Articles tagged "Jonathan Franzen"
July Nonfiction E-Book Sale for Libraries
Expand your e-book collection with these nonfiction essentials!
From 7/17 through 7/31, twenty-nine e-Books will be discounted 25% off (with our regular lending terms), including these bestsellers and award-winners:
LOOK ALIVE OUT THERE: Essays by Sloane Crosley
THE POISONED CITY: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
THE SUN DOES SHINE: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice by Anthony Ray Hinton
THE END OF THE END OF THE EARTH: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
BLACK KLANSMAN: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth
Click here to download the spreadsheet of all available titles with exact price changes.
December 2018 Bestsellers and Recent Releases
Here’s our updated Edelweiss collection of this month’s bestsellers and recently released titles, perfect for collection development! Here are some of the top titles for December 2018:
Bestsellers
THE DIVERSITY DELUSION: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather Mac Donald
THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah
KILLING THE SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History by Bill O’Reilly
KINGDOM OF THE BLIND: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
THE MAMBA MENTALITY: How I Play by Kobe Bryant
MILKMAN by Anna Burns
NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty
OF BLOOD AND BONE: Chronicles of The One, Book 2 by Nora Roberts
Recent Releases
THE END OF THE END OF THE EARTH: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
HEARTS OF THE MISSING: A Mystery by Carol Potenza
RADIANT SHIMMERING LIGHT by Sarah Selecky
Happy #PubDay! (11/13/18)
Today’s #pubday brings you a re-examining of the Constitution, food, the environment, India under British rule, aaaand a novel from Israel!
WE THE PEOPLE: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century by Erwin Chemerinsky
From gun control to reproductive health, a conservative court will reshape the lives of all Americans for decades to come. University of California Berkeley Dean and respected legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky expertly exposes how conservatives are using the Constitution to advance their own agenda that favors business over consumers and employees, and government power over individual rights.
“Chemerinsky’s rock-solid arguments are rooted in history, in a profound progressive philosophy.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
THE EATING INSTINCT: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America by Virginia Sole-Smith
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.
“Picky eaters, foodies, food historians, parents of preemies, and readers who rarely even think about food will all find the statistics Sole-Smith uncovers to be interesting and surprising.”—Booklist readmoreremove
Chicago Public Library’s 2015 Best of the Best Books
We’ve got 14 books on Chicago Public Library’s 2015 Best of the Best list! Selected by a team of CPL librarians, the list represents the year’s most outstanding titles, books of exceptional quality for a diverse, city-wide readership.
Fiction
A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC by V.E. Schwab
JADE DRAGON MOUNTAIN by Elsa Hart
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN by Lucia Berlin
THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah (a top 10 fiction pick)
PURITY by Jonathan Franzen
THE SELLOUT by Paul Beatty
Nonfiction
DO NO HARM: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
DREAMLAND: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
FURIOUSLY HAPPY by Jenny Lawson
ONE OF US: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Asne Seierstad
THE SHEPHERD’S LIFE by James Rebanks readmoreremove