"We had a 30-foot wall of water, 300 yards wide, go down by my house at 85 miles an hour," Gross said of the flooding that began in the early hours of Friday.

13. “The Book of Alchemy” by Suleika Jaouad (Random House) 14. “Big Dumb Eyes” by Nate Bargatze (Grand Central) 15. “The Next Conversation” by Jefferson Fisher (Tarcher) _____ ...