The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

A first-person narrative that depicts a good man's transformation into an avenging angel. A Pulitzer Prize winner. In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William ...

Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell

Tobias Madden

Tobias Madden delivers another swoonworthy YA rom com winner with his second novel.Noah is in love with his online best friend. Which is a huge problem, for the following reasons - 1. His crush has no idea. 2. Noah only knows him as his gaming avatar. 3. There's zero chance they'll ever meet in real lif...

American Mother

Colum McCann Dianne Foley

The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...