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  The Rabbits

  by John Marsden, Shaun Tan

  A rich and haunting allegory of colonization for all ages and cultures, told from the viewpoint of native animals. This stunning picture book examines the consequences of the arrival of a group of rabbits with entirely unfamiliar ways. They bring new food and animals, and they make their own houses to live in, eventually dominating the environment and its other inhabitants. The parallels with our own experience... (more)
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  Outlander: Book 5

  The Fiery Cross

  by Diana Gabaldon

  New York Times bestselling author of Outlander Diana Gabaldon mesmerized readers with her award-winning Outlander novels, four dazzling bestsellers featuring 18th-century Scotsman James Fraser and his 20th-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall. Now, in this eagerly awaited fifth volume, Diana Gabaldon continues their extraordinary saga, a masterpiece of pure storytelling and her most... (more)
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  American Gods

  by Neil Gaiman

  Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that... (more)
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  The Martian Chronicles

  by Ray Bradbury

  Ray Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor -- of crystal pillars and fossil seas -- where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -- first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars. . . and... (more)
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  Phoenix

  Mrs. Fraser on the Fatal Shore

  by Michael Alexander

  A true story with more drama and excitement than fiction. In 1836, the barque Stirling Castle shipwrecked on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, leaving the crew, Captain Fraser, and his wife at the mercy of cannibalistic aborigines. The captain was soon murdered; Mrs. Fraser remained alive, forced to endure humiliation as a slave of the tribe--and more tragically, to witness her new baby drowned. A remarkable rescue... (more)
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  Centennial

  by James A. Michener

  "Michener is America's best writer, and he proves it once again in CENTENNIAL." THE PITTSBURGH PRESS A stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the... (more)
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  Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir

  by Wayne Johnston

  In this loving memoir Wayne Johnston returns to Newfoundland-the people, the place, the politics-and illuminates his family's story with all the power and drama he brought to his magnificent novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams . Descendents of the Irish who settled in Ferryland, Lord Baltimore's Catholic colony in Newfoundland, the Johnstons "went from being sea-fearing farmers to sea-faring fishermen." Each... (more)
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  The Shepherd's Granddaughter

  by Anne Laurel Carter

  Amani longs to be a shepherd like her beloved grandfather Sido, who has tended his flock for generations, grazing sheep on their family’s homestead near Hebron. Amani loves Sido’s many stories, especially one about a secret meadow called the Firdoos. But as outside forces begin to encroach upon this hotly contested land, Amani struggles to find suitable grazing for her family’s now-starving herd. While her father... (more)
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  A Tale Out of Luck: A Novel

  by Willie Nelson

  Retired Texas Ranger Captain Hank Tomlinson intends to spend the rest of his days raising cattle on his Broken Arrow Ranch, and nurturing his frontier town of Luck , Texas . But when the brutal murder and scalping of a mysterious drifter leads to a clash between cavalry soldiers and a band of Comanche Indians suspected of the killing, a full-scale Indian uprising seems likely. Worse yet, the murder of the... (more)
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  Journey Back in Time

  Jamestown: Journey Back in Time

  by Scott A Reighard

  Johnnie Merritt is a boy who lives a pretty charmed life. He has good friends, and his problems are few, well, except for his parents and their demands. As a result of a freak accident Johnnie suddenly finds himself in a time and place he knows very little about and surrounded by people and a life completely strange to him. Can Johnnie make the adjustment to a strange environment? Johnnie's journey back... (more)
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  The Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action

  by Ned Tillman

  The author intertwines anecdotes about growing up and exploring the Bay, with changes he has seen over the years and what actions we will all have to take to restore this national treasure to its stature as one of the most productive estuaries on the earth. There is something for everyone in this beautifully written compilation of stories, natural history and the fight to find balance between our increasing... (more)
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  My America

  Westward to Home

  Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary

  by Patricia Hermes

  It is 1848 when Joshua McCullough and his family leave their home in St. Joseph, Missouri, and set off for Oregon with a wagon train. During their seven-month-long journey, many of the other families on the trail suffer devastating losses, but Joshua¹s is spared. However, Joshua must conquer his paralyzing fear of water to cross the many rivers on their way and rescue his sister from drowning.
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  The Secret River

  by Kate Grenville

  The Orange Prize-winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. London, 1806. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what... (more)
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  Flesh and Grass

  by Libby Cone

  Seventeenth-century Holland is a major power with a large, wealthy middle class built on spices and slavery. Dutch schemes to colonize the New World attract few interested parties, but Pieter Cornelissoon Boom, an early Mennonite with a dream of communal living, brings a few families to Delaware Bay in 1663. Their "Little Common-wealth" is just getting started when the bloody economic rivalry between Holland and... (more)
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  That Deadman Dance: A Novel

  Winner of the Miles Franklin Award 2011Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In playful, musical prose, the book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers.The novel's hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby Wabalanginy. Clever,... (more)
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  Paid in Full: Reset Your GPS for Goal-Powered Spending

  by Shirley Noftsinger

  The passion and sense of urgency with which Ray and Shirley Noftsinger operate their counseling programs extends far beyond their own needs. “It’s never been about us,” says Ray. “When we became blessed abundantly through a sales contract I received, we asked the Lord what He wanted us to do with the excess. He told me, ‘Get my people out of debt!’” Establishing their ministry from Isaiah 58:6 as it... (more)