Ackerman, Diane
The Zookeeper's Wife
Fiction - After their zoo was bombed in WWII, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina managed to save over three hundred people from the Naziz by hiding refugees in the zoo. Contains book club discussion questions. (368 pages, 10 copies)

Arnow, Harriette
The Dollmaker
Fiction - Arnow, is a local author whose depiction of family life between patents and children, brothers and sisters is unparalleled in modern fiction. (600 pages, 10 copies)

Atwood, Margaret
Blind Assassin
Fiction - Atwood weaves three stories together, revealing through their interplay the secrets surrounding the once rich and influential Chase family. The novel combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding narrative. (521 pages, 10 copies)

Barker, Pat
Regeneration
Fiction - Booker Prize. This is the first novel in a World War I trilogy, telling the story of Siegfried Sassoon, noted poet and decorated war hero. Sassoon publicly refuses to continue serving as a British officer because he feels that the war is a senseless slaughter. He is classified “mentally unsound” and sent to a mental hospital for rehabilitation. A war novel without bullets, this story describes the battle for one man’s mind. (250 pages, 10 copies)

Barry, Brunonia
The Lace Reader
Fiction - In Barry's captivating debut, Towner Whitney, a dazed young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers, has survived numerous traumas and returned to her hometown of Salem, Mass., to recover. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived when her beloved great-aunt Eva drowns under circumstances suggesting foul play. (388 pages, 10 copies)

Bauermeister, Erica
The School Of Essential Ingredients
Fiction - The author creates a captivating world of sophisticated and memorable storylines and characters. A luscious slice of life that is the perfect recipe for escaping the stresses of everyday life. (255 pages, 10 copies)

Berg, Elizabeth
The Year of Pleasures
Fiction - After the death of her husband, Bette Nolan moves to a small town to start anew. Determined to find pleasure in her simple daily routines, Bette gets help from unexpected sources: the ten-year-old boy next door, three wild women from her college days, a twenty-year-old struggling to find his place in the world, and a handsome man who is ready for love. (206 pages, 10 copies)

Blum, Jenna
Those Who Save Us
Fiction - Family secrets of Nazi Germany are at the core of this powerful first novel told in two narratives that alternate between New Heidelberg, Minnesota, in the present, and the small town of Weimar near Buchenwald during World War II. (496 pages, 10 copies)

Bohjalian, Chris
Double Bind
Fiction - A psychological thriller with twists and turns that you will want to read in one sitting. It packs a twist at the end that wil leave the reader speechless! (382 pages, 10 copies)

Bohjalian, Chris A.
Midwives
Fiction - Sibyl Danforth is charged with involuntary manslaughter for the death of Charlotte Bedford. After hours of labor Charlotte seems to suffer a stroke and die. To save the unborn child, Sibyl performs a cesarean section. Bohjalian examines Sibyl's trial from the perspective of her personal notebooks and the recollections of her then teenage daughter Connie, who now is an obstetrician. (384 pages, 10 copies)

Boyle, T. C.
The Tortilla Curtain
Fiction - A compelling story of misunderstanding and mutual disaster. Boyle combines comic and tragic prose to weave a tale of the extravagant haves and the misfortune have-nots. Mr. Boyle is convincing, and even stirring, in his telling of this 21 century Grapes of Wrath novel. (355 pages, 10 copies)

Boyle, T.C.
The Women
Fiction - A dazzling new novel on the steamy and colorful life of Frank Lloyd Wright as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him. Boyle produces a fictional portrait of the architect’s tumultuous relationships (451 pages, 10 copies)

Boyne, John
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
Fiction - Set during the Holocaust, this cautionary tale is about two boys, one the son of a commandant in Hitler's army and the other a Jew, who come face-to-face at a barbed wire fence that separates, and eventually intertwines their lives. (216 pages, 10 copies)

Brooks, Geraldine
March
Fiction - A historical fiction wrought tale about how war dashes ideals, unhinges moral certainities and drives a wedge of bitter experience and unspeakable memories between husband and wife. (552 pages, 10 copies)

Brooks, Geraldine
Years of Wonder: A Novel of the Plague
Fiction - In 1666, a young woman comes of age during an extraordinary year of love and death. Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a " plague village" in the rugged hill country of England. (336 pages, 10 copies)

Brown, Carrie
Lamb in Love
Fiction - In the tiny English village of Hursley, Norris Lamb--postmaster, stamp collector, and church organist--spies spinster Vida Stephen dancing with glorious abandon by the mansion where she tends a young retarded man. Struck by this sight of his life-long acquaintance, Norris sets out to woo her, but his courtship fumbles before it finds its catalyst in Manford, Vida's charge for the past twenty years. Vida, unaware of Norris's passion, debates striking out in search of adventure. It is through Manford, with his strange and gentle intelligence that Norris and Vida finally come to recognize each other and themselves. (302 pages, 10 copies)

Butler, Robert Olen
Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
Fiction - Pulitzer Prize, 1993. The ordeals of refugees after the Vietnam War are described here in 15 short stories, each told with a different voice. This book demonstrates how the absurdities of American pop culture and searing memories of war uneasily coexist in the minds and hearts of each character. Blending Vietnamese folklore with American reality, Butler creates a panoramic tapestry of people struggling to find balance between tradition and assimilation. (249 pages, 10 copies)

Cather, Willa
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Fiction - In 1851, Father Jean Marie Latour comes to New Mexico as the Apostolic Vicar. What he finds is a land that is legally American but culturally Mexican and Indian. For 40 years, Latour gently spreads his faith while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict priests and his own loneliness. (297 pages, 10 copies)

Chevalier, Tracy
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Fiction - Griet is a maid in the 17th century home of Johannes Vermeer. Her duties include caring for the house and her employer’s six children. In this time of strict social order, no one expects that her intelligence and appreciation of Vermeer’s work will lead to a strong connection between the two. When Vermeer paints Griet wearing his wife’s pearl earrings, the scandal changes the maid’s life forever. (233 pages, 10 copies)

Coelho, Paul
Alchemist
Fiction - An Andalusian Shepherd boy travels from his homeland in Spain to Egypt, to search for treasure buried in the pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist. What starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasure found within. (191 pages, 10 copies)

Cotterill, Colin
Coroner's Lunch
Fiction - Confronted by the poisoning of an important official's wife and the sudden appearance of three bodies that may create an international incident between Laos and Vietnam, 72-year-old state coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun keeps his cool in Cotterill's engaging whodunit, set in Laos a year after the 1975 Communist takeover (272 pages, 10 copies)

Cross, Donna Woolfolk
Pope Joan
Fiction - Contains Reader’s Guide. Here is story of the woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to rule Christianity as the highest power in the church. Joan assumes the identity of her dead brother to enter a monastery where she proves herself as a scholar and healer. She is drawn to Rome and enmeshed in intricate and dangerous political struggles. Eventually, Joan funds herself on the highest religious throne of the Western World. The ninth century legend of Pope Joan comes to life in this enthralling novel. (422 pages, 10 copies)

Diamant, Anita
Red Tent
Fiction - This is the story of Dinah, biblical daughter of Jacob and Leah. First person narration describes the traditions and turmoil of ancient womanhood and the world of the red tent. Dinah is only mentioned briefly in the Book of Genesis during the stories of her father and his sons, but here she is the storyteller, revealing the ancient unity of women. (321 pages, 10 copies)

Dick, Philip K.
The Man in the High Castle
Fiction - It's America in 1962-where slavery is legal and the few surviving Jews hide anxiously under assumed names. All because some twenty years earlier America lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing Hugo Award-winning novel set in a parallel universe is the work that established Dick as a legendary science fiction author. (272 pages, 10 copies)

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
Sister of My Heart
Fiction - Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the family black sheep. Since they were born, Sudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. But when Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is shattered. Urged into arranged marriages, Sudha and Anju's lives take opposite turns. Sudha becomes a dutiful member of a rigid small-town household. Anju goes to America with her new husband and lives a life of secrets. When tragedy strikes, however, they discover they have only each other to turn to. (322 pages, 10 copies)

Doyle, Roddy
A Star Called Henry
Fiction - This is the story of Henry Smart. Henry was born at the beginning of the twentieth century, and his life story follows the evolution of modern Ireland. From his birth and childhood in Dublin to his days as a soldier during the Irish Revolution, Henry’s tale is both historic and romantic as he and Ireland change and grow together. (382 pages, 10 copies)

Durham, David Anthony
Gabriel's Story
Fiction - Fifteen-year-old Gabriel's mother marries a former slave and moves her two sons from a brownstone in Baltimore to a hovel in Kansas. Gabriel does not want the life of a homestead farmer, and joins the gang of white cowboy Marshall Hogg. Soon, however, Gabriel discovers that the charming façade Hogg presents hides a cruel, violent man. He escapes the gang, only to be pursued. This coming-of-age story is socially complex, dealing with topics such as race, morality and religion in the Old West. (296 pages, 10 copies)

Edwards, Kim
Memory Keeper's Daughter
Fiction - A griping novel, beautifully written. With amazing compassion Kim Edwards explores the impact of a family secret that challenges the limits of love and redemption. (401 pages, 10 copies)

Euginides, Jeffrey
Middlesex
Fiction - "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smog less Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver’s license…records my first name simply as Cal." To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. (529 pages, 10 copies)

Fergus, Jim
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Fiction - In 1875, the Cheyenne offered Ulysses Grant 1,000 horses in exchange for 1,000 white women. The women were to marry the Cheyenne and improve relations between the cultures. Grant secretly recruited women from debtor's prisons, mental institutions and jails and sent them off to the Cheyenne. They were to be freed after producing offspring and a two year stay. May Dodd, institutionalized by her father for having an affair, jumps at the chance for eventual freedom. This is the account of the brides and their lives among the Cheyenne. (304 pages, 10 copies)

Fergus, Jim
The Wild Girl
Fiction - When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads west hoping to join the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for a young boy who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. The expedition’s goal is complicated when they encounter a wild Apache girl in a Mexican jail cell, the victim of a massacre of her tribe that has left her orphaned and unwilling to eat or speak. As he and the expedition make their way through the rugged Sierra Madre Mountains, Ned’s growing feelings for the troubled girl soon force him to choose allegiances and make a decision that will haunt him forever. (332 pages, 10 copies)

Flagg, Fannie
Standing In the Rainbow
Fiction - Once again, Flagg gives readers a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle class, small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears. (560 pages, 10 copies)

Foer, Jonathan
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Fiction - Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. (326 pages, 10 copies)

Ford, Jamie
The Hotel On The Cornor Of Bitter And Sweet
Fiction - Henry Lee joins a crowd outside a boarded up hotel where the owner has found the belongings of Japanese internment families. A parasol is unfurled that Henry recognizes as having belonged to a young girl he befriended many years ago. A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and place lost forever. (285 pages, 10 copies)

Ford, Marjorie Leet
Diary of an American Au Pair
Fiction - A delightful first-person account of an American au-pair with an upper-class family in England. (341 pages, 10 copies)

Gallagher, Nora
Changing Light
Fiction - An elegant novel and beautifully crafted love story with powerful elements of suspense set in Los Alamos in 1945. (222 pages, 10 copies)

Glass, Julia
Three Junes
Fiction - National Book Award Winner. Three Junes takes place during the summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece. Six years later, Paul’s death reunites his sons at their childhood home. The characters’ lives collide again, in yet another June, over a Long Island dinner table. Elegantly detailed yet full of emotional suspense, often as comic as it is sad, Three Junes is about how we learn to live beyond incurable grief and betrayals of the heart and how family can offer us redemption and joy. (353 pages, 10 copies)

Goldberg, Myla
Bee Season
Fiction - The ‘slow’ child of the family, Eliza amazes everyone by winning a spelling bee. Suddenly, her father is as interested in her as her older brother, Aaron, who plans on becoming a rabbi. Her mother’s attention is turned from her law career. Eliza, who was always on the outside, is thrust into the center of attention. This change in the family dynamic sends everyone into a tailspin, and it is up to Eliza to hold them together. (274 pages, 10 copies)

Golden, Arthur
Memoirs of a Geisha
Fiction - Golden takes us into a world completely foreign to Westerners, where virgins are sold to the highest bidder, where women are trained to entice and entertain powerful men, where love is considered to be nothing but illusion. Part history, part romance, this novel is engrossing and enthralling and refuses to be forgotten. (428 pages, 10 copies)

Goodman, Carol
Seduction of Water
Fiction - Iris Greenfeder, a struggling writer,finally finds success in retelling the stories once told by her late author mother. Iris decides to write her mother's biography and returns to her childhood home only to discover the mystery surrounding her mother's death. (400 pages, 10 copies)

Goolrick, Robert
A Reliable Wife
Fiction - A suspenseful and intoxication Neo Gothic tale filled with smoldering desire and mystery. A fascinating historical thriller that is riveting to the end. (291 pages, 10 copies)

Greene, Graham
The End of the Affair
Fiction - In this story of adultery and religion, Maurice Bendrix is a novelist recounting the affair he had with his neighbor's wife, Sarah Miles. She ends the relationship without explanation, leaving Maurice bitter, angry, and convinced that she has left him for another man. When he meets up with her two years later, his rekindled obsession leads him to hire a detective to investigate her. (192 pages, 10 copies)

Gudenkauf, Heather
The Weight Of Silence
Fiction - It happens quietly on a summer morning in Iowa. Two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night. A skillful and explosive tale of suspense and the healing power of love. (373 pages, 10 copies)

Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Fiction - Narrated by a 15 year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. (240 pages, 10 copies)

Hamilton, Jane
A Map of the World
Fiction - Oprah's Book Club. Alice supports her husband Howard's dream of becoming a dairy farmer, and struggles along beside him trying to make this new life work for their family. In a moment of inattention, tragedy occurs, and Alice feels responsible for the death of a child. Following on the heels of this calamity, Alice, a school nurse, is accused of sexual harassment by one of her students, and is soon jailed awaiting trial. Family drama and courtroom suspense collide in this best seller. (240 pages, 10 copies)

Hamilton, Jane
Disobedience
Fiction - Henry Shaw, a high-school senior, is as comfortable with his family as any seventeen-year-old can be. Then Henry finds undeniable evidence that his mother is having an affair. Henry's observations, set down 10 years after the fact, are more than the "old story" of adultery. This is a novel of gentle humor and rich insights into the nature of love and the deep, mysterious bonds that hold families together. (273 pages, 10 copies)

Haruf, Kent
Plainsong
Fiction - From the unsettled lives of three people comes a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together. Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, "Plainsong" is a heartfelt story of family and romance, tribulation, and tenacity. "A novel so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has the power to exalt the reader"--Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times Book Review. (320 pages, 10 copies)

Hijuelos, Oscar
Mr. Ives’ Christmas
Fiction - Mr. Ives lives in Manhattan, and is a devout Catholic and a gifted artist, living a quiet life of introspection and generosity. Tragedy suddenly shakes his foundations, leaving him full of doubts about his faith. Mr. Ives comes to terms with his grief and his God in this story of religion, charity and forgiveness. (248 pages, 10 copies)

Horan, Nancy
Loving Frank
Fiction - Horan's ambitious first novel is a fictionalization of the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney, best known as the woman who wrecked Frank Lloyd Wright's first marriage. Despite the title, this is not a romance, but a portrayal of an independent, educated woman at odds with the restrictions of the early 20th century. (400 pages, 10 copies)

Hornby, Nick
A Long Way Down
Fiction - One New Year's Eve four people with very different reasons but with a common purpose, find their way to the top of a fifteen story building. A Long Way Down is the story of what happens next, and what doesn't. (333 pages, 10 copies)

Hosseini, Khaled
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Fiction - The author of "The Kite Runner" is back with another bestseller narrative that captures the intimate details of the struggle to survive in a world where life is harsh. (415 pages, 10 copies)

Hosseini, Khaled
The Kite Runner
Fiction - Privileged young narrator Amir comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy in Afghanistan, then must endure a revolution, invasion and a country's long struggle to triumph over violent forces. (384 pages, 10 copies)

Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go
Fiction - As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy are students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules - and teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life, and for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them so special - and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. (288 pages, 10 copies)

Jenoff, Pam
Kommandant's Girl
Fiction - Nineteen-year-old Emma has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Her husband is forced to disappear underground, and Emma is left imprisoned in a moldering Jewish ghetto. Then she is smuggled out to Krakow where she takes on a new identity as Anna, a gentile. She soon becomes an assistant to a high-ranking Nazi official and she uses her position - compromising her safety and her marriage vows - to oppose the occupation. (395 pages, 10 copies)

Kidd, Sue Monk
The Secret Life of Bees
Fiction - In South Carolina, 1964, Lily Owens' life is shaped by the memory of her mother's death. When Lily's black "stand-in" mother insults the town's biggest racist, she and Lily flee, winding up in the care of three eccentric black beekeeping sisters. Here she learns about bees, honey and the Black Madonna. Readers Guide included, (302 pages, 14 copies)

King, Laurie
Beekeeper's Apprentice
Fiction - Sherlock Holmes meets his match in a formidable new enemy and his surprising new partner. An intelligently and imaginatively crafted novel that's also great fun. (346 pages, 10 copies)

King, Laurie
O Jerusalem
Fiction - Second in the series featuring Sherlock Holmes and his partner Mary Russell. King's impeccable research combines with her colorful, fully drawn characters to make this a memorable addition to the Holmes/Russell team. (425 pages, 10 copies)

Kingsolver, Barbara
Prodigal Summer
Fiction - Three stories intertwine in this novel about love and nature in southern Appalachia. Over the course of a humid summer, we meet a wildlife biologist as she observes a family of coyotes, a newly widowed city girl trying to find a place for herself and an organic farmer whose awareness of nature clashes harshly with a local traditional farmer. (444 pages, 10 copies)

Kohn, Rebecca
The Gilded Chamber: A Novel of Queen Esther
Fiction - For centuries her name has been a byword for feminine beauty, guile and wisdom. Esther comes to Persia a terrified Jewish orphan betrothed to her cousin, a well-connected courtier. She finds a world racked by intrigue and unfathomable hatreds and realizes that the only way to survive is to win the heart of its king. (353 pages, 10 copies)

Krauss, Nicole
The History Of Love
Fiction - The History of Love spans a period of over 60 years and takes readers from Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe to present day Brighton Beach. At the center of each main character's psyche is the issue of loneliness, and the need to fill a void left empty by lost love. Leo Gursky is a retired locksmith who immigrates to New York after escaping SS officers in his native Poland, only to spend the last stage of his life terrified that no one will notice when he dies. (251 pages, 10 copies)

Lamb, Wally
The Hour I First Believed
Fiction - A compelling and richly textured story that spans the Civil War to the present and seesaws between hope and despair. Many consider this the best novel by this noted author. A New York Times bestseller. (723 pages, 10 copies)

Landvik, Lorna
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Fiction - The women of Freesia Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can’t fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together—the foundation of a book group they call AHEB (Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons). This stalwart group of friends depicts a special slice of American life, of stay-at-home days and new careers, of children and grandchildren, of bold beginnings and second chances, in which the power of forgiveness, understanding, and the perfectly timed giggle fit is the CPR that mends broken hearts and shattered dreams. (404 pages, 10 copies)

Lawson, Mary
Crow Lake
Fiction - A gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the wild terrain of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. A drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, the story overturns expectations right to the very end. (291 pages, 10 copies)

Leif, Enger
Peace Like A River
Fiction - Enger tells the story of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who has reason to believe in miracles. (320 pages, 10 copies)

Mahfouz, Naguib
The Thief And The Dogs
Fiction - A haunting novel of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid psychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story. (158 pages, 10 copies)

Martel, Yann
Life of Pi
Fiction - Man Booker Prize Winner. Sixteen-year-old Pi Patel and his family are emigrating from India to North America with their zoo animals when they are shipwrecked. Pi is left adrift in a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra and a Bengal tiger. The tiger eats each animal in turn, until Pi is the only one left with the enormous cat. Using his skills and knowledge as the son of a zookeeper, Pi must exploit what he knows of tigers and animal behavior in order to stay dominant and alive until land can be reached. (319 pages, 10 copies)

Martin, Lynn
The Bright Forever
Fiction - On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books. This simple act is at the heart of this deeply affecting novel about the choices people make that change their lives forever. Martin’s beautiful, clear-eyed prose builds to an extremely nuanced portrayal of the complicated give and take among people struggling to maintain their humanity in the shadow of a loss. (268 pages, 10 copies)

Maughan, Somerset
Painted Veil
Fiction - Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. After her husband discovers her adulterous affair, she is forced to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic There, separated from the comfort and security she had known, she is forced to reassess her life and learn how to love. (245 pages, 10 copies)

McEwan, Ian
Atonement
Fiction - In 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony witnesses the flirtation between her older sister and the son of a servant. Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motivations and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will drastically alter all their lives. The repercussions of this crime carry through the World War II and on to the end of the century. This novel encompasses intense themes, love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness. Luminous, astute and lush only begin to describe this talented author's skill with the English language. (351 pages, 10 copies)

McEwan, Ian
Enduring Love
Fiction - Scientist Joe Rose’s calm and organized life is suddenly shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident. A chilling and intense novel. Impeccably written by this most lucid of stylists. (262 pages, 10 copies)

McEwan, Ian
Saturday
Fiction - The bestseller follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne–a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children - plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor traffic accident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must set aside his plans and summon strength greater than he knew he had in order to preserve the life that is dear to him. (289 pages, 10 copies)

McGovern, Cammie
Eye Contact
Fiction - An airtight thriller that illuminates the exhausting, isolating realities of parenting special needs children. (320 pages, 10 copies)

McLarty, Ron
The Memory of Running
Fiction - By all accounts, especially his own, Smithson "Smithy" Ide is a loser. An overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk, Smithy’s life becomes completely unhinged when he loses his parents and long-lost sister within the span of one week. Rolling down the driveway of his parents’ house in Rhode Island on his old Raleigh bicycle to escape his grief, the emotionally bereft Smithy embarks on an epic, hilarious, luminous, and extraordinary journey of discovery and redemption. (358 pages, 10 copies)

Mehan, Marsha
Pomegranate Soup
Fiction - It’s been seven years since the three Aminpour sister fled Iran to live in Ireland, a land of “crazed sheep and dizzying roads.” The announcement of their opening of the Babylon Café is something of a shock to a community reared on boiled cabbage and Guinness, but the mysterious, spicy fragrances they offer eventually work magic on their neighbors. Their idyll is broken, though, when the past they left behind in revolution-era Iran threatens to envelop their Irish Oasis. (222 pages, 10 copies)

Melikan, Rose
Blackstone Key
Fiction - It is 1795, and Mary Finch sets off to meet her wealthy uncle, hoping to heal a bitter family estrangement and perhaps to avoid a dismal career teaching at Mrs. Bunbury's school for young ladies. Eager for an adventure, she is soon embroiled in one of frightening proportions, for war is raging across Europe, England faces the threat of invasion, and some secrets are more valuable than gold. (464 pages, 10 copies)

Merullo, Roland
Breakfast With Buddha
Fiction - A humorous and witty novel with wonderful heartfelt surprises. Follows the road trip adventures of three mismatched travelers across America. Contains questions and topics for discussion. (331 pages, 10 copies)

Messud, Claire
The Emperor's Children
Fiction - A richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune revolving around the intersections in the lives of three friends on the cusp of their thirties, making their way-- and not-- in New York City. In this tour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment. (478 pages, 10 copies)

Mina, Denise
Deception
Fiction - Denise Mina is an excellent crime novelist and a master of Scottish noir. A devoted husband searches for clues as his wife languishes in jail for murder. A superb, full-rounder tale and satisfying reading experience. (309 pages, 10 copies)

Moriarty, Laura
The Rest Of Her Life
Fiction - Kara Churchill, 18, is driving with a friend and talking on her phone when she blows through a stop sign and strikes a classmate, killing her instantly. Kara retreats into herself, baffling and upsetting her mother, Leigh, who can't find a way to reach her. Leigh's own mother abandoned Leigh at age 16 when she abruptly took off for California to live her own life, and Leigh's sister has moved from one bad relationship to another, so there are reasons Leigh has difficulties relating to her privileged, popular daughter. Moriarty avoids the twists readers expect—an outraged community and a lurid trial—to focus instead on the internal workings of the Churchill family and their shock and grief in the days following the girl's death. (324 pages, 10 copies)

Munro, Alice
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
Fiction - A superb new collection from a best-loved writer, these nine stories draw readers immediately into that special place known as Munro territory-- a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illuminate the arc of an entire life. (336 pages, 10 copies)

Murdoch, Iris
The Bell
Fiction - A community outside of Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, is the setting for this novel of redemption. Erring wife Dora Greenfield is the heroine, returning to her husband, Paul, as he works on a manuscript belonging to the convent. Michael Meade is the leader of the community, his desire to become a priest obscured by his homosexuality. The wise old Abbess watches over everyone, influencing events with discreet authority. This is a novel of religion, sex, good vs. evil and human frailty. (296 pages, 10 copies)

Niffenegger, Audrey
The Time Traveler's Wife
Fiction - The Time Traveler's Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's marriage and their passionate love for each other as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals-steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable. (546 pages, 10 copies)

O'Brein, Tim
Things They Carried
Fiction - They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated Bibles, each other. This is an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a profound study of men at war that illuminates the capacity, and the limits of the human heart and soul. (246 pages, 10 copies)

O'Farrell, Maggie
The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox
Fiction - A gothic, intricate tale of family secrets, lost lives, and the freedom brought by truth, A haunting look into one woman's tragic past. (245 pages, 10 copies)

Ondaatje, Michael
Anil's Ghost
Fiction - Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by civil war. Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent to investigate a string of organized murders. What follows is a story about love, family, identity, and the quest to unlock the hidden past–a story propelled by a riveting mystery, set in the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka’s landscape and ancient civilization. (307 pages, 10 copies)

Parkhurst, Carolyn
The Dogs of Babel
Fiction - In Paul's fantastic and even perilous search for the truth about his wife's death, he abandons his everyday life to embark on a series of experiments designed to teach his dog Lorelei to communicate. Could she really give him the answers he is looking for? (264 pages, 10 copies)

Penney, Stef
The Tenderness Of Wolves
Fiction - In 1867 a small settlement in the Northern Territory is in the grip of winter when a man is found brutally murdered. A local woman comes upon the crime scene. An intense novel sure to please mystery fans. (371 pages, 10 copies)

Petterson, Per
Out Stealing Horses
Fiction - A Time Magazine best book of the year. The story of a sixty-seven year old man that moves to a remote cabin in the wilderness to escape the turbulence of his life. (238 pages, 10 copies)

Picoult, Jodi
Nineteen Minutes
Fiction - This bestselling author pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. (455 pages, 10 copies)

Rosnay, Tatiana De
Sarah's Key
Fiction - Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. This book contains reading group questions and historical perspective. (293 pages, 10 copies)

Russo, Richard
Bridge Of Sighs
Fiction - Russo's portraits of smalltown life may be read not only as fine novels but as invaluable guides to the economic decline of the American Northeast. (658 pages, 10 copies)

Russo, Richard
Empire Falls
Fiction - A rare and entertaining novel that combines elements of satire, fallibility and wisdom. A social commentary on small town blue collar America. (485 pages, 10 copies)

Sapphire
Push
Fiction - Now the major motion picture PRECIOUS. A devastating, profane story that is also filled with faith, hope and redemption (202 pages, 10 copies)

Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones
Fiction - Alice Sebold's luminous first novel--one of the most celebrated literary debuts of recent seasons--that builds out a family's grief the most hopeful and joyful of stories. (328 pages, 10 copies)

See, Lisa
Peony In Love
Fiction - In seventeenth-century China, Peony, a sheltered and obedient young girl, is allowed to see the controversial opera The Peony Pavilion as part of her sixteenth-birthday celebration. During the performance, which takes three evenings to complete, she meets and falls in love with a mysterious young man. Already promised in marriage, she mourns for the love she cannot have, only to discover as she is dying that her stranger is her betrothed, Wu Ren. (284 pages, 10 copies)

See, Lisa
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Fiction - Mystery writer See, author of The Interior (1999) and Dragon Bones (2003), takes readers to nineteenth-century China to explore a complex friendship between two women. An engrossing and completely convincing portrayal of a woman shaped by suffering forced upon her from her earliest years, and of the friendship that helps her to survive. Riveting . . . a story that informs as it charms. (258 pages, 10 copies)

Setterfield, Diane
The Thirteenth Tale
Fiction - Margaret Lea, a bookish loner, is summoned to the home of Vida Winter, England's most popular novelist, and commanded to write her biography. Miss Winter has been falsifying her life story and her identity for more than 60 years. Facing imminent death and feeling an unexplainable connection to Margaret, Miss Winter begins to spin a haunting, suspenseful tale of an old English estate, a devastating fire, twin girls, a governess, and a ghost. As Margaret carefully records Vida's tale, she ponders her own family secrets. Her research takes her to the English moors to view a mansion's ruins and discover an unexpected ending to Vida's story. Readers will be mesmerized by this -story-within-a-story tinged with the eeriness of Rebecca and the willfulness of Jane Eyre. The author skillfully keeps the plot moving by unfurling a new twist in each chapter and leaves no strand untucked at the surprising and satisfying conclusion. A wholly original work told in the vein of all the best gothic classics. Lovers of books about book lovers will be enthralled. Kaite Mediatore Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved (406 pages, 10 copies)

Shaffer, Mary Ann
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Fiction - In January 1946 London is emerging from the Second World War. Writer Juliet Ashton is searching for her next book subject when she comes across a letter from a male stranger from the island of Guernsey. As they begin to exchange letters she is drawn into the wonderfully eccentric world of The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society. A charming book that is sure to please. (274 pages, 10 copies)

Shapiro, Jane
Dangerous Husband
Fiction - A husband with many admirable qualities but was so accident prone that his wife in order to survive her marriage, thought she just might have to kill him. Elegant, funny and sly. (249 pages, 10 copies)

Shreve, Anita
Testimony
Fiction - At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations is about to be opened. (352 pages, 10 copies)