Fiction
Olive Kitteridgeby Elizabeth Strout
(Paperback)
Usually ships within 24 hours
Claiming this year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is Elizabeth Strout's much-acclaimed Olive Kitteridge, a collection of 13 linked short stories centered around an outspoken and utterly unforgettable retired schoolteacher. Hailing Strout's accomplishment, The New Yorker observed that "[she] animates the ordinary with astonishing force."
- Finalist: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
- Finalist: All Souls by Christine Schutt
- List Price: $14.00
- Online Price: $11.20
- (Save 20%)
- Member Price: $10.08
- (Save 27%)
- Join Now
History
The Hemingses of Monticelloby Annette Gordon-Reed
(Hardcover)
Usually ships within 24 hours
Already honored with the 2008 National Book Award for Nonfiction, The Hemingses of Monticello is Annette Gordon-Reed's fascinating story of an American slave family and their blood ties to Thomas Jefferson. Eschewing cynicism about the author of the Declaration of Independence, Gordon-Reed instead gives us the rich complexity of the Monticello clan.
- Finalist: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
- Finalist: The Liberal Hour: The 1960s and the Remaking of American Life by G. Calvin MacKenzie
- List Price: $35.00
- Online Price: $28.00
- (Save 20%)
- Member Price: $25.20
- (Save 28%)
- Join Now
Biography
American Lionby Jon Meacham
(Hardcover)
Usually ships within 24 hours
Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek and the author of several bestselling political histories, takes the Pulitzer in Biography for his stunning portrait of Andrew Jackson, our seventh president, and his inner circle. At once venerated and reviled, Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, founded the Democratic Party, and defined the presidency as we know it.
- Finalist: Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. Brands
- Finalist: The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll
- List Price: $35.00
- Online Price: $28.00
- (Save 20%)
- Member Price: $25.20
- (Save 28%)
- Join Now
General Nonfiction
Slavery By Another Nameby Douglas A. Blackmon
(Paperback)
Usually ships within 24 hours
Doug Blackmon, The Wall Street Journal's Atlanta bureau chief, offers a startling exposé of the "age of neoslavery," the period between the Emancipation Proclamation and World War I in which freed slaves and their descendants were coerced back into involuntary servitude. Drawing on original documents and personal narratives, he brings to light atrocities long hidden from view.
- Finalist: Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
- Finalist: Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcock
- List Price: $16.95
- Online Price: $13.56
- (Save 20%)
- Member Price: $12.20
- (Save 28%)
- Join Now
Poetry
Shadow of Siriusby W. S. Merwin
(Hardcover)
The author of over 50 volumes of poetry, W. S. Merwin continues to illuminate the experience of being alive with this prizewinning collection of luminous poems about the power of memory, ranging from the recollection of a boyhood conversation to the precise quality of autumn light.
- Finalist: Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart
- Finalist: What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems by Ruth Stone
This title is not available for ordering. It may be available at a later date.
Drama
Ruinedby Lynn Nottage
(Paperback)
Usually ships within 24 hours
With a nod to Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, Lynn Nottage's searing drama about sexual violence in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo centers around Mama Nadi, a brothel keeper who strenuously avoids taking sides in the conflict, believing that her survival requires it. As Nottage powerfully suggests, not taking sides has moral consequences, too.
- Finalist: In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- List Price: $13.95
- Online Price: $11.16
- (Save 20%)
- Member Price: $10.04
- (Save 28%)
- Join Now
Enter a zip code:
- Going Rogue
by Sarah Palin - Pirate Latitudes
by Michael Crichton - The Twilight Saga Collection
by Stephenie Meyer - Worth the Risk
by Nora Roberts - Breathless
by Dean Koontz - I, Alex Cross
by James Patterson - Elf on the Shelf
by Carol V. Aebersold - The Fourth Apprentice (Warriors
by Erin Hunter - Under the Dome
by Stephen King - LEGO Star Wars
by DK Publishing
