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JANUARY 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  The lace reader / Brunonia Barry  The cigarette century / Allan M. Brandt  The plague of doves / Louise Erdrich  The man who loved China / Simon Winchester  The clothes on their backs / Linda Grant  Battle cry of freedom / James M. McPherson

ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  Water for elephants / Sara Gruen  H.I.V.E. / MARK Walden  My sister’s keeper / Jodi Picoult  Sold / Patricia McCormick  The five people you meet in heaven / Mitch Albom  By royal command / Charlie Higson

CHILDREN CHILDREN/JUNIOR AUDIOS  Ugenia Lavender: she’s totally ingenious! / Geri Halliwell  My extremely good story collection / Lauren Child  Dr. Seuss’ tales to treasure / Dr. Seuss  Mr. Men collection / Roger Hargreaves  Madam President / Lane Smith  Tales of a Fourth Grade nothing /  What planet are you from Clarice Bean? / Lauren Child  Dinosaur vs. Bedtime / Bob Shea  Classic letterland ABC / Richard Carlisle & Lyn Wendon  Henry & Ribsy / Beverly Cleary

FEBRUARY 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  So brave, young and handsome / Leif Enger  Champlain’s dream / David Hackett Fischer  The broken shore / Peter Temple  Outliers / Malcolm Gladwell  2666 / Roberto Bolano  Your heart matters / Mak Koon Hou

ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  Revolutionary road / Richard Yates  The knife of never letting go / Patrick Ness  The bookseller of Kabul / Asne Seierstad  Night rise / Anthony Horowitz  He’s just not that into you / Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo  Wilderness / Roddy Doyle

CHILDREN CHILDREN/JUNIOR AUDIOS  I’m the best artist in the ocean / Kevin Sherry  Diary of a wimpy kid / Jeff Kinney  Curious George’s dinosaur discovery / Margret and H.A. Rey  Arthur’s baby / Marc Brown  Walt Disney’s Alice in wonderland /  Heidi / Johanna Spyri  All aboard! / Benedict Blathwayt  Frog and toad together / Arnold Lobel  Piper Reed, the great Gypsy / Kimberly Willis Holt  The mouse and the motorcycle / Beverly Cleary

MARCH 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  When will there be good news / Kate Atkinson  The nine / Jeffrey Toobin  Eve Green / Susan Fletcher  Freedom from fear / David M. Kennedy  The lieutenant / Kate Grenville  The best I could / Subhas Anandan

ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  A mercy / Toni Morrison  Inkdeath / Cornelia Funke  Coldest winter / David Halberstam  The declaration / Gemma Malley  He’s just not that into you / Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo  Un Lun Dun / China Mieville

CHILDREN CHILDREN/JUNIOR AUDIOS  Marley & Me / adapted by M.K Gaudet  Diary of a wimpy kid / Jeff Kinney  Olivia forms a band / Ian Falconer  Angelina’s baby sister / Katherine Holabird  Louise: the adventures of a chicken / Kate DiCamillo  My extremely good story collection / Lauren Child  Pirates don’t change diapers / Lauren Childs  Boys are dogs / Leslie Margolis  Diary of a wimpy kid / Jeff Kinney

APRIL 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  The help / Kathryn Stockett  A terrible glory / James Donovan  The flying Troutmans / Miriam Toews  John Paul Jones / Evan Thomas  Intuition / Allegra Goodman  Team of rivals / Doris Kearns Goodwin

ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer &  Forever princess / Meg Cabot Annie Barrows  Exposure / Mal Peet  The white tiger / Aravind Adiga  The general / Robert Muchamore  John Lennon: the life / Philip Norman

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CHILDREN CHILDREN/JUNIOR AUDIOS  First the egg / Laura Vacarro Seeger  A pocket for Corduroy / Don Freeman  Max’s Bunny / Rosemary Wells  The secret garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett  Sheep blast off! / Nancy Shaw  Lilly’s big day and other stories / Kevin Henkes  Curious George at the baseball game / Margaret and H.A. Rey  Veronica on Petunia’s Farm / Roger Duvoisin  Forever young /  The cardboard piano / Lynne Rae Perkins  Diary of the wimpy kid: Rodrick rules / Jeff Kinney

MAY 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  The cellist of Sarajevo / Steven Galloway  The monster of Florence / Douglas Preston  The household guide to dying / Debra Adelaide  Women of the Gobi / Kate James  Handle with care / Jodi Picoult  The Penguin history of modern China / Jonathan Fenby

ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  The associate / John Grisham  The underneath / Kathi Appelt  Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh  The clique / Lisi Harrison  The snowball / Alice Schroeder  A wrinkle in time / Madeleine L’Engle  Power of now / Eckhart Tolle

CHILDREN CHILDREN/JUNIOR AUDIOS  One boy / Laura Vaccaro Seeger  The graveyard book / Neil Gaiman  I got two dogs / John Lithgow  Maisy goes camping / Lusy Cousins  That book woman / Heather Henson  Clifford the big red dog / Norman Bridwell  There’s a wolf at the door: 5 classic tales / Zoe B. Alley  Monsters vs. Aliens: team monster / Gail Herman

JUNE 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  Burnt Shadows / Kamila Shamsie  Prisoner of State: the secret journal of Zhao Ziyang  German Bride / Joanna Hershon  Descent into Chaos / Ahmed Rashid  The Color of Lightning / Paulette Jiles  House of Cards / William D. Cohan ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  Descent into Chaos / Ahmed Rashid  Generation Dead / Daniel Waters  House of Cards / William D. Cohan  Hunted / P.C. Cast  Slumdog Millionaire / Vikas Swarup  Ways to Live / Sally Nicholls

CHILDREN CHILDREN/JUNIOR AUDIOS  Birds / Kevin Henkes  Harry and the Dinosaurs Story Collection / Ian Whybrow  Moving Day for Sam  The Seven Habits of Happy Kids / Sean Covey  Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope / Nikki Grimes  Geronimo Stilton Audio Collection  Your Own Big Bed / Rita Bergstein  Winnie Dancing on Her Own / Jennifer Richard Jacobson  The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies: stories and poems selected by Jane Werner

JULY 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  The writing on my forehead / Nafisa Haji  Science: a history / John Gribbin  Breathless in Bombay / Murzban F. Shroff  Dinner with Mugabe / Heidi Holland  The shack / William P. Young  Nixonland / Rick Perlstein

ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  Change your thoughts, change your life / Wayne W. Dyer  The Faire Folk Trilogy  Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh  Spartan Quest series  Outliers / Malcolm Gladwell  Life as we knew it / Susan Beth Pfeffer

CHILDREN  Tiddler: the story-telling fish / Julia Donaldson  Standing on my own two feet / Tamara Schmitz  Two-minute bible stories / retold by Elena Pasquali  Otto runs for president / Rosemary Wells

AUGUST 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  The children’s book / A.S. Byatt  Warlord / Carlo D’Este  In the kitchen / Monica Ali  A. Lincoln / Ronald C. White, Jr.  Heliopolis / James Scudamore  A year in Tibet / Sun Shuyun

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ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  Pegasus descending / James Lee Burke  Escape / Robert Muchamore  The tin roof blowdown / James Lee Burke  Double or die / Charlie Higson  What I was / Meg Rosoff

CHILDREN CHILDREN/JUNIOR AUDIOS  I’m really ever so not well / Lauren Child  The smartest giant in town / Julia Donaldson  Just Teddy / Emily Lin  The 7 habits happy kids / Sean Covey  Tacky goes to camp / Helen Lester  I don’t want a posh dog! / Emma Dodd  Big bug surprise / Julia Gran  The sandman / Ralph Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  In the kitchen / Monica Ali  Anzio / Lloyd Clark  The writing on my forehead / Nafisa Haji  Home / Julie Andrews  A reliable wife / Robert Goolrick  The illustrious dead / Stephan Talty  The world is curved / David M. Smick  The cost of capitalism / Robert J. Barbera  Fixing global finance / Martin Wolf

ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  Between the assassination / Aravind Adiga  The warlock lord / Terry Brooks  The end of overeating / David A. Kessler  The druids’ keep / Terry Brooks  The secret of the sword / Terry Brooks

CHILDREN CHILDREN/JUNIOR AUDIOS  Higher! Higher! / Leslie Patricelli  Magic tree house (books 33-36) / Mary Pope Osborne  Big words for little people / Jamie Lee Curtis  I’m ever so not well / Lauren Child  Ma! There’s nothing to do here! / Barbara Park  This is the firefighter / Laura Godwin  Snip snap! / Mara Bergman  Up / adapted by Lisa Marsoli  Judy Moody goes to college / Megan McDonald

OCTOBER 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  The personal history of Rachel Dupree / Ann Weisgarber  The link / Colin Tudge  Upcountry / Graham McEune  Titanic’s last secrets / Brad Matsen

ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  The memory keeper’s daughter / Kim Edwards  Purge / Sarah Littman  The long walk / Slavomir Rawicz  Heretic / Sarah Singleton  A year in the world / Frances Mayes  Kiss / Jacqueline Wilson

CHILDREN CHILDREN/JUNIOR AUDIOS  Big bug surprise / Julia Gran  Felicity wishes / Emma Thomson  Smash! Crash! / Jon Scieszka  Tales from the Arabian nights / Toby Stephens  Bobo and the new neighbor / Gail Page  Irish folk tales for children / Sharon Kennedy  I am a rainbow /

NOVEMBER 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  The palace walk / Naguib Mahfouz  1789 / David Andress  Map of the invisible world / Tash Aw  The worst hard time / Timothy Egan  Wolf hall / Hilary Mantel  The river of lost footsteps / Thant Myint-U

ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  The lost symbol / Dan Brown  Mysteries & marvels of science / Phillip Clarke  The white queen / Philippa Gregory  World religions: Islam / Katy Gerner  Train your brain to be a genius / John Woodward

CHILDREN CHILDREN/JUNIOR AUDIOS  Ducks don’t wear socks / John Nedwick  The underneath / Kathi Appelt  Poor Monty / Anne Fine  Bog child / Siobhan Dowd  Curious you: on your way! / Kathleen W. Zoehfeld  Nate the great / Marjorie Weinman Sharmat  The perfect thanksgiving / Eileen Spinelli  The Thanksgiving story / Alice Dalgliesh TOP OF THE SHELF | COMMITTEE PICKS

DECEMBER 2009 ADULT FICTION ADULT NON FICTION  The winter ghosts / Kate Mosse  Expect a miracle / Dan Wakefield  The Christmas sweater / Glenn Beck  Poems that live forever  Back to the table / Art Smith  The book of Christian crafts / Deborah Morgenthal  Creative Christmas crafts  The complete cookie book / Elizabeth Wolf Cohen  China syndrome / Karl Taro Greenfield  Under the volcano / William Phelps

ADULT AUDIOS JUNIOR FICTION  The hour I first believed / Wally lamb  The bride’s farewell / Meg Rossoff  Giving / Bill Clinton  Snakehead / Anthony Horowitz  The last lecture / Randy Pausch  Season of secrets / Sally Nichols

CHILDREN CHILDREN/JUNIOR AUDIOS  The Usborne introduction to the First World War / Ruth Brocklehurst  Harry and the dinosaurs / Ian Whybrow  The Usborne introduction to the Second World War / Paul Dowsell  Body fuel for healthy bodies / Trisha Sertori