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FICTION
Gold by Chris Cleave
Sharing a close friendship and rivalry throughout their Elite training, world-class athletes Zoe and Kate find the limits of their physical and emotional realities tested on the eve of London 2012, where they consider difficult sacrifices and weigh their senses of mortality. By the author of the best-selling Little Bee.
Rescue Me by Rachel Gibson
Sadie Hollowell only invites Navy SEAL Vince Haven, who is in town visiting his crazy aunt, to her cousin’s wedding to keep the matchmaking mamas in Lovett, Texas at bay, but then she finds herself falling for him.
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
A follow-up to the best-selling A Discovery of Witches finds Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Dina and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont in Elizabethan London, where Dina seeks a magical tutor and Matthew confronts elements from his past at the same time the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.
Big Sky Country by Linda Lael Miller
When he inherits half of Whisper Creek Ranch, Sheriff Slade Barlow, the illegitimate son of a wealthy rancher, meets resistance from his half-brother Hutch, especially when Hutch’s former flame, Josyln Kirk, who is working hard to pay back everyone her crooked stepfather cheated, catches his eye.
The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
A first graduating class at a post-Civil War Massachusetts Institute of Technology is thrown into turmoil by bizarre phenomena that cause period instruments to inexplicably spin out of control, challenging a quiet machinist and three enterprising students to protect lives while combating Harvard rivals, labor unions and a sensation-driven media.
The Rebel Wife by Taylor M. Polites
Forced into marriage with a wealthy man after her Southern family is rendered destitute by the Civil War, Augusta becomes a widow a decade later and finds her circumstances hinging on a missing package in a community torn by racial prejudice, violence, and disease.
A Conspiracy of Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
The ongoing foibles of the residents of Corduroy Mansion are overshadowed by the disappearance of William’s faithful and clever terrier, Freddie de la Hay, who after being allegedly recruited by MI6 goes missing from a tour around the Suffolk countryside.
The Soldier’s Wife by Joanna Trollope
Returning to his wife and daughters after a tour of duty in Afghanistan, British major Dan Riley struggles to adjust back to civilian life while his family evaluates the difficult sacrifices they must make to support him.
The Good Dream by Donna VanLiere
Denounced by her 1950 Tennessee community as an old maid, 30-something Ivorie Walker hides her loneliness and grief over her mother’s death behind good-humored independence before advocating on behalf of a feral boy who has been stealing vegetables from her garden.
NON-FICTION
This is How by Augusten Burroughs
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the “un-survivable” and will challenge your notion of self-help books. Draws on the author’s roller-coaster experiences with limited opportunities, successes and failures while offering darkly whimsical, no-holds-barred advice on surviving everything from riding elevators and gaining weight to finishing drinks and finding love.
Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
A dramatic account by one of the few survivors born inNorth Korea’s infamous political prison camps describes the brutal conditions that have forced prisoners to turn on one another, his witness to his family’s executions and his harrowing escape.
Going Solo by Eric Klinenberg
A sociologist explores the demographic rise in people who are living alone, including interviews with young professionals, middle-aged singles, the divorced and the elderly and discovers that they are more engaged in social and civic life than their married counterparts.
Published on July 17, 2012.
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