The People in the Trees
: A Novel
by Hanya Yanagihara
Hardcover: Aug 2013
Paperback: May 2014
Readers of exciting, challenging and visionary literary fiction will be drawn to this astonishingly gripping and accomplished anthropological adventure story that combines the visceral allure of a thriller with a profound and tragic vision of what ...
The People of Sparks
: Sequel to The City of Embers
by Jeanne DuPrau
Hardcover: May 2004
Paperback: Apr 2005
The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off. Lina and Doon have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above, and it isn't long before they are followed by the other inhabitants of Ember.
The Perfectionists
: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
Hardcover: May 2018
Paperback: May 2019
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a ...
The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
Hardcover: Jun 2021
Paperback: Jun 2022
The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times ...
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