Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered:
FICTION
Burgess Boys
Elizabeth Strout
Catalyzed by a nephew’s thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives.
Deadly Virtues
Jo Bannister
When an inmate who knew he was about to be killed gives him a cryptic message before being beaten to death, Ash, a man from an English town where the low crime rate is linked to a chief’s zero-tolerance policy, shares his knowledge with police recruit Hazel Best, who risks her career to uncover the truth.
Don’t Go
Lisa Scottoline
Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter and a downsizing in his medical practice only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything.
Double Feature
Owen King
Sharing a difficult relationship with his unscrupulous lothario and B-movie actor father, Sam Dolan struggles to come to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film while juggling with complicated ambitions and his feelings for eccentric family members and friends.
Fever Tree
Jennifer McVeigh
Forced to abandon her life of privilege in 1880 London and relocate to the Southern Cape of Africa, Francis Irvine becomes entangled with two very different men including one driven by ambition and another by his ideals, a circumstance that is complicated by a smallpox epidemic and the dark side of diamond mining.
Gate Thief
Orson Scott Card
A sequel to The Lost Gate finds Danny North posing as an everyday high school student while holding the stolen outselves of 13 centuries of gatemages and learning about why Loki closed the Great Gates, an effort that is complicated by a near-powerless Wad’s efforts to make peace.
Helsinki Blood
James Thompson
Entreated by a desperate mother whose daughter, a young woman with Down’s Syndrome, has gone missing while seeking employment in Finland, Kari Vaara sees the case as a chance to redeem himself from black ops failures and pursues leads through Helsinki’s high-class clubs to the darkest circles in underground trafficking.
Hit
David Baldacci
Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole world.
Interestings
Meg Wolitzer
Forging a powerful bond in the mid-1970s that lasts throughout subsequent decades, six individuals pursue respective challenges into their midlife years, including an aspiring actress who harbors jealousy toward friends who achieve successful creative careers.
Killer Honeymoon
G. A. McKevett
When her honeymoon with new husband Dirk Coulter is interrupted by the discovery of a dead body on the beach, Savannah Reid does some investigating of her own when she discovers that the deceased is a popular Los Angeles anchorwoman.
Mystery Woman
Amanda Quick
Targeted by a disabled former spy for the Crown who wrongly believes she is blackmailing his sister, Beatrice Lockwood offers her assistance in tracking down the real culprit and eventually falls for the spy only to find herself hunted by a mad scientist who would resurrect a dead lover.
No Way Back
Andrew Gross
When a chance encounter with a stranger in a hotel results in murder, Wendy Gould, framed for the crime and desperate to clear her name, forms an unlikely alliance with the only witness–a woman who knows a shocking secret that could get them both killed.
Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline
Close to aging out of the foster care system, Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer takes a community service position helping an elderly woman named Vivian clean out her home and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
Paris
Edward Rutherford
Taking readers on a journey through Parisian history, this sweeping multigenerational saga, filled with romance, danger and rich detail, beautifully illuminates the City of Lights, from its founding under the Romans to the hotbed of cultural activity during the 1920s and 1930s that included Picasso.
Reconstructing Amelia
Kimberly McCreight
When her high-achieving 15-year-old daughter Amelia supposedly commits suicide after she is caught cheating, litigation lawyer and single mother Kate Baron, leveled by grief, must reconstruct the pieces of Amelia’s life to find the truth and vindicate the memory of the daughter whose life she could not save.
Starting Now
Debbie Macomber
After she is laid off, high-powered lawyer Libby Morgan, with no job prospects in sight, volunteers at a hospital where she meets a handsome doctor and rediscovers the joy of knitting, but when she is offered her job back, she must decide what matters most.
Taking Eve
Iris Johansen
Hoping for a more peaceful time after learning the tragic truth about her child’s disappearance years earlier, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is entreated by desperate father Jim Doane to learn the truth about his missing son, a case that is complicated by Jim’s twisted agenda.
Tapestry of Fortunes
Elizabeth Berg
Selling her home and taking time off from her career as a successful motivational speaker, Cecilia Ross moves into a beautiful old house in St. Paul and bonds with three roommates, including one who would reconnect with a daughter she gave up for adoption, one who would visit her long-absent ex and a professional chef who would find inspiration from other restaurants.
There Was an Old Woman
Hallie Ephron
When her mother is hospitalized, Evie Ferrante, discovering some strange objects while sorting through her mother’s belongings, renews a friendship with Mina, an elderly neighbor, and is pulled into a dark world of madness and deception.
Tuesday’s Gone
Nicci French
When a London social worker discovers the dead body of a stranger in a client’s home, Frieda Klein identifies the victim as a notorious con man who she fears has been murdered by enemies determined to embroil Frieda in the investigation.
Unintended Consequences
Stuart Woods
Traveling to Europe under strange circumstances, attorney Stone Barrington finds himself at the center of an unusually complex mystery involving two unexpected invitations and an intricate puzzle that leads him into the rarified world of European billionaires.
Wanderer
Robyn Carr
When newcomer Hank Cooper inherits beachfront property in Thunder Point, Oregon, he holds the fate of an entire community in his hands as he decides whether this small town of rocky beaches and rugged charm is the place he can finally call home.
Wedding Night
Sophie Kinsella
Tiring of commitment-phobic boyfriends, Lottie readily accepts her ex’s offer of marriage in fulfillment of a safety pact made years earlier that they would marry if they were still single in their 30s, a rushed arrangement that prompts family disapproval and an unexpected renewal of passion.
While We Were Watching Downton Abbey
Wendy Wax
At the invitation of the building’s concierge, four neighbors in an Atlanta apartment building begin weekly viewings of the acclaimed British series together and find themselves relating to the show, and to each other, in unexpected ways.
Whiskey Beach
Nora Roberts
Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiancée’s murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery.
Z
Therese Anne Fowler
A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father’s opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera.
NONFICTION
Cooked: Finding Ourselves in the Kitchen
Michael Pollan
The author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma recounts the story of his culinary education and the roles of the four classical elements of fire, water, air and earth in transforming natural ingredients into delicious meals and drinks, in an account that traces his efforts to master classic recipes using one of the four elements.
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Chip Heath & Dan Heath
The authors counsel readers on how to overcome natural biases and irrational thinking to make better decisions in work and life, drawing on extensive studies and research to outline specific strategies for enabling clear-headed thinking.
Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
Barbara Garson
Drawn from interviews with an economically and geographically wide variety of Americans, a journalist reveals the real human cost of our economic decline and demonstrates the resilience of ordinary Americans as they try to overcome huge economic challenges.
Drop 10 Diet Cookbook: More Than 100 Tasty, Easy Superfood Recipes That Effortlessly Peel Off Pounds
Lucy Danziger
Presents recipes based on the popular diet that feature foods proven to boost metabolism, offering over one hundred options for breakfasts, lunches, snacks, dinners, desserts, and beverages.
Family Guide to Mental Health Care
Lloyd I. Sederer
This resource for those dealing with a family member’s mental illness provides information on medications, medical privacy laws, depression, anxiety, bipolar illness and eating disorders, and includes a checklist of questions to ask at a doctor’s visit.
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach
The humor scientist behind Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife takes a tour of the human digestive system, explaining why the stomach doesn’t digest itself and whether constipation can kill you.
Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor’s 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease
Susan Blum & Michele Bender
A highly sought expert in the field of functional medicine outlines a four-step program for treating, reversing and preventing autoimmune conditions and repairing the immune system.
Mayday
Seth Cropsey
A former deputy undersecretary of the Navy describes how the United States Navy has shrunk in recent decades, with the military focused on land wars in the Middle East, while the maritime presence of other nations, particularly China, has expanded.
Mom & Me & Mom
Maya Angelou
The celebrated author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings shares the intimate story of her relationship with her mother, a first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines and a purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, relating the events that prompted her mother to send young Angela away and the complicated fallout that shaped their family life.
My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road With Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
Brian Switek
A regular columnist for Smithsonian and Wired questions our long-held beliefs about dinosaurs and presents the latest scientific findings on what colors they really were, how they got so big and how they actually may have died out.
Secret Lives of Sports Fans
Eric Simons
Presents an exploration of sports fandom that considers how it can be a fundamental aspect of an individual’s identity, why people form such strong attachments to favorite teams and what happens in the human mind and body when watching a game.
Unsinkable
Debbie Reynolds & Dorian Hannaway
In this definitive, tell-all memoir, the film legend and Hollywood icon shares the highs and lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age, stories from her lifelong friendship with Elizabeth Taylor and intimate details of her marriages and family life.
Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
Adam Makos & Marcus Brotherton
Based on interviews with veterans and unpublished memoirs, tells the true stories of twenty marines during World War II, from the attacks on Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal, Okinawa, and their return home after V-J Day.
Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Mark Mazzetti
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter presents a revelatory account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special forces into competing covert paramilitary agencies responsible for the defeat of Osama bin Laden and other strategic war efforts, offering insight into the new ways that the nation is fighting wars.
Published on April 15, 2013.
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