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Fiction

 
Blum, Jenna, STORMCHASERS:  A somber, effective portrait of twins, and a meticulous portrait of bipolar disorder and the heartbreaking damage it does to those it affects,

Brashares, Ann, MY NAME IS MEMORY:  The mystical tale of a young man and woman who have a history together, from 552 AD in Asia Minor, to 1918 England and 1972 Virginia.

Brown, Dale, EXECUTIVE INTENT:  The United States has just unleashed the most powerful weapon in history; will it be enough to protect the nation – or will it be used to force universal domination?

Child, Lee, 61 HOURS: A Reacher Novel:  When a tour bus he’s cadged a ride in skids off the road, Jack Reacher finds himself in Smalltown, U.S.A., just at the time when local cops need help dealing with a methamphetamine lab run by a Mexican drug cartel.

Griffin, Emily, HEART OF THE MATTER:  The messy, complicated, often uncomfortable portrait of a marriage, and two families, in crisis.

Gross, Andrew, RECKLESS:  Private security investigator Ty Hauk and Naomi Blum of the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury unravel the evidence that links three events: a close friend of Hauk has been brutally murdered; there have been sudden huge bank transfers; a wealthy banker sees his world about to crash.

Gruber, Michael, GOOD SON: A Novel:  A son reconnects with his past as he goes to astounding lengths to save his mother from the radicals who have kidnapped her.

Harding, Paul, TINKERS:  In this elegiac meditation, an old man lies dying, and, as time collapses into memory, he travel deep into his past, reliving the pain and wonder of his impoverished New England youth.

Hood, Ann, RED THREAD: A Novel:  An exploration of the adoption process through the adoption of Chinese girls by five couples who are brought together by the head of the Red Tread Adoption Agency.

Kellerman, Jesse, THE EXECUTOR:  In this inventive thriller, a graduate student runs into problems when he responds to an ad reading “Conversationalist wanted”; he gets the job with an elderly woman, moves in with her, and would like to stay there forever.

King, Stephen, BLOCKADE BILLY:  The haunting story of Blockade Billy, the great Major League baseball player whose existence was completely removed from the record book; also, a chilling bonus story, “Morality.”



Kwok, Jean, GIRL IN TRANSLATION:  An extraordinary coming-of-age story that covers 20 years in the life of the protagonist, who came to America from Hong Kong as an 11-year-old with her widowed mother, barely speaking English.

Lewis, Beverly, MISSING (Seasons of Grace):   The 2nd book of the series about Amish life is replete with mystery and family secrets, heartbreak and healing.

Martini, Steve, RULE OF NINE:  Defense attorney Paul Madriani and weapons control expert Jocelyn Cole fear that the Old Weatherman and the “Mexicutioner” may have joined forces and intend to draw Washington and the country into a vortex of terror before they find answers to the enigma.

Parker, Robert E., BLUE-EYED DEVIL:  An extraordinary Western from the NY Times bestselling author, featuring itinerant lawman Virgil Cole in a showdown with a power-hungry police chief.

Petterson, Per, TO SIBERIA: A Novel:  The portrait of a Danish brother and sister, bound powerfully together by birth and family but separated painfully by circumstances.

Preston, Douglas; Child, Lincoln, FEVER DREAM:  20 years after his wife was killed in Africa by a lion, FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast discovers her rifle had been loaded with a blank; vowing to avenge her death, he enlists the help of his usual Watson, NYPD’s Lt. Vincent D’Agosta.

Rachman, Tom, THE IMPERFECTIONISTS:  Each chapter in this alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching novel about an unnamed newspaper is about a different staffer, and all are interconnected.
 
Shafak, Rlif, FORTY RULES OF LOVE: A Novel of Rumi:  The Turkish writer links East and West in this novel in which a Massachusetts housewife becomes entranced by a manuscript by a Turkish photographer and writer, who fictionalized the life of the esteemed 13th-century Muslim teacher Rumi.

Stieg, Larsson, GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST:  In the 3rd installment of the late journalist’s un-pretty exposé of all that is rotten in Sweden, Lisbeth Salander meets her father, who is not just her sire but also her mortal enemy

Turow, Scott, INNOCENT:  When this novel opens, a man, Rusty Sabich, the chief judge in Kindle County, is sitting on the bed by the body of a woman, his wife.

Udall. Brady, LONELY POLYGAMIST:  In this family drama with stinging turns of dark comedy, the polygamist Mormon father has 4 wives, 28 children, a struggling construction business, and a few secrets.

Wilson, E. O., ANTHILL:  Split into the 3 parallel worlds of ants, humans, and the biosphere, the story follows 15-year-old Raff Cody as he explores an Alabama wilderness area one summer.

 

 

MYSTERY

Doiron, Paul, THE POACHER’S SON:  A Maine Game Warden fights to clear his no-account father, with whom he has had little contact, of the murder of the unpopular purchaser of a 100-year-old campground and the deputy who was guarding him.

Goodwin, Jason, JANISSARY TREE:  In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a string of murders disturbs the sultan’s royal court and a savvy eunuch discovers a link between the crimes and the Janissaries, a disloyal band of elite soldiers banned by the sultan 10 years earlier.

Leon, Donna, A QUESTION OF BELIEF: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery:  Venice is baking under a glaring summer sun, and Brunetti is yearning to escape to the mountains with his family, but three problems arise to prevent him, one a shocking major crime.

May, Peter, FREEZE FRAME: 4th of the Enzo Files:  A long-ago promise to a dying man leads forensic ace Enzo Macleod, who’s been teaching in France for a year, to Brittany; the dead man left several clues with his son, but the son died soon after the father, and never saw the message.

Nunn, Malla, A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO DIE:  A stunning and darkly romantic novel set in 1950s apartheid in South Africa, the first in a series featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper, a man caught in a time and place where racial tensions and hunger for power make life very dangerous.

Nunn, Malla, LET THE DEAD LIE:  Detective Emmanuel Cooper returns in this novel about murder, power, and a dangerous South African underworld.

Steinhauser, Olen, THE NEAREST EXIT:  Proving there’s still juice in the le Carré formula, another spy comes in from the cold in this complicated tale.

SCI-FI & FANTASY

GRAPHIC NOVEL

 

BIOGRAPHY

B BUSH, Bush, Laura, SPOKEN FROM THE HEART:  In this deeply personal memoir, George W. Bush’s first lady tells her own extraordinary story, which saw her move from the boom-and-bust town of Midland, Texas, to the White House.

B CHEEVER, Bailey, Blake, CHEEVER: A Life:  John Cheever (1912-1982) was a mass of contradictions; this book describes his various reactions to other writers as well as the prickly dynamic of his domestic life, lived through a haze of alcohol and extramarital heterosexual and homosexual relationships.

B DAUM, Daum, Meghan, LIFE WOULD BE PERFECT IF I LIVED IN THAT HOUSE:  This cautionary tale about house lust tracks Daum’s dizzying succession of moves from New York City to Lincoln, Nebraska.

B GREENLAW, Greenlaw, Laura, SEAWORTHY: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea:  A wonderful account of the wild ride of swordfishing, from the technical complexities of longline fishing and nuances of reading the weather, to the sheer beauty of the open water.

B MOORE, Moore, Wes, THE OTHER WES MOORE: One Name, Two Fates:  The story of two kids with the same name, born in Baltimore within a year of each other; one grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, the other is serving a life sentence in prison.

B NEMIROVSKY, Philipponnat, Olivier, LIFE OF NEMIROVSKY: 1903-1942:  This biography of the Russian-born novelist Irène Nemirovsky, who was deported to Auschwitz from France, where she was living in 1942, raises questions about her relationship to her Jewish roots.

B OBAMA, Remnick, David, BRIDGE: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama:  From the New Yorker editor Remnick, a world-ranging, eye-opening, comprehensive life-to-date of the 44th President of the United States.

B SILVERMAN, Silverman, Sarah, THE BEDWETTER: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee:  Outrageous stories from the co-creator of the Sarah Silverman Program, who grew up in New Hampshire.

B TOLSTOY, Popoff, Alexandra, SOPHIA TOLSTOY: A Biography:  A welcome reassessment of the life of Sophia Tolstoy (1844-1919), the misunderstood wife of the renowned Russian author.

B VANDERBILT, Stiles, T. J., FIRST TYCOON: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt:  A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.

LARGE PRINT

Clark, Mary Higgins, SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE
Goldenbaum, Sally, MURDERS ON ELDERBERRY ROAD
Graves, Saraah, CRAWL SPACE
Larson, Leslie, BREAKING OUT OF BEDLAM
Michaels, Fern, RETURN TO SENDER
Roberts, Nora, SAVOR THE MOMENT

NON-FICTION

Ahamed, Liaquat, LORDS OF FINANCE: The Bankers Who Broke the World, 332.1 AHA:  The author reveals that it was the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown that led to the Great Depression.

Ariely, Dan, THE UPSIDE OF IRRATIONALITY: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Home and at Work, 330 ARI:  A funny, fascinating, alarming tour of our own irrational minds; you will never look at anything the same way again.

Armantrout, Rae, VERSED, 811 ARM:  A collection of verse from one of the most brilliant poets of her generation.

Breen, T. H., AMERICAN INSURGENTS, AMERICAN PATRIOTS: The Revolution of the People, 973.3 BRE:  A noted historian tells the overlooked “people’s story” of the American Revolution, giving and important new view of revolution in the making.

Dickstein, Morris, DANCING IN THE DARK: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, 973.91 DIC:  This is not the typical survey of the Great Depression years; rather, the woes of the time take back seat to the flourishing of the arts.

Gallagher, Matthew, KABOOM: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War, 956.7044 GAL:  In this hauntingly direct war memoir, a cocky West Coast frat boy becomes a reflective leader in the latter part of the Iraq conflict.

Greenberg, Mike; Golic, Mike; Chaikivsky, Andrew, MIKE AND MIKE’S RULES FOR SPORTS AND LIFE, 796.02 GRE:  The Mikes are the hosts of ESPN’s early morning sports talk show and this book recounts some of their best on-air discussions.

Guilliatt, Richard; Hohnen, Peter, THE WOLF: How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWI, 940.95 GUI:  In November 1916, an apparently ordinary freighter left Kiel, Germany, and did not touch land for 15 months, sailing 64,000 miles round the world, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

Hoffman, David E., DEAD HAND: The Untold Story of the Cold War and its Dangerous Legacy, 909.825 HOF:  This history sheds light on the last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.

Junger, Sebastian, WAR, 958.1047 JUN:  The author attempts to create an unflinching account of frontline combat in this often harrowing account of the physical and psychological toll of modern warfare on the average soldier.

Lowenstein, Roger, END OF WALL STREET, 332.64 LOW:  A veteran financial/business journalist examines the past 3 years of economic collapse, chronicling actions and inactions from dozens of villains and a few heroes.

Macintyre, Ben, OPERATION MINCEMEAT: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, 940.5486 MAC:  The well-known story of wartime deception is embellished and shown to be even more ingenious and risky than we had all supposed.

McKibben, Bill, EAARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, 304.2 McK:  This stark no-nonsense manifesto about global warming and its unstoppable effects is an absolute must-read.

Miller, Lisa, HEAVEN: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife, 202 MIL:  An introduction to what monotheists of all stripes believe about heaven.

Montgomery, Sy, BIRDOLOGY: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip-Hop Parrots, Baby Humming Birds, and one Murderously Big Living Dinosaur, 598 MON:  A compelling journey of exploration into the very depths of what makes a bird a bird.

Prothero, Stephen, GOD IS NOT ONE: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World, 200:  The author posits that, for good and for evil, religion is the single greatest influence in the world, and when we pretend that the various religious traditions are different paths to the same god, we blur the sharp distinctions at our peril.

Roth, Geneen, WOMEN, FOOD AND GOD: An Unexpected Path to Almost Anything, 616.85 ROT:  The theme of this book about overeating is that the way we think about food and handle ourselves around it mirrors the way we do everything.

Roubini, Nouriel; Mihm, Stephen, CRISIS ECONOMICS: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance, 338.542 ROU:  This book reveals the methods Roubini used to foretell the latest crisis before other economists saw it coming, and shows how this can help us prepare for the future.

Shannon, Lisa, THOUSAND SISTERS: My Journey of Hope into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman, 362.83 SHA:  A very personal memoir by the long-distance runner about her creation of Run for Congo Women, which raises funds for Congolese women survivors of rape, torture and mutilation.

Sides, Hampton, HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin, 364.152 SID:  An engrossing study of the assassination and of the FBI’s transoceanic hunt for James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin.

Strauch, Barbara, SECRET LIFE OF THE GROWN-UP BRAIN: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-aged Mind, 616.98 STR:  An intriguing look at cutting-edge studies that now tell us that the brain has not finished growing in a child’s early years but continues into the teens.

Stiglitz, Joseph E., FREEFALL AMERICA, FREE MARKETS, AND THE SINKING OF THE WORLD ECONOMY, 330.973 STI:  Written by a Nobel Prize recipient and stout advocate of Keynsian economics, this inquest into the 2007-09 recession lashes many villains, banks above all.

Turbow, Jason, BASEBALL CODES: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime, 795.357 TUR:  An entertaining, revealing survey of the varied, sometimes inscrutable, unwritten rules that govern the way baseball is played by the pros.

Waterman, Jonathan, RUNNING DRY: A Journey from Source to Sea Down the Colorado River, 917.91 WAT:  Waterman describes sheer adventure and environmental calamity in this account of his 2008 trip down the overtaxed, drying Colorado.

REFERENCE

Chopra, Deepak; Ford, Debbie; Williamson, Marianne, SHADOW EFFECT: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self, 154.2 CHO:  The three authors pierce the veil of our unclaimed self, releasing us from the past and propelling us on a journey to wholeness.

Feinstein, Alice, NUTRICURES: Foods and Supplements that Work with Your Body to Relieve Symptoms & Speed Healing, 615.854 FEI:  Over 400 remedies to help treat and prevent more than 60 common health concerns.

Parker-Pope, Tara, FOR BETTER: The Science of a Good Marriage, 646.7 PAR:  A real guide to making your marriage work, with all the latest scientific information about how to get and keep life’s greatest prize, namely a good partnership.

Sheehy, Gail, PASSAGES IN CAREGIVING: Turning Chaos into Confidence, 362 SHE:  This book is a must for caregivers who are caring for a loved one with a terminal or incapacitating illness.

TRAVEL

DISCOVER EUROPE, 914 EUR:  This Lonely Planet guide will help you experience the best of Europe.

FAMILY & HEALTH

COOKING, ENTERTAINING, HOME DECORATION, CRAFTS & GARDENING

  

Guiliano, Mireille, FRENCH WOMEN DON’T GET FAT, 613.25 GUI:  Both a memoir and a cookbook, this is also a guide for American women on weight control.

Moulton, Sara, SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS, 641.5 MOU:  Moulton shares 200 recipes for busy home cooks, creating dishes that reflect the way Americans really eat at home and, bearing in mind the recession, creates meals that are inexpensive yet flavorful.

Susanka, Sarah, MORE NOT SO BIG SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR HOME, 728.37 SUS:  Numerous strategies that help small places think big.



              

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