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c2008
Follows the author’s family’s efforts to live on locally and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet. [370 pages] NON-FICTION
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c2007
Three children lost their innocence--as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935--and their lives are changed forever. [480 pages] FICTION
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c1994
When Mary Russell meets famous detective Sherlock Holmes, she discovers that he is also a beekeeper. Soon she finds herself on the trail of kidnappers and discovers a plot to kill both Holmes and herself. [347 pages] FICTION
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Markus Zusak
c2006
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel – a young German girl who’s book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. [550 pages] FICTION
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c2006
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. [215 pages] FICTION
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c2006
Four years after the murder of her younger sisters, Veronica Swan moved to California to train as an EMT, where she went to work as a nanny for Scott Early, the man who killed her sisters. Scott, a diagnosed schizophrenic, was deemed incompetent to stand trial and was committed to a mental institution. Although her Mormon family forgave Scott in order to get on with their lives, Veronica plans to avenge her sisters’ murders. [289 pages] FICTION
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c2006
A black man’s tribute to his white mother. The Color of Water tells the remarkable story of Ruth McBride Jordan, the two good men she married, and the 12 good children she raised. [382 pages] NON-FICTION
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c2002
In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families--the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her two brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy. [288 pages] FICTION
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c2003
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor’s dog and uncovers secret information about his mother. [226 pages] FICTION
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c1985
For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence. [371 pages] FICTION
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c2003
True story of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 which tells the stories of two men who helped shape the history of the event- architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett. [447 pages] NON-FICTION
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Digging to America
Anne Tyler
c2006
Two families meet by chance at an airport where they are both waiting to adopt infant daughters from Korea. The families become friends and decide to meet together every year. [277 pages] FICTION
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c2006
True account of a 17 year old boy’s harrowing attempt to travel to the United States to locate his mother, who left him in the Honduras when he was 5 years old. [291 pages] NON-FICTION
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c2001
In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, tries to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from worksof literature. [374 pages] FICTION
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c1981
After being captured in an Indian raid during 1755, Mary Draper Ingles follows the Ohio River for 1,000 miles to return home to Virginia by herself. [399 pages] FICTION
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c2007
A Chinese immigrant family’s experience of 1990s America is treated at epic length in this heartfelt new novel. [660 pages] FICTION
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c2008
Documents the unsolved theft of twelve masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tracing the research of the late art detective Harold Smith while recounting the author's own forays into the art underworld. Non-Fiction [272 pages] NON-FICTION
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c2005
A poor seventeenth-century servant girl knows her place in the household of
the painter Johannes Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty
whispers and rumors circulate throughout the town. [233 pages] FICTION
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c2005
A remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. [288 pages] NON-FICTION
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c2008
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation. [277 pages] FICTION
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c2008
Having devotedly cared for a lone elephant at a dilapidated zoo for more than forty years, Samson hopes to be able to retire when he hires a promising assistant Neva, who forces Samson to acknowledge that the elephant also needs the company of her own kind. [319 pages] FICTION
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c2009
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project. [451 pages] FICTION
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c2004
A recent medical school graduate, Barry Laverty, is delighted by the opportunity to join a small rural practice in the beautiful hills of Ballybucklebo, Northern Ireland, until he meets his superior, Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly, a cantankerous older physician who has his own way of doing things. [351 pages] FICTION
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Jane Austen Book Club
Karen Joy Fowler
c2004
As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love. [288 pages] FICTION
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c2007
Deborah Rodriguez, a hairdresser from Holland, Michigan, travels to Afghanistan and opens a cosmetology school to help women learn a marketable skill so they are able to support themselves and their families. [275 pages] NON-FICTION
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c2003
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan boy and his servant’s son, in a story that spans the final days of Afghanistan’s monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. [371 pages] FICTION
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c2008
Randy Pausch, a computer science professor, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. In his book he has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. This book will be shared for generations to come. [206 pages] NON-FICTION
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c2006
True story of two families who lived in the same house in the West Bank, the Palestinian family who built it and the Jewish family who lived in it from 1948-84. [362 page] NON-FICTION
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c2008
A controversial critique of American history textbooks. Readers interested in history, whether liberal or conservative, professional or layperson, will find food for thought here. [444 pages] NON-FICTION
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c2001
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper’s son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain. [401 pages] FICTION
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c2009
In Little Pink House, award-winning investigative journalist Jeff Benedict takes readers behind the scenes of the Susette Kelo case (a case that ultimately reached the United States Supreme Court) in which Kelo led the charge to take on corporate America to save her home. [397 pages] NON-FICTION
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c1993
Story of the events of the summer of the author’s twelfth year, which altered his view of his family and the world forever. [169 pages] FICTION
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Tracy Kidder
c2003
Paul Farmer, doctor, Harvard professor, infectious disease specialist, found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring medicine to those who need it most. [317 pages] NON-FICTION
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c1972
These short stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to solder, veteran, writer, and parent – a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway’s life. [272 pages] FICTION
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c2003
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiancé, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story. [389 pages] FICTION
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c2008
At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her. [270 pages] FICTION
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c1998
An Indian request in 1864 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair. [304 pages] FICTION
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Offered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins. [372 pages] FICTION
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Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult
c2000
The discovery of a dead baby under a pile of old blankets in Aaron Fishers’ barn sets off a scandal in Amish country and an investigation that could implicate Fisher’s eighteen-year-old daughter. [405 pages] FICTION
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c2006
The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened. [237 pages] NON-FICTION
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c2007
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid. [288 pages] FICTION
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c2002
After her “stand-in mother”, a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters. [302 pages] FICTION
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c2007
Mac’s six-year-old daughter is abducted and murdered during a family vacation. Years later he meets God at an abandoned shack. What he finds there will change his world forever. [249 pages] FICTION
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See
c2005
Lily, now eighty years old, sets out to tell the story of her life and of the most important relationship in that life: her friendship with the long-dead Snow Flower. [258 pages] FICTION
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c2008
The story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him. [287 pages] FICTION
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A charming memoir from Vietnamese immigrant Bich Minh Nguyen. She writes of her desire to belong, her passion for American food, and her wish to become a “real” American. [256 pages] NON-FICTION
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c2009
Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life as her concept of self gradually slips away. [320 pages] FICTION
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c2009
A follow-up to "Three Cups of Tea" continues the author's story of his humanitarian efforts to bring education into disadvantaged Middle East regions, describing such events as the 2005 earthquake and a tense eight-day abduction by the Taliban. [338 pages] NON-FICTION
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Irene Nemirovsky
c2006
A story of life in France under Nazi occupation includes two parts--"Storm in June," set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied village rife with resentment, resistance, and collaboration. [395 pages] FICTION
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Sandra Dallas
c2007
Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered. [305 pages] FICTION
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c2007
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartown Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage. [384 pages] FICTION
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c2006
True story of a man who built the first school for the impoverished town of Korphe, Pakistan, and formed the Central Asia Institute, which has constructed over 50 schools in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. [338 pages] NON-FICTION
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c1960
Scout’s father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in a small Alabama town in the 1930s. [281 pages] FICTION
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c2008
Exploring the secrets and complexities lying at the heart of family life and relationships, a collection of eight stories includes the title work, about a young mother in a new city whose father tends her garden while hiding a secret love affair. [333 pages] FICTION
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c1852
Uncle Tom's master sells him, separating him from his wife, and he becomes attached to the gentle daughter of his new owner, but after her death, he is sold to the evil Simon Legree. [379 pages] FICTION
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c1998
The subtitle of the book is Rediscovering American on the Appalachian Trail and rediscover America is just what the author did, after having lived in Europe for many years. [276 pages] NON-FICTION
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Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
c2006
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski Remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope. [335 pages] FICTION
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Timothy Egan
c2006
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist brings together an oral history of the American Dust Bowl that devastated the Great Plains during the Great Depression, following several families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region and their desperate struggle to persevere despite the devastation. [340 pages] NON-FICTION
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