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	Heist during the Rio Games Dexter James From a desolate cell located at a remote, state-of-the-art prison facility in Northern Ontario, inmate Brian Beasley plans his escape. Convicted of embezzlement when he masterfully infiltrated a bank's computer system, Beasley and a would-be journalist assigned to...
	iCandidate David and Michelle Gardner It is the most divisive election campaign in U.S. history and the Republican and Democratic Party presidential nominees are locked in an ugly fight to capture the public’s trust. It’s a familiar story; one paints himself as a political outsider, the other...
	Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But...
	The Train to Orvieto Rebecca J. Novelli The Train to Orvieto, set in Orvieto, Florence, and Milan, Italy, and in the heartland of America, is an intimate story of love, loss, betrayal, and reconciliation that unfolds against an historical background of war and dramatic social change. It is a story enacted by fascinating three-dimensional...
	Monster's Children Dan Hansen The Queen of Order and the Trickster gods originally formed an alliance to defend against the dreaded beast they called the Monster. That alliance was dashed with the Monster’s defeat. The war that erupted with the alliance’s dissolution has ripped the land apart for millennia. With...
	You'll Do Anything for Her Maureen E. Hosier & Berta Hosier Conger Dearest, What I want most is to feel cared about and loved by you. I've tried everything, but it's not working. What more can I do? I love you so much, but I don't feel like there are two of us in our relationship. When you fell for her, were you so crazy in...
	Woman Without an Identity Martine Kalaw Are you Martine Mwanj Kalaw? If so, your father is looking for you. Martine Kalaw is forced to make a choice in an immigration courtroom; save herself or her mother’s legacy. Her decision catapults her into a tumultuous and longstanding battle with immigration and a...
	Earth and Earthlings moses.guru Ingrid is intelligent and determined. She's also desperate and running out of time. So, in a last throw of the dice, she executes her plan to hold up a bank. But she's not interested in money - she wants to change the world. With a rag-tag group of hostages under her control, Ingrid faces...
	The Backstage Man Ed Shankman & Robert S. Gordon Whoever the Backstage Man may be — teacher, myth, memory, or premonition — his story holds meaning for anyone who has been called by the whisper of an inner voice. This extraordinary portal to the creative spirit will stir your soul and blow your mind.
	The Cry of the Lone Coyote Debra Barton American history books often portray the Spanish missions of California as havens of civil coexistence between the Spanish conquistadors, the Catholic priests, and the native Indians who had long inhabited the area. In reality, the "civilized" Christian life that was...
	The Fire Next Time James Baldwin At once an evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of racial injustice, this book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, exhorting Americans to attack the legacy of racism...
	Missing Books Brian Harris This is a book for the book-lover. As the author writes, ‘great and wondrous things can happen around books. Boswell met Johnson at Tom Davies’s bookshop in Covent Garden. Karl Marx planned to remodel the world in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Jorge Luis Borges conceived a...
	Almost Invincible Suzanne Burdon "She is singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything else she undertakes, almost invincible." Mary Shelley began Frankenstein in 1814, when she was eighteen. By then, she had been living for two...
	Adventures of a World-Traveling Scientist Stanley Randolf From the South Pacific and African Savannas to the Amazon and mystical temples in India-from tigers in Sumatra, walkabouts "Down-under"— medinas in Morocco to cobblestones in old Prague, you will discover real-life adventure from true events. In the comfort...
	Empire of Glass Kaitlin Solimine In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K...
	Welcome to Saint Angel William Luvaas After his wife dies in a plane crash, iconoclastic inventor Al Sharpe moves to Saint Angel Valley in SoCal's high desert to rebuild his life on beloved "Second Chance Acres," building his young daughter a tree house in a giant oak tree and inventing the Sharpe Smoke...