Books for Dad

Boston, 1918. The Boston police are contemplating an historic strike, and everyone is looking for the “Red Menace” who, it is believed, will encourage unionization and blow up the city.

David Quammen's nontechnical point-of-view and his sense of humor render science not only palatable but entertaining, making this collection engaging for readers with even a passing interest in the natural world.

Barnes weaves personal and historical experience, philosophy, and literature to weave a long meditation on death that is oftentimes humorous, insightful and life-affirming (if not hopeful).

In Outliers Gladwell, the founding father of pop-sociology, examines high-achieving individuals and questions what makes them different from everyone else.

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 lives up to its literary legacy by bringing together twenty knockout stories that will take readers around the world and into the lives of its fascinating characters.

Jack Foley returns as the hero of Elmore Leonard's latest thriller, a full-throttle page-turner peopled with bank robbers, gangsters and con men.

Michael Connelly has woven a thriller that grabs the reader and does not let go until the end.

In homage to the WPA books of the 1930's, State by State features 50 personal essays on 50 states by 50 writers.

Robert Sullivan smashes our national myth, of Henry David Thoreau as hermit of the woods, the "secular priest of solitude," the technophobic, misanthropic, tree-hugging loner.

T. C. Boyle reincarnates Frank Lloyd Wright in a richly imagined novel that tells the architect’s story through the lens of the women he loved.