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Abrams, Dan

• Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency (with David Fisher) – A mini-biography of the 16^th President’s last big trial before running for high office

Abnett, Dan

• Titans Vol. 3: A Judas Among Us (illustrated by Brett Booth) – A graphic novel seeing the team trying to infiltrate H.I.V.E.

Adams, Mark

• Turn Right at Machu Picchu – A nonfiction travelogue/history/investigate report in which the author fol­lows the foot­steps of Hiram Bing­ham III.

Afshar, Tessa

• Pearl in the Sand– Biblical fiction story of Rahab, one of the most famous and controversial figures in the Jewish bible

Aguinis, Marcos

• The Passion According to Carmela (translated by Carolina De Robertis) – A novel which takes place during the Cuban Revolution and follows an an idealistic divorcee who gets caught up in the excitement of the Cuban Revolution, and run away from her wealthy parents to join Fidel Castro and his rebels.

Aja, David

• The Immortal Iron Fist, Vol. 1: The Last Iron Fist Story (with Ed Brubaker) – A graphic novel about a Marvel superhero who is not as well known as other Marvel properties, but just as exciting.

• Hawkeye, Vol. 2: Little Hits by (with Matt Fraction, Illustrated by Javier Pulido, Steve Lieber, Francesco Francavilla, and Jesse Hamm) The second volume in a “day in the life” story of The Avenger’s Hawkeye, a.k.a. Clint Barton.

• Hawkeye, Vol. 2: Little Hits(with Matt Fraction, Illustrated by Javier Pulido, Steve Lieber, Francesco Francavilla, and Jesse Hamm) The second volume in a “day in the life” story of The Avenger’s Hawkeye, a.k.a. Clint Barton.

Albright, Madeleine

• Prague Winter: A Per­sonal Story of Remem­brance and War, 1937–1948 – A mem­oir by the famed Sec­re­tary of State about her child­hood and a first-class les­son in his­tory before, dur­ing and after World War II from per­spec­tive seen thor­ough Czecho­slo­va­kian eyes.

Aldrin, Buzz

• Magnificent Desolation – An autobiog­ra­phy of the famous astronaut.

Allende, Isabell

• In the Midst of Winter – A novel about three people who need each other’s help during a snowstorm in New York City.

• Maya’s Notebook– A fic­tional novel and a com­ing of age story, told in the form of a journal by a young woman sent to an island off the coast of Chile to hid from the FBI, Interpol, Las Vegas PD and gangsters.

• Zorro– A novel which retells the story of the leg­endary hero.

Alexievich, Svetlana

• Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II (translated by Richard Pevear and Lariss Volokhonsky) – A collection of short memoirs told by people who were children during World War II.

Alyan, Hala

• The Arsonists’ City – A  generational saga taking place in Syria, Lebanon, and the United States.

Amador, Trini

• Gracianna – In the early 1940s, Gra­cianna Lasaga, a young girl from the moun­tains, sets her sights on reach­ing Amer­ica. How­ever, soon Gra­cianna is entan­gled in world War II and Nazi occu­pied Paris. A fictional biography of the author’s great-grandmother.
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Ambrose, Stephen E.

• Americans at War – A collection of fifteen essays from different American wars.

• Citizen Soldiers – A non-fiction account of the US Army’s drive from Normandy to Germany June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945. Mr. Ambrose tells history from mud level using quotes and interviews from the men and women int he field.

America’s Test Kitchen

• Tasting Italy: A Culinary Journey (with Eugenia Bone and Julia Della Croce) – A cookbook which has recipes from certain regions of Italy, loaded with great pictures and the “why”, not just the “how”.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Amirrezvani, Anita

• Equal of the Sun – A fic­tional book tak­ing place in 16th Cen­tury Iran. The story blends a mix of his­tor­i­cal and fic­tional char­ac­ters to cre­ate an intrigu­ing novel about the life of Iran­ian princess Pari Khan Khanoom .

Anand, Anita

• The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India’s Quest for Independence – The true story of Udham Singh, a Sikh orphan, setting out on a decades long scheme to murder an English diplomat.

Anderson, Kevin J.

• Captain Nemo – A novel expanding the background of the famous Captain Nemo, from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island

Andres, Alan

• Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America Into the Space Age (with Robert Stone) – A non-fiction book looking back at the thinkers, dreamers, and futurists that help envision American’s space program.

Anderson, Jodi Lynn

• May Bird and the Ever After– A young adult (YA) novel about a lonely teen named May Bird who falls into the lake and finds her­self in the after world with ghouls, ghosts and mon­sters.

Anderson, Steve

• The Losing Role -A well researched historical fiction book which follows a failed German actor who is drafted to infiltrate American lines posing as an American officer to create havoc.

Andrews,Alexandra

• Who Is Maud Dixon? – A novel following a small-town girl who got the chance to intern for one of the most famous authors in the world.

Andreyko, Marc

• Batwoman Vol. 5: Webs (illustrated by Jeremy Haun and Trevor McCarthy) – A continuation of the story of Kate Kane, the new Batwoman who is not so much part of the Bat family.

• Batwoman Vol: The Unknowns (Illustrated by Jeremy Haun) is the conclusion to the New 52 run of the Batwoman story. The Unknowns have a challenge in front of them, the evil witch Morgan Le Fay, destroyer of Camelot now hell bent on destroying Gotham

Annechino, D.M.

• More Than a Soldier: One Army Ranger’s Daring Escape From the Nazis – a biography of Angelo J. DiMarco, a US Army Ranger during World War II. This is a personal book, one written by the family to capture the history of their father for future generations.

Anzaldua, Theresa

• We Had A Job To Do: World War II Through The Eyes of Those Who Served – A non-fiction book about World War II. . The book is geared towards kids ages 10-14.

Arens, Moshe

• Flags Over the War­saw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the War­saw Ghetto Upris­ing – An important non-fiction book which attempts to tell the true story behind the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the politics behind the different Jewish factions.

Arninge, Peppe

• The Dump – A photo book with a series of haunt­ing images in black and white. The pho­tos are taken around Cambodia’s garbage dumps and evoke pow­er­ful feelings.

Arnold, Tedd

• Shoo Fly Pie (Kid’s Review) – A short story about a boy and his pet fly.

Arroyo, Ernest

• My Pearl Har­bor Scrap­book 1941 (with Bess Taub­man) – 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.

Asimov, Isaac

• Youth (Guest Review)– A science fiction story about two young boys on a farm who find and cap­ture strange ani­mals.

Aslesen, Ryan

• War’s Edge: No Heroes – A science-fiction / military fiction novel about a future Marine recruits being sent to far off lands, and realizing the true cost of war, as well as the ugly truths behind them.

Asprey, Dave

• Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Boost Brainpower, Increase Focus, and Maximize Performance-in Just Two Weeks – a non-fiction book in which the author describes his journey for a more productive brain.

Atkins, Ace

• Devil’s Garden– Historical fiction novel about the Fatty Arbuckle case from the 1920’s.

• Infamous – Just how did George Kelly became “Machine Gun” and his role in a high profile kidnapping.

• The Ranger Series:

  • The Ranger – The first book in a new series introducing Army Range Quinn Colson coming home to investigate the murder of his uncle, the sheriff.

  • The Lost Ones – A novel tak­ing place in the fic­tional Tibbe­hah County, Mis­sis­sippi, the sec­ond book in “The Ranger” series.

  • The Broken Places – The third book in The Ranger series. Two convicts escape and enter Tibbe­hah County looking for Jamey Dixon, a former mate who knows where lots of money is hidden. Dixon though, has used the money to buy a pardon and start a new life working as a minister.

  • The Forsaken – The 4th book in The Ranger series, when white teenager is raped and killed in Tibbehah County, MI while her girlfriend manages to escape after being raped. A black man who wonders into town is blamed for the crime and lynched.

  • The Redeemers – The fifth book in The Ranger series, when Quinn Colson has lost the re-election for Sheriff to Rusty Wise, a local insurance salesman. At the time, a local businessman’s home has been robbed and the safe where he supposedly keeps a lot of cash in has been literally ripped out and stolen.

  • The Innocents – The sixth installment in The Ranger series. The series follows Quinn Colson, an Army Ranger who came back to his home in Mississippi and becomes the Sheriff. This story starts with Milly Jones who was found walking down the highway in Tebbehah County engulfed in flames and becomes a national story.

  • The Fallen – The seventh book in The Ranger series featuring Sheriff Quinn Colson, this time with a new love and a gang of vets bank robbers.

  • The Shamless – A novel in featuring Sheriff Quinn Colson, a former Army Ranger who has came back home to Tibbehah County, Mississippi and is now opening a 20 year old murder case.

  • Revelators – The tenth crime novel in The Ranger series, featuring ex-Army Ranger Queen Colson who was shot up and left for dead, but he’s not that easy to kill. Together with his wife, Maggie, and a stubborn personality Queen makes a slow, painful recovery and sets out to find who tried to kill him.

Atkins, Ann

• Eleanor Roosevelt’s Life of Soul Searching and Self Discovery– A brief biog­ra­phy of the first lady aimed at the young adults (YA) crowd or adults that just want a ‘beach read’ style biog­ra­phy — authen­tic but all the aca­d­e­mics. The book is a first in a series called “Flash History”.

Atkinson, Rick

• The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775 – 1777 – A history book, first of a trilogy, which describes the first 21 months of the American Revolutionary War.

Auslander, Shalom

• Hope: A Tragedy — A fictional book with lots of Jew­ish themes and humor about a per­son who buys a house in New York and finds an elderly, pro­fane Anne Frank hid­ing in the attic.

Ausubel, Ramona

• No One is Here Except All of Us — A fictional book tak­ing place dur­ing World War II following a small group of Jew­ish vil­lagers who lives in a town on a river bank.

Avidor, Gideon

• Mission Command in the Israel Defense Forces (Editor)– A collection of essays written by IDF officers

Avineri, Shlomo

• Herzl’s Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foun­da­tion of the Jew­ish — A thought pro­vok­ing biog­ra­phy of Herzl, dis­re­gard­ing much of the polit­i­cal pro­pa­ganda sur­round­ing his ideas and con­cen­trat­ing on the man him­self.

Ayers, Chirs

• War Reporting for Cowards – Honest and humorous look at the author’s experience as an embedded journalist.

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Bach, David

• Debt Free For Life: The Finish Rich Plan for Financial Independence – A non-fiction book trying to teach the layman American about the complex world of financing.

Bachman, Randy

• Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap Stories – A non-fiction book by the famous rocker writing anecdotes about his career and the peo­ple he met.

Backman, Fredrik

• Anxious People (translated by Neil Smith) – A crime comedy about eight strangers in a hostage situation, taking place in a small Swedish town.

• Beartown – A novel taking place in a small Swedish town who is trying to win a hockey tournament when a tragedy strikes.

• Us Against You– The second novel which takes place in the fictional hockey township of Beartown

• A Man Called Ove – A feel good story about an unlikeable Swedish man, a bit formulaic, but still cute and a good read.

Baird, Jon

• The Explorers Guild: Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala (with Kevin Costner) – A novel taking place around the world during World War I about secret group of adventurers focused on finding mysteries around the world which are beyond what mortal men know or comprehend. The book is written in narrative, as well as comic strips and maps peppered throughout.

Baites, Mina

• The Silver Music Box (translated by Alison Layland) – A historical fiction novel which takes place during World War II, following an artifact passed down to the family.

Bajo, David

• Panopticon – Three journalists go on a last assignment, discovering that they are unknowingly starring in a movie taken from hidden security cameras.

Ball, Bethany

• What To Do About The Solomons – A fictional book taking place in a kibbutz in Israel

Balson, Ronald H.

• Karolina’s Twins – Together Lena and Karolina try to survive the Second World War and now Lena is trying to find Karolina’s daughters.

Ball, Edward

• The Inventor and the Tycoon – A non-fiction book about two pio­neers, railroad tycoon Leland Stan­ford and motion pictures (and murderer) pioneer Ead­weard Muy­bridges.

Bartov, Omer

• Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz – Tells of the violent history in a small Polish town during World War II, when people who lived side by side their whole lives turned on one another.

Bar Yosef, Uri

• The Angel: Ashraf Mar­wan, the Mossad and the Sur­prise of the Yom Kip­pur War – non-fiction book in which Pro­fes­sor Bar Yosef out­lines why he believes Mar­wan was the best spy who worked for Israel, ever!

Bar-Zohar, Michael

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

Baram, Nir

• Good People – A fictional novel about taking place in Germany and Russia during World War II. Thomas Heiselberg is a market researcher working in Berlin, 1938 helping build “models” of the conquered areas to help with displacement. Sasha Weissberg, a Communist Jew in Leningrad, decides that the best chance she has to save her parents and find her brothers is to work with the secret police, committing atrocities and helping write confessions.

Barbery, Muriel

• The Elegance of the Hedgehog — A fic­tional story set in Paris, France. The book dis­cusses phi­los­o­phy, cul­ture, the class sys­tem and more.

Barkan, Josh

• Mexico: Stories – A collection of fictional short stories, all taking place in Mexico. The collection was awarded runner up for the Juniper Prize for Fiction, 2014, and runner up for the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, 2014.

Bartlett, Allison Hoover

• The Man Who Loved Books Too Much – A non-fiction story about a rare book thief. If you like books about books – this one is for you.

Barrett ,Duncan

• GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love (with Nuala Calvi) – A non-fiction book fol­low­ing the lives of sev­eral British women who mar­ried Amer­i­can sol­diers dur­ing World War II and fol­lowed their hus­bands state­side. Author Nuala Calvi is the grand­daugh­ter of one of the ladies (Mar­garet) which the book cen­ters around.

Barron, James

• The One-Cent Magenta: Inside the Quest to Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World – A non-fiction book which takes a look at the world most valuable stamp and the obsessive world of stamp collecting.

Barry, Sebastian

• The Temporary Gentleman – the lit­er­ary mus­ings of an ordi­nary Irishman and his demons, a gam­bler and in the habits of mak­ing bad deci­sions when it comes to his fam­ily and finance.

Battalion, Judy

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos – Shines light on the mostly forgotten, and not often told, women resistance fighters in Poland during World War II.

Batty, Dane

• Wanted: Gen­tle­man Bank Rob­ber: The True Story of Leslie Ibsen Rogge, One of the FBI’s Most Elu­sive Crim­i­nals – A true-crime book about the crim­i­nal career of the man on top of the FBI’s most wanted.

Baum, Frank L.

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Dorothy and her companions journey to find what they always have. Darker, more exciting and better than the movie.

• The Marvelous Land of Oz – The sec­ond story in set in the fic­tional land of Oz, the book how­ever is not about Dorothy but about a boy named Tip.

• Ozma of Oz – The third story in the Oz series, finds Dorothy and her friends trying to save the royal family of the Land of Ev.

Bazzell, Michael

• Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information 7th Edition – Shows the reader how to take control of open source tools to investigate online activities.

Bearce, Stephanie

• Top Secret Files: World War II: Spies, Secret Mis­sions, and Hid­den Facts from World War II (Top Secret Files of His­tory) – Part of a new series, aimed at middle school children, focus­ing on quick sto­ries and sim­ple facts of major wars..

Beck, Noah

• The Last Israelis – A novel happening mostly on an Israeli nuclear submarine who gets cut off during an attack on Israel by Iran.

Belfer, Lauren

• A Fierce Radiance – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book about the search for peni­cillin. The push came dur­ing World War II when the need for this mir­a­cle drug became as impor­tant as any weapon.

Bendis, Brian Michael

• Superman Vol. 1: The Unity Saga: Phantom Earth (illustrated by Ivan Reis) – A graphic novel in which STAR Labs were screwing around and caused a mess by beaming the Earth into The Phantom Zone.

Benn, James R.

• Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery – First book in a series about a Boston police officer in WWII England.

• The First Wave – second book in the fictional Billy Boyle series set WWII era. This time the former Boston cop discovers a drug smuggling ring involving many high ranking Vichy officials.

• A Blind Goddess by James R. Benn – Ex-Boston cop, now an World War II Army officer Billy Boyle finds him­self answer­ing a per­sonal request from his old friend Sergeant Eugene “Tree” Jack­son who is now part of the all-African Amer­i­can 617th Tank Destroy­ers. Tree’s gun­ner, ”Angry Smith” has been arrested for mur­der and is headed for the gallows.

Bennett, Alexander

• Japan The Ultimate Samurai Guide: An Insider Looks at the Japanese Martial Arts and Surviving in the Land of Bushido and Zen – A non-fiction book tracing the history of Samurais, their way of life, fighting styles all the way to today’s Japan.

Bennett, Marguerite

• Bombshells, Vol. 1: Enlisted (illustrated by Marguerite Sauvage, Ming Doyle, Laura Braga, Maria Laura Sanapo, Marc Deering, Stephen Mooney, Ted Naifeh, Garry Brown, Mirka Andolfo, Bilquis Evely, and Sandy Jarrell) – A graphic novel from DC Comics imagining the DC Super heroines as World War II era champions.

• Bombshells, Vol. 2: Allies (illustrated by Marguerite Sauvage, Laura Braga, Mirka Andolfo, Sandy Jarrell, and Maria Laura Sanapo) – The second, and last volume of this story which finds the DC Comics heroines fighting across the globe, while protecting the home front

Bennett, Robert Jackson

• Foundryside (Founders #1) – A fantasy novel taking place in Tevanne is a city that runs on industrialized magic, a system to spells that can overwrite reality. Sancia is the only human, as far as she knows, that can hear these magical objects.

• Shorefall (Founders #2) – The second book in the Founders fantasy series following Sancia, an ex –slave and thief, who can “talk” to scrived objects as an experimental scrived human. Orso, an genius scriver who worked for a big merchant house, and Gregor, a soldier who is about to learn his destiny

• In the Shadows of Men – A novella taking place in a west Texas motel that is being renovated by two brothers, when strange things start to happen.

Benioff, David

• City of Thieves – A won­der­ful book, con­tain­ing engag­ing char­ac­ters, great story pep­pered with dark humor all across the pages. The blend of fact and fic­tion in this sur­vival story lends itself to a mix of seri­ous­ness and hilar­ity which the author does a great job putting together.

Benjamin, Chloe

• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin – A novel with an intriguing premise: how, or if, your life would change if you knew the day of your death?

Bennett,Marguerite

• Batwoman Vol. 1: The Many Arms of Death (Rebirth) (with JamesTynion IV 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 James Tynion IV illustrated by Steve Epting and Ben Oliver) – A graphic novel which finds the heroine battling the Many Arms of Death.

Bennett, R. William

• Jacob T. Marley – A fictional book which fol­lows the life and after-life of its title char­ac­ter, Scrooge’s boss from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Berenson, Alex

• The Faithful Spy– A novel fol­low­ing John Wells, a CIA asset in al Qaeda who became a Muslim during his service and is now trying to stop the next terrorist bombing while dealing with mistrust, spies and a changing world.

• Lost in Kandahar– A short book about the time the author spent with US troops in Afghanistan. Published as a Kindle Sin­gle.

• The Night Ranger– The seventh book in the fictional series satrring John Welles. This time Welles trav­els to East Africa, as a personal favor, to track four kidnaped Amer­i­cans.

• The Power Couple – A novel following an FBI agent and her husband, an NSA hacker whose daughter was kidnapped on a European vacation.

Bergmann, Emanuel

• The Trick – A novel, originally published in German, which brings together a Holocaust survivor and an American Jewish kid.

Bernstein, Arnie

• Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund– A non-ficiton book detailing the rise and fall of the American Nazi movement before World War II.

Berry, Steve

• The Balkan Escape: A Cas­siopeia Vitt Adven­ture – A short eBook orig­i­nal novel featuring Cotton Malone’s girlfriend in a pre­cur­sor to the book “The Emperor’s Tomb”.

• The Devil’s Gold – A short fic­tional eBook orig­i­nal which fol­lows one of the char­ac­ters in Mr. Berry’s books on a short adventure.

• The Jefferson Key – the sev­enth book in the fic­tional series fea­tur­ing Cot­ton Mal­one, the story takes place in the United States involving modern day pirates.

• The Lost Order – The 12^th novel featuring Cotton Malone who is asked by the Justice Department to investigate the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history

Berger, W.K.

• The Purples – A (mostly) fictional story told through the eyes of real life Jewish mobster Joe Bernstein. Joe is the head of the “Purple Gang” who ran booze across the Detroit River from Canada during the Prohibition era.

Bishop, Patrick

• The Hunt for Hitler’s Warship– A non-fiction book about the attempts of the allies to sink the Ger­man bat­tle­ship Tir­pitz dur­ing World War II.

Blædel, Sara

• Call Me Princess – A crime fic­tion book tak­ing place in Den­mark. This is the first book trans­lated by this suc­cess­ful and pop­u­lar Scan­di­na­vian author.

• Farewell to Freedom – A fic­tional book in a series fea­tur­ing Copen­hagen detec­tive Louise Rick and her friend Camilla Lind, a reporter. This is the third novel trans­lated to Eng­lish writ­ten by the best sell­ing Dan­ish author.

• Only One Life – An intelligent mys­tery set in Den­mark which brings up questions, such as honor killing, using murder as a device. This is the sec­ond book trans­lated into Eng­lish in the series fea­tur­ing Detec­tive Louise Rick.

Black, Derek W.

• Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy – Takes a look on the assault on public schools through an analysis of what that means to our democracy from a moral and legal perspective.

Blackman, W. Haden

• Batwoman, vol. 1: Hydrology (with J.H. Williams III, 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 J.H. Williams III, 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 J.H. Williams III, 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 J.H. Williams III 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

Blake, Michael F.

• The Cowboy President: The Making of Teddy Roosevelt and the Making of the American West – A non-fiction book detailing adventures and misadventures of a New York City “dude” in the Western South Dakota Territory.

Blake, Russell

• Jet – The first book in a series about a former Israeli Mossad assassin.

Blau, Jessica Anya

• The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World’s Most Notorious Terrorists (with Tracy Walder) – An account of Ms. Walder who went straight from being a college sorority girl to the CIA. After her stint at the CIA and FBI.

Blincoe, Nicholas

• More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine – Traces the history of soccer in this small region of the world.

Block, Stefan Merill

• The Storm at the Door– A fic­tional book inspired by the author’s grand­par­ents. Mr. Block, while research­ing his grand­par­ents, imag­ined a world around them.

Bly, Nellie

• Ten Days in a Mad-House – A first person account of the author who put herself in an insane asylum as part of her investigation for a newspaper.

Bob, Yonah Jeremy

• Justice in the West Bank?: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Goes to Court– A non-fiction book following legal personalities of the West Bank courts through interactions and high profile cases.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

• Clisson and Eugénie – A roman­tic novella writ­ten by Napoleon Bona­parte, yes, that Napoleon Bona­parte.

Bone, Eugenia

• Tasting Italy: A Culinary Journey (with America’s Test Kitchen and Julia Della Croce) – A cookbook which has recipes from certain regions of Italy, loaded with great pictures and the “why”, not just the “how”.

Borneman, Walter R.

• Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America – A biography of the 11^th President of the United States. Mr. Borneman is a well-known American historian and lawyer.

Borrowman, Jerry

• Invisible Heroes of World War II: True Stories That Should Never Be Forgotten – A non-fiction book with mini-biographies about several heroes of the war, which are rarely talked about.

Bowden, Mark

• Black Hawk Down – A non-fiction book which fol­lows the events of the bat­tle which occurred in Mogadishu, Soma­lia on 3–4 Octo­ber, 1993.

Boyd, William

• Ordinary Thunderstorms – A fic­tional book with many themes taking place in Lon­don and fol­lows a man whose life turned upside down.

Brackin, Ron

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

Brands, H.W.

• Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times – A comprehensive biog­ra­phy of the 7th Pres­i­dent of the United States.

Brandes, Yochi

• Melachim Gim­mel (Kings III) – A bib­li­cal fic­tion book which, pre­sump­tu­ously enough, is a con­tin­u­a­tion of the bib­li­cal books of Kings I and Kings I.

Braude, Joseph

• The Honored Dead– A non­fic­tion book about the author’s expe­ri­ence being embed­ded with a Moroc­can secu­rity squad

Brokaw, Tom

• The Greatest Generation – A non-fiction book which the author col­lects sto­ries from indi­vid­ual Amer­i­cans of the World War II gen­er­a­tion.

Brontë, Charlotte

• Jane Eyre – The classic 1847 novel published as “Jane Eyre. An Autobiography” under the nom de plume of “Currer Bell”. The novel is told in first person narrative and goes through five distinct stages in Jane’s life.

Broughton, Philip Delves

• The Art of the Sale – non-fiction book in which the author shares sto­ries and the­o­ries about what makes a sales­per­son.

Brown, Daniel James

• The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride – A non-fiction book telling the harrowing story of the folks being stuck on top of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in one of the coldest winters recorded.

Brown, Laurence B.

• The Eighth Scroll – A fictional book which draws on the Judaism, Chris­tian­ity and Islam fea­tur­ing reli­gious relics.

Brubaker, Ed

• The Immortal Iron Fist, Vol. 1: The Last Iron Fist Story (with David Aja) – A graphic novel about a Marvel superhero who is not as well known as other Marvel properties, but just as exciting.

• Captain America: Winter Soldier Ultimate Collection (illustrated by Steve Epting, Mike Perkins and Michael Lark) – A graphic novel which tells of a super-powered undercover assassin known as The Winter Soldier, employed by the Soviets. The main job of The Winter Soldier is to assassinated western political figures

Bruning, John

• Outlaw Platoon (with Sean Parnell) – 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.

Bryson, Bill

• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir– This memoir about growing up in the 1950s US is funny and poignant.

• The Mother Tongue – A non-fiction book for any person who ever had to learn to idiosyncrasies of the language, this book will provide a fascinating overview of the strange rules and nuances of English.

Buccellato, Brian

• Injustice: Gods Among Us Year Four Vol. 1 – A graphic novel which brings the familiar DC Comics superheroes against the Greek gods who have decided that Superman is not worth to rule Earth, and are making a bid for our planet. Zeus brings the Amazonian Army trapping Wonder Woman in the middle of this mass.

• Injustice: Gods Among Us Year Four Vol. 2 by Brian Buccellato – A graphic novel which ends the story-line Superman has been ruling humanity for four years now, with an iron fist. The gods of Olympus have been trying to overthrow Superman, and even though they ended his tyrannical rule, their regime is not any better.

Buettner, Dan

• The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100 – A cook book / travel book which publishes recipes from the worlds Blue Zone locations around the world.

Bumpus, Carole

• A September to Remember: Searching for Culinary Pleasures at the Italian Table A  travelogue of the author and her husband’s month-long journey throughout Italy.

Burke, Alafair

• If You Were Here – Jour­nal­ist McKenna Wright is writ­ing a fluff piece when she thinks she saw an old friend who dis­ap­peared ten years ago with­out a trace.

Burlingame, Jon

• The Music of James Bond – A non-fiction book about the sound­tracks of one of the most suc­cess­ful film fran­chises in the world.

Burnam, Chris

• Super Sons (Rebirth) Vol. 1: When I Grow Up by (with Peter J. Tomasi 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.

Burns, Ken

• The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (with Dayton Duncan) – A coffee table book which is supposed to be a supplementary to the TV documentary, but certainly stands on its own.

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

• A Princess of Mars – An imaginative scene-ficiton talepub­lished in 1912. This is Bur­roughs first pub­lished book and stars John Carter.

• Tarzan

  • Tarzan of the Apes – The classic story which began it all, a stranded boy of an English lord in Africa is raised by mighty apes.

  • The Return of Tarzan – The ape man is recov­er­ing from his sac­ri­fice at mar­riage to Jane Porter and goes to visit Paul d’Arnot in France. On the ship Tarzan becomes involved in the affairs of Count­ess Olga de Coude and her hus­band, Count Raoul de Coude while two peo­ple try to prey on them.

  • Jungle Tales of Tarzan – A col­lec­tion of 12 short sto­ries which tell of the adven­tures of Tarzan before he met any white peo­ple.

  • The Son of Tarzan – Even though Niko­las Rokoff, Tarzan’s enemy from pre­vi­ous books, died, his hench­man Alexis Paul­vitch is very much alive and wants to even the score. Rokoff lures the son of Tarzan & Jane, Jack, away from Lon­don but the resource­ful young man escapes with the help of Akut the ape./h4>

  • Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar – Tarzan returns to Opar to enrich him­self from their stock­piles. But Tarzan isn’t the only greedy human in the jun­gle, Albert Wer­per, a Bel­gian army offi­cer is also there, secretly fol­low­ing Tarzan./h4>

  • Tarzan the Untamed – The sev­enth novel in the series, this one takes place during World War I, while Tarzan is away from his plan­ta­tion it is destroyed by invad­ing Ger­man troops. When he returns to the plan­ta­tion (in British East Africa), Tarzan dis­cov­ers many bod­ies one of whom belongs to his wife.

Burton, Fred

• Chas­ing Shad­ows: A Spe­cial Agent’s Life­long Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assas­sin to Jus­tice – A non-fiction book which tells about the author’s life­long inves­ti­ga­tion into a polit­i­cal mur­der of one of his neigh­bors, an Israeli Air Force pilot and military attache to the United States.

Busch, Colleen Morton

• Fire Monks – The non-fiction account of the 2008 Cal­i­for­nia fire which almost destroyed the Tas­sa­jara Zen Moun­tain Cen­ter.

Bushkin, Henry

• A Hard Act to Follow – A mem­oir by Johnny Carson’s friend, long­time money-manager about their rela­tion­ship. This is a very per­sonal book told in a very per­sonal way and sheds some light, for out­siders like me, on the whole enter­tain­ment industry.

Byrd, Max

• Pont Neuf – A historical fiction story following two female reports during World War II. Annie March arrives in France, 1944 after D-Day, her mentor is Martha Gellhorn, an ace reporter, editor, who is in a troubled marriage to writer Ernest Hemingway. Annie gets to know several soldiers and takes on photography to tell her story.

Byrne, Garbriel

• Walking With Ghosts – A wonderful, and unique memoir by the famous Irish actor

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Cabasson, Armand

• Wolf Hunt – A historical fiction mystery taking place dur­ing the Napoleonic wars while the Aus­tri­ans and the French bat­tle over some small vil­lages by the Danube. The mys­tery takes sec­ond place to the author’s impres­sive research of the time, whether it would be bat­tle­field tac­tics or a Vien­nese ball.

• Memory of Flames – The novel cen­ters on Mar­gont being a dou­ble agent sent by Joseph to infil­trate a group try­ing to restore the monar­chy to France. The dou­ble agent sce­nario allows the author to show more of the dis­ar­ray which Paris is in fol­low­ing its occu­pa­tion and allows the author to travel around the town at night, help­ing the con­spir­acy story-line.

Callif, Lisa A. and Donaldson, Michael C

• Legal Guide to Independent Filmmaking – A guide to help an individual sift through the mountains of legal forms in order to produce an independent film. The book includes a CD-ROM with the forms in MS-Word format.

Calvi, Nuala

• GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love (with Duncan Barrett) – A non-fiction book fol­low­ing the lives of sev­eral British women who mar­ried Amer­i­can sol­diers dur­ing World War II and fol­lowed their hus­bands state­side. Author Nuala Calvi is the grand­daugh­ter of one of the ladies (Mar­garet) which the book cen­ters around.

Carse, James P.

• PhDeath: The Puzzler Murders – A fictional mystery taking place at a university in New York. Mr. Carse is a university professor himself.

Cather, Willa

• O Pioneers! – Writ­ten in 1913 and is con­sid­ered the first novel of the Great Plains tril­ogy. Following the Bergsons who immi­grated from Switzer­land to Hanover, Nebraska at the turn of the 20th Cen­tury.

• My Ántonia – A 1918 novel which is con­sid­ered the last in the “Prairie Tril­ogy” fol­low­ing O Pio­neers! and The Song of the Lark. This book is con­sid­ered one of the great­est nov­els writ­ten by an American.

Cash, Wiley

• A Land More Kind than Home – A novel about a small town. One day Christo­pher, also known as Stump, sees some­thing he’s not sup­posed to and the con­se­quences are enormous. Jess, Ade­laide Lyle, the town’s mid­wife, and Clem Bare­field, the sher­iff, all nar­rate the story with their own unique per­spec­tive and painful history.

• The Last Ballad – A novel taking place in 1929 North Carolina, during a strike at a textile mill. The novel was named Best Book of 2017 by the Chicago Public Library.

Cervantes, Miguel (Edith Grossman – Translator)

• Don Quixote– The timeless classic told through engrossing translation. Funny and poignant.

Chabon, Michael

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Pulitzer Prize winning novel about two Jewish cousins during the golden age of comics (and then some).

• Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure – A story of adven­tures which takes an odd pair of men tak­ing place some­time in the 10th Cen­tury when the two part­ners are col­lect­ing the money from a con they just pulled (a fake fight between the meek Frank with his nee­dle and the huge ax wield­ing ex-solider) when they encounter a young man who claims to be the heir to the throne of the Jew­ish king­dom of Khazria, usurped by his bru­tal uncle.

• Telegraph Avenue – This literary fiction book about a record store in Oakland is filled with pop-culture references, blackspoltation and kung fu.

• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – An award winning fic­tional alter­nate his­tory book. Israel lost the 1948 war, the Jews were dri­ven into the sea and Roosevelt’s pro­posal of estab­lish­ing a Jew­ish state in Alaska passed.

Chamberlin, J. Edward

• The Banker and the Blackfoot: An Untold Story of Friendship, Trust, and Broken Promises in the Old West – A non-fiction book about the author’s grandfather, John Cowdry who befriended the legendary Blackfoot warrior Crop Eared Wolf

Chang, Jade

• The Wangs vs. The World – A novel about a family road trip across the United States.

Chang, Janie

• Three Souls – A novel taking place inn China, 1935, Leiyin watches her own funeral and wanders why she has not been permitted to the afterlife, soon she discovers that she is not alone; three souls are there to guide her along the way until she make amends. But first she has to find out what she has to make amends for.

Charbonnet, Gabrielle

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

Charles, Janet Skeslien

• The Paris Library – A novel following a young librarian working in the American Library in Paris during World War II.

Charlier, Marj

• The Rebel Nun – A historical fiction story, centered on Clotild who led nuns in a rebellion against the patriarchy of the church.

Chernow, Ron

• Alexander Hamilton – An excellent though massive biography of a Founding Father

• Washington: A Life – This marvelous book breaks the wooden image of Washington and brings out the character of the man we all learned about with all his charm and personality.

Cherny, Andrei

• The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour – A non-fiction account of one of America’s greatest and successful humanitarian missions.

Chevalier, Tracy

• Girl with a Pearl Earring – A young woman named Griet arrives at Vermeer’s house, in 17th Cen­tury Hol­land, to be a new ser­vant. She had some tragedy in her fam­ily and so ended up a maid. As she gets to be part of the fam­ily, Ver­meer allows her to help him, due to her artis­tic eye.

Chirac, Jacques

• My Life in Politics – A political biography of the famed French politician and leader.

Chivers, C.J.

• The Fighters – A non-fiction book offering unnerving accounts of soldiers on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan

Chopin, Amanda

• The Orchardist – A novel tak­ing place in Wash­ing­ton State at the early part of the 20th Cen­tury about an orchardist who takes in two pregnant and abused teenagers.

Ciponte, Andrea Grosso

• Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel – Tells of the famous German student resistance group during World War II.

Clarke, Susanna

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Nor­rell – A fic­tional book about magi­cians set in 1800s England. Recommended by Neil Gaiman.

Cleave, Chris

• Little Bee – When a Nigerian teenager finds hereself as an illegal alien in England, she goes to seek out the only people she knows.

Cleese, John

• Professor at Large: The Cornell Years – A non-fiction book consisting of seven parts, from lectures, to conversations, to transcripts of seminars. Each one intellectually stimulating, intelligent, and thoughtful.

Clinch, Jon

• The Thief of Auschwitz – A fic­tional book telling of a family’s strug­gle to sur­vive during World War II in the infamous concentration camp.

Cohane, Ondine

• Frances Mayes Always Italy (with Frances Mayes) – A travel book and guide to the country which they both love.

Coll, Steve

• Private Empire– A non-fiction book about the influ­ence Exxon­Mo­bil yields over world econ­omy and pol­i­tics.

Collins, Ace

• Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas – A short book, divided into sections, each corresponding to a beloved Christmas song. The book is arranged alphabetically and includes the history as well as the lyrics to most of the songs.

Collins, Bridget

• The Binding – A novel taking place sometime in the past, where people can bind their memories in a book, freeing them of remembering.

Collins, Suzanne

• The Hunger Games– A dystopian novel writ­ten for young adults (YA) that has struck chords with par­ents as well and has been a best seller since it came out.

• Catching Fire – The sec­ond novel in The Hunger Games Tril­ogy. The story con­tin­ues with the events of the first novel, fol­low­ing Kat­niss Everdeen’s overly excit­ing life.

Collins, Wilkie

• The Woman in White – Published as a newspaper serial in 1859. In 1860 a collected edition of the chapters was published in book form. Even though this is a Victorian novel, it is still gripping, engaging and a page turner

Conan Doyle, Arthur

• A Study in Scarlet – The first novel fea­tur­ing Eng­lish detec­tive Sher­lock Holmes and his friend Dr. Wat­son, writ­ten in 1886 and pub­lished in 1887 and marks the first appear­ance of the famous sleuth.

Conner, Amanda

• Harley Quinn and Power Girl (with Jimmy Palmiotti, 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 Jimmy Palmiotti (illustrated by‎ Chad Hardin) – A graphic novel featuring one of DC Comics’ most popular new (relatively speaking) character in various stories.

Connolly, John

• The Gates: A Novel – A hilarious story about a small kid and his dog saving the world from hell’s minions.

Conrad, Hy

• Rally ‘Round the Corpse – A mystery novel about a murder/mystery game which Soon after it begun, the eccen­tric cre­ator mys­te­ri­ously dies. The game becomes real when one of the guests die and the tour guide real­izes that the mys­tery is actu­ally based on a real-life unsolved crime.

Constable, Benjamin

• Three Lives of Tomomi Ishikawa – Tomomi “But­ter­fly” Ishikawa com­mit­ted sui­cide but left her best friend, Ben­jamin Con­sta­ble, a trail of clues which lead him from Paris to New York and back – the cities she called “home”.

Constner, Kevin

• The Explorers Guild: Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala (with Jon Baird) – A novel book taking place around the world during World War I about secret group of adventurers focused on finding mysteries around the world which are beyond what mortal men know or comprehend. The book is written in narrative, as well as comic strips and maps peppered throughout.

Cook, Elizabeth

• Lux – Part a retelling of Books 1 and 2 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible, the story of King David, and how it applied to King Henry VIII, as well as the poet Thomas Wyatt.

Coras­anti, Michelle Cohen

• The Almond Tree – Ich­mad Hamid was born in a small Pales­ti­nine vil­lage, but soon impresses those who know him with his sharp mind. A pro-Palestinian novel.

Corera, Gordon

• Operation Columba – The Secret Pigeon Service: The Untold Store of World War II Resistance in Europe – A non-fiction account of the British “Pigeon Warfare” effort.

Cornell, Paul

• Wolverine Vol. 2: Killable (illustrated by Alan Davis and Mirco Pierfederici) – A graphic novel which finds our anti-hero powerless.

Cornwell, Bernard

• Death of Kings – It’s 899 and Alfred the Great is dying, he sum­mons Uhtred of Beb­ban­burg, his best war­rior who is under con­stant death threats and finan­cial dif­fi­cul­ties. Uhtred does not dis­ap­point the king and swears alle­giance to his son Edward so he could help him defend the king­dom from the Danes, in return of a rich estate.

Correa, Armando Lucas

• The German Girl – A novel taking place during World War II and around 2011.

Coulson, Danny O.

• No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home – a memoir of the author about his experience in the FBI as the founder of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT).

Courtnage, Lee (with Earl Haney)

• Mission to Mach 2 – Mr. Haney’s mem­oir about his mil­i­tary career which focuses on Haney’s fas­ci­nat­ing Air-Force career.

Couvee, Petra

• The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book (with Peter Finn) – A non-fiction book covering the history of the famous novel Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak and how it was used by the CIA for propaganda purposes. Mostly telling of a brilliant, and brave writer, a system that tried to destroy him and a system that tried to use him to win a very small victory in the Cold War.

Cox, John T.

• Hitler’s Ashes – a fic­tional book in a pop­u­lar genre known as “what if” or alternative history, this one examines what might have happend if Hitler’s assassination was successful.

Craft, Byron

• Time Loopers: Four Tales from a Time War (with David Hambling, Matt Davenport, and John Delaughter) – A science fiction book of five interconnecting short stories

Crais, Robert

• The Sentry -A fictional story involving tough-guy mercenary Joe Pike and his friend private investigator Elvis Cole. Part of a series.

Craney, Glen

• The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army – A historical fiction book telling the long forgotten story of the Bonus Army of World War 1 vets and how they were treated.

Crawford, Lacy

• Early Decision – A fic­tional book about the pres­sures on the chil­dren of the elites to enter the col­lage of their, or their par­ents, choice. Ms. Craw­ford was an “inde­pen­dent col­lege admis­sions coun­selor” to the upper class and this book is based on her experiences.

Craughwell, Thomas J.

• Thomas Jefferson’s Crème Brûlée – A non-fiction book which cov­ers the time Jef­fer­son spent as an ambas­sador in Europe from a culi­nary point of view. .

Croutier, Aley Lytle

• Harem: The World Behind the Veil (25th Anniversary ed) – A non-fiction book first published in 1989, and is an eye opening book which shatters most of the misconceptions we have about harems in the Middle East thanks to pop-culture, movies, literature and deviant minds.

Crudgington, Marc

• The Coming Cyber War: What Executives, the Board, and You Should Know – A business book in which the author makes his case for executives on how to prepare for the oncoming cyber events.

Crupain, Dr. Michael

• The What to Eat When Cookbook: 135+ Deliciously Timed Recipes (with Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Jim Perko) – Offers recipes created and/or collected by two doctors and a chef for a healthier lifestyle

Cumming, Charles

• The Trinity Six -A fictional spy thriller focusing on the theory that the Cambridge Five (a ring of English Trinity College students who were spies for Russia) had a sixth member.

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Daisley, Bruce

• Eat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to Your Job – A book attempting to get you to change your time at work from boring to more exciting, backed by research.

Dang, Phong Thong

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

Danko, William D.

• The Millionaire Next Door (with Thomas J. Stanley) – A non-fiction book in which the authors debunk the idea of what an “American Millionaire” is. The authors did studies for corporations about targeting millionaires and they came up with some fascinating finds.

D’Antonio, Michael

• High Crimes: The Inside Story of the Trump Impeachment (with Peter Eisner)- Takes a close, detailed look at the events which led up to, and the hearings, during the trial.

Danziger, Dennis

• A Short History of a Tall Jew – A not-so-short fic­tional book fol­low­ing a man search­ing for his sec­ond wife. A very funny book with a heart.

Danziger, Paula

• You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox Amber Brown (Kid’s Review) – Amber Brown is going to visit her father in Paris, France – but will she make it while being sick?

Darnton, Nina

• An African Affair – A novel which tells of the experiences of a white American journalist in Nigeria.

Davenport, Matt

Time Loopers: Four Tales from a Time War (with David Hambling, Byron Craft, and John Delaughter) – A science fiction book of five interconnecting short stories

David, Leonard

• Moon Rush: The New Space Race – Talks about the history of man getting to the moon and suggests a path forward to the satellite which we, for all intents and purposes, abandoned.

Davis, Deborah

• Guest of Honor: Booker T. Wash­ing­ton, Theodore Roo­sevelt, and the White House Din­ner That Shocked a Nation – A non-fiction book which tells of the events lead­ing and result­ing of a sim­ple din­ner in which Pres­i­dent Theodore Roo­sevelt dined with Book T. Washington.

Davis, Wes

• The Ariadne Objective: The Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis – A non-fiction book about Eng­lish spies fight­ing to save the island of Crete and block Germany’s march to the East.

Davidson, Martin

• The Perfect Nazi – A non-fiction book which fol­lows the authors research about his grand­fa­ther, an SS offi­cer.

Dawson, Mark

• The Cleaner – A novel following John Milton, an government assassin trying to make amends.

Dazai, Osamu

• Schoolgirl – A short fic­tional story which started the authors career. A Japanese classic.

Dean, Debra

• The Mirrored World – A fictional account of the Russian St. Xenia told through the eyes of her cousin during the late 18th – early 19th Century in St. Petersburg.

De Kerangal, Maylis

• The Cook (translated by Sam Taylor) – A fictional biography of Mauro, a young man who dreams of working as a cook.

Delaughter, John

Time Loopers: Four Tales from a Time War (with David Hambling, Byron Craft, and Matt Davenport) – A science fiction book of five interconnecting short stories

De Luca,Erri

• Me, You – A fic­tional com­ing of age story of a boy at the end of World War II. The book was pre­vi­ously released as Sea of Mem­ory.

De Robetis, Carolina

• The Invisible Mountain – A generational saga taking place in Uruguay.

• Perla – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book about Argentina’s Dirty War..

De Shalit, Jonathan

• A Spy in Exile – A novel about an Israeli intelligence squad working in Europe.

DeFede, Jim

• The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland – Inspiring and moving, the 9/11 stories you haven’t heard.

Della Croce, Julia

• Tasting Italy: A Culinary Journey (with America’s Test Kitchen and Eugenia Bone) – A cookbook which has recipes from certain regions of Italy, loaded with great pictures and the “why”, not just the “how”.

Denyes, Charles

• Number One Observatory Circle: The Home of the Vice President of the United States – A beautiful coffee table book which is not only eye candy, but informative as well.

Deutsch, Stephen

• Champion: A German Boxer, a Jewish Assassin and Hitler’s Revenge – A historical fiction story which juxtaposes the experiences of world champion German boxer Max Schmeling and Herschel Grynszpan who murdered a minor German official at the German embassy in Paris.

Devos, Ed

• Family of Warriors by Ed Devos – A story of five brothers, combat soldiers during World War II.

Dezenhall, Eric

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

• False Light – A novel about a cynical, old-school journalist being ousted from the occupation, while attempting to help a friend

Dezember, Ryan

Underwater: How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare – A non-fiction book that the author wrote after making it through the 2008 housing crisis.

Diamond, Jason

• Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from Watching ’80s Movies– A memoir of the author.

Dick, Philip K.

• The Man in the High Castle – A historical fiction which imagines the axis winning World War II.

Diggle, Andy

• James Bond: Hammerhead with Luca Casalanguida (Artist) – a graphic novel compiling the six issues in the storyline

• James Bond: Kill Chain (art by Luca Casalanguida) – A graphic novel featuring James Bond who is trying to find out who is assassinating allied agents, and James Bond is next on their list. The old alliances are collapsing which pits MI6 against the CIA.

Dicarlo, Mario

• Deliver Us From Dark­ness: The Untold Story of Third Bat­tal­ion 506 Para­chute Infantry Reg­i­ment Dur­ing Mar­ket Gar­den (with Ian Gardner) – A very detailed account of Oper­a­tion Mar­ket Gar­den. The oper­a­tion was an unsuc­cess­ful attempt by the Allied mil­i­tary to seize bridges across the Meuse River and the Rhine.

DiNcolo, Gina Maria

• Blood Stripe: The Susanna Marcasi Chronicles – A novel which addresses sexual harassment in the military as well as the corruption in Washington, DC.

Divya, S. B.

• Machinehood – A science-fiction story about the way legal drugs, artificial intelligence, and big corporations can inherit the future.

Doherty, Kevin

• The Leonardo Gulag – A novel which tells of a young Russian artist, who has been arrested by the Stalin regime and put in a gulag, forced to create art forgeries.

Donaldson, Michael C and Callif, Lisa A.

• Legal Guide to Independent Filmmaking – A guide to help an individual sift through the mountains of legal forms in order to produce an independent film. The book includes a CD-ROM with the forms in MS-Word format.

Donohue, John “Chickie”

• The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A True Story of Friendship Stronger Than War (with J. T. Molloy) – A memoir in which the author goes on a journey into 1967, in the midst of a war, to bring beer to his pals from his New York neighborhood.

Doescher, Ian

• William Shakespeare’s Star Wars – A fun book with plenty of homages to both Star Wars fans and Shakespeare’s fans. A fast and easy read of a famil­iar story (with a few twists) and a wink and a nod.

• William Shakespeare’s the Empire Striketh Back – The sec­ond install­ment where Mr. Doescher takes on the Star Was uni­verse through the words of the famous bard.

Donoghue, Emma

• Room– A fictional award winning book with a disturbing premise. The book tells of Ma, who has been kidnapped and locked in a room for seven years by “Old Nick”. Ma and Old Nick have a son, Jack who is also lives in the room without being able to leave.

Donohue, Keith

• Centuries of June– A fictional story about a man who meets his scorned wives/lovers from past lives, all of whom were unlucky in life and they blame him

Downing, David

• Masaryk Station– John Rus­sell is an Amer­i­can jour­nal­ist/spy liv­ing in Berlin after World War II, is plan­ning one final job which will cement the finan­cial secu­rity and well being of his fam­ily before he retires.

Dragomán, György

• The Bonefire by György Dragomán (translated by Ottilie Mulzet) – Looks through the eyes of a 13 year old orphan at an Eastern European country after a revolution.

Drazin, Israel

• The Tragedies of King David – A look at the life of King David focusing on texts from Jewish Bible.

Druyan, Ann

• Cosmos: Possible Worlds – A sequel to Carl Sagan’s classic, and a companion book to the celebrated television series, consisting of 13 chapters, all are separated subjects and need not to be read in order.

Duffy, Peter

• The Agitator: William Bailey and the First American Uprising against Nazism – A short biography of William Bailey, an American who stood his ground against Hitler’s Germany at a time when the US was solidly neutral.

Duncan, Glen

• The Last Werewolf(Guest Review)– A work of paranormal fiction which asks: If one embraces the bes­tial part of one’s nature, does human moral­ity cease to be rel­e­vant?

Dumas, Alexandre

• The d’Artagnan Romance

  • The Three Musketeers– France, 1625 – a young poor noble­man named d’Artagnan leaves his Gas­cony home to the bright lights of Paris with inten­tions of becom­ing Mus­ke­teer of the Guard.

  • The Count of Monte Cristo– One of the most pop­u­lar nov­els of this pro­lific author. Young Edmond Dante, a sailor, has almost been named cap­tain of a ship and is in prepa­ra­tions of mar­ry­ing his sweet­heart. But Dante becomes the vic­tim of a sin­is­ter plot which leads to false impris­on­ment in an island fortress. After sev­eral years, and with the help of a friend, Dante man­ages to escape the prison and plots his revenge.

  • Twenty Years After– The son of “Milady”, the two-faced Mazarin smug­gle the young king and his mother from Paris which is becom­ing hos­tile to the crown.

Dueñas, Maria

• The Time in Between– A novel following the life of a Spanish woman’s journey from her humble beginnings as a poor seamstress, to an English spy during World War II.

• The Vineyard – A fictional book set in the mid 18^th Century in Mexico, Cuba, and Spain about a man who lost everything and has one last shot at getting his fortune back.

Duffy, Michael

• The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity (with Nancy Gibbs)– A non-fiction book about the relationships ex-US Presidents have with the one which currently holds office.

Dugard, Martin

• Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General (with Bill O’Reilly) – Tells of the famous general’s exploits during World War II, exploring the possibility (as remote as it was) that he was assassinated.

Duke, Bill

• Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and Behind the Camera – A memoir of the prolific actor and director. Mr. Duke has been in many movies which are now considered pop-culture classics (American Gigolo, Commando, Predator, X-Men), he is also a director, producer and entrepreneur.

Duncan, Dayton

• The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (with Ken Burns) – A coffee table book which is supposed to be a supplementary to the TV documentary, but certainly stands on its own.

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El-Hai, Jack

• The Nazi and the Psy­chi­a­trist: Her­mann Göring, Dr. Dou­glas M. Kel­ley, and a Fatal Meet­ing of Minds at the End of WWII– A non-fiction book about the doc­tor and his inter­ac­tion with the war criminals during the Nurem­berg trials and his life afterwards.

El-Mohtar, Amal

• This is How You Lose the Time War (with Max Gladstone) – Rivaling time travelling spies, Red and Blue, correspondence through space and time, taunting each other until they fall in love.

Eastland, Sam

• Eye of the Red Tsar – when the Tsar’s personal investigator is freed and asked to investigate the Romanov’s murder you know things will get interesting. The first of the Inspector Pekkala novels.

Edghill, India

• Delilah: A Novel – The famous story of the bible, seen through viewpoint of one of the most famous harlots.

• Queenmaker: A Novel of King David’s Queen – The story of King David’s wife Michal and her dealing with the famous monarch.

Edelman, Ric

• The Lies About Money: Why You Need to Own the Portfolio of the Future – A finance book offering insights to investors.

Eisner, Peter

• High Crimes: The Inside Story of the Trump Impeachment (with Michael D’Antonio)– Takes a close, detailed look at the events which led up to, and the hearings, during the trial.

Ellis, Joseph J.

• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson – A character study of the United State’s 3rd President.

• His Excellency: George Washington– A fair portrayal of Washington as a human and gives the reader a new insight into the person.

Ellis, Warren

• James Bond: Vargr by (with Jason Masters) – 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.

Eliot, Marc

• American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood – A biography of one of America’s most enduring entertainers.

• Michael Dou­glas – One of the few second-generation kids to grow up and become a movie star, Michael Dou­glas has man­aged to emerge from the long shadow of his father. The strug­gle to become his own man in an unfor­giv­ing envi­ron­ment is only a part of this biography.

Elmer, Robert

• Wildflowers of Terezin – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book tak­ing place in Den­mark dur­ing World War II. The book is well researched and an enthralling read.

Elwes, Cary

• As You Wish: Incon­ceiv­able Tales from the Mak­ing of The Princess Bride – Mr. Elwes goes on the talk about meet­ing the cast, the pre-production and of course, prepar­ing for what would become one of the great­est cin­e­matic sword fight every filmed.

Engel, Howard

• Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind – A non-fiction book with an overview of the history of executions and the executioners themselves. The book mainly focuses on Europe in general and England in particular.

England, Stephen

• Pandora’s Grave – a fic­tional counter-terrorism book set mostly in the US and Mid­dle East, a fast thrill ride.

• Day of Reckoning – The second installment of the “Shadow Warriors” series, this time Harry Nichols goes after the assassins of CIA Director, only to stumble on to a much bigger conspiracy.

Enzmann , E.V.

• Siberian Prison – a nonfic­tion eyewitness account of the author’s expe­ri­ence in the Aus­trian Army and as a Russ­ian pris­oner of war.

Eteraz, Ali

• Native Believer – A novel about a secular Muslim living in today’s America

Everitt, Anthony

• Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death – A biography of the famous conqueror.

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Falcones, Ildefonso

• Cathedral of the Sea – A fictional book taking place in 1300s Spain, the novel follows Arnau Estanyol, the son of a fugitive serf who obtains freedom and eventually achieves a high status in medieval Barcelona..

Fallada, Hans

• Alone in Berlin – A fic­tional 1947 book describ­ing the life in Ger­many under the Third Reich. The book’s title in the US is Every Man Dies Alone.

Farrell, Chris

• The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better – A non-fiction book about personal finance.

Fawcett, Bill

• How to Lose a War at Sea – A fas­ci­nat­ing col­lec­tion of more than 30 short essays about naval war­fare and oceanic dis­as­ters. The book spans decades, there are essays rang­ing from the days of the Span­ish armada to naval blun­ders from the 1960s.

Feist, John W.

• Night Rain, Tokyo – An international thriller taking place in the United States and Japan. Brad Oaks, an executive of Elgar Steel and close family friend of the Elgar family has managed to come up with a way to get the company and bureaucrats on board for the Wishbone Pipeline, a project which will save the company.

Fein, Louise

• Daughter of the Reich– A novel about the daughter of a high ranking Nazi officer who falls in love with a Jewish boy.

Ferencik, Erica

• Into the Jungle – A novel taking place in the jungles of Bolivia, where an American woman finds herself with her Bolivian husband who went back to his village.

Fesperman, Dan

• The Arms Maker of Berlin– A novel tak­ing place in present time, as well as in Nazi Germany’s Berlin. The books mixes espi­onage and sus­pense while telling par­al­lel stories.

Feldman, Ellen

• Next to Love – A fic­tional book which fol­lows three child­hood friends before, dur­ing and after World War II.

Felton, Mark

• Guarding Hitler: The Secret World of the Führer by Mark Felton – A non-fiction book focusing on the security arrangements of Hitler during his rise to power.

Finn, Peter

• The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book (with Petra Couvee) – A non-fiction book covering the history of the famous novel Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak and how it was used by the CIA for propaganda purposes. Mostly telling of a brilliant, and brave writer, a system that tried to destroy him and a system that tried to use him to win a very small victory in the Cold War.

Fisher, David

• Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency (with Dan Abrams) – A mini-biography of the 16^th President’s last big trial before running for high office

• Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man (with William Shatner) – A memoir of the famous actor and his up and down relationship with his co-star Leonard Nimoy.

Fishman, Charles

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon – The story of the Americans who fought tooth and nail to accomplish the task of sending me to the moon, and bringing them safely back to Earth

Fishman, J.E.

• Primacy – A fic­tional book which tries to ask questions about animal testing and what would happen if a chimp decided to start talking. Not what you expect.

Fisher-Alaniz, Karen

• Break­ing the Code: A Father’s Secret, A Daughter’s Jour­ney and the Ques­tion That Changed Every­thing – A non-fiction book which tells about the author’s research into her father’s ser­vice in World War II.

Fitz-Enz, David

• Hacks, Syco­phants, Adven­tur­ers, and Heroes: Madison’s Com­man­ders in the War of 1812 – A series of short, historical, bio­graph­i­cal chap­ters about key per­son­nel in the war.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

• This Side of Paradise – A coming of age novel by the young Fitzgerald.

Fleming, Ian

• Live and Let Die – The sec­ond novel fea­tur­ing Secret Ser­vice agent James Bond 007. Gold coins are appear­ing in Amer­ica; the gov­ern­ment thinks Soviet agents are using them to fur­ther their nefar­i­ous cause helped by Mr. Big, a noto­ri­ous crime lord, uses voodoo as part of an elab­o­rate plan to con­trol his crime car­tel.

• Diamonds are Forever – The fourth novel in the series in which James Bond is assigned an undercover investigation of a diamond smuggling operation from Sierra Leone to the United States.

• From Russia With Love – The fifth novel in the series telling of how the Soviet counterintelligence agency, SMERSH, plans to target James Bond for assassination (due to his role taking down Le Chiffre, Mr. Big and Hugo Drax). Just killing Bond is not enough, SMERSH plans a major sex scandal as well to sully the reputation of the agent and the agency.

• Dr. No – The sixth novel in a series featuring James Bond, 007. Commander John Strangways, head of MI6 in Kingston, Jamaica has mysteriously disappeared and M sends James Bond to investigate. Bond knows that Strangways has been investigating a Chinese-German living on Crab Key island named Dr. Julius No.

• Goldfinger – The seventh novel featuring James Bond, 007, agent of MI6, the British Secret Service. Bond discovers Goldfinger’s dealings with smuggled gold and, of course, other misdeeds. He meets Oddjob, a henchman for Goldfinger, and manages to entrench himself in Goldfinger’s get rich quick scheme.

• For Your Eyes Only – The eight book in a series featuring British secret agent James Bond, 007 is a collection of short stories, ranging from “Excellent” to “just OK”.

• Thunderball – the ninth James Bond novel, is the first of the “Blofeld Tril­ogy” follows the secret agent to a health clinic due to poor health where he discovers a sinister plot to hijack two nuclear bombs.

• On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – A top notch James Bond thriller is the sec­ond of what has become the “Blofeld Tril­ogy”, pre­ceded by Thun­der­ball and con­cluded with You Only Live Twice (The Spy Who Loved Me was writ­ten in between but is not included in the trilogy).

• The Spy Who Loved Me – The tenth novel featuring English spy James Bond, 007. The book was released in 1962 even though it was written earlier and is told from the point of view of Vivienne Michel, a French-Canadian woman who comes back home after five years in London and has a dangerous encounter with mobsters in a lone motel.

• You Only Live Twice – The 11^th novel featuring the famous British agent James Bond, 007 as a broken man, let his life and work slide but gets a last-chance to redeem his downward spiraling career by being assigned a diplomatic task.

• The Man with the Golden Gun – This is a mildly entertaining novel, an escape to the Bond universe if you desire, or for the completists who want to read them all.

• Octopussy and The Living Daylights – The last novel published by Ian Fleming, consisting of four short stories about James Bond, 007.

Fleming, Thomas

• 1776 Year of Illusions – A non-fiction book focusing on the mil­i­tary cam­paigns of 1776, how­ever the fas­ci­nat­ing polit­i­cal devel­op­ments in Philadel­phia and Lon­don are also addressed. t.

• The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers – A his­tory book which tells about the lives of six famous men from the per­spec­tive of their rela­tion­ship with the women in their lives.

Flores, Suzana, E.

• Untamed: The Psychology of Marvel’s Wolverine – A non-fiction analysis and exploration of the titled fictional anti-hero.

Floyd, Ted

• How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A book which intends to inform novice and enthusiasts alike.

Flusfeder, David

• John the Pupil – a fic­tional trav­el­ogue set in the mid­dle ages which is both funny and clever. Right from the first pages, the author mocks the entire book by stat­ing that “all his­tor­i­cal nov­els are fail­ures”, that takes guts.

Foer, Joshua

• Moonwalking with Einstein – A memoir of the author’s attempt to win the U.S. memory championship.

Follet, Ken

• The Pillars of the Earth – A novel set in Kings­bridge, Eng­land and mainly tells about the build­ing of the cathe­dral in town. The novel was pub­lished in 1989 to excel­lent reviews and has become widely read despite its length, listed on the BBC’s Big Read (#33) and selected for the Oprah Book Club.

Forest, Susan

• Bursts of Fire – A fantasy novel following the Falkyn sisters who find themselves out of their castle when their kingdom has been invaded. The princesses are heirs to the imperial magiel of the Kingdom of Orumon, or as they know her – Mom.

Forkish, Ken

• Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza – A basic book about making artisan bread. Mr. Forkish, a former corporate leader who became a baker and opened up Ken’s Artisan Bakery in Portland, OR.

Fox, Scott

• Click Mil­lion­aires: Work Less, Live More with an Inter­net Busi­ness You Love – A book for those hop­ing to make money online.

Fraction, Matt

• Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon David Aja (Illustrator), Javier Pulido (Illustrator) – a graphic novel featuring this member of the Avengers.

• Hawkeye, Vol. 2: Little Hits by (with David Aja, Illustrated by Javier Pulido, Steve Lieber, Francesco Francavilla, and Jesse Hamm) The second volume in a “day in the life” story of The Avenger’s Hawkeye, a.k.a. Clint Barton.

• Hawkeye, Vol 3: L.A. Woman (illustrated by Javier Pulido, Annie Wu & David Aja, lettering by VC’s Clayton Cowles, and colored by Matt Hollingsworth) – A graphic novel which follows Kate Bishop, Hawkeye’s girlfriend who is the new Hawkeye, needs to get away from Clint Barton and New York, so she head to Los Angeles – with the dog.

Frank, Wolfe

• The Undercover Nazi Hunter: Exposing Subterfuge and Unmasking Evil in Post-War Germany (edited by Paul Hooley) – A non-fiction book composed of articles the author wrote while he researched post-war Germany’s attitude through street level investigations.

Frankel, Neville, D.

• On the Sickle’s Edge – a novel following generations of Russian Jews and their struggle with their religion, society and economic system

Franklin, Tom

• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter – A fictional story set in the late 70’s in rural Mississippi. This atmospheric book and deals with the harsh punishment society deals to those they deem guilty (without proof) as well as racial elements.

Franqui,Leah

• America for Beginners – A novel following the journey of Mrs. Sengupta along with Satya is Mrs. Sengupta’s “tour guide”, only that he has been in the country about a year and Rebecca, an out of work actress, joining them for modesty purposes.

Frater, Stephen

• Hell Above Earth: The Incredible True Story of an American WWII Bomber Commander and the Copilot Ordered to Kill Him – A non-fiction book telling another amazing story to come out of World War II. Easy to read, personal and gratifying military history book which is not for military buffs only.

Freedman, Harry

• The Talmud: A Biography – A non­fic­tion book cov­er­ing the his­tory of the com­plex text of Rab­binic Judaism..

Freeman, Brian James

• The Painted Darkness – A very imaginative story about a child with overactive imagination.

Friedman, Matti

• Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War – a memoir of his time holding a small structure on a hill in Lebanon during his time in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

Freudenberger, Nell

• The Newlyweds– A fic­tional book which deals with online mar­riages of US cit­i­zens to mail order brides from Bangladesh.

Friedrich, Karl

• Wings: A Novel of World War II Fly­girls – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book about the Women Air­force Ser­vice Pilot or WASP, women pilots for the US Army during World War II.

Friis, Agnete

Death of a Nightingale (with Lene Kaaberbøl) – The third Nina Borg book from the Danish authors, this time Nina, a Red Cross nurse, tries to help a refugee who is accused of murdering her husband.

Fuentes, Carlos

• Vlad – Count Dracula, Vlad, has decided to immigrate toMexico after the mayhem inEastern Europe and countless wars have shortened his blood supplies. A short novel by one of Mexico’s greatest writers.

Funder, Anna

• All That I Am – An award win­ning novel about Jew­ish play­wright Ernst Toller, his lover Dora and their friend Ruth who sud­denly become crim­i­nals when Hitler comes to power.

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Gadney, R. J.

• Albert Einstein Speaking by R. J. Gadney – Part biography / part historical fiction about the most famous scientist of our time.

Gafla, Ofir Touché

• The World of the End – Ben Mendelssohn wants to be reunited with his belated wife, he will do any­thing to be with her again and on his birth­day he puts a bul­let in his head to accom­plish the task. When Ben enters the Other World he dis­cov­ers that find­ing a per­son among the mil­lions who occupy the realm is not an easy task.

Gaiman, Neal

• American Gods – A fictional book which blends fan­tasy, Amer­i­cana and mythol­ogy to cre­ate a unique story from the bril­liant mind of one of today’s top writers.

• Anansi Boys – Fat Char­lie returns to the United States to take care of his father’s estate only to find out that he has a twin he totally for­got about, and that his father was a minor African god (although a pow­er­ful one).

• The Graveyard Book – Winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal award. This is a fictional book which takes place in a graveyard. Mostly.

• Norse Mythology – A retelling of the stories which captivated many over centuries.

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane – A man returns to his child­hood home in Sus­sex, Eng­land. The man finds him­self in a farm which is down the road from where he lived. As the man sits by the pond, he starts remem­ber­ing events of bygone years, a sui­cide, a stolen car and dark­ness unleashed.

• Odd and the Frost Giants – an award win­ning fic­tional YA book inspired by Norse Mythol­ogy.

• The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes – A graphic novel which encompasses the collected issues of Sandman #1-8. This is the story of Morpheus, an eternal being responsible for sleep and rules over The Dreaming – the place where humans go when they are in an unconscious state.

• The View from the Cheap seats: Selected Nonfiction is a compilation of essays on many subjects the author composed.

Galloway, Steve

• The Cellist of Sarajevo – Dur­ing the siege of Sara­jevo a musi­cian sees 22 of his friends and neigh­bors get­ting killed while wait­ing in a bread line. The man decided to play his cello on the site for 22 days and the reader follows four people throughout those days.

Ganeshram, Ramin

• The General’s Cook – A historical fiction book taking place in 1793, following Herucles, a slave as well as President George Washington’s chef.

Garden, Don

• Tarzan — In The City of Gold (Vol. 1): The Com­plete Burne Hog­a­rth Sun­days and Dailies Library – A 3 year col­lec­tion of all Hogarth’s news­pa­per strips. This is the first of four volumes.

Gardner, Ian

• Deliver Us From Dark­ness: The Untold Story of Third Bat­tal­ion 506 Para­chute Infantry Reg­i­ment Dur­ing Mar­ket Gar­den (with Mario Dicarlo) – A very detailed account of Oper­a­tion Mar­ket Gar­den. The oper­a­tion was an unsuc­cess­ful attempt by the Allied mil­i­tary to seize bridges across the Meuse River and the Rhine.

Gardiner, John Reynolds

• Stone Fox – A fic­tional story for children, based on a Rocky Moun­tain leg­end.

Garfield, Simon

• Just My Type: A Book About Fonts – A non­fic­tion book about fonts. After read­ing this book I will never look at signs the same way again.

Gates, Robert M.

• A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service – A non-fiction book in which Mr. Gates talks about transforming large organizations from the inside. Mr. Gates has previously been Directory of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), president of Texas A & M University, as well as Secretary of Defense.

Gaynor, Hazel

• The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter – A historical fiction book, telling of Grace Darling, a celebrated heroine, and her ancestor a hundred years later.

Geddes, Luke

• Heart of Junk – A novel about a group of antique dealers in Wichita, Kansas excited about a famous antiques television show filming an episode in their mall, but have to get around the bad press of a kidnapped child

Gelatt, Philip

• Petrograd (art by Tyler Crook)– A graphic novel about an inter­na­tional con­spir­acy behind the mur­der of Gre­gorii Rasputin.

Gibbs, Nancy

• The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity (with Michael Duffy) – A non-fiction book about the relationships ex-US Presidents have with the one which currently holds office.

Gibson, Sebastian

• Nitt Witt Hill– A polit­i­cal satire which brings for­ward the absur­di­ties of today’s pol­i­tics.

Gigliotti, Jim

• Who Was Bruce Lee? – The book tells about Lee’s influ­ence in mar­tial arts and pop cul­ture, as well as touch on how Lee intro­duce Chi­nese cul­ture to main­stream Amer­i­can and his influ­ence in that arena.

Gilbers, Harald

• Germania – A murder-mystery taking place during the last weeks of World War II, following a Jewish investigator reactivated by the Gestapo. This book won the Glauser Prize for the best German crime novel.

Gilbert, Elizabeth

• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia – One woman’s travels in search of some peace of mind and love.

Gildin, Leon H.

• The Polski Affair– The award winning book about a very weird and bizarre his­tor­i­cal occur­rence dur­ing World War II.

  The Family Affair – The fic­tional con­tin­u­a­tion of his award The Pol­ski Affair. Like its pre­de­ces­sor this is a short book, but one that packs in impact.

Giorello, Joe

• Great Battles for Boys: Ancients to Middle Ages (Great Battles for Boys #1) – A non-fiction book, consisting of 12 short chapters about significant military clashes.

Gladstone, Max

• This is How You Lose the Time War (with Amal El-Mohtar) – Rivaling time travelling spies, Red and Blue, correspondence through space and time, taunting each other until they fall in love.

Gleason, Patrick

• Superman vol. 1: Son of Superman (with Peter J. Tomasi, illustrated by Patrick Gleason and Doug Mahnke) is a graphic novel which introduces the world to the “new” Superman…. Kind of.

• Superman, Volume 2: Trial of the Super Sons (with Peter J. Tomasi, illustrated by Patrick Gleason,Doug Mahnke & Jorge Jimenez, inked by Jaime Mendoza, Trevor Scott, Mick Gray, Christian Alamy & Mark Morales, colored by Alejandro Sanchez, Wil Quintana, & John Kalisz, lettered by Rob Leigh) – A graphic novel telling of Jon Kent, Superman and Lois’s son, who is becoming more powerful and gets on the radar screen of his father’s powerful foes.

• Superman Vol. 3: Multiplicity (with Peter J. Tomasi) (art by Patrick Gleason, Jorge Jimenez, Ivan Reis, Ryan Sook, Tony S. Daniel, & Sebastián Fiumara) – A graphic novel featuring alternate version of Superman that have been disappearing.

Gleick, James

• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood – A non-fiction book for the information age, talking about how people send information (and misinformation) from tum-tums in Africa, to Ada Lovelace, Alan turning and every “expert” on Twitter and Facebook.

Goldberg, David Richard

• Amazing Jewish Heroes Down Through The Ages– A book that consists of short biographies of famous Jews.

Golden, Daniel

• Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities – A non-fiction book which reveals how academia has become the front-line for spy games among nations

Goldenberg, Anna

• I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family’s Story of Exile and Return – A memoir of the author’s family experience as European Jews during World War II, as well as reflections on the effects on her life and theirs.

Goldstein, Andrew

• The Bookie’s Son– A com­ing of age novel about the son of a col­lec­tor agent to a Jew­ish crime lord, gam­bler and, of course, a bookie. Grow­ing up to a poor fam­ily in the Bronx dur­ing the 1960s .

Goodwater, W.L.

• Breach – A novel taking place in the aftermath of World War II, where the remaining powers fight with magic as well as conventional means.

Goolrick, Robert

• A Reliable Wife– A fictional story about a 58 year old widower and his mail order bride. The story takes place in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, as well as in the heated, burning desire of the characters’ hearts.

Gordon, David

• Mystery Girl – A men’s novel full of self doubt, awk­ward­ness, porn, manly movie talk and Jackie Chan. Sam Korn­berg lives in L.A., his mar­riage is falling apart and it looks like he’ll never be the nov­el­ist he dreamed of being. Look­ing for any job he might be qual­ify for , Sam gets a job as an assis­tant (he spe­cial­izes in being an “assis­tant”) detec­tive to Solar Lonsky.

Gordon, Neil Perry

• A Cobbler’s Tale : Jewish Immigrants Story of Survival, from Eastern Europe to New York’s Lower East Side – A historical-fiction book based on the experiences of the author’s family immigrating from Poland to America in the early 1900s.

Gorenberg, Gershom

• War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East – A history book recounting the Nazi army’s march through Africa and Egypt.

Gowda, Shilpi Somava

• The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda – A novel about family and tradition taking place in both India and the United States

Graham, Benjamin

• The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing – A non-fiction book, written first in 1949, but has been updated with commentary ever since.

Graham, David

• Incitement– A novel following DEA agen Diane Mesi is investigating a war between two drug cartels.

Graham, Don

• Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film – A non-fiction book detailing of the making of this landmark 1956 film.

Grann, David

• The Lost City of Z – A non-fiction account of the author’s trip to Brazil fol­low­ing the foot­steps of famed explorer Percy Har­ri­son Faw­cett.

Grant, Richard

• God’s Mid­dle Fin­ger: Into the Law­less heart of the Sierra Madre – A non-fiction account of the author’s “tour” of Mexico’s Sierra Madre region in Mexico.

Graton, Johanna

• Edge of the Map: the Mountain Life of Christine Boskoff – A biography of America’s leading female alpinist and business owner.

Gray, Michael Loyd

• Not Famous Anymore – A a fic­tional book which addresses the price of fame following a famous action her on his journey back to his hometown and out of the spotlight.

Grecian, Alex

• The Saint of Wolves and Butchers – A novel which follows a man and his dog hunting Nazis in Kansas.

Greenberg, Steven

• Galerie – A novel about a woman looking for her roots and a family secret from World War II.

Grennan, Conor

• Little Princes – A memoir of the author’s time as a volunteer in an orphanage in Nepal. Not only did Mr. Grennan volunteer, but he also went above and beyond to find the long lost families of these children who were never orphaned but used and manipulated by war profiteers.

Griffin, Scott Tracy

• Tarzan The Centennial Celebration – A lavish cof­fee table book cel­e­brat­ing 100 years of the famous lord of the jun­gle in books, TV, movies, comics and more. Mr. Grif­fin is the lead­ing author­ity on Edgar Rice Bur­roughs and on his 1912 cre­ation of which this book is about.

Grisham, John

• Playing For Pizza– A fictional book mostly set in Italy. This fish-out-of-water story is perfect for the reader/sport lover and could be read in one sitting.

Groom, Winston

• The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II – A non-fiction book which recounts how Russia became and unlikely ally with the United States and Russia during World War II.

• The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America – A  history book focusing on the relationships, personal and professional, between the three American founding fathers mentioned in the title.

Gross, Joel

• The Books of Rachel – A saga traversing centuries, following the Cuheno / Ha-Cohen / Cohen / Cohn family of diamond dealers, who pass a diamond to daughters all named Rachel

Grubman, William Ian

• The Storm over Paris – A historical fiction novel taking place in Paris, 1942, and follows an art dealer trying to save art from the hands of the Nazis.

Gruen, Sara

• Water for Elephants– A fictional boy-meets-girl story/boy-and-his-elephant set against turn of the century circus scene.

Grylls, Bear

• A Survival Guide for Life – A series of short nar­ra­tives (75 in all), many telling anec­dotes from the life of the authors tai­lored and/or manip­u­lated to accom­mo­date the bul­let point the nar­ra­tive tries to make.

Guinn, Jeff

• The Last Gun­fight: The Real Story Of The Shootout At The O.K. Cor­ral — And How It Changed The Amer­i­can West – A non-fiction book which traces the famous gun­fight cutting through the myth to tell the reader how wild the west really was.

Gul, Imtiz

• The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier – Short but packed non-fiction book about delicate political situation in Pakistan.

Gunnin, Sally Cabot

• Monticello : A Daughter and Her Father – A novel about Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of one of America’s founding fathers and its third president Thomas Jefferson.

Gutfreund, Amir

• When Heroes Fly (בשבילה גיבורים עפים) – A novel taking place over three decades in Israel, starting in the 1960s after the Six Days War.

Guthrie, Woody

• House of Earth – A recently published novel, written in 1947, much like the singer’s lyrics, full of crit­i­cism and pow­er­ful imagery of the Amer­i­can farm­ers who suf­fered might­ily dur­ing the dust bowl.

Gutman, Yechiel

• Israeli Governments Throughout the Generations: Wise Decisions and Dumb Decisions (with Dan Korn) – A non-fiction book which evaluates, in hindsight, some of the decisions made by the Israeli government.

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Ha, Khanh

• Flesh– A fictional story of the com­ing of age story in a dark time of a young man’s life in violent 20th Century Vietnam.

Haas, Wolf

• Brenner and God– A fictional a detec­tive novel tak­ing place in Ger­many follow Simon Bren­ner a retired police offi­cer who is now a chauffeur.

Haa­sis, Hell­mut G.

• Bombing Hitler– The true story of Georg Elser and his failed attempt on Hitler’s life..

Haddon, Mark

• The Porpoise – A novel following three stories in different time periods, all with a common narrative.

Haden, Peter

• Jan – A fictional account, based on the author’s uncle, which takes place between 1918 – 1940 when a Polish man, whose family has been murdered by the Nazis, joins the British to fight.

Haggard, H. Rider.

• King Solomon’s Mines– The first novel is the first to fea­ture adven­turer Alan Quater­main published in 1885.

Haig, Matt

• How to Stop Time – A novel that follows the life of a man who lived for hundreds of year

Halevi, Yossi Klein

• Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation – A non-fiction book which follows the footsteps of seven Israeli paratroopers who fought together and the different paths their lives took.

Halson, Penrose

• The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London – a non-fiction book detaling the start of this match making business during World War II.

Halter, Marek

• Why the Jews?: The Need to Scapegoat (translated by Grace McQuillan) – A  collection of short essays examining the titled question.

Hamid, Mohsin

• How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia – An uniden­ti­fied pro­tag­o­nist works towards his dream of becom­ing filthy rich. His jour­ney from a poor boy to a cor­po­rate leader is chron­i­cled in this book shaped as a busi­ness self-help book.

Hambling, David

• Time Loopers: Four Tales from a Time War (with Byron Craft, Matt Davenport, and John Delaughter) – A science fiction book of five interconnecting short stories

Hankes, N.B.

• Waking Up On the Appalachian Trail: A Story of War, Brotherhood, and the Pursuit of Truths – A non-fiction account of the author’s hike on this national scenic landmark, along with his brother.

Hansen, James R.

• First Man– The first authorized biography of astronaut Neil A. Armstrong.

Haney, Earl (with Lee Courtnage)

• Mission to Mach 2 – Mr. Haney’s mem­oir about his mil­i­tary career which focuses on Haney’s fas­ci­nat­ing Air-Force career.

Harding, Thomas

• Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the Ger­man Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kom­man­dant of Auschwitz – A strong, thought pro­vok­ing, fas­ci­nat­ing book which, most impor­tant of all, is a fam­ily heir­loom and an homage to a rel­a­tive who has passed away. I found the book to be well researched, an easy read and a win­dow into a time where the ideal of right and wrong was clearly defined.

Hardy, Thomas

• Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Pub­lished in 1891 , the book fol­lows Tess through her tri­als and tribu­la­tions in Vic­to­rian Eng­land.

Hargrave, Kiran Millwood

• The Mercies – A novel based on real occurrences during a freak storm and a witch hunt in a small Norwegian village of Vardø in the early 1600s.

Harrington, Joel F.

• The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century – A biography of a German executioner, based on his diary.

Harris, Oliver

• The Hollow Man – A crime fiction book introducing Lon­don police detec­tive Nick Belsey, a broke, drunk man who bends the rules often and not always for the right reasons.

Harrow, Alex E.

• The Ten Thousand Doors of January – A novel where secret doors lead to different worlds, and the girl that can open them.

Hart, Gary

• James Monroe– A short biography of the fifth US President by a presidential candidate.

Haskell, Molly

• Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films (Jewish Lives) – a biography of the prolific director.

Heightsman, Helen Gordon

• Malinalli of the Fifth Sun – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion novel tak­ing place in South Amer­ica dur­ing Hernán Cortés’ time focusing on native woman Mali­nalli who was an impor­tant per­son in Cortés’ entourage who have been vil­i­fied through­out the ages.

Heimbuch, Craig J.

• And Now We Shall Do Manly Things – A non-fiction book about the author’s adven­tures learn­ing to hunt while chron­i­cling his per­sonal jour­ney and learn­ing about the hunt­ing cul­ture in America.

Hellström, Borge (with Andres Roslund)

• Three Seconds – 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.

Hendley, Doc

• Wine to Water – A non-fiction mem­oir of the author start­ing the Wine to Water non-profit. The char­ity brings clean water to many parts of the world.

Henley, Wallace

• God & Churchill, How the Great Leader’s Sense of Divine Destiny Changed his Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours (wih Jonathan Sandys) – A non-fiction account of the relationship the great British Prime Minister had with G-d.

Hepinstall, Kathy

• Blue Asylum – A fic­tional book tak­ing place in an insane asy­lum dur­ing the Amer­i­can Civil War questioning the definition of sanity.

Hersch, Jack J

• Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust – A biography of Dave Hersch, the author’s father retracing his father’s footsteps in Europe. Dave Hersch is the only person known to have escaped and survived two death marches.

Hesse, Monica

• The Girl in the Blue Coat – A young adult award winning novel, a national bestseller, which takes place in Holland during World War II.

Hickam, Homer

• Carrying Albert Home – The story of Mr. Hickam’s parents as a young couple in the 1930s, traveling from Florida to West Virginia with a pet alligator so she’ll have a bit of Florida in West Virginia. When the alligator grew, the couple took a trip to bring the alligator, named Albert, back to Florida.

Higgins, Jack

• The Eagle Has Landed – A novel detailing the efforts of a German crack commando team to invade England and kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II.

• Solo– A fast, exciting read which is a lot of fun, lots of action and an interesting simple plot.

Higashino, Keigo

• The Devotion of Suspect X – A charming novel focuses on the mind games played between the suspect and a police consultant – both brilliant mathematicians.

Hill, Bryan

• Batman: Detective Comics, Vol. 8: On the Outside by (with Michael Moreci, illustrated by Miguel Mendonca, Phillip Briones, and Sebastian Fiumara) – A graphic novel which continues the story of the aftermath of the events which led to the Gotham Knights team take down the monster they helped create.

Hill, Clint

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

Hill, David Wesley

• At Drake’s Command:The adven­tures of Pere­grine James dur­ing the sec­ond cir­cum­nav­i­ga­tion of the world (Vol­ume 1) – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book fol­low­ing the adven­tures of a sailor on a voy­age with the famous Fran­cis Drake.

Hill, Susan

• The Man in the Picture(Guest Review) – A Gothic tale of a tragic tale of unruly pas­sions, of loss and of the power of sug­ges­tion.

Hillenbrand, Laura

• Unbroken – An amazing non-fiction story of Loius Zamperini and American athlete, World War II Air Corp bombardier who survived a crash and interment in a Japanese POW camp.

Hinman, Wendy

• Tightwads on the Loose: A Seven Year Pacific Odyssey – A memoir of the author, after she went on a boat trip around the world with her husband.

Hoag, Tami

• Deeper than the Dead – A fictional thriller set in 1985, before computers, forensics and a cell phone was as big as a brick (and weighed just as much). The book follows an FBI agent who is following a killer in a small town in California.

• Secrets to the Grave – A fictional mystery featuring the recurring characters we met in “Deeper than the Dead”. The novel takes place in the same town of Oak Knoll, CA and is set in the mid 1980’s.

Hoalst-Pullen, Nancy

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

Holroyd, Jack

• The Second World War Illustrated: The First Year – A non-fiction book which covers the beginning of World War II.

Holt, Craig

• Hard Dog to Kill – A novel about two American mercenaries in the African Congo. Mr. Holt writes books, screenplays and short stories, Hard Dog to Kill was a finalist in both the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Competition, and the Colorado Gold Writing Contest.

Holt, Nathalia

• The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt – Tells of several influential women who worked at Disney Studios in the early part of the 20^th Century and later on, fighting the male dominated culture and making significant impact on the company.

Hooker Jr., R. D.

• Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War – A non-fiction consisting of essays about the theory of war, expertly researched and professionally written, from a perspective of a solider, statesman, and intellectual who stays true to the facts and dispels myths which inevitably come when the military becomes politicized.

Horan, Ellen

• 31 Bond Street – A historical fiction novel taking place in 1857 New York City. The book follows the notorious trial of Emma Cunningham for the murder of her landlord Dr. Harvey Burdell, a famous dentist.

Horan, Nancy

• Under the Wide and Starry Sky – A fic­tion­al­ized account of the rela­tion­ship of famed author Robert Louis Steven­son and his wife Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne.

Horner, Doogie

• A Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic (illustrated by‎ JJ Harrison) – A novelty book, retelling of the famous movie through a delightful Christmas rhyme.

Horowitz, Marilyn

• The Book of Zev – A novel pep­pered with black & Jewish humor which tells the story of how two peo­ple changed his­tory.

Hoskins, W. G.

• The Age of Plunder: The England of Henry VIII, 1500-47 – Analyzes how Tudor England was viewed from the trenches, by the people we never hear about, not by the movers and shakers.

Hosseini, Khaled

• And the Mountains Echoed -A poor Afghan laborer hands over his pre­cious 3-year-old daugh­ter to a wealthy cou­ple liv­ing in Kabul. The con­se­quences of the sib­lings’ sep­a­ra­tion are told through a series of over­lap­ping sto­ries from dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive which span a lifetime.

• A Thousand Splendid Suns – Another impres­sive book about life in Afghanistan but this time about the plight of women under the rule of the Tal­iban.

Howe, James

• Bunnicula (Guest Review) – A children’s book – Bun­nic­ula is a vam­pire rab­bit. But instead of the typ­i­cal vam­piric ten­den­cies, Bun­nic­ula sucks the juice out of veg­eta­bles

Hugo, Victor

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame – A des­per­ate and quite depress­ing novel filled with the lone­li­ness of 15th Cen­tury Paris. The novel became a clas­sic and the Hunch­back became a tragic hero as well as a cul­tural icon.

Humphries, Sam

• Legendary Star-Lord Vol. 1: Face It, I Rule Paco Medina (Illustrator), Freddie Williams (Illustrator) – a graphic novel about Star-Lord, star of the Guardians of the Galaxy

Hur­witz, Harry (editor)

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

Hutton, Robert

• Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5’s Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert Hutton – The true story of Eric Roberts, a bank clerk who worked with MI5 to try and find Nazi sympathizers and informers in wartime Britain.

Hyslop, Stephen G.

• Atlas of World War II: History’s Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography (with Neil Kagan, foreword by Kenneth W. Rendell) – A hardcover book featuring maps, photographs, documents,and eyewitness accounts.

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Iggulden, Conn

• Genghis: Birth of an Empire – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion story fol­low­ing the young man who will even­tu­ally become Genghis Kahn.

• The Falcon of Sparta – A fictionalized account of the book The Persian Expedition by Xenophon who led the Greek mercenaries, known as the Ten Thousand, who are stuck deep in hostile territory, must fight the Persian Empire to get home after the Battle of Cunaxa.

Ingle, Bob

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

Irving, Clifford

• The Angles of Zin – A novel taking place mostly in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, in which Paul Bach, Chief Homicide Inspector and a veteran from the Russian front is investigating murders of Nazi guards.

Irving, John

• Last Night in Twisted River – How a boy becomes a writer? A polished & engaging novel by a master storyteller.

Isaacson, Walter

• The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson – A biography of the 2020 Nobel Prize winning chemist, who together with her French colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier accepted the award.

• Benjamin Franklin– The amaz­ing life of one of America’s Found­ing Fathers and well known scientists

• Einstein: His Life and Universe — A biog­ra­phy of the famed sci­en­tist. Ein­stein lived a tremen­dous life full of sci­ence, math, pol­i­tics, reli­gion and love; I admire Mr. Isaacson’s courage in tack­ling such a project.

• Leonardo da Vinci – More than a painter, engineer or weapon smith, in this biography Walter Isaacson tries to figure out this complex genius.

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Jacobs, Delle

• Loki’s Daughters (Guest Review)– a historical romance taking place in Ireland in a Celtic village where every man of fighting age is dead. A young woman, who is also trying to care for her sister with failing eyesight and her young nephew had to deal with a Viking invasion.

Jaher, David

• The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World – A non-fiction book which takes a look at the popularization of spiritualism in the western world during the 1920s.

Jahn, Ryan David

• The Dispatcher– a fic­tional thriller which takes the reader from­ Texas to Ari­zona in a it moves fast and furi­ous pace.

James, Brian

Mjolnir – A fictional book telling about the old Norse gods, now living on Earth trying to make ends meet.

Jaeckel, Jenny

• House of Rougeaux – A novel following the Rougeaux family from being enslaved in the Caribbean, to finding freedom

Jankowicz, Nina

• How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict – A well-researched book about information warfare tactics that has been used in five countries, and the lessons we must learn from them.

Jensen, Cartsten

• We, The Drowned – A spellbinding, award winning (Danske Banks Litteraturpris) fictional book which spans 100 years in the lives of the inhabitants of the small Danish coastal town Marstal. Jensen’s debut novel is hailed as an instant classic and rightfully so.

• The First Stone (translated by Mark Mussari) – A novel which follows a Danish platoon fighting in Afghanistan, who find themselves as not only hunters, but as prey as well.

Jiles, Paulette

• News of the World – A novel taking place in Texas around 1870. This book is a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award in Fiction.

Johncock, Benjamin

• The Last Pilot – A historical fiction book taking place during the height of the space race.

Johns, Geoff

• DC Universe: Rebirth #1 by Geoff Johns (illustrated by Gary Frank, Phil Jimenez, Ivan Reis, and Ethan Van Sciver) – A graphic novel which follows Wally West (Kid Flash) is lost in time and dimensions thanks to the Flashpoint caused by Barry Allen (The Flash). Wally is drifting into nothingness, but can see the mysteries of the universe.

Johnson, Lisa S.

• 108 Rock Star Guitars – A book fea­tur­ing pho­tographs of gui­tars (and gui­tars only) of famous gui­tarists. The book took 17 years for Ms. John­son to com­pile and photograph.

Johnson, Marilyn

• This Book Is Overdue – A non-fiction account of the author’s research and pontifications of how librarians will guide our culture into technological literacy.

Johnston, Antony

• The Cold­est City (art by Sam Hart) – A graphic novel tak­ing place dur­ing the Cold War in Berlin, Ger­many.

Johnston, Ingeborg, M

• Unbelievable Adventures of a WW II German War Bride – A memoir in which the author shares her expe­ri­ences as WW II Ger­man nurse, a beauty queen, model, pilot, wife, mother and grand­mother.

Jones, John Isaac

• A Quiet Madness: A biographical novel of Edgar Allan Poe – A fictional biography of the famous poet.

Jonasson, Jonas

• The Hundred-Year-Old Who Climbed Out Through the Window and Disappeared – A fic­tional book which fol­lows the adven­tures and mis-adventures of its centenarian pro­tag­o­nist in a hilarious romp through the 20th century.

• The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles) – The second novel featuring Allan Karlsson, a reluctant anti-hero going through life, involving himself and influencing world matters. This is a follow up to Mr. Jonasson’s best seller The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

• Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All – A fictional comedy about Per Persson, a hotel receptionist and grandson to a multi-millionaire who lost all his money, meets an atheist female pries who was cast out of her congregation.

Jones, Chris Morgan

• The Silent Oligarch – A fic­tional book about those in the shad­ows which hold the strings of power.

Joyce, James

• Dubliners – A col­lec­tion of short sto­ries pub­lished in 1914. The sto­ries are loosely tied together and are con­sid­ered a clas­sic col­lec­tion in world literature.

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Kaaberbøl, Lene

• Death of a Nightingale (with Agnete Friis) – The third Nina Borg book from the Danish authors, this time Nina, a Red Cross nurse, tries to help a refugee who is accused of murdering her husband.

Kafka, Franz

• The Metamorphosis – This is the story of Gre­gor Samsa who wakes up one morn­ing and dis­cov­ered he has turned into a giant bug. A short, classic story but deep with many themes con­de­scend in a short space and between the lines.

Kagan, Neil

• Atlas of World War II: History’s Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography (with Stephen G. Hyslop, foreword by Kenneth W. Rendell) – A hardcover book featuring maps, photographs, documents,and eyewitness accounts.

Kahn, M. Salahuddin

• Sikander – A fic­tional book which chron­i­cles the life of a Pak­istani man and how it changed after 9/11.

Kalotay, Daphne

• Russian Winter – A fic­tional book which fol­lows the com­plex life of a Russ­ian prima bal­le­rina who defected to the US.

Kaminski, Michael

• The Secret History of Star Wars – A non-fiction book chron­i­cling the cre­ative process behind the six Star Wars movies. A well researched, well writ­ten and inter­est­ing book not only for the Star Wars fans, but any­one who is inter­ested in the cre­ative process.

Kaminsky, Sarah

• Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life by Sarah Kaminsky – A biography of her father, a French national and hero. Ms. Kaminsky, daughter of the book’s subject, is a writer and actor.

Kang, J. C.

• Thorn of the Night Blossoms: A Legends of Tivara Story (Scions of the Black Lotus #1) – A novel about assassins, posting as prostitutes in China, with fantasy elements mixed in.

• White Sheep of the Family: A Legends of Tivara Story (Scions of the Black Lotus #2) – Continues the saga of Jie, the half-elf working for the Chinese criminal organization

• Wretches of the Trench: A Legends of Tivara Story (Scions of the Black Lotus #3) – Continues the story, and adds mystery to the fantasy series.

• Temptress of Fates: A Legends of Tivara Story-   The fourth installment in the Scions of the Black Lotus series, following a clan of Chinese assassins masquerading as high-class courtesans, led by a half-elf.

• Last Heir of the North: A Legends of Tivara Story  – The fifth installment of the Scions of the Black Lotus series, in which we find out more about Lilian’s  history

• Last Bloom of the Jade Lotus: A Legends of Tivara Story – The sixth and final installment of Scions of the Black Lotus series tying up loose ends, and opening some new ones.

Kaplan, Fred

• Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War – A non-fiction book dealing with new form of warfare.

Kaplan, Mitchell James

• Rhapsody – Kathrine Swift is a talented pianist who married the competent banker James Warburg meets and falls in love with composer George Gershwin

Kaye, Harvey J.

• Thomas Paine and the Promise of America – A biography about the famous English-American political activist during the American revolution.

Kaplan, Fred

• The Insur­gents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the Amer­i­can Way of War – A non-fiction book which tells the inside story of a small group of sol­diers who worked to rev­o­lu­tion­ize the mil­i­tary.

Karlsson, Jonas

• The Invoice – A novel set in current day Sweden in which the government has decided to add a “happiness tax” on the population.

• The Circus (translated by Neil Smith) – A short book which tells of two friends who went to the circus, one of them volunteered to be in a magic act, and disappeared.

Katz, Yossi

• A Voice Called. Stories of Jewish Heroism – Short biographies & stories about the author’s personal heroes. Some famous, some not so much.

Katzenback, John

• Hart’s War – a courtroom drama taking place in a prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II

Kempe, Frederick

• Berlin 1961– A a non-fiction book which fol­lows the polit­i­cal tur­moil in 1961, a defin­ing year in US-Soviet rela­tion­ship.

Kennedy, Douglas

• Temptation – A fic­tional book which takes the reader on a ride from the height of suc­cess to the lows in life. What hap­pens when a gilded door opens to a man who sud­denly has ample oppor­tu­ni­ties and Hol­ly­wood clout?.

Kershaw, Alex

• Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew – A non-fiction book about the World War II submarine USS Tang.

• The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II – Tells the epic story of one of the most eventful and impactful days of the 20^th Century.

• The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II – A non-fiction book telling the story of Swedish diplomat of Raoul Wallenberg. Mr. Wallenberg is credited with saving thousands of Hungarian Jews by granting them visas and exiting the Reich.

• The Lib­er­a­tor: One World War II Soldier’s 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau – A non-fiction book about the amazing journey of officer (later General) Felix L. Sparks from the invasion in Italy to the liberation of Dachau.

Kerr, Philip

• March Violets – The first in a series of noir nov­els about Bernie Gun­ther, an ex-policeman who turned pri­vate inves­ti­ga­tor. March vio­lets refers to Ger­mans who went along with the Nazi vio­lence mindlessly.

• Field Gray – A fic­tional novel tak­ing place alter­na­tively between the 1931 and mid 1954, mostly in Berlin. The book is 7th novel star­ring Bernie Gun­ther.

• Prague Fatale – A fic­tional novel mostly set in Prague where Berlin detective Gunther is asked to solve a locked-room murder in a castle full of Nazis. The book is 8th novel star­ring Bernie Gun­ther.

• Metropolis – A novel following The Weimar Republic is dying and young detective, Bernie Gunther, is investigating the murder of four prostitutes that have been scalped, a low profile case until the daughter of Berlin’s primary criminal is also murdered.

Khadra, Yasmina

• The Attack – A fic­tional book set in Israel and the West Bank which follows an Arab doctor working in an Israeli hospital whose life turned upside down when his wife became a suicide bomber.

Khoury, Raymond

• The Templar Salvation – This the long awaited fictional sequel to “The Last Templar” follows the adventures of Archeologist Tess Chaykin & FBI agent Sean Reilly as they are being forced on a quest for a Templar treasure.

Kiernan, Stephen P.

• The Curiosity – On an Arc­tic expe­di­tion, Dr. Kate Philo dis­cov­ers the body of a man who was flash frozen deep in ice. In what could only be con­sid­ered excep­tional sci­ence with a bit of luck, the man, Judge Jere­miah Rice was brought back to life after being dead for more than a century.

King, Crystal

• The Chef’s Secret – A historical fiction novel taking place in Italy around the middle 1500s when Master chef Bartolomeo Scappi died and leaves his wealth, knowledge and even name to Giovanni, his long time apprentice.

King, Stephen

• Dark Tower: The Long Road Home (art by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove) – A graphic novel taking place in a universe Mr. King created. The graphic novel is a prequel to The Dark Tower novels about the young Gunslinger Roland Deschain.

King, Tom

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

• Batman, Vol 2: I Am Suicide (illustrated by Mikel Janín and Mitch Gerads, colored by June Chung, and lettered by Clayton Cowles) – A graphic novel where Batman puts together his own Suicide Squad and leaves Gotham to retrieve a villain who is threatening Gotham City from Bain’s kingdom.

• Batman Vol. 3: I Am Bane (Rebirth) (illustrated by David Finch) – In his quest to get Psycho Pirate, who can address the pain his venom causing him, Bane destroys Batman’s allies and foes until his final match with Bruce Wayne

• Batman Vol 4.: The War of Jokes and Riddles (Rebirth) (illustrated by Mikel Janin) – Bruce Wayne (Batman) believes that Selina Kyle‘(Catwoman) needs to understand him better before their relationship moves forward, so he tells her a story of an all-out war between Joker and Riddler and himself.

• Batman, Vol 5: Rules of Engagement (illustrated by Joëlle Jones) – When Selina Kyle (Catwoman) acceted the marriage proposal from Bruce Wayne (Batman) she realized she would have to deal with his ex – Talia al Ghul in order to be happy.

• Batman Vol. 6: Bride or Burglar (illustrated by Mikel Janin, Joëlle Jones, and Travis Moore) – A graphic novel which follows the complex path that Batman and Catwoman lead to their wedding.

• Batman, Vol. 7: The Wedding (illustrated by Tony S. Daniel and Mikel Janin) – A graphic novel which culminates the story-line where Batman (Bruce Wayne) and Catwoman (Selina Kyle) are set to get married.

• Batman/The Flash: The Button Deluxe Edition (with Joshua Williamson 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.

Kingsolver, Barbara

• Flight Behavior– A fictional book tak­ing place in Appalachia. The book is very lyri­cal and rich explor­ing the sim­ple yet com­plex life of rural Tennessee.

• The Lacuna – Mexican author Harrison William Sheppard finds out what happens when you used to work for a Mexican communist employer in your teens.

Kim, Un-su

• The Plotters (translated by Sora Kim-Russell) – A novel about a South Korean assassin determined to find out who are the “plotters” – those that give the orders to kill.

Kimmage, Michael

• The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy – A book which examines what “the West” really means in terms of policy over decades, and how that concept drove 20^th Century policy in the United States.

Kirk, Jay

• Kingdom Under Glass – A historical fiction – biography tale about the great taxidermist & conservationist, inventor and sculptor Carl Akeley.

Kirschbaum, Eric

• Rock­ing the Wall: Bruce Spring­steen: The Berlin Con­cert that Changed the World – A a well researched, inter­est­ing book about a fas­ci­nat­ing slice of his­tory. The author tries to say that Spring­steen had a part in the rev­o­lu­tion that took place later on to take down the Berlin Wall, whether he did or did not we’ll never know – but we’d like to think he might have.

Kissinger, Henry

• On China– A non-fiction book in which the famous states­man recounts and advises on the future of Chi­nese diplo­macy with the west.

Kjeldsen, Kirk

• Land of Hidden Fires – a novel taking place in Norway during World War II

Kline, Christina Baker

• The Exiles – A historical fiction book following two English women who were sentenced to the penal colony in Australia, and one native girl.

• Orphan Train – a novel of a friendship between a 91 year old woman and a teenager, both of them with a spotted past.

• A Piece of the World – A novel which tells the story behind one of Andrew Wyeth’s iconic painting Christina’s World.

Kluger, Jeffrey

• Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon -a non-fiction book which tells the tale of this famous and historical mission to the moon and back.

Kocialski, Cynthia

• Startup From the Ground Up – A non-fiction book for entre­pre­neurs consisting of short sec­tions giv­ing sage advice.

• Out of the Class­room Lessons in Suc­cess: How to Pros­per With­out Being at the Top of The Class – A non-fiction busi­ness book in which the author talks gives some advice and obser­va­tions about suc­cess. This is a short book, writ­ten in per­sonal and infor­mal style

Koenig, Walter

• Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek – A memoir by the celebrated actor and author who played Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek TV series and as as Alfred Bester, a senior officer of Psi-Corps in Babylon 5.

Kolakowski, Christopher L.

• Last Stand on Bataan: The Defense of the Philippines, December 1941-May 1942 – A history book covering several month of fighting before and in which the Battan Death march took place.

Kollender, Andreas

• The Honest Spy (translated by Steve Anderson) – A historical fiction book about a German clerk spying for the USA.

Kon­visser, Zieva Dauber

• Liv­ing Beyond Ter­ror­ism: Israeli Sto­ries of Hope and Heal­ing by Zieva Dauber Kon­visser – A non-fiction book con­sist­ing of short sto­ries told by vic­tims of ter­ror­ism in Israel.

Kohn, Rebecca

• The Gilded Chamber: A Novel of Queen Esther – A biblical fiction retelling of the Book of Esther.

Korda, Michael

• Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia – A fascinating biography of Englishman Thomas Edward (T.E.) Lawrence better known by his nickname.

Korn, Dan

• Israeli Governments Throughout the Generations: Wise Decisions and Dumb Decisions (with Yechiel Gutman) – A non-fiction book which evaluates, in hindsight, some of the decisions made by the Israeli government.

Kot, Aleš

• James Bond: The Body (illustrated by Luca Casalanguida, Rapha Lobosco, Valentina Pinto, Tom Napolitano and Eoin Marron) – A graphic novel which finds secret agent 007 recounting how he got each cut and bruise on his last mission.

Krakauer, Jon

• Into Thin Air: A Per­sonal Account of the Mt. Ever­est Dis­as­ter – A non-fiction book telling of the author’s ascent to Mt. Ever­est. The author par­tic­i­pated in an expe­di­tion which lost sev­eral mem­bers dur­ing the ascent.

Krasny, Michael

• Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means -Tells of the great Jewish jokes, the origins, and commentary. Mr. Krasny is a successful radio talk show host and a teacher.

Kritzler, Ed

• Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean – You didn’t know there were Jewish pirates? Neither did I. A non-fiction which you might not believe.

Kulish, Nicolas

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

Kunitz, Daniel

• Lift: Fitness Culture, from Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors – A non-fiction book about the history of exercise.

Kuper, Simon

• 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 Stefan Szymanski) – A non-fiction book analyzing the economics of soccer around the world, but mainly in the English leagues.

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LaForge, Jane Rosenberg

• The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War – A novel which takes place during and after World War I, in a small English village concenring an American school teacher and a soldier suffering from PTSD.

la Grange, Zelda

• Good Morning, Mr. Mandela– A mem­oir of Mr. Mandela’s pri­vate sec­re­tary. This is Ms. la Grange’s first book, which I under­stand caused some con­tro­versy as it is the first such mem­oir to come out after Mr. Mandela’s death.

Läckberg, Camilla

• The Ice Princess – A Swedish murder mystery set in a small town.

• The Stonecutter – The the third novel in the Fjall­backa mys­tery series featuring police­man Patrik Hed­strom taking on the murder or a neighbor’s child.

Lamb, Chris

• The Art of the Political Putdown: The Greatest Comebacks, Ripostes, and Retorts in History (with Will Moredock) – A collection many verbal banter of famous politicians over the last two hundred years or so.

Lande, Nathaniel

• While the Music Played: A Remarkable Story of Courage and Friendship in WWII – A historical fiction book following a young German musician throughout World War II.

Landow, Loren

• Ultimate Conditioning for Martial Arts – A guide for professional and amateur martial artists covering many subjects from power to speed to agility and even nutrition. There are many exercises and diagrams for the reader to follow.

Lansky, Aaron

• Out­wit­ting His­tory: The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of a Man Who Res­cued a Mil­lion Yid­dish Books – A non-fiction book which tells the story of a grad­u­ate stu­dent try­ing to res­cue Yid­dish books from elim­i­na­tion, and all the char­ac­ters he meets along the way.

Lapid, Shulamit

• Human Error – This Israeli novel tack­les issues from the point of view of a female Mossad agent who is not a femme fatal, but a pro­fes­sional agent, a think­ing woman try­ing to inves­ti­gate the mur­der of an ex-colleague.

Larson, Erik

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin – A non-fiction book about William Dodd, US ambassador to Berlin during Hitler’s rise to power.

• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz – A nonfiction book, taking place between May 10, 1940 through May 10, 1941 following Churchill and his political brinkmanship during London’s darkest hour.

Larsson, Stieg

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – The first book of the Millenium Trilogy. The girl that hates men who hate women joins up with a crack journalist to take down financial titans and find a missing person.

• The Girl Who Played with Fire – The middle book of the Millenium Trilogy in which we discover Salander’s past.

• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – The third book of the Millenium Trilogy. Salander & Blomkvist return for another adventure.

Lashinsky, Adam

• Inside Apple – A non-fiction book which brings the reader into the behind the scenes world at Apple.

Laukkanen, Owen

• Criminal Enterprise – A fic­tional crime book which asks what hap­pens when ordi­nary peo­ple take a short­cut to mak­ing money because they per­ceive it as their only option.

Lautner, Robert

• Road to Reckoning– At age 12 Thomas Walker to go out west and sell Samuel Colt’s rev­o­lu­tion­ary “Improved Revolv­ing Gun”. Not long after their trav­els start, Thomas’ father is killed by rob­bers, and the young orphan tries to make it back home with his few pos­ses­sions, includ­ing a wooden model of the gun, and no money, rely­ing on the kind­ness of strangers.

Laws, David

• Munich: The Man Who Said No! – A historical fiction story which tells two connected stories, that of a man in Europe during World War II, and that of his granddaughter, a historian in 2015.

Leather, Stephen

• False Friends – An Al-Qaeda cell in England real­izes that there is a trai­tor in their mist and, while try­ing to plan a mas­sive ter­ror plot in the UK the orga­ni­za­tion involves the infor­mants. Detective Dan Shep­herd is the han­dler of Malik and Chaun­dhry, he must help them keep their cool until the plot is foiled.

LeBor, Adam

• The Geneva Option – A novel which introduces the reader to Yael Azoulay, a high-level UN staffer.

Leibovitz, Liel

• Stan Lee: A Life in Comics – A short biography of one of the icons of American mythology

Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach

• The Dressmaker of Khair Khana – The story of a woman who started a successful dress making business under the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Lethem, Jonathan

• A Gambler’s Anatomy – A novel taking place in Germany and Berkley, California about a professional backgammon player, he comes to Berlin after a run of bad luck in Singapore

Lett, Brian

• Ian Fleming and SOE’s Operation Postmaster: The Top Secret Story Behind 007 – Recaps Operation Postmaster and the men who made it a succes during World War II, marking the creation of the British Special Operations Executiv.

Leveen, Lois

• The Secrets of Mary Bowser – A historical fiction story about a free slave who went back into Virginia to spy for the Union during the American Civil War.

Levin, Adam

• The Instructions – A fictional doc­u­ment writ­ten by Rabbi Gurion ben-Judah Mac­cabee and chron­i­cles four days in the life of the 10 year old boy who believes he is the Messiah.

Levin, Daniel

• Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures among the Powerful – A memoir of the author, a lawyer, who met influential people during his life.

Levine, Joshua

• Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture – a companion history book to the movie,

Levinson, Leila

• Gated Grief – A non-fiction book about the author’s five year research to under­stand her father’s trauma from lib­er­at­ing a con­cen­tra­tion camp in World War II.

Levy, David

• Directing Animation– A non fiction book from an industry insider about the art of directing animated features and shorts. Lots of wonderful real-life anecdotes from animation superstars.

Levy, Marc

• All Those Things We Never Said – a short book in which a daugher and her father (sort of) get reacquainted after a lifetime of turmoil.

• P.S. from Paris– a cute, short book which was a quick read with a simple, elegant and well told story.

Lewis, Ben

• The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting – A non-fiction book about Leonardo da Vinci’s small oil painting the Salvator Mundi, sold at auction for $450 million.

Lewis-Kraus, Gideon

• A Sense of Direction– A mem­oir of the author walk­ing famous pil­grim­age trail while work­ing on his own issues.

Lenihan, Rob

• Born Speaking Lies – a novel which takes place in Pennsylvania and Brooklyn about a mob hit gone wrong.

Lichtblau, Eric

• Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis – The true story of Fred Mayer, a Jew born in Germany and returns as an American agent behind enemy lines.

Light, Alan

• The Holy or the Bro­ken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buck­ley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hal­lelu­jah” – A non-fiction book which traces the strange route of one of the most pop­u­lar songs in the world, “Hal­lelu­jah” by mas­ter word­smith Leonard Cohen.

Lindsay-Hogg, Michael

• Luck and Circumstance – a memoir of the author’s fas­ci­nat­ing life in the enter­tain­ment indus­try as well as searching for an answer to who is his bio­log­i­cal father is.

Littell, Robert

• Comrade Koba by Robert Littell – A novel in which a child, hiding in Communist Russia from the NKVD, meets an old man who is a high ranking government official, and the two strike a strange friendship.

Little, John (Editor)

• Bruce Lee Words of the Dragon: Interviews and Conversations 1958-1973 – A non-fiction book consisting of articles published about the movie star throughout his career.

Liviero, Gemma

• Broken Angels – A novel taking place in the Lodz ghetto during World War II through the eyes of three people, Elsi, a Jewish teenager whose mother is forced to be a prostitute for the Nazis, Matilda, a Romanian girl who happens to look Aryan is taken from her family and brought to Germany so she can be molded as an Aryan child, and Willem is a Nazi docotr, officer and son of an important general.

Liu, Marjorie M.

• Monstress Volume 1: Awakening (Sana Takeda Illustrator) – A graphic novel of an original fantasy epic. Maika Halfwolf, an Arcanic, is the survivor of a violent war between humans and Arcanics. Maika seeks out to find more about her mother, but as her power grows she feels that she is being destroyed from the inside.

Loftis, Larry

• Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy – A non-fiction book about a British spy operating in occupied France.

London, Charles

• Far from Zion – a non-fiction account of the author’s search for his iden­tity going far and wide look­ing for Jews in diaspora.

London, Jack

• The Call of the Wild – A clas­sic short story writ­ten in 1903 about a dog named Buck who gets stolen from a loving home and thrown into a turmoil of adventures and abuse.

Longridge, David

• Silence in the Desert by David Longridge – A historical fiction story taking place around World War II, following four friends, on opposite sides serving different masters during the war.

Lord, Jeffery

• Ahab’s Return: or, The Last Voyage – A novel, imagining the famous Captain Ahab returning to Nantucket, only to discover that he is believed to be dead. Searching for his wife and son, the captain reaches New York City where he meets a tabloid reporter George Harrow. Harrow makes a deal with the captain to help him search, but write about it in The Gorgon’s Mirror.

Lowe, Stuart

• Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space (with Chris North) – A wonderful book which combines art and science.

Lower, Wendy

• Hitler’s Furies: Ger­man Women in the Nazi Killing Fields – A a non-fiction book depict­ing the hor­rific and stun­ning roles women played in the Third Reich.

Lowry, Dave

• Chinese Cooking for Diamond Thieves – A delightful summer read, quick, funny and easy to ingest. The storytelling and dialog are sharp and funny, and the characters are engaging.

Lowry, Lois

• Number the Stars – An award-winning historical fiction book taking place in Denmark during World War II. Throughout the book, the kids watch how Danish resistance managed to rescue over 99% of Denmark’s Jews from the Nazis

Ludlum, Robert

• The Scarlatti Inheritance – Ludlum’s first book about a rich boy who is about to bankrupt his family and help Hitler’s Third Reich.

• The Osterman Weekend by Robert Ludlum – The host of an inves­tiga­tive news show, John Tan­ner, is told by an agent of the CIA and his friends who are invited to a week­end in the coun­try are plot­ting a con­spir­acy to threaten national secu­rity. The plan is called Omega.

Lukas, Michael David

• The Oracle of Stamboul– A fictional book which follows the early years of a child who is thought to be the fulfillment of a prophecy.