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*Titles are in order of author’s last name*

FICTION

secretsSecrets from the Past by Barbara Taylor Bradford

Leaving her successful job after the unexpected death of her famous father, photojournalist Serena Stone risks her life to save a former lover and discovers an archive of her late father’s work that reveals shocking truths about her parents’ marriage.

 

yY by Marjorie Celona

A foster child who has been shuffled through the system after being abandoned at the YMCA as a baby wonders about her birth family and the reasons she was given up, questions that lead to the tragic story of her flawed and desperate mother.

 

avalonAvalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society by Darien Gee

Five disparate women are brought together by a local scrapbooking society and grow close to each other as they work to create something truly memorable after some unexpected news about their irascible leader.

 

taking eveTaking Eve by 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.

 

burning airBurning Air by Erin Kelly

Private school headmaster Rowan and his three grown children gather for the first time since the family matriarch Lydia’s passing and are torn by years of secrets when a vengeful stranger arrives, claiming that Lydia was a murderer.

 

wedding nightWedding Night by 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 thirties, a rushed arrangement that prompts family disapproval and an unexpected renewal of passion.

 

ophelia cutThe Ophelia Cut by John Lescroart

Defending old friend Moses McGuire against wrongful murder charges involving a man who raped his daughter, attorney Dismas Hardy risks his career when the case threatens to expose old secrets involving him and police lieutenant Abe Glitsky.

 

supremesThe Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore

Forging a friendship at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Odette, Clarice and Barbara Jean meet regularly at the first diner owned by black proprietors in their Indiana city and are watched throughout the years by a big-hearted man who observes their struggles with school, marriage, parenthood and beyond.

 

mystery womanThe Mystery Woman by Amanda Quick

Targeted by a disabled former spy 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.

 

vampiresVampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

A collection of stories features a pair of centuries-old vampires whose relationship is tested by a sudden fear of flying, a dejected teen who communicates with the universe, and a massage therapist who heals a tattooed veteran by manipulating the images on his body.

 

burgessThe Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

Catalyzed by a nephew’s thoughtless prank, two brothers confront painful issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their lives.

 

plumThe Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman

In 1938 Germany, seventeen-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for, and to her employer’s son Isaac, confronts the Gestapo and the horrors of Dachau to be with the man she loves.

 

unintended consequencesUnintended Consequences by 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.

 

NON-FICTION

carrie Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story by Carol Burnett

The comedienne and actress draws on diary entries, correspondence, and family memories to present a tribute to her late daughter that traces Carrie’s struggles with self-esteem and addiction before her cancer-related death, in an account that also shares the life lessons they learned together.

 

americanAmerican Story: A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things by Bob Dotson

The host of the NBC Today Show’s Emmy Award-winning “American Story with Bob Dotson” celebrates the inspirational stories of everyday, unrecognized people who changed the world for the better, from a truck driver who taught microsurgery to the doctor who developed the vaccine for pertussis.

 


Published on May 13, 2013.


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