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• The Devil and Miss Prym (by Paulo Coelho)

• The Meaning of Night (by Michael Cox)

• Messenger of Truth (by Jacqueline Winspear)

• The Observations (by Jane Harris)

• Purple Hibiscus (by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

• Restless (by William Boyd)

• The Thirteenth Tale (by Diane Setterfield)

• Gift from the Sea (by Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

• The Omnivore's Dilemma (by Michael Pollan)

• Everyman (by Philip Roth)

• The Inheritance of Loss (by Kiran Desai)

• The Last Cato (by Matilde Asensi)

• The Sultan's Seal (by Jenny White)

• The Templar Legacy (by Steve Berry)

• Veil of Roses (by Laura Fitzgerald)

• Water for Elephants (by Sara Gruen)

• Letters of a Portuguese Nun (by Myriam Cyr)

• Talk to the Hand (by Lynne Truss)

• Wal-Mart: The Bully of Bentonville (by Anthony Bianco)

• The Garden of Eden (by Eve Adams [Stephen Coonts]) - In The Garden of Eden, the inhabitants of the small town of Eden experience temptations that lead to their downfall. As the chain of events spirals humorously out of hand, the funky locals add their own absurd antics to the harmful actions of two married couples. Can love and forgiveness save the day as well as the marriages? From St. Martin’s Griffin.

  

• Rules for Old Men Waiting (by Peter Pouncey) - In order to survive alone, MacIver prepares some rules to maintain his life and sanity. Rule #7 in his daily regimen is to work every morning. His determination to complete a tale about the First World War brings back memories of past events in his own life. As the story he is writing alternates with the story of his own daily life, his struggle contains his own end as well. From Random House.

• The Sea (by John Banville)

• A Wedding in December (by Anita Shreve) - Anita Shreve continues to give her readers a story that expertly probes memories, secrets, and relationships. At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding. The reunion becomes more than each expected, as their shared past leads to new and startling revelations. From Back Bay Books.

Non-Fiction

• Fried Eggs with Chopsticks (by Polly Evans) - Become an armchair traveler and join Polly Evans as she navigates the back roads of China. You will feel the bumpy bus, hear the friendly chatter of the passengers on the train, and taste the variety of local diets that exists in this vast country. Polly’s humorous telling of her misadventures has made her a successful author. You can enjoy her travels in Spain in It’s Not About the Tapas. From Delta.

• Garlic and Sapphires (by Ruth Reichl) - Reichl writes about the years she spent as the New York Times restaurant critic. She is as expert in her writing about the disguises she uses to fool the management of the restaurants as she is in judging the quality of the service and meals. The addition of some of her NY Times columns and recipes adds to the flavor of the story. A four star memoir for all to enjoy! From Penguin.

  

• Piano Girl (by Robin Meloy Goldsby) - Goldsby covers her years growing up in a musical family that led to her career as a lounge pianist. Her talent has taken her to some of the choicest places in New York City and beyond. As she lives her life with humor, so too does she bring her funny experiences to her memoir. From Backbeat Books.

• The Sentence (by Gene Kraig) - Kraig candidly tells when and why her husband, a Cleveland attorney, became incarcerated in a federal prison. Her life and her family’s changed because of a situation that grew out of a childhood friendship. She reveals the mistakes made, the poor advice taken, and the turn of events that ultimately changed everything. From Greenpoint Press.

• Amagansett (by Mark Mills)

• An Inconvenient Wife (by Megan Chance)

• Bet Your Bottom Dollar (by Karin Gillespie)

• My Life on Mars (by Alicia Metcalf Miller)

• The Myth of You and Me (by Leah Stewart)

• Tilting at Windmills (by Julian Branston)

  

Non-Fiction

• Charlie Wilson's War (by George Crile)

• Imagined London (by Anna Quindlen)

• Good Grief (by Lolly Winston) - When Sophie Stanton becomes a young widow, her grief affects her daily life in starnge ways. She eventually sheds her job and home to follow the dream of owning her own business. Winston provides the reader with a witty look inside the unraveling and reconstructing of one woman's life. This novel is made for book discussion groups.

• The Master (by Colm Toibin) - This highly praised and awarded novel is based on the life of the renowned author, Henry James. The story delves into where and how James became the acclaimed novelist of his day. Readers will be impressed with Toibin's writing as much as with the story he weaves about James's life.

• Old School (by Tobias Wolff) - The setting is a private boys’ high school in 1960. The narrator is a senior scholarship student who is struggling to win the school’s most prestigious honor. Ultimately, it is a story about truth and lies. The winner of this novel is definitely the reader.

• The Plot Against America (by Philip Roth) - It is 1940 and America has just elected its hero, Charles Lindbergh, president instead of Roosevelt. The effect of this outcome is seen through one family who must adapt to the new and disturbing political climate of the country. Roth has created a novel of unusual power.

  

• Queen of Dreams (by Chitra Divakaruni) - In India a dream storyteller is a special person. When Rakhi finds her deceased mother's dream journals, she discovers secrets that ultimately change her future. The clash of cultures and the mother-daughter relationship are central to the story and enrich its message.

Non-Fiction

• Jane Austen, A Biography (by Carol Shields) - This small book is a tribute to the world of Jane Austen. Shields constructs Austen’s early family life, the emergence of the writer, and finally the woman and her novels. Combine this biography with an Austen novel for a super book discussion.

• A Short History of Progress (by Ronald Wright) - Wright, known as a historical philosopher, explores the “progress traps” that humans mistakenly have made throughout history. He encourages a better understanding and changes; if this does not happen, then disaster may be in civilization’s future. This book does not preach but enlightens the reader.

• The Art of Mending (by Elizabeth Berg) - In renowned author Elizabeth Berg's moving novel, now in paperback, unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine their disparate lives and to ask themselves: Is it too late to mend the hurts of the past?

• Oryx and Crake (by Margaret Atwood) - With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity - and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman's recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a boy named Jimmy loved an elusive, damaged girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake. But now Snowman is alone, and as we learn why we also learn about a world that could become ours one day.

• Our Kind (by Kate Walbert)

• Probable Future (by Alice Hoffman) - Hoffman's most magical novel to date features three generations of the extraordinary Sparrow women with unusual gifts who are driven to unite in crisis, and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love.

• Shadow of the Wind (by Carlos Ruiz Zafon) - The international literary sensation - a runaway bestseller in Spain - is about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.

• An Unpardonable Crime (by Andrew Taylor) - England 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city's notorious Seven Dials district. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of theft, and a beautiful heiress flirts with her inferiors. A strange destiny connects each of these events to an American boy, Edgar Allan Poe, who was brought to England by his foster father and sent to the leafy village of Stoke Newington to be educated. An Unpardonable Crime is a twenty-first-century novel with a nineteenth-century voice. It is both a multilayered literary murder mystery and a love story, its setting ranging from the coal-scented fogs of late-Regency London to the stark winter landscapes of Gloucestershire. And at its center is the boy who does not really belong anywhere, an actor who never learns the significance of his part.

Non-Fiction

• How to Read Literature like a Professor (by Thomas C. Foster) - A fun and practical introduction to literature and literary basics - symbols, themes, and contexts - shows how to make everyday reading experiences more rewarding and enjoyable.

• The Opposite of Fate (by Amy Tan) - Internationally bestselling novelist Amy Tan's first work of nonfiction reveals personal stories of her life and family, and of faith and fate. A "New York Times" Notable Book. Photos throughout.

• City of Masks (by Daniel Hecht) - Cree Black, a parapsychologist, is hired to remove a menacing presence haunting an old New Orleans home. The reader is treated to the scientific ghost-bustng business with all its dangerous and unconventional methods.

• The Dante Club (by Matthew Pearl) - A series of murders in 1865 Boston is revealed to be closely characteristic of Dante's Inferno. An elite group of Dante scholars, working on its translation, becomes aware of the killer's intent and sets out to find him.

• The Seven Sisters (by Margaret Drabble) - This story, of a recently-divorced woman in her middle years, begins with her struggle to find a home for herself in London, then follows her search for new friends, who help her face her future and accomplish her dreams.

• Southern Living (by Ad Hudler) - The South is an important element in this humorous story of three women struggling to overcome their backgrounds. The lives of the women converge, leading to their ability to reinvent themselves and face their futures with renewed hope.

• Southland (by Nina Revoyr) - Using flashbacks of a Japanese-American family's history in Los Angeles, the murder of four African-American young men during the Watts riots is reinvestigated. A story about the tragedy of prejudice and the history of America's struggle to adjust to racial and cultural differences is presented with profound perception.

• The Spinning Man (by George Harrar) - When a philosophy professor is accused of being involved in the disappearance of a high school cheerleader, his family, his colleagues, and his reputation suffer. Learning the truth of his innocence or guilt may not be as simple to discover in this suspenseful plot.

Non-Fiction

• Riding the Bus with My Sister (by Rachel Simon) - With humor and insight, this autobiography about spending a year riding city buses with her mentally challenged sister in order to accept that sister's life choices becomes for Simon a life-changing experience.

• Baghdad Without a Map (by Tony Horwitz) - As a journalist, Horwitz travels the Middle East in search of true stories about the region. In his witty and entertaining style, he uncovers situations and characters that reveal a fascinating world.

• The Fall of Rome (by Martha Southgate)

• Lullaby (by Chuck Palahniuk)

• The Master of Rain (by Tom Bradby)

• The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (by Jeffrey Ford)

• The Sunday Wife (by Cassandra King)

• Three Junes (by Julia Glass)

Non-Fiction

• War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (by Chris Hedges)

• Any Small Thing Can Save You: A Bestiary (by Christina Adam)

• The Eyre Affair (by Jasper Fforde)

• Savannah Blues (by Mary Kay Andrews)

• The Secret History (by Donna Tartt)

• Sophie and the Rising Sun (by Augusta Trobaugh)

• Tending Roses (by Lisa Wingate)

• The Worst Day of My Life, So Far (by M. A. Harper)

Non-Fiction

• Motherland (by Fern Schumer Chapman)

• An Unfinished Marriage (by Joan Anderson)

• A Year by the Sea (by Joan Anderson)

• The Deadwood Beetle (by Mylène Dressler)

• Empire Falls (by Richard Russo) - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 2002.

• Ex-Libris (by Ross King)

• The Good German (by Joseph Kanon)

• The Grand Complication (by Allen Kurzweil)

• The Music of the Spheres (by Elizabeth Redfern)

• Red Clay, Blue Cadillac (by Michael Malone)

Non-Fiction

• America's Jubilee: 1826 - A Generation Remembers the Revolution (by Andrew Burstein)

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World (by Michael Pollan)

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (by Joseph J. Ellis)

• Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History (by Kati Marton)

• American Fuji (by Sara Backer)

• Back When We Were Grownups (by Anne Tyler)

• Bonjour Tristesse (by Francois Sagan)

• The Haunted Bookshop (by Christopher Morley)

• The Bonesetter's Daughter (by Amy Tan)

• Sometimes I Dream in Italian (by Rita Ciresi)

Non-Fiction

• French Lessons (by Peter Mayle)

• Great Dames (by Marie Brenner)

• The Invisible Garden (by Dorothy Sucher)

• Blue Angel (by Francine Prose)

• Gloria (by Keith Maillard)

• Gravesend Light (by David Payne)

• A Man in Full (by Tom Wolfe)

• Serendipity Green (by Rob Levandoski)

• The Blind Assassin (by Margaret Atwood)

• The Dark House (by John Sedgwick)

• The Human Stain (by Philip Roth)

• The Sunday Tertulia (by Lori Marie Carlson)

• Veronika Decides to Die (by Paulo Coehlo)

Non-Fiction

• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (by Anne Fadiman)

• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (by Anthony Bourdain)

• Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe (by Bill Bryson)

• Victoria's Daughters (by Jerrold Packard)

• Big Stone Gap (by Adriana Trigiani)

• Following Fake Man (by Barbara Ware Holmes)

• Girl in Hyacinth Blue (by Susan Vreeland)

• Inn at the Edge of the World (by Alice T. Ellis) - E-mail us to inquire about or order this book.

• Lucy Crocker 2.0 (by Caroline Preston)

• Montana 1948 (by Larry Watson)

• What We Keep (by Elizabeth Berg)

Non-Fiction

• Am I Old Yet? (by Leah Komaiko)

• How Wal-Mart Is Destroying the World (by Bill Quinn)

• A Year by the Sea (by Joan Anderson)

Fiction

• Amsterdam (by Ian McEwan)

• Blindness (by José Saramago)

• Charlotte Gray (by Sebastian Faulks)

• A Conspiracy of Paper (by David Liss)

• The Dangerous Husband (by Jane Shapiro)

• The Fencing Master (by Arturo Pérez-Reverte)

• Girl with a Pearl Earring (by Tracy Chevalier)

• Interpreter of Maladies (by Jumpa Lahiri)

• Midnight Champagne (by A. Manette Ansay) - Winner of the 2000 Great Lakes Book Award for fiction.

• Pilgrim (by Timothy Findley)

• Player Piano (by Kurt Vonnegut)

• Samurai's Garden (by Gail Tsukiyama)

Non-Fiction

• A Country Year (by Sue Hubbell)

• Galileo's Daughter (by Dava Sobel)

• Wasn't the Grass Greener? (by Barbara Holland)

• The Answer Is Yes (by Sara Lewis)

• The Evolution of Jane (by Cathleen Schine)

• I Capture the Castle (by Dodie Smith)

• Little Green Men (by Christopher Buckley)

• London Holiday (by Richard Peck)

• Meeting Luciano (by Anna Esaki-Smith)

• The Music Lesson (by Katharine Weber)

• Nowle's Passing (by Edith Forbes)

• The Soloist (by Mark Salzman)

• While I Was Gone (by Sue Miller)

• Corelli's Mandolin (by Louis De Bernieres)

• Henry and Clara (by Thomas Mallon)

Mystery

• A Darker Place (by Laurie R. King)

Autobiography

• The Color of Water (by James McBride)

• Falling Leaves (by Adeline Yen Mah)

• Front Row at the White House (by Helen Thomas)

Short Stories

• The Love of a Good Woman (by Alice Munro)

Non-Fiction

• Bingo Night at the Fire Hall (by Barbara Holland)

• Confederates in the Attic (by Tony Horwitz)

• I'm a Stranger Here Myself (by Bill Bryson)

• Under the Tuscan Sun (by Frances Mayes)

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