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A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and on-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place

by Eric Abrahamson & Sam Wolfson

Ever since Einstein's study of Brownian Motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. But most people still shun disorder-or suffer guilt over the mess they...

Bleeding Hearts: A Novel

Jack Harvey Novel #2

by Ian Rankin

A master of modern mystery and the award-winning author of "Resurrection Man"pens a page-turning novel of assassins and double-crossing.

Drama City

by George Pelecanos

Lorenzo Brown loves his work. In his job as an officer for the Humane Society, he cruises the city streets, looking for dogs that are being mistreated - underfed, unclean, trained to kill. He takes pride in...

Downtown: My Manhattan

by Pete Hamill, Lindsey Newman & Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

In Downtown, Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to 42nd Street, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate...

Field of Blood: A Novel

Paddy Meehan #1

Barry Best British Novel 2006

by Denise Mina

A sensational murder provides the young journalist Paddy Meehan with her big professional break when she realizes that she has a personal connection to one of the suspects.Launching her own investigation, Paddy...

The Dream Book: Dream Spells, Nighttime Potions and Rituals, and Other Magical Sleep Formulas

by Gillian Kemp

From the author of the popular "Fortune-Telling Book" comes a beautifully illustrated primer that opens the secret world of dreams and imparts her magic to dreamers everywhere. Full color.

One Good Turn: A Novel

Jackson Brodie #2

by Kate Atkinson

On a beautiful summer day, crowds lined up outside a theater witness a sudden act of extreme road rage: a tap on a fender triggers a nearly homicidal attack. Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new...

What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen

by Eric J. Weiner

The ups and downs, the schemes and scams, the IPOs and hostile takeovers, the egos, the brilliance, the greed, and the glory--this is the story of Wall Street told by the men and women who made it happen. For...

Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation

by Paul VanDevelder

A Civil Action meets Indian country, as one man takes on the federal government and the largest boondoggle in U.S. history--and wins.

Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America

by Nick Salvatore

A prizewinning historian pens this biography of C.L. Franklin, the greatest African-American preacher of his generation, father of Aretha, and civil rights pioneer.

Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

by Sheriff David Reichert

The riveting personal account of one sheriffs epic hunt for America's most heinous serial killer. For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer--the most...

Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen of France

by Lisa Hilton

In her superb new biography, Hilton chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, known as "the real Queen of France," who reigned as official mistress to Louis XIV during the most glorious period of "the...

Oblivion: Stories

by David Foster Wallace

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are...

Black: A Novel

by Christopher Whitcomb

A fifteen-year member of the FBI who received its coveted Medal of Bravery, former agent Christopher Whitcomb electrified readers with his breathtaking memoir, Cold Zero. Now his remarkable past and hard-edged...

Great Tales from English History: The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and More

by Robert Lacey

With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England--from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman.

Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Story

by John Feinstein

Beyond golf's polished surface there lies a world not often seen by the average fan. The caddy sees everything - the ambition, the strategy, the rivalries, the jealousies - that occurs behind the scenes. Award-winning...

Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game

by Red Auerbach

America's favorite sportswriter teams up with Red Auerbach, the most successful and admired coach in basketball history, to tell the best stories of a legendary life.Living legend Arnold "Red" Auerbach led the...

Le Colonial: A Novel

by Kien Nguyen

A "richly satisfying" ("Newsday") epic of Asian history in the tradition of James Clavell, from the bestselling author of "The Tapestries."

Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet

by Charlotte Gordon

Though her work is a staple of anthologies of American poetry, Anne Bradstreet has never before been the subject of an accessible, full-scale biography for a general audience. Anne Bradstreet is known for her...

Jim the Boy: A Novel

by Tony Earley

Both delightful and wise, Jim the Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own.