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Calendar of Events Now It's Your Turn - 2009 Suggestions Catalog Children Community Info Chelmsford History RSS Feed Available! Contact Us Friends Library Information MacKay Branch Books for June 18, 2009 Session: Meeting Rooms Museum Passes Book Say You're One of Them Programs & Exhibits Cover The Reading Room By Akpan, Uwem Reference 2008/06 - Little Brown and Company Teen 9780316113786 Check our Catalog

Main Library From a celebrated New Yorker writer comes a bold literary debut--a 25 Boston Road collection of brilliant short stories about children's lives in crisis in Chelmsford, MA USA 01824 modern Africa. Telephone: (978) 256-5521 ...More

MacKay Branch 43 Newfield Street Book N. Chelmsford, MA 01863 Last Bite: A Novel of Culinary Romance Cover Telephone: (978) 256-5521 x6 By Barr, Nancy Verde Click on address for map 2006/06 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill e-mail us: 1565124952 Check our Catalog [email protected] After ending a bad relationship, Casey Costello, an executive chef at a morning television show, swears off men. Who has the time anyway? She's busy overseeing a rambunctious food-prep crew in a kitchen the size of a closet; trying to please high-maintenance celebrity guest chefs; and dealing with her large extended Italian American family, who believe that the solutions to life's problems involve food. And in the midst of her high-energy, stress-inducing career-- punctuated by a steady stream of parties and restaurant openings that must not be missed-- she's trying to uncover why Sally Woods, a grand old dame of the culinary world and regular on the television show, is suddenly ready to jump ship and find a new station "and" a new exectuvie chef. When Danny O'Shea, a handsome chef from one of New York's hottest new restaurants, make ...More

Book Later, at the Bar: A Novel in Stories Cover By Barry, Rebecca 2007/05 - Simon & Schuster 9781416535249 Check our Catalog

In the tradition of Garrison Keillor and Richard Russo comes a warm, funny fiction debut about the lives and loves of the regulars at

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a small-town bar. ...More

Book A Long Long Way Cover By Barry, Sebastian 2005/02 - Viking Books 0670033804 Check our Catalog

Readers meet Willie Dunne when he is still a gifted boy growing up in Dublin and follow him--through a diary and letters home--into battle during World War II where he must shoulder the unending internal damages of the war along with the hatred of his own countrymen for fighting for Britain. ...More

Book The Secret Scripture Cover By Barry, Sebastian 2008/06 - Viking Books 9780670019403 Check our Catalog

2008 Costa Novel Award Winner

Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an epic story of love, betrayal, and unavoidable tragedy, and a vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on individual lives for much of the 20th century. ...More

Book The School of Essential Ingredients Cover By Bauermeister, Erica 2009/01 - Putnam Adult 9780399155437 Check our Catalog

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Eight students gather in Lillian's Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen. ...More

Book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Cover By Beah, Ishmael 2007/02 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374105235 Check our Catalog

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BookPage Notable Title In the more than 50 conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. In a rare and mesmerizing account, Beah tells of his experience as a child fighting a war in Sierra Leone. ...More

Book The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Cover Small Acts of Liberation By Berg, Elizabeth 2008/04 - Random House 9781400065097 Check our Catalog

The bestselling author of "We Are All Welcome Here, The Year of Pleasures," and "Open House" returns with exhilarating stories of women breaking free from conventions. ...More

Book The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Cover Barriers By Bernstein, Harry 2007/03 - Ballantine Books 9780345495808 Check our Catalog

The enchanting true story of a love affair that broke down the walls that divided a neighborhood. Bernstein has written a wonderfully charming and moving tale of working class life, social divide, and forbidden love on the eve of the First World War. ...More

Book Little Bee Cover By Cleave, Chris 2009/02 - Simon & Schuster 9781416589631 Check our Catalog

From the author of the international bestseller "Incendiary" comes a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London. ...More

Book Prayers for Sale Cover By Dallas, Sandra 2009/04 - St. Martin's Press 9780312385187 Check our Catalog

Dallas has created an unforgettable tale of a friendship between two women, one with surprising twists and turns, and one that is ultimately a revelation of the finest parts of the human spirit. ...More

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Book Walking Across Egypt Cover By Edgerton, Clyde 1987/01 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 0912697512 Check our Catalog

Mattie Rigsbee is seventy-eight. She lives by herself in Listre, North Carolina (near Bethel). She claims she's "slowing down", but she still cuts her own grass and runs the Lottie Moon missions fund drive at Listre Baptist Church. This is the scene into which Edgerton drops Wesley Benfield -- adolescent, illegitimate, and delinquent, with a mouth full of foul language and bad teeth and a craving for good food. ...More

Book The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel Cover By Fforde, Jasper 2003/02 - Penguin Books 9780142001806 Check our Catalog

The "New York Times" bestseller is the first in a series of outlandishly clever adventures featuring the resourceful, fearless literary detective Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative. ...More

Book In the Woods Cover By French, Tana 2008/06 - Penguin Books 9780143113492 Check our Catalog

For readers who like their hard-boiled police procedurals with an international flare ( USA Today ), this thriller marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense. ...More

Book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Cover Classic Regency Romance+now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! By Grahame-Smith, Seth Austen, Jane 2009/04 - Quirk Books 9781594743344 Check our Catalog

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the

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zombie menace but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. ...More

Book A Reliable Wife Cover By Goolrick, Robert 2009/03 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 9781565125964 Check our Catalog

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Set in rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. ...More

Book Carry Me Down Cover By Hyland, M. J. 2006/02 - Canongate Books 1841957402 Check our Catalog

Hyland pens a restrained, emotionally taut, and sometimes oddly funny portrait of a misfit--John Egan, a 12-year-old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant, and an obsession for the Guinness Book of World Records. ...More

Book How the Light Gets in Cover By Hyland, M. J. 2004/05 - Canongate Books 1841955485 Check our Catalog

In this acutely observed and darkly humorous tale of adolescence, a gifted but unhappy 16-year-old Australian girl trades poverty for suburban suffocation when she takes part in an exchange program in the U.S. ...More

No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a Sixtieth Year By Ironside, Virginia 2007/04 - Viking Books 9780670038183 Check our Catalog

This wonderfully astute novel based on the author's own

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experiences is the funny--and often poignant--fictionalized diary of an older woman . . . a decade or two past her prime and content to leave it all behind her. ...More

Book Comfort Food Cover By Jacobs, Kate 2008/05 - G. P. Putnam's Sons 9780399154652 Check our Catalog

BookPage Notable Title In this smart, delicious novel by the bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club, a celebrity chef shows her friends and family the joy of fulfillment--and manages to spice up her own life at the same time. ...More

Book Mudbound Cover By Jordan, Hillary 2008/03 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 9781565125698 Check our Catalog

2009 Alex Award

This prize-winning novel is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made real (Barbara Kingsolver), as men and women from two families become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale. ...More

Book The Tender Bar Cover By Moehringer, J. R. 2005/09 - Hyperion Books 1401300642 Check our Catalog

J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. His mother was his world, his anchor, but J.R. needed something more. So, he turned to the patrons of a grand old New York saloon. There, the flamboyant characters along the bar taught him, tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood by committee. Riveting, moving, and achingly funny, "The Tender Bar" is an evocative portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man. ...More

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In the Lake of the Woods By O'Brien, Tim C'Brien, Tim 1994/10 - Houghton Mifflin Company 0395488893 Check our Catalog

A masterly new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of Going After Cacciato. What happens when the secret you've hidden from everyone, even yourself, breaks out? This question lies at the center of O'Brien's brilliant new novel about a rising politician whose wife's disappearance forces his secret out in the open. First serial to The Atlantic Monthly and Esquire. ...More

Book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Cover Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master t By Powell, Julie 2005/09 - Little Brown and Company 031610969X Check our Catalog

BookPage Notable Title With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" and saved her soul. ...More

Book In the Castle of the Flynns Cover By Raleigh, Michael 2002/02 - Sourcebooks Landmark 1570717974 Check our Catalog

Michael Raleigh's "In the "Castle of the Flynns" is about a young boy growing up Irish in a vibrant 1950s Chicago neighborhood. Now grown and looking back on those years, Daniel recalls his bouts with grief and fear of abandonment as he learns to adjust to his new surroundings amidst his oddball family. ...More

The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Guernsey Literary Society and By Shaffer, Mary Ann Potato Peel Pie Author Barrows, Annie 2008-07 - Dial Press 9780385340991 Check our Catalog

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London, 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of Guernsey during the German occupation, and about a society as extraordinary as its name. …More

The Help The Help By Stockett, Kathryn 2009-02 - Amy Einhorn Books 9780399155345 Check our Catalog

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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. …More

Olive Olive Kitteridge Kitteridge By Strout, Elizabeth 2008-03 - Random House (NY) 9781400062089 Check our Catalog

2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner

New York Times bestselling author Strout binds together 13 rich, luminous narratives through the presence of one larger-than-life, unforgettable character: Olive Kitteridge, who offers profound insights into the human condition. …More

Good Good Grief Grief By Winston, Lolly 2004-04 - Warner Books 0446533041 Check our Catalog

36-year-old Sophie Stanton desperately wants to be a good widow. Alas, Sophie is more of a Jack Daniels kind. Breaking down in the produce section at the supermarket, showing up to work in her bathrobe and bunny slippers--soon she's not only lost her husband, but her job, her house, and her waistline.Filled with laugh-out-loud humor, struggles, and triumphs, GOOD GRIEF is a funny, wise, and poignant novel. …More

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Book City of the Beasts Cover By Allende, Isabel Peden, Margaret Sayers 2002/11 -Rayo 9780060509170 Check our Catalog

Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the opportunity to take the trip of a lifetime. Accompanying his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter, Alexander sets off on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon to document the legendary Yeti known as The Beast. ...More

Book The House of the Spirits Cover By Allende, Isabel 2005/04 -Everyman's Library 9781400043187 Check our Catalog

Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one

you will not forget. Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by his tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess. Clara -- The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas. Blanca -- Their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's everlasting contempt... even as it produces the grandchild he adores. Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a lumi ...More

Book The Flamingo Rising Cover By Baker, Larry 1998/06 -Ballantine Books 9780345427021 Check our Catalog

In this touching, hilarious novel of the heart and mind, of dreams and memory, of desire and first love, Abe Lee comes of age in the 1960s, living with his unforgettable family at the Flamingo Drive-In Theatre on a scrubby patch of coast between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida. There, some of America's last sweet moments of innocence are unfolding. For Abe's father, Hubert, there's nothing better than presenting larger-than-life Hollywood fantasies on his vast silver screen. Nothing, that is, except gleefully sparring with Turner West--a funeral home operator who doesn't much appreciate the noise and merriment from the drive-in next door. Within the lively orbit of this ongoing feud is Abe's mother, Edna Marie, whose calm radiance conceals deep secrets; his sister, Louise, who blossoms almost too quickly into a stunning, willf ...More

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Book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, Cover and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen By McDougall, Christopher 2009/05 -Knopf Publishing Group 9780307266309 Check our Catalog

Part adventure story, part extreme sports, Born to Run is a riveting story about one journalist's quest to discover the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--a reclusive Indian tribe living deep in the Copper Canyon of Northern Mexico. ...More

Book Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip Cover By Duncan, Dayton Burns, Ken Burns, Ken 2003/07 -Random House Audible 9780739306352 Check our Catalog

The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first--and perhaps most astonishing--automobile trip across the United States. In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a "horseless buggy"--but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor, who impulsively bet fifty dollars that he could drive his 20-horsepower automobile from San Francisco to New York City. Here--in Jackson's own words and photographs--is a glorious account of that months-long, problem-beset, thrilling-to-the- rattled-bones trip with his mechanic, Sewall Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud. Jackson's previously unpublished letters to his wife, brimming with optimism against all odds, describe in vivid detail every detour, every flat tire, every adventure good and bad. A ...More

Book Then We Came to the End Cover By Ferris, Joshua 2007/03 -Little Brown and Company 9780316016384 Check our Catalog

BookPage Notable Title The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office furniture and try to make sense of the mysterious pro-bono ad campaign that is their only remaining "work." ...More

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Book Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Cover By Foer, Jonathan Safran 2005/04 -Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780618329700 Check our Catalog

Winner - 2006 ALA Notable Fiction Selection A BookPage Notable Title Oskar Schell is an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

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Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer's bestselling "Everything Is Illuminated", is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of "Illuminated", Oskar turns his na vely precocious vocabulary to ...More

Book Don't Go There!: The Travel Detective's Cover Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World By Greenberg, Peter Chawla, Sarika 2008/11 -Rodale Press 9781605299945 Check our Catalog

In this follow-up to his New York Times -bestselling book The Complete Travel Detective Bible, Greenberg offers his expert, hard-won knowledge of where not to go and why. ...More

Book The Gone-Away World Cover By Harkaway, Nick 2008/09 -Knopf Publishing Group 9780307268860 Check our Catalog

This wildly entertaining debut novel introduces a bold new voice that combines antic humor with a stunning futuristic vision to deliver an electrifyingly original tale of love, friendship, and the apocalypse. ...More

Book Flush Cover By Hiaasen, Carl 2005/09 -Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 9780375821820 Check our Catalog

A BookPage Notable Title 2007-2008 Georgia Children's Book Award Winner 2007 Colorado Children's Book Award Junior Novel Runner-Up

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2006-2007 Sunshine State Young Reader's Book Texas Lone Star Reading List 2006-2007

Noah's dad is sure that the owner of a casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor. Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed and will sink the crooked casino and prove the boat owner is dumping illegally. ...More

Book Tourist Season Cover By Hiaasen, Carl 1987/02 -Warner Books 0446343455 Check our Catalog

The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning...

Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder...in a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of fanatics and a very hungry crocodile. ...More

Illumination Night By Hoffman, Alice 1988/06 -Fawcett Books 0449215946 Check our Catalog

Elizabeth is an elderly widow suffering from spells of fantasy and failing sight. Andre and Vonny are a young couple trying to make ends meet. Jody is a teenage runaway. On the island of Chilmark near Martha's Vineyard, they all come together. 'Haunting, fable- like'.--Cosmopolitan. ...More

Book Incantation Cover By Hoffman, Alice 2006/10 -Little Brown and Company 9780316010191 Check our Catalog

Massachusetts Book Award - 2007 Children's / Young Adult Literature Award Estrella is a Marrano: During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, she is one of a community of Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And she is living in a house of secrets, raised by a family who practices underground the ancient and mysterious way of wisdom known as kabbalah. When Estrella discovers her family's true identity - and her family's secrets are made public - she confronts a world she's never imagined, where new love burns and where friendship ends in flame and ash, where trust is all but vanquished and betrayal has tragic and bitter consequences. ...More

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Book The Heretic's Daughter Cover By Kent, Kathleen 2008/09 -Little Brown and Company 9780316024488 Check our Catalog

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Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried, and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. This is the haunting story of Carrier's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by her daughter, Sarah. ...More

Book The History of Love Cover By Krauss, Nicole 2005/05 -W. W. Norton & Company 9780393060348 Check our Catalog

A BookPage Notable Title Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: 60 years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love. ...More

Book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Cover By Larsson, Stieg Murray, Steven T. Keeland, Reg 2008/09 -Knopf Publishing Group 9780307269751 Check our Catalog

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In this European publishing sensation, a crusading journalist joins forces with a 24-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker to investigate the whereabouts of a missing woman from one of the wealthiest families in Sweden. ...More

Book Pretty Monsters Cover By Link, Kelly Tan, Shaun 2008/10 -Viking Children's Books 9780670010905 Check our Catalog

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Through the lens of Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. Now in her first YA story collection, Link delivers stories that are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world. Illustrations. ...More

Book Heat Cover By Lupica, Mike 2006/04 -Philomel Books 9780399243011 Check our Catalog

2007-2008 Sunshine State Young Reader's Book Texas Lone Star Reading List 2007-2008 The #1 New York Times bestseller is now in paperback. Baseball is young Michael Arroyo's only salvation, but his dream of playing in the Little League World Series is soon threatened. Includes a teaser for Lupica's upcoming novel, Miracle on 49th Street ....More

Book Wild Pitch Cover By Lupica, Mike 2003/09 -Berkley Publishing Group 9780425192047 Check our Catalog

Lupica's hilarious take on America's favorite sport is now in paperback. ""Wild Pitch" captures the angst, the pathos, and the rare exhilaration of being a Red Sox guy. This book is really good."--Robert B. Parker. ...More

Book Let the Great World Spin Cover By McCann, Colum 2009/06 -Random House 9781400063734 Check our Catalog

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McCann's most ambitious work to date offers a dazzling and hauntingly rich vision of the loveliness, pain, and mystery of life in New York City in the 1970s. ...More

Book The Memory of Running Cover By McLarty, Ron 2005/01 -Viking Books 9780670033638 Check our Catalog

A BookPage Notable Title McLarty tells the story of Smithson Ide, a 43-year-old, 279-pound supervisor at a GI Joe factory who begins a cross-country journey on his old Raleigh bicycle to retrieve the body of his beautiful, mentally disturbed sister. ...More

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Book The Forgotten Garden Cover By Morton, Kate 2009/04 -Atria Books 9781416550549 Check our Catalog

From the author of "The House at Riverton" comes a story of outer and inner journeys. An homage to the power of storytelling, "The Forgotten Garden" is filled with unforgettable characters who weave their way through its intricate plot to astounding effect. ...More

Book Big Mouth & Ugly Girl Cover By Oates, Joyce Carol 2002/05 -HarperTempest 9780066237565 Check our Catalog

Matt Donaghy has always had a big mouth, but it has never gotten him in trouble until the day he is accused of threatening to blow up Rocky River High High School. Ursula Riggs--a.k.a. Ugly Girl--is the only one who knows what Matt said that day, and she is the only one who can help him. ...More

Book My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Cover Skyler Rampike By Oates, Joyce Carol 2008/07 -Ecco 9780061547485 Check our Catalog

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New York Times bestselling author Oates is back with this dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved true-crime mystery. ...More

Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California By Raskin, Jonah 2009/05 -University of California Press 9780520259027 Check our Catalog

"This is an insider's view, and Raskin offers readers insights into a hidden California. The impact of his book is to return culture to agriculture in a state dominated by agribusiness."--Gerald Haslam, author of "The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland" "Jonah Raskin has lived and taught in this area for well over thirty years and has the credibility to write about the evolution of farming here. His book is a magical mixture of journalism and memoir. I loved his interviews with local farmers and growers. He explores the questions that we all are asking about our relationship to food and what it means to eat locally, who grows it, and will they be able to continue to do so."--Ianthe Bruatigan, author of "You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir." ...More

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Early Bird: Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement A Memoir of By Rothman, Rodney Premature 2005-05 - Simon & Schuster Retirement 0743242173 Check our Catalog

In this hilarious and insightful memoir, 25-year-old Rodney Rothman, burned out from his big-city life, decides to get a jump start on the golden years . . . four decades before his time. …More

Shanghai Shanghai Girls Girls By See, Lisa 2009-05 - Random House (NY) 9781400067114 Check our Catalog

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From the author of the bestsellers "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" and "Peony in Love" comes a stunning new novel about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles. …More

Toast: The Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger Story of a Boy's By Slater, Nigel Hunger 2005-10 - Gotham Books 9781592401611 Check our Catalog

"Toast" is Slater's extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. A bestseller and award-winner in the United Kingdom, "Toast" is sure to delight both foodies and memoir readers on this side of the pond. …More

The Art of The Art of Racing in the Rain Racing in the Rain By Stein, Garth 2008-05 - Harper 9780061537936 Check our Catalog

Meet Enzo, the unforgettable canine narrator of this bittersweet and transformative story of family, love, loyalty, and hope. Enzo is a philosopher with a nearly human soul, and he's gained a wealth of knowledge from hours spent in front of the TV. …More

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Mad Girls Mad Girls in Love in Love By West, Michael Lee 2005-07 - HarperCollins Publishers 9780060184063 Check our Catalog

From the bestselling author of "Crazy Ladies" comes the story of six unforgettable Southern women who face life with flair and grace and who share their hysterical, unpredictable, always entertaining and sometimes tragic tales, each in her own distinctive voice. …More

Sag Sag Harbor Harbor By Whitehead, Colson 2009-04 - Doubleday Books 9780385527651 Check our Catalog

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In this deeply affectionate and fiercely funny coming-of-age novel, Whitehead--using the perpetual mortification of teenage existence and the desperate quest for reinvention--beautifully explores racial and class identity, illustrating the complex rhythms of the adult world. …More

The The Leisure Seeker Leisure Seeker By Zadoorian, Michael 2009-02 - William Morrow & Company 9780061671784 Check our Catalog

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Both achingly sad and intensely romantic, this unforgettable story (Marjorie Hart, author of "Summer at Tiffany") follows the cross- country journey of a runaway elderly couple determined to meet the end of the road on their own terms. …More

Books for August 20, 2009 Session:

All Other All Other Nights Nights By Horn, Dara 2009-04 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393064926 Check our Catalog

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On Passover in 1862, Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, is ordered to murder his own uncle, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln. After that night, will Jacob ever speak for himself? …More

The The Believers Believers By Heller, Zoe 2009-03 - Harper 9780061430206 Check our Catalog

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The highly anticipated new novel from the author of the acclaimed "What Was She Thinking?" is a rich, comic chronicle of one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt. …More

Beowulf Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and on the Beach: What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits What to By Murnighan, Jack Love and What to 2009-05 - Three Rivers Press (CA) 9780307409577 Check our Catalog

From Homer and Proust to "Beloved" and the Bible, "Beowulf on the Beach" is a user-friendly guide through the imposing world of literature. …More

The Blue The Blue Notebook Notebook By Levine, James A. 2009-07 - Spiegel & Grau 9780385528719 Check our Catalog

"The Blue Notebook is a deeply moving story and a searing reminder of the resilience of the human spirit. It is a tribute to how writing can give meaning and help one transcend even the most harrowing circumstances. The voice of Batuk, the unforgettable child prostitute heroine, will stay with the reader a long, long time."--Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns …More

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Brooklyn Brooklyn By Toibin, Colm 2009-05 - Scribner Book Company 9781439138311 Check our Catalog

2009 Costa Novel Award Winner

From the award-winning author of "The Master" comes a moving historical novel set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, concerning a young woman torn between her family and her past in Ireland and the American who wins her heart. …More

The The Calligrapher's Daughter Calligrapher's Daughter By Kim, Eugenia 2009-08 - Henry Holt & Company 9780805089127 Check our Catalog

A sweeping debut novel inspired by the life of the author's mother, "The Calligrapher's Daughter" follows a young woman who dares to fight for a brighter future in occupied Korea. …More

A Country A Country Called Home Called Home By Barnes, Kim 2008-09 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307268952 Check our Catalog

From the author of the acclaimed memoir and Pulitzer Prize finalist "In the Wilderness" comes a luminous novel of youthful idealism, of faith and madness, of love and family. …More

The Diary The Diary By Goudge, Eileen 2009-04 - Vanguard Press 9781593155438 Check our Catalog

When the two grown daughters of Elizabeth Marshall discover an old diary of their mother's in her attic, it comes as a shock to learn that the true love of Elizabeth's life was not their father. This is the mystery the two daughters must unravel. …More

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Driftless Driftless By Rhodes, David 2008-09 - Milkweed Editions 9781571310590 Check our Catalog

David Rhodes's long-awaited new novel turns an unblinking eye on an array of eccentric characters and situations. The setting is Words, Wisconsin, an anonymous town of only a few hundred people. But under its sleepy surface, life rages. Cora and Graham guard their dairy farm, and family, from the wicked schemes of their milk co-op. Lifelong paraplegic Olivia suddenly starts to walk, only to find herself crippled by her fury toward her sister and caretaker, Violet. Recently retired Rusty finds a cougar living in his haymow, dredging up haunting childhood memories. Winifred becomes pastor of the Friends church and stumbles on enlightenment in a very unlikely place. And Julia Montgomery, both private and gregarious, instigates a series of events that threatens the town's solitude and doggedly suspicious ways. …More

Entertaining Entertaining Disasters Disasters By Spiller, Nancy 2009-01 - Counterpoint LLC 9781582434513 Check our Catalog

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In print, FW, the unnamed freelance Food Writer of Nancy Spiller's sardonic debut novel, Entertaining Disasters, lives high on the food chain in the heady realm of L.A.'s culinary journalism scene. …More

Everything Everything Matters! Matters! By Currie, Ron, Jr. 2009-06 - Viking Books 9780670020928 Check our Catalog

2010 Alex Award Winner

In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in 36 years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? …More

Fault Fault Lines Lines By Huston, Nancy 2008-10 - Grove Press 9780802170514 Check our Catalog

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From internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Huston comes a profound and poetic story that traces four generations of a single family from present-day California to World War II-era Germany. …More

Finger Finger Lickin' Fifteen Lickin' Fifteen By Evanovich, Janet 2009-06 - St. Martin's Press 9780312383282 Check our Catalog

From #1 bestselling author Evanovich comes the next book in her Stephanie Plum series, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten. …More

Gone Gone Tomorrow Tomorrow By Child, Lee 2009-05 - Delacorte Press 9780385340571 Check our Catalog

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New York Times -bestselling author Lee Child returns with his latest explosive and nearly impossible to put down thriller. Jack Reacher is back and he's been cast as a suspect on the world's biggest stage: New York City. …More

Honolulu Honolulu By Brennert, Alan 2009-03 - St. Martin's Press 9780312360405 Check our Catalog

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From the bestselling author of the dazzling historical saga ("Washington Post") "Moloka'i" comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city. …More

The Late, The Late, Lamented Molly Marx Lamented Molly By Koslow, Sally Marx 2009-05 - Ballantine Books 9780345506207 Check our Catalog

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Exploring marriage, fidelity, family, and mortality, "The Late, Lamented Molly Marx" is a playful yet tender love story about a flawed but charming woman, who is forced--better late than never--to take responsibility for the choices in her complicated life. …More

Little Pink Little Pink Slips Slips By Koslow, Sally 2007-05 - Putnam Publishing Group 9780399154157 Check our Catalog

Inspired by real-life events, this mordantly funny debut novel explores the extremely unladylike business of publishing a very ladylike magazine. …More

The Little The Little Stranger Stranger By Waters, Sarah 2009-04 - Riverhead Hardcover 9781594488801 Check our Catalog

From the multi-award-winning and bestselling author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith comes an astonishing novel about love, loss, and the sometimes unbearable weight of the past. …More

Love Love Walked in Walked in By de los Santos, Marisa 2006-12 - Plume Books 9780452287891 Check our Catalog

A tribute to classic film and true romance, this is the story of a 31-year-old caf manager and an 11-year-old who is searching for her father--and the unexpected ways in which their lives are forever changed by chance. …More

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Marcelo in Marcelo in the Real World the Real World By Stork, Francisco X. 2009-03 - Arthur A. Levine Books 9780545054744 Check our Catalog

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Reminiscent of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" in the intensity and purity of its voice, this extraordinary novel challenges the boundaries of autism. It is a love story, a legal drama, and a celebration of the music each of us hears inside. …More

Pobby and Pobby and Dingan Dingan By Rice, Ben 2000-09 - Alfred A. Knopf 0375411275 Check our Catalog

The small daughter of an Australian opal miner has two imaginary friends, Pobby and Dingan, who disappear when the father is accused of poaching another's claim. Her brother then attempts to find Pobby and Dingan to save his grief-stricken sister. …More

The The Polysyllabic Spree: A Hilarious and True Polysyllabic Spree: A Account of One Man's Struggle with the Hilarious Monthly Tide of the Books He's Bought and and True Account of the Books He's B By Hornby, Nick 2004-11 - McSweeney's Books 9781932416244 Check our Catalog

"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else," writes Nick Hornby in his "Stuff I've Been Reading" column in "The Believer." This book collects Hornby's popular columns in a single, artfully illustrated volume with selected passages from the novels, biographies, collections of poetry, and comics under discussion. …More

Sing Sing Them Home Them Home By Kallos, Stephanie 2009-01 - Atlantic Monthly Press 9780871139634 Check our Catalog

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An INDIE NEXT Selection

Sing Them Home is a magnificent tapestry of lives connected and undone by tragedy, lives poised--unbeknownst to the characters--for redemption. …More

Still Alice Still Alice By Genova, Lisa 2009-01 - Gallery Press 9781439116883 Check our Catalog

"Still Alice" is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by a first-time author who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience. Reminiscent of "A Beautiful Mind" and "Ordinary People," this work packs an emotional punch. …More

The The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Sweetness at the By Bradley, Alan Bottom of Author Bradley, C. Alan the Pie 2009-04 - Delacorte Press 9780385342308 Check our Catalog

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In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction. …More

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The Sister The Sister By Adams, Poppy 2008-06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307268167 Check our Catalog

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This lyrical and haunting story of two sisters, their troubling past, and the terrible secrets they each want buried will stay with you long after you close the book. A wonderful book loaded with twists and turns that come straight from the heart--Harlan Coben. …More

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Christine Falls By Black, Benjamin 2007-03 - Henry Holt & Company 9780805081527 Check our Catalog

BookPage Notable Title In a Booker Prize-winning author's debut crime novel, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society. …More

I'm I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Looking Through Haunted You: By Boylan, Jennifer Finney Growing Up 2008-01 - Broadway Books 9780767921749 Check our Catalog

From the bestselling author of "Shes Not There" comes another buoyant, unforgettable memoir about growing up in a haunted house--and making peace with the ghosts that dwell in the heart. …More

The 13th The 13th Hour: A Thriller Hour: A Thriller By Doetsch, Richard 2009-12 - Atria Books 9781439147917 Check our Catalog

A man is given the chance to go back in time in one hour increments to prevent the murder of his wife, a crime that the police think he committed. …More

The The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Physick Book of By Howe, Katherine Deliverance 2009-06 - Hyperion Books Dane 9781401340902 Check our Catalog

Written by an author completing a Ph.D. in New England Studies, and whose ancestors had been accused witches in Salem, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the trials in the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery and discovery. …More

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Shutter Shutter Island Island By Lehane, Dennis 2003-05 - HarperLargePrint 9780060545505 Check our Catalog

Summer, 1954.

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient.

But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. And neither is Teddy Daniels.

Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing ...

The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island.

Because someone is trying to drive them insane ... …More

Ghost Ghost By Lightman, Alan Read by Price, Christopher 2008-02 - Playaway 9781605145792 Check our Catalog

David is a modest man who works in a bank, lives in a rooming house, enjoys books and quiet walks by the lake. Three months after unexpectedly being fired from his job, he takes a temporary position at a mortuary. And there, sitting alone in the slumber room one late afternoon, he sees something that he cannot comprehend, something that no science can explain, something that will force him to question everything he believes in, including himself. After his metaphysical experience, all his relationships changewith his estranged wife, his girlfriend, his motherand he grudgingly finds himself at the center of a bitter public controversy over the existence of the supernatural. …More

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The Price of Malice: A Joe Gunther Novel By Mayor, Archer 2009-09 - Minotaur Books 9780312381929 Check our Catalog

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Her Her Fearful Symmetry Fearful Symmetry By Niffenegger, Audrey 2009-09 - Scribner Book Company 9781439165393 Check our Catalog

From the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife, comes a spectacularly compelling second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. …More

The The Unseen Unseen By Sokoloff, Alexandra 2009-05 - St. Martin's Press 9780312384708 Check our Catalog

Two psychology professors uncover disturbing cases surrounding a study to prove the validity of ESP. Unaware that the original team in the study ended up insane or dead, the professors attempt to replicate the investigation, with horrifying results. …More

Presumed Presumed Innocent Innocent By Turow, Scott 2000-12 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446676441 Check our Catalog

Now available in trade paperback, "Presumed Innocent" brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of crimes. Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is transformed from accuser to accused when he is handed an explosive case--that of the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover. …More

True Crime

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In Cold In Cold Blood Blood By Capote, Truman 2006-10 - Transaction Publishers 9781560005377 Check our Catalog

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansa. In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece. …More

A Death in A Death in Belmont Belmont By Junger, Sebastian 2006-06 - HarperLargePrint 9780061126666 Check our Catalog

In 1963, with the city of Boston already terrified by a series of savage crimes known as the Boston Stranglings, a murder occurred in Belmont, just a few blocks from the house of Sebastian Junger's family -- a murder that seemed to fit exactly the pattern of the Strangler. Roy Smith, a black man who had cleaned the victim's house that day, was convicted, but the terror of the Strangler continued.

Two years later, Albert DeSalvo, a handyman who had been working at the Jungers' home on the day of the Belmont murder, and had often spent time there alone with Sebastian and his mother, confessed in lurid detail to being the Boston Strangler.

By turns exciting and subtle, "A Death in Belmont" chronicles three lives that collide -- and are ultimately destroyed -- in the vortex of one of the most controversial serial murder cases in America. The power of the story and the brilliance of Junger's reporting place this book on the short shelf of classics beside "In Cold Blood" and "Helter Skelter," …More

Jumped, Jumped, Fell, or Pushed: How Forensics Fell, or Pushed: Solved 50 "Perfect" Murders How By Koehler, Stephen A. Forensics Solved 50 Author Moore, Peter Author Owen, David 2009-10 - Reader's Digest Association

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America By Larson, Erik 2003-02 - Crown Publishing Group (NY) 9780609608449 Check our Catalog

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds--a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both. To find out more about this book, go to http: //www.DevilInTheWhiteCity.com. …More

Fatal Fatal Vision Vision By McGinniss, Joe, Jr. 1984-08 - Signet Book 9780451165664 Check our Catalog

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Stranger Stranger Beside Me Beside Me By Rule, Ann Preface by Rule, Ann 1981-07 - Signet Book 9780451164933 Check our Catalog

Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural "winner" -- handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24, 1989, Ted Bundy was executed for the murders of three young women; he had also confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five more young women from coast to coast. This is his story written by a woman who thought she knew Ted Bundy -- until she began to pull all the evidence together, and the whole terrifying picture emerged from the dark depths. …More

Your Worst Nightmare

Sweet Sweet Hereafter Movie Tie-In Hereafter Movie By Banks, Russell Tie-In Joint Author Patten, Arturo 1997-12 - Harper Perennial 9780060923242 Check our Catalog

A brilliant and powerful novel from the critically acclaimed author of Continental Drift that explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident. "A novel of compelling moral suspense. . . ".--Los Angeles Times Book Review. …More

Range of Motion By Berg, Elizabeth 1996-12 - Jove Books 9780515119787 Check our Catalog

The New York Times bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep presents a remarkable novel about the power of love and friendship. As Jay Berman lies for weeks in a coma, his young wife Lainey holds vigil. She is sustained by two very special women, each of whom teaches her about the enduring bond of friendship and the genuine power of love. …More

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World War World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Z: An Oral History of War the By Brooks, Max Zombie War 2006-09 - Crown Publishers 0307346609 Check our Catalog

Brooks, author of the straight-faced parody "The Zombie Survival Guide," tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts by various characters around the world. …More

Where Are Where Are the Children? the Children? By Clark, Mary Higgins 2005-06 - Pocket Books 9781416507772 Check our Catalog

The legendary suspense debut novel by the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author, first published in 1975, is now updated for this special anniversary edition with a new Introduction and a letter to readers. Reissue. …More

The Road The Road By McCarthy, Cormac 2007-01 - Center Point Large Print 9781585478934 Check our Catalog

A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape, covered with the ashes of the late world. The man can still remember the time before but not the boy. There is nothing for them except survival, and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender, despairing and hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, The Road is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential sometime terrifying power of filial love. It is a masterpiece. …More

Blindness Blindness By Saramago, Jose Translator Pontiero, Giovanni 1998-09 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780151002511 Check our Catalog

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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature …More

All King, All The Time

Carrie Carrie By King, Stephen Author Wouk 1990-05 - Doubleday Books 0385086954 Check our Catalog

El escalofriante caso de una joven en apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en su ciudad. Con pulo mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una seie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la vengaza. esta novela fue llevada al cina y obtuvo un imenso éxito de público y de crítica.

"From the Trade Paperback edition. …More

Cell Cell By King, Stephen 2006-01 - Scribner Book Company 0743292332 Check our Catalog

Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less

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than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological attack. What matters to them is surviving the aftermath. Before long a band of them-"normies" is how they think of themselves-have gathered on the grounds of Gaiten Academy, where the headmaster and one remaining student have something awesome and terrifying to show them on the school's moonlit soccer field. Clearly there can be no escape. The only option is to take them on. …More

Hearts in Hearts in Atlantis Atlantis By King, Stephen 2000-08 - Pocket Books 0671024248 Check our Catalog

Although it is difficult to believe, the Sixties are not fictional: they actually happened.

No matter the format, Stephen King's work is spellbinding because the author himself is spellbound. The first hugely popular writer of the TV generation, King published his first novel, Carrie, in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam. Images from that war -- and protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for nearly ten years. In HEARTS IN ATLANTIS, King mesmerizes readers with fiction deeply rooted in the Sixties, and explores -- through four defining decades -- the haunting legacy of the Vietnam War.

As the characters in HEARTS IN ATLANTIS are tested in every way, King probes and unlocks the secrets of his generation for us all. Full of danger, full of suspense, and most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to leave completely. …More

The Long The Long Walk Walk By King, Stephen Author Bachman, Stephen Author Bachman, Richard 2001-01 - Turtleback Books 0613173503 Check our Catalog

On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk." If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying. Reissue. …More

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Pet Pet Sematary Sematary By King, Stephen 1998-07 - Simon & Schuster Audio 0671582275 Check our Catalog

A fully dramatized BBC Radio production of one of King's most famous bestsellers, now available for the first time in the U.S.! Dr. Louis Creed and his wife Rachel chose rural Maine to settle their family and bring up their children. It was a better place than smog-covered Chicago--or so they thought. But that was before Louis became acquainted with the old pet burial ground located in the backwoods of the quiet community of Ludlow. …More

The Shining By King, Stephen 1978-10 - Signet Book 0451160916 Check our Catalog

For more than twenty years, millions of readers have checked in to

The Overlook Hotel with Jack Torrance and his family -- and they're still coming. It's bestselling proof that horror never dies. This is classic King -- the basis for the smash feature film directed by Stanley Kubrick, and the hit TV mini-series. …More

The Stand The Stand By King, Stephen 2001-08 - Gramercy Books 0517219018 Check our Catalog

Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and imaginative line art. The total copies for both editions, in hardcover and paperback, exceeds 4 million worldwide. The Stand is a truly terrifying reading experience, and became a four-part mini-series that memorably brought to life the cast of characters and layers of story from the novel. It is an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force gathering minions from those still alive to destroy humanity and create a world populated by evil. Stephen King is a brilliant storyteller who has the uncanny gift of

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putting ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, giving readers an experience that chills and thrills on every page. …More

Old and New

Secrets of Eden By Bohjalian, Chris A. 2010-02 - Shaye Areheart Books 0307394972 Check our Catalog

From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Midwives" and "The Double Bind" comes a novel of shattered family ties, intimate secrets, and the nature of sacrifice. Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian's grace and power.--"New York Times Book Review." …More

The Day The Day the Falls Stood Still the Falls Stood Still By Buchanan, Cathy Marie 2009-08 - Voice 1401340970 Check our Catalog

In the tradition of "City of Light" and "Fortune's Rocks" comes a stunning debut novel of one family's struggle, set against the tumultuous backdrop of Niagara Falls. …More

Await Your Await Your Reply Reply By Chaon, Dan 2009-08 - Ballantine Books 0345476026 Check our Catalog

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The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways-and with unexpected consequences-in acclaimed author Dan Chaon's gripping, brilliantly written new novel. …More

Hello Hello Goodbye Goodbye By Chenoweth, Emily 2009-05 - Random House (NY) 1400065178 Check our Catalog

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A heartbreaking, beautifully-crafted debut novel about friendship, loyalty, and growing up--"Hello Goodbye" follows a dying woman's final vacation with her family at a lavish New England resort. …More

Spooner Spooner By Dexter, Pete 2009-09 - Grand Central Publishing 0446540722 Check our Catalog

This is the story of the lifelong tie between former naval officer Calmer Ottosson and his step son, Warren Spooner--a troubled adolescent-turned-violent-adult, whom Calmer will never understand. …More

Madame Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives Bovary: Provincial By Flaubert, Gustave Lives Translator Wall, Geoffrey Preface by Roberts, Michele 2002-12 - Penguin Books 0140449124 Check our Catalog

This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. …More

Juliet, Juliet, Naked Naked By Hornby, Nick 2009-09 - Riverhead Hardcover 1594488878 Check our Catalog

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What happens when a washed-up musician looks for anther chance? And a childless woman looks for a change? "Juliet, Naked" is a powerfully engrossing, humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one's promise. …More

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Last Night in Twisted River By Irving, John 2009-10 - Random House 1400063841 Check our Catalog

A story spanning five decades, Irving's 12th novel is set in 1954 New Hampshire, where an anxious 12-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. …More

Lady Lady Chatterley's Lover Chatterley's Lover By Lawrence, D. H. 2009-01 - Wilder Publications 1604596163 Check our Catalog

In Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence argues for individual regeneration, which can be found only through the relationship between man and woman (and, he asserts sometimes, man and man). Love and personal relationships are the threads that bind this novel together. Lawrence explores a wide range of different types of relationships. The reader sees the brutal, bullying relationship between Mellors and his wife Bertha, who punishes him by preventing his pleasure. There is Tommy Dukes, who has no relationship because he cannot find a woman who he respects intellectually and at the same time finds desirable. There is also the perverse, maternal relationship that ultimately develops between Clifford and Mrs. Bolton after Connie has left. Masterful written, one of the most important novels of all time. …More

Eternal on Eternal on the Water the Water By Monninger, Joseph 2010-02 - Gallery Books 1439168334 Check our Catalog

This poignant novel from Monninger chronicles a timeless love between two people, and the devastating disease that forces them to make drastic decisions. …More

A Gate at A Gate at the Stairs the Stairs By Moore, Lorrie 2009-09 - Knopf Publishing Group 0375409289 Check our Catalog

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Set just after the events of September 2001, Moore's deft, lyrical novel brings readers up against the heart of racism, the shock of war, and the carelessness perpetrated against others in the name of love. …More

An Irish Country Doctor By Taylor, Patrick 2008-11 - Mount Eagle Publications 0863223931 Check our Catalog

Barry Laverty is fresh out of school and uncertain about what type of medicine he should practice when he answers an ad for a physician's assistant in Ballybucklebo, a small Northern Ireland town populated, it seems, entirely by eccentrics. …More

This Is This Is Where I Leave You Where I Leave You By Tropper, Jonathan 2009-08 - Dutton Books 052595127X Check our Catalog

From a internationally best-selling, critically acclaimed author of four novels that have been called moving, hilarious, tender, superb, smart, honest, sweet, deft, and magnificent comes this newest novel. …More

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