Chuck Restic, HR manager and part-time private investigator, has a problem: the consultant guru Julie St. Jean is the bane of his existence. Over his twenty-year HR career, he's been forced to partner with her on inane employee engagement programs whose only value has been to Julie's sizable bank account. When Julie is suddenly wanted for the murder of an associate, Chuck sees his chance to rid himself of her forever, until the corporate tables are turned on him and…

In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their colony was to establish England's first foothold in the New World. But when the colony's leader, John White, returned to Roanoke from a resupply mission, his settlers were nowhere to be found. They left behind only a single clue--a "secret token" carved into a tree. Neither White nor any other European laid eyes on the colonists again.…

Los Angeles is... surfing waves and fashion faves, citrus fruits and long commutes, lowrider cruising and poolside snoozing, zipping cars and Hollywood stars. From taco trucks to tar pits, this stylish primer to California's City of Angels, illustrated by Alexander Vidal, is spot-on for toddlers and first-time travelers. Genre: Art

In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose militia is also hunting Noah--dead or alive. Genre: Historical…

Some marriages start out storybook. Perfect proposal, perfect engagement, perfect wedding, perfect honeymoon, and perfect newlywed years. Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola stumbled right out of the wedding gate. Their choices in the early years, they'll tell you, nearly bought their marriage a one-way ticket to Suckville. Genre: Healing | Self-Help | Motivational

Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you're only in the eighth grade, you're both a threat and a target. After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mom decides it's time for a change of environment. She takes Marcus and his younger brother to Puerto Rico to spend a week with relatives they don't remember or have never met. Genre: Fiction, Underrepresented Voices

Join us as we celebrate our newest Art on the Stairwell artist Bill Wishner and his photography collection, Artifacts. Artifacts, is Bill Wishner’s first book in his series “Art of the City Wall (2011-2017). Bill thrives in an environment where his finely honed photographic skill reveals the unseen. Using selective juxtaposition, Bill re-contextualizes posters, graffiti, paint, torn paper and other seemingly random objects attached to city walls, thus making visible to the rest of us, art work that we otherwise…

The Lavender Soul is the story of Vera, a girl whose lavender eyes mean that she is going to destroy all evil, or become it. Vera must journey through a world of extraordinary beasts, a beguiling shapeshifter, and The Dark One hunting her, to discovery if she can rise up to her purpose. Genre: Speculative Fiction

Joshua Cohen arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters--many appearing here for the first time--Cohen covers the full depth and breadth of modern life: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, and psychology, and subjects as diverse as Google, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, fictional animals, Gustav Mahler, Aretha Franklin, John Zorn, landscape photography, fake Caravaggios, Wikipedia, Gertrude…

One morning, Kim Brooks made a split-second decision to leave her four-year old son in the car while she ran into a store. What happened would consume the next several years of her life and spur her to investigate the broader role America's culture of fear plays in parenthood. In Small Animals, Brooks asks, Of all the emotions inherent in parenting, is there any more universal or profound than fear? Genre: Healing | Self-Help | Motivational

When Cate Wagner, a divorced empty-nester, is left the ownership of a thriving bookstore in her great-aunts will, she sees a chance to make a fresh start. Bungalow Books comes with more than she bargained for, however; along with the business and a potential new life, the headstrong, ambitious fortysomething woman also unearths a collection of valuable artifacts, mysterious threats, and a love she never imagined. Genre: Mystery | Crime | Horror | Thriller

The Brink is the incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Genre: History