, the sec­ond dimen­sion is told through Indian fairytales.

Selznick, Brian

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Part folk tale, part fan­tasy, part his­tory book with mag­nif­i­cent draw­ings and pho­tographs of old films this book defies cat­e­go­riza­tion. Add a boy, a girl, automa­ton, toys, a key, clocks, train sta­tion and a one eyed man and what you get is a fan­tas­tic fable which is sim­ple yet com­plex and some­what bizarre.

• The Marvels– A fictional book in the same style as his previous books, merging pictures and words to complement one another and tell a complete story of the lone survivor of a ship wreck in 1776, Billy Marvel, finds himself working in a London theater and is the patriarch of a long line of distinguished actors.

• Wonderstruck – an award winning fictional book which merges words and pictures to build a coherent, simple story.

Sem-Sandberg, Steve

• The Emperor of Lies – an award win­ning his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book about life in the Jewish ghetto at Łódź, Poland during the Nazi occupation.

Shaara, Jeff

• World War II Series – Europe:

  • The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II – The first book in a historical series about World War II, this one starts at the African campaign and ends before the invasion into France.

  • The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II -The book starts off where its pre­de­ces­sor left off Jan­u­ary 1944, five months before D-Day, the story pro­gresses through the inva­sion end­ing in Octo­ber 1944.

  • No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II -The third book in the trilogy. The book begins after the Nor­mandy inva­sion. The allied gen­er­als are con­fi­dent that the war will be over in a few weeks, but Hitler is not so sure.

  • A Chain of Thunder (Civil War: 1861-1865, Western Theater #2) – A historical novel in the American Civil War series on the siege of Vicksburg

• The Final Storm: A Novel of World War II – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion novel which focuses on America’s war in the Pacific and the Battle of Okinawa.

Shaara, Michael

• The Killer Angels – A Pulitzer Prize win­ning his­tor­i­cal fic­tion mas­ter­piece taking place over three days dur­ing the Bat­tle of Gettysburg.

Shaffer, Marjorie

• Pepper: A History of the World’s Most Influential Spice – A non-fiction book trac­ing his­tory through the trade of black pep­per.

Shahar, Yeal

• • Returning – A novel in which a former Jewish Sonderkommando (a person who worked in the gas chambers and crematoriums) in Auschwitz tells about his experiences to a rabbi, asking if he could be forgiven.

     

 

 

 

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  Command Influence -A first hand account of the trial of Lt. George C. Schreiber by his military defense attorney, who is the author.

Shankman, Helen Maryles

• The Color of Light -A novel which explores art, the Holo­caust, human­ity and, of course, vam­pires. The vam­pire in the story runs an art school and is con­stantly in con­flict with his past life as well as the acts he is forced, by his nature, to do while try­ing to hold on to his humanity.

Shapira, Haim

• What Really Matters – This non-fiction book which asks many philo­soph­i­cal ques­tions and some­times even answers them.

Shapiro, Dani

• Devotion -A memoir about the authors mid-life crisis and search for spirituality. The book provided a fascinating read into the mind of a woman that, it seemed to me, couldn’t find inner calm if it slapped her in the face.

Shapiro, Laurie Gwen

The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica – The story of an American boy, of Polish origins, who stowed away on a ship planning to join Admiral Robert Byrd’s Antarctica expedition in the late 1920s.

Shawver, Katrina

• Henry: A Polish Swimmer’s True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America – A biography on a Polish national who survived the horrors of concentration camps and World War II.

Sheehan, James

• The Lawyer’s Lawyer– Jack Tobin, one of the best lawyers in the United States, takes it upon him­self to rep­re­sent a ser­ial killer that he believes to be inno­cent.

• The Alligator Man by James Sheehan – The novel follows Kevin, a lawyer who is trying to recon­nect with his past and helps a fam­ily friend, Billy, who is charged with mur­der of a cor­po­rate tycoon who destroyed the lives of thou­sands of peo­ple.

Sherman, Ted

• The Jersey Sting (with Josh Margolin) – The true story of the events lead­ing up to the arrest of 44 peo­ple in New Jer­sey including cor­rupt local politi­cians, Rab­bis, money laun­der­ers and, strangest of all, a black mar­ket kid­ney dealer.

Shetterly, Margot Lee

• Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race– A non-fiction book about NASA’s African-American female mathematicians.

Shepard, Jim

• The Book of Aron– A National Book Award finalist novel about a young boy in the Nazi Warsaw ghetto during World War II.

Shimon, Samuel (Editor)

• Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World – a collection of short stories & poems from young Arab writers.

Shiri-Horowitz, Revital

• Daughters of Iraq – the fictional story of three women. Two sisters who immigrated from Iraq to Israel and a daughter who is first generation Israeli.

Shoham, Liad

• Lineup – The Amer­i­can debut of the Israeli author. A quiet Tel-Aviv street is rocked by a bru­tal rape which leaves the police baf­fled since no eye­wit­nesses, clues or sus­pects exist.

• Asylum City – The novel’s pro­tag­o­nist, police inspec­tor Anat Nach­mias, is a for­mi­da­ble char­ac­ter. Even though she’s small in stature and rank, Anat is smart, capa­ble and able to nav­i­gate to ultra-macho cul­ture of Israeli police.

Shoneyin, Lola

• The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives – The novel examines the complex relationships between the wives, their children and a new wife who is brought into the house.

Shriver, Lionel

• Big Brother – A chracter driven novel, as well as social commentary, about a woman who helps her obese brother lose weight while trying to keep her family together.

• The New Republic– A a novel about the nature of jour­nal­ism where journalists manipulate the news to gain headlines.

• so much for that – A fictional book which with the frustration and the unfairness of dealing with the US healthcare industry.

Shuster, Joe

• Super­man: Sunday Classics 1939–1943 by (with Jerry Siegel) – A col­lec­tion of the comic strips which were pub­lished in papers across the coun­try between the four years men­tioned.

Sicha, Choire

• Very Recent His­tory: An Entirely Fac­tual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City by – A his­tory book about 2009 writ­ten from a future per­spec­tive about young gay man in a big city after the Wall Street crush.

Sidransky, A.J.

• Forgiving Maximo Rothman– A fas­ci­nat­ing and enter­tain­ing read which mixes World War II Jew­ish refugees in the Domini­can Repub­lic.

Siegel, Jerry

• Super­man: Sunday Classics 1939–1943 (with Joe Shuster) – A col­lec­tion of the comic strips which were pub­lished in papers across the coun­try between the four years men­tioned.

Silva, Daniel

• The Unlikely Spy – A fictional fast paced page turner, set mostly in days preceding the Normandy invasion in WWII.

• Gabriel Allon series

  • The Kill Artist– The first book in the series about Israeli reluctant secret agent Gabriel Allon. A supermodel spy and a tortured hero – who can ask for anything more?

  • The English Assassin – Taking on the Swiss banking cartel and their involvement with the Nazis. The second installment of the series about the reluctant Israeli agent Gabriel Allon.

  • The Confessor– the third install­ment in the fic­tional adven­tures of the reluc­tant Israeli agent Gabriel Allon.

  • A Death in Vienna – Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to investigate a murder but discovers a personal connection to the story.

  • Prince of Fire -The fifth book in the Gabriel Allon series. Unlike the pre­vi­ous books, this one takes place mostly in Israel as oppose to Europe.

  • The Mes­senger -The Sixth book in the Gabriel Allon series which takes our hero across the globe foiling al Qaeda plans to destroy the Vatican.

  • The Secret Servant -The seventh book in the Gabriel Allon series. The Israeli spy is on his way to Amsterdam to look through the archives of an Israeli asset that has been murdered. A routine assignment perhaps, but Allon soon discovers that the Islamic underground plots to commits acts of terror in England.

  • Moscow Rules -The eighth book in the Gabriel Allon series. Allon and his new wife, Chiara, are on their hon­ey­moon in Umbria, Italy. But Gabriel never stops work­ing and is restor­ing a paint­ing for the Vat­i­can. A Russ­ian news­pa­per reporter con­tacts the Israeli embassy in Rome request­ing a meet­ing with Allon who reluc­tantly agrees.

• Michael Osborne series

  • The Mark of the Assassin – A fast paced fictional mystery about CIA agent Michael Osbourne. The story takes place mainly in the United States & England and involves several contemporary themes.

  • The Marching Season– The fictional sequel to “The Mark of the Assassin”. The phrase “Marching Season” comes from the parades held in Northern Ireland every year.

Silver, Elizabeth, L.

• The Execution of Noa P. Singleton – A novel about our cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment sys­tem tak­ing place mostly in Philadel­phia. This is Ms. Silver’s, a lawyer who worked on death penalty cases, debut novel.

Sinclaire, Clive

• Samurai Swords – A Collector’s Guide: A Comprehensive Introduction to History, Collecting and Preservation of the Japanese Sword – An all-encompassing guide to this wonderful (and expensive) hobby.

Singer, Jame

• Booth’s Sister – Historical fiction based on Asia Booth’s diary.

Singer, Judy Reene

• An Inconvenient Elephant: A Novel– A charming, quick read novel which tells of Neelie, coming home from Africa and still manages to save an elephant.

Sjursen, Daniel A.

Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge – A non-fiction book about the author’s experience in Iraq. Mr. Sjursen served as an officer in the US Army during, what is now known, as “the surge” which has been credited by politicians as helping turn around the war.

Skloot, Rebecca

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – The HeLa cells have been used by sci­en­tists for decades to ben­e­fit mankind, how­ever the fam­ily got no mon­e­tary com­pen­sa­tion. The cells them­selves have been taken from Hen­ri­etta Lacks with­out per­mis­sion or con­sent, as was the norm.

Skopp, Douglas R.

• Shadows Walking -A historical fiction novel following a Nazi doctor from WWI to after WWII. A tough to read novel, but well researched and hard to put down.

Smith, Betty

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn– Historical fiction classic pub­lished in 1943 describing life life in turn-of-the-century Brook­lyn

Smith, Dwayne Alexander

• Forty Acres– A fictional book which is thought pro­vok­ing with an inter­est­ing premise. A African-American man dis­cov­ers that his new friends are part of a com­mu­nity which enslaves white peo­ple, descen­dents of slave own­ers, who are being pun­ished for the sins of their ancestors.

Smith, James Robert

• The Flock – a fiction fantasy thriller set in a Florida. The title of the novel comes from a group of prehistoric giant carnivorous birds known as Phorusrhacids.

Smith, RJ

• The One: The Life and Music of James Brown – A biog­ra­phy of the God­fa­ther of Soul from his childhood in Augusta, GA to his death.

Smith, Tom Rob

• Child 44 – An MGB officer tracks down a serial killer in Stalinist Russia.

• The Secret Speech -In this followup to “Child 44” we continue to follow the tortured life of MGB agent turned homicide detective Leo Demidov.

Snyder,  Scott

• Batman, Vol 1: I Am Gotham by (with Tom King) – There are two new heroes in Gotham, aptly named Gotham and Gotham Girl. Both of those new heroes have Superman-like power

Sobel, Dava

• A More Perfect Heaven– Part fiction, part non-fiction about Nico­laus Coper­ni­cus and his student German math­e­mati­cian Georg Joachim Rheti­cus.

Soli, Tatjana

• The Lotus Eaters -A fictional book about female combat photographers during the Vietnam War.

Spangler, Timothy

• One Step Ahead: Private Equity and Hedge Funds After the Global Financial Crisis – A non-fiction book focusing on the mysteries of finance which seem to evade the layman.

Spencer, Charles

• Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Exe­cute Charles I – A non-fiction story of trea­son and revenge taken to its most extreme.

St. Jean, Alan

• The Legend of OinkADoodleMoo (Children’s Book Review) – If I knew what a hit this book would have been in my house I would have gladly bought it.

Stackpole, Michael

• X-wing: Rogue Squadron (Star Wars Guest Review) -First book in the X-wing series. Rebel hero Wedge Antilles has been given the task of rebuild­ing the leg­endary Rogue Squadron — a team of pilots charged with using their X-wings in the most dif­fi­cult assign­ments that the Rebel Alliance has to face.

Steinhauer, Olen

• The Middleman – A novel set in 2017 when four hundred people simply disappeared leaving behind their old lives and technology, they simply disappear. FBI Special Agent Rachel Proulx is in charge of finding what’s going on.

Stern, Roger

• The Death and Life of Superman – A novel which takes the saga of “The Death of Super­man”, “Funeral for a Friend”, “Reign of the Super­men”, and “The Return of Super­man”, which appeared in comic book form in the mid 80’s, and turns it to light reading.

Stern, Steve

• The Frozen Rabbi – a fic­tional book about an 18th Cen­tury rabbi brought back to life in the 20th Cen­tury. The book serves as a won­der­ful com­men­tary on today’s society.

Stewart, James B.

• Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America – A a non­fic­tion book about the com­fort of our soci­ety with lying. The book exam­ines this phe­nom­e­non through the cases of Martha Stew­art, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Barry Bonds and Bernard Mad­off.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde– The 1886 Goth classic dealing with split personality.

• Treasure Island – The 1883 fictional adventurous and classic pirate story. I read it once as a naïve child, this time as a naïve adult.

Štiks, Igor

• A Castle in Romagna (translated by Russell Scott Valentino & Tomislav Kuzmanovic) – A novel which alternates between Renaissance Italy and Tito’s Yugoslavia. A young Bosnian and his friends are touring an Italian castle which once held poet Enzo Strecci captive. A friar who live at the castle starts talking with the young man offering his own story of escaping from a hostile environment, politically charged.

Stockett, Kathryn

• The Help – Stories of black domestic servants working in white households of Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s.

Stockinger, Zsolt T.

• Frag­ments from Iraq: Diary of a Navy Trauma Sur­geon– A non-fiction book which recounts the daily life of a trauma sur­geon on the front lines in diary for­mat.

Stoker, Bram

• Dracula– The classic that started it all, written in 1897 yet still relevant and chilling.

Stokes, David

• The Happy Ending – A fictional book taking place in the present, while tackling the serious issue of human trafficking.

Strange, John Stephen

• Catch the Gold Ring (Guest Review) – A novel which tells the story of a for­mer French Resis­tance fighter named Henri and his search for his brother’s betrayer seven years after the lib­er­a­tion of Paris.

Suberman, Stella

• The Jew Store – A quick, enjoy­able mem­oir about her family’s adven­ture in Con­cor­dia, TN close to the Nashville area. Ms. Suberman’s father, Aaron Bron­son, a born sales­man, immi­grated from Russ­ian to Amer­ica, mar­ried a nice New York Jew­ish girl and went south to open his own store.

Suhl, Yuri

• Uncle Misha’s Partisans – A fic­tional book fol­low­ing the adven­tures of a Ukrain­ian boy dur­ing World War II The boy’s family was murdered and he joined a group of partisans.

Sullivan, Mar­garet M.

• Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Clas­sic Book Cov­ers – A coffee table book compiling cov­ers of books writ­ten by Jane Austen since their first publication.

Sun Tzu

• The Art of War -Then ancient Chi­nese mil­i­tary trea­tise, a clas­sic within the sci­ence of mil­i­tary stud­ies is only attrib­uted to the high rank­ing gen­eral and was believed to have been com­plies dur­ing the last spring and autumn of the War­ring States period(either 476 BC or 453 BC).

• The Art of War from SmarterComics: How to be Successful in Any Competition (illustrated by Shane Chester) – a graphic novel of the famous book.

• Art of War: Bilingual Chinese and English Text (The Complete Edition) – one of the world’s most influential books on strategy.

Swanson, Peter

• The Girl with a Clock for a Heart – A novel which tells of a mys­tery that spans sev­eral decades, mostly told in flashbacks.

Szymanski, Stefan

• Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S, Japan, Australia, and Even Iraq Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World’s Most Popular Sport (with Simon Kuper) – A non-fiction book analyzing the economics of soccer around the world, but mainly in the English leagues.

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Tanner, Adam

• Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Data – a non-fiction book talking about how companies use big medical data.

Taubman, Bess

• My Pearl Har­bor Scrap­book 1941 (with Ernest Arroyo) – A non-fiction book which has the look and feel of a post WWII scrap­book and tells the story of the attack on Pearl Har­bor and its aftermath.

Templin, Stephen

• SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Élite Navy Sniper (with Howard E. Wasdin) – A mem­oir of Mr. Was­din time as a Navy SEAL which walks the reader through Wasdin’s child­hood, Navy SEAL train­ing and sev­eral mis­sions.

Terlouw, Jan

• Winter in Wartime – A fic­tional book set in World War II. The book is a Dutch clas­sic orig­i­nally called Oor­logswin­ter

Tetzeli, Rick

• Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader (with Brent Schlender) – Tells about the famous entrepreneur by two people who knew him. Mr.  Schlender and Mr. Tetzeli are journalists who have interviewed Mr. Jobs over many years.

Teulé, Jean

• The Hurlyburly’s Husband– A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book about the Mar­quis de Mon­tes­pan and his new wife, Athé­naïs who becomes the pre­ferred mis­tress of King Louis XIV. The novel was spent many weeks top­ping the French charts and was trans­lated by Ali­son Ander­son.

Thomas Roy

• Shazam! The New Beginning  #1 (with Dann Thomas art by Tom Mandrake) – A graphic novel which retells the origins of Shazam.

Thomas Dann

• Shazam! The New Beginning  #1 (with Roy Thomas &art by Tom Mandrake) – A graphic novel which retells the origins of Shazam.

Thomas, William E.

• Pega­sus Falling : Cypress Branches tril­ogy (Vol­ume 1) by William E. Thomas – A semi-autobiographical novel of the author who served as a British para­trooper in World War II. The book centers around a British Captain who was a POW in a concentration camp and upon liberation served in Palestine.

Thrall, Chris

• Eating Smoke: One Man’s Descent into Drug Psy­chosis in Hong Kong’s Triad Heart­land – A memoir of a drug addict in Hong Kong’s red light district of Wan Chai.

Tobin, Greg

• The Good Pope: John XXIII & Vat­i­can II, The Mak­ing of a Saint and the Remak­ing of the Church – A biog­ra­phy of Angelo Giuseppe Ron­calli, Pope John XXIII, who is cred­ited with help­ing mod­ern­ized the Catholic Church even though he only served as Pope from 1958 to 1963.

Tolinski, Brad

• Light & Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page – Com­pi­la­tion of inter­views the author did with the famed and pri­vate gui­tarist with insights into his career and interests.

Tolstoy, Leo

• Anna Karenina – The classic novel about unhappy families with a tragic end and many political points and a scathing crit­i­cism of Russian upper class society and aristocracy.

• The Krautzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy – aA novella writ­ten in 1889. Pozd­ny­shev over­hears a con­ver­sa­tion on a train about love and mar­riage when he is reminded of his past mis­deeds.

• War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy – Taking place during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, the owrk revolves around three families. The work is regarded as one of the most impor­tant works of world lit­er­a­ture .

Tomasi, Peter J.

• Super Sons (Rebirth) Vol. 1: When I Grow Up (with Chris Burnham Illustrated by Jorge Jimenez & Alejandro Sanchez, colored by Dennis Culver & Alejandro Sanchez) – A graphic novel which tells about the partnership between Damian Wayne, a gung-ho Robin, and the straight laced Jonathan Samuel “Jon” Kent,  Superboy.

• Super Sons Vol. 2: Planet of the Capes (Rebirth) (illustrated by Jorge Jimenez, Carmine Di Giandomenico, and Jose Luis) – Continues the story when a training mission for Damian Wayne (Robin) and Jon Kent (Superboy), turns out to be an adventure in another dimension. This  time the two team up with the Teen Titans.

Tomsky, Jacob

• Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality – The author tells about his experiences working in various luxury hotels, including tips and secrets on getting better service.

Townley, Alvin

• Fly Navy – A non-fiction book about the real world adven­tures of peo­ple in the US Navy

Tugend,Alina

• Better by Mistake – a non-fiction book which tries to explain how deal­ing with mis­takes can ben­e­fit you and your work.

Tusa, Chris

• Dirty Little Angels – A short novel taking place in New Orleans through the eyes of a poor teenage girl.

Twain, Mark

• Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1 – Mark Twain insisted that his autobiography would be released 100 years after his death as not to embarrass / insult any living person and/or their children. True to his word, Mr. Twain manages to insult a few people.

Tye, Larry

• Super­man: The High-Flying His­tory of America’s Most Endur­ing Hero – The story of the his­tory behind the world’s most beloved and endur­ing hero.

Tynion, James IV

• Batman: Detective Comics Volume 1: Rise of the Batmen (illustrated by Eddy Barrows) – A graphic novel telling of a fighting force which has modeled themselves after The Dark Knight has invaded Gotham City, going after Gotham’s vigilantes. The group’s weapons, equipment, and tactics seem to be based on Batman’s own equipment, but no one knows who they are.

• Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 2: The Victim Syndicate (Rebirth)  (illustrated by Eddy Barrows and Alvaro Martinez) – A graphic novel which sees the innocent victims maimed by Batman’s enemies band together to blame the hero for their misfortune.

• Batman Detective Comics (Rebirth) Vol. 3: League of Shadows – A graphic novel in which The League of Shadows, previously thought to be a rumor, is taking over Gotham City. The League is destroying Batman’s allies one by one.

• Batman: Detective Comics (Rebirth) Vol. 4: Deus Ex Machina (Illustrated by  Alvaro Martinez)-  A solid graphic novel of the Detective Comics series. Batman (Bruce Wayne) teams up with Zatanna, the magician, and the reader gets to view a bit of their history.

• Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 5: A Lonely Place of Living (Rebirth) by James Tynion IV– A time traveling member of the team comes back from the future to kill Batwoman, who through her actions will cause massive future destruction.

• Batman – Detective Comics Vol. 6: Fall of the Batmen (illustrated by Eddy Barrows, Miguel Mendonca, Phil Briones, and Jesus Merino) – A graphic novel centered around the fall of Clayface, once a villain and now a Batman ally.

• Batwoman Vol. 1: The Many Arms of Death (Rebirth) (with Marguerite Bennett illustrated by Steve Epting) – Starts out the Batwoman series by introducing Venom, a new bioweapon has come out on the market and Batwoman is going to try and stop a crime syndicate from spreading it around the world.

• Batwoman, Vol. 2: Wonderland (with Marguerite Bennett illustrated by Steve Epting and Ben Oliver) –  A graphic novel which finds the heroine battling the Many Arms of Death.

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Unger, David

• The Mastermind – A novel about corruption and its toll on Guatemala. Mr. Unger, Guatemalan, writes in English but was still awarded Guatemala’s Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature for lifetime achievement in 2014.

Upson, Nicola

• Fear in the Sunlight – A mys­tery novel tak­ing place in 1936, part of a series starring real-life author Josephine Tey, this one involving Alfred Hitchcock.

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Van der Villet Oloomi, Azareen

• Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi – A novel from this award winning author tells the story of a 22 year old woman, born in Iran to a family who took refuge in literature from the violent present of their time.

Van Reybrouck, David

• Congo: The Epic History of A People – A fascinating non-fiction book about the titled region. The “epic” in the title is not to be taken lightly, this book is indeed epic in scope.

Vanderslice, John

• The Last Days of Oscar Wilde – A novel set in 1898 Paris (mostly) imaging the days before the famous author died.

Vansant, Wayne

• Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day– The graphic novel con­nects to the reader more than a mere his­tory book. The excel­lent art draws atten­tion to his­tor­i­cal details in vivid details and colors.

Vaughn, S.W.

• Broken Angel– A fic­tional book tak­ing about a brother trying to “buy back” his sister by making money in NYC’s under­ground street fight­ing scenes. This is the first book in a the House Phoenix series but can be read as a standalone.

Venturini, Fred

• The Heart Does Not Grow Back – A novel about a mod­ern day man with a mod­ern day super­power, the ability to grow back his organs.

Verghese, Abraham

• Cutting for Stone – A fictional story of two identical twin doctors born in Ethiopia.

Vermes, Timur

• Look Who’s Back -Adolf Hitler wakes up, in uniform, in the middle of Berlin – the year is 2011. Failing to find his bunker, or get proper respect from strangely dressed “Hitler Youth” members, Hitler shacks up with in a newspaper kiosk. Hitler discovers a weak society, one full of “Turks”, disrespectful youths, and … led by a woman.

Verne, Jules

• 20,000 Under the Sea – The classic science fiction story follows the adventures of Professor Aronnax on Captain Nemo’s Nautilus.

Vlautin, Willy

• The Free – The three pro­tag­o­nists rep­re­sent in the novel are what most peo­ple in Amer­ica go through today. Free­dom no longer means free­dom from tyran­ni­cal gov­ern­ments, but free­dom from debt and every­day strug­gles against Amer­i­can oli­garchs whether they are banks or insur­ance companies.

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Waid, Mark

• Kingdom Come (with Alex Ross) – Collection of the a four issue comic book mini-series pub­lished in 1996. The absolute edi­tion comes with qual­ity print­ing, hard­cover, slip­case and addi­tional mate­r­ial.

Wallis, Michael

• Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride – a biography and an American West legend.  Mr. Wallis is a best-selling author and an award winning reporter.

Wang, Kathy

• Family Trust – A novel following an Asian American family’s trials and tribulations.

Wasdin, Howard E.

• SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Élite Navy Sniper (with Stephen Templin) -A mem­oir of Mr. Was­din time as a Navy SEAL which walks the reader through Wasdin’s child­hood, Navy SEAL train­ing and sev­eral mis­sions.

Wayne, Jemma

• Chains of Sand by Jemma Wayne – A novel about the recent Gaza War. Ms. Wayne was  shortlisted for The Guardian’s 2016 Not the Booker Prize.

Webb, Jim

• Born Fighting (Guest Review) – A look at this cul­ture from the days of the Roman emperor Hadrian when they were Celts in Scot­land, through Ulster and all the way across the Atlantic into rural Amer­ica.

Wecker, Helene

• The Golem and the Jinni – A novel tak­ing place in New York, 1899 weaving two myth­i­cal crea­ture from two dif­fer­ent cul­tures to cre­ate a dif­fer­ent kind of story altogether.

Weiner, Tim

• One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon – A non-fiction book about the presidency of the 37th President. Mr. Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner.

Weir, Andy

• The Martian– A science fiction novel taking place mostly on Mars and concentrates on trying to save a stranded astronaut.

• Artemis – A science fiction book taking place in a tourist colony on the moon, following a young girl trying to pull off a heist.

Weldon, Glen

• Superman: The Unauthorized Biography – A non-fiction book chron­i­cling the fic­tional his­tory of the Man of Steel in comic books, radio, TV, the­ater, music and movies.

Westacott, Emrys

• The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less Is More – More or Less – A book containing essays by the author on the pros and cons of being frugal. Mr. Westacott is a writer, author and a professor of philosophy at Alfred University in Alfred, New York.

Weatherford, Jack

• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Genghis Khan’s contribution cannot be summed up only in war, but in culture as well.

• The Secret History of the Mongol Queens – a gripping story of lost history and the role the female heirs of Genghis Khan played in his Empire

Weir, Alison

• The Six Wives of Henry VIII – A non-fiction book which tries to navigate through the maze which is known as the “Tudor History“. Ms. Weir tells the collective story of the six wives of Henry VIII – and no, he didn’t had them all executed.

Weisgarber, Ann

• The Personal History of Rachel DuPree – An award-winning fic­tional book tak­ing place in the Bad­lands of South Dakota, following an African-American pioneer.

Weiss, Ernst

• Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer – A fic­tional book and a Ger­man clas­sic about a cold, calculating physician who murders his wife and gets sent to a penal colony.

Wells, H. G.

• The First Men in the Moon – A science fiction classic follow Dr. Cavor and Mr. Bed­ford who found a way to get to the moon and meet its inhabitants, but will they get back?

• The Invisible Man – A sci­ence fic­tion clas­sic writ­ten in 1897 about a scientist who discovers the secret to invisibility and gone mad.

Wertheimer, Stef

• Man At a Machine – An autobiog­ra­phy of the Israeli indus­tri­al­ist and statesman.

West, Nigel

• Snow: The Dou­ble Life of a World War II Spy (with Madoc Roberts) – A non-fiction about a dou­ble agent for Eng­land and Ger­many during World War II.

Weiner, TIm

• Enemies: A History of the FBI – A non-fiction about tells of the 100 year his­tory of the famous orga­ni­za­tion. Mr. Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize win­ning author and a for­mer New York Times reporter who wrote largely about Amer­i­can secu­rity.

Wilde, Oscar

• The Picture of Dorian Gray – The classic book in which Dorian Gray is a young man who is hand­some and inno­cent. When an artist paints a por­trait of Gray, Dorian makes a wish to always look like the portrait.

Williams III, J. H.

• Batwoman, vol. 1: Hydrology (with W. Haden Blackman illustrated by Amy Reeder and Richard Friend, colored by Dave Stewart) – A graphic novel, part of the New 52 even which begins the Batwoman series.

• Batwoman, Vol. 2: To Drown the World (with W. Haden Blackman illustrated by Amy Reeder, Trevor McCarthy, Rob Hunter, Pere Pérez , and Richard Friend; colored by Guy Major)  – continues with the story of Kate Kane who took up the mantle of Batwoman.

• Batwoman, Vol. 3: World’s Finest (with W. Haden Blackman illustrated by Trevor McCarthy, and colored by Dave Stewart & Guy Major) – Continues the adventure of our heroine, this time teaming up with Wonder Woman.

• Batwoman, Vol. 4: This Blood Is Thick (with W. Haden Blackman, and Trevor McCarthy, Illustrated by Francesco Francavilla, Walden Wong, Sandu Florea, and Derek Fridolfs, colored by Guy Major) – The Department of Extranormal Operations, the D.E.O., sets their sites on Batman and they know exactly who they can blackmail to help them identify the person underneath the mask

Williams, John

• Stoner – A novel written in 1965 and is considered a forgotten classic about the son of a poor farmer who fell in love with English literature and became a scholar.

Williamson, Joshua

• Batman/The Flash: The Button Deluxe Edition (with Tom King illustrated by Jason Fabok and Howard Porter) – A graphic novel which puts the two heroes together for an adventure which also introduces The Watchmen into the DC Universe.

Willner, Nina

• Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner – A non-fiction book chronicling the separation of the author’s mother from her family in East Germany.

Wills, Garry

• James Madison – A quick biography of the fourth US President concentrating on his time in office.

Willsow, Wilson

• Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal (with art by Adrian Alphona)– A graphic novel which brings a new Ms. Marvel to the Marvel Universe

• Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why art by Adrian Alphona and Jacob Wyatt – a graphic novel featuring the new Ms. Marvel.

Willrich, Michael

• Pox — An American History – A non-fiction book which traces how the small­pox vac­cine was dis­trib­uted dur­ing major out­breaks. Some of the vac­cines were forced onto peo­ple which caused an out­rage and the ques­tion made it all the way to the Supreme Court.

Winder, Elizabeth

• Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 – A non-fiction book which paints a por­trait of Ms. Plath dur­ing a stress­ful, event­ful and per­sonal emo­tional sum­mer of her life.

Winnick, Jack

• Devil in False Colors – a novel about current events where FBI agent Lara Edmond and Mossad agent Uri Levin investigate Muslim clerics in Los Angeles.

Winters, Ben H.

• The Last Policeman – Hank Palace just made detec­tive, he does not let his new job go to his head, the police force is miss­ing many peo­ple since it was announced that aster­oid 2011GV1 is hurl­ing through space about to destroy life on earth.

• Countdown City– The sec­ond novel in a tril­ogy finding the world 77 days before a huge meteor will hit and will end life as we know it, while ex-cop Hank Palace looking for a missing person.

• World of Trouble – Detec­tive Hank Palace leaves the com­fort­able nest he shared with his friends in New Eng­land, wait­ing for an aster­oid to hit Earth, to find his sis­ter Nico. Nico has joined a group of rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies who intend on free­ing sci­en­tists out of jail so they can save the world.

Wit­t­er­ick, J. L.

• My Mother’s Secret : Based on a True Holo­caust Story – A fic­tion­al­ized account of an actual woman who hid 15 Jews (and a Ger­man sol­dier) in her small house, located in a small Pol­ish town, dur­ing the Nazi inva­sion of World War II.

Wishnia, Kenneth

• The Fifth Servant– A fictional mystery set in 1592 at Jewish Ghetto in the city of Prague. The book is rich with Jewish culture and the tensions between Jews and Christian.

Wood, Frances

• Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the Present – a non-fiction book about Chinese literature.

Wolverton, Dave

• The Courtship of Princess Leia (Star Wars Guest Review) – An enjoy­able romp of a story with some very puz­zling characterizations.

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Yip, Mingmei

• Skeleton Women – A novel about Camilla is an orphan girl in Shanghai who is plucked out of the orphan­age by a Chi­nese crim­i­nal gang and gets trained in the arts of seduc­tion and assas­si­na­tion. Camilla is then planted as a spy in the midst of a rival gang and uses her cun­ning and skill to become the mis­tress of the elderly leader, Mast Lung.

Young, Alfred Fabian

• The Shoemaker and the Tea Party– Tells the story of some major events from the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion through the eyes of a com­moner, George Robert Twelves Hewes.

Youngblood, Rufus W.

• 20 Years in the Secret Service: My Life with Five Presidents – A memoir spanning the author’s career.

Yousef, Mosab Hasson

• Son of Hamas – A fascinating memoir by a son of a high ranking Hamas official who became a born again Christian and an Israeli informer.

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Zackheim, Michele

• The Last Train to Paris – Rose Manon is an Amer­i­can jour­nal­ist, born in Nevada, liv­ing in New York try­ing hard to deal with the atti­tudes of the 1930s. Rose has been posted to Paris with a loom­ing global war on everyone’s radar.

Zahn, Timothy

• The Thrawn Tril­ogy

  • Heir to the Empire (Star Wars Guest Review) – A Star Wars book. Five years after Return of the Jedi, and Leia have twins on the way. Luke is try­ing to estab­lish a direc­tion for the Jedi move­ment. But Grand Admi­ral Thrawn is trying to do what the Emperor failed to do – destroy the Repub­lic.

  • Dark Force Rising (Star Wars Guest Review)– Continuation of the incred­i­ble story of the New Republic’s efforts to repel the attacks of the for­mi­da­ble Grand Admi­ral Thrawn in Dark Force Ris­ing, the sec­ond vol­ume of a tril­ogy

  • The Last Command (Star Wars Guest Review)– The cli­mac­tic novel in Tim­o­thy Zahn’s superb Thrawn Tril­ogy which is brought to conclusion in a highly reward­ing tale, inter­twin­ing the mil­i­taris­tic and pre­cise sto­ry­line of Grand Admiral’s Thrawn’s cam­paign against the New Repub­lic with the more meta­phys­i­cal strug­gles of Luke Sky­walker and insane Jedi clone Joruus C’baoth.

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz

• For­got­ten Books series

  • The Shadow of the Wind– A worldwide best seller. The book follows a young boy named Daniel and has possibly one of the best literary inventions of the decade the “Cemetery of Forgotten Books”.

  • The Angel’s Game – a pre­quel to Zafón’s pre­vi­ous novel Shadow of the Wind, also taking place in Barcelona involving a writer who finally got his big break… but did he?

  • The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón– The third book in the For­got­ten Books series. The first two books, The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game have been inter­na­tional best sell­ers..

Zander, Joakim

• The Swimmer– Even though this novel is a fast read, it requires some atten­tion from the reader. Mr. Zan­der casts many stones at the polit­i­cal estab­lish­ments of the US, Swe­den and other Euro­pean countries..

Zarhin, Shemi

• My Brother Job – An Israeli novel following Job as an eight year old boy and a thief. He doesn’t know why he steals, but he does. One day he steals the belongings of important ministers in the Israeli government who come to visit his school, and sets the country on fire.

Ziegler, Irene

• Ashes to Water– A fictional mystery which takes place in pre-Disney Florida. This is a very atmospheric novel involving a small town murder and a resolute woman intending on cracking the mystery.

Zoughari, Kacem Ph.D.

• The Ninja, The Secret History of Ninjutsu: Ancient Shadow Warriors of Japan – A very serious, meticulous and well researched book about these warriors.

Zrihen-Dvir, Therese

• The Stairway to Heaven – A short fictional story told from the view point of two women after they had witnessed the Beit-Lid massacre in Israel.

Zuckoff, Mitchel

• Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II– The epic search for miss­ing World War II Coast Guard sol­diers who were on a res­cue mis­sion.

• Lost in Shangri-La– A non-fiction book about a plane crash in Dutch New Guinea dur­ing World War II. This book is nar­ra­tive his­tory at its best.

Zusak, Markus

• The Book Thief – An award winning book, narrated by Death, following the life of a little girl in Nazi Germany.