Check out some of our staff favorites from 2011 -  

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip Stead and Erin Stead

Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

The books listed on our website are not necessarily on our shelves.  If you see that the book is listed as available in 1 - 5 days, we may have it on our shelves, or we will order it for you.  If you have a rush order, please call the store, and we can confirm availability immediately.  Our number is 734-662-0600.

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

This unique novel challenges the reader on multiple levels. Set in North Korea it is a story of a brutal political regime, a morality play, a study of individual motivation and responsibility and, in some respects, even a modern fairy tale. Broad in scope, rich in detail, it has a depth rarely attained in modern fiction. - Bill

Adam Johnson will be at Nicola's Books for a discussion and signing of The Orphan Master's Son on Tuesday, January 24th at 7pm

Click on the link below to watch the trailer for The Orphan Master's Son http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx0eAfegTjg

Click on the link below to watch actor Tim Kang (he plays Agent Kimball Cho on The Mentalist) offer a preview of his recording the audio book of The Orphan Master's Son http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC7ho1TL7yQ

 A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

This is one of my favorite books from 2011 - now coming out in paperback. Set amid the "dreaming spires" of Oxford University, a graduate student, who is beginning to realize that she can no longer deny her magical powers as a witch, forms an unlikely alliance with a Professor (also a deliciously intellectual vampire) to unlock the spell that guards an ancient volume which contains long sought after information about the origins of magic.   Waiting on the sidelines are the daemons - the terrorists of the magical world, hoping to be able to get hold of the book by whatever means necessary.   This is the first of a trilogy, written by an Elizabethan scholar, and anyone who enjoyed Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian" should pick this one up. Schedule some uninterrupted time to read it - you won't want to be disturbed once you start, and then you will wait impatiently for the second book, due later this Spring.