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The Last Summer of the Camperdowns
Twelve-year-old Riddle James Camperdown bears witness to a terrible crime during her eccentric clan's annual summer pilgrimage to The Cape, and her silence about what she's seen has far-reaching consequences. Elizabeth Kelly's tale of "Me Generation" dysfunction and wealthy privilege mixes malcontents and murder in a raucous cocktail. Buy Now
The National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin is back with another ambitious novel that hopscotches across two centuries -- and, of course, the Atlantic -- weaving together the disparate tales of a former American slave, an Irish chambermaid, pioneering aviators, and visionary diplomats. Buy Now
In his latest study, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis lives, breathes, and dreams the realities of America's birthpangs from the summer of 1776. He conjures up sharp-edged and animated portraits of the famous -- and the not-so-famous -- participants in that grand enterprise. Buy Now
This unsettling novel of family dynamics and the limits of sacrifice from the award-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin details a woman on the verge of giving up everything, including her marriage, to help her impassive brother fight his obesity. Buy Now
Just in time for Superman's 75th birthday, this riveting and inspiring biography tells the story of the two ordinary comic book fans who persevered through familial discord, devastating illness, and Depression-era poverty to bring the ubiquitous Man of Steel to life. Buy Now
A lackadaisical, newly fired twentysomething becomes an assistant to a filmmaker chronicling people's failed ambitions in this quirky meditation on internet addiction, celebrity cults, and digital narcissism. Buy Now
This intriguing history reveals the enduring bonds among Annie Glenn, Trudy Cooper, and other wives of the storied astronauts of the 1960s, who were brought together in shared anxiety and amazement toward their husbands' pioneering voyages into outer space. Buy Now
A beloved naturalist and writer, the insightful Elizabeth Marshall Thomas recalls a lifetime of keen observations about animal behavior, African tribespeople, and the Paleolithic Age. Buy Now
Ma Jian's searing novel centers around China's notorious one-child policy, depicting a rural family who becomes pregnant with their second child and must go on the run to retain the most basic of human rights. Buy Now
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, one of the masters of speculative fiction, is back with his first novel for adult readers since the Anansi Boys. The action revolves around an unnamed narrator hurtled back to his Sussex childhood when he returns home for a funeral, and a door to a dark and mysterious episode in his past is opened up. The result is a brilliantly realized fable filled with mystery and foreboding. Buy Now
Walter Walker, a trial lawyer based in San Francisco, takes us deep inside the world of the ridiculously rich and protected, with a thriller that, to quote Chris Pavone, "pits privilege against pride." At the novel's center is George Becket, a young lawyer toiling away in the basement of the Cape & Islands D.A.'s office when a murder committed years ago crosses his desk. It's Becket's unenviable job to cut through the conspiracy of silence surrounding it. Buy Now
Two exemplary and altruistic eye doctors from different nations -- the United States' Geoffrey Tabin and Nepal's Sanduk Ruit -- combine their talents to cure cataract-related blindness in the developing world (for twenty dollars an operation). With deft prose, the late David Oliver Relin brings their unique partnership and extraordinary accomplishments to life. Buy Now
Thomas Carlyle famously stated that "Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains." Fleshing out that intuition with well-rounded portraits, Joshua Kendall shows that OCD types have played a key role in America's development from the get-go -- from Thomas Jefferson to Charles Lindbergh to Steve Jobs. Buy Now
