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This is a List of Summer Reading Recommendations for WTHS StaffNew Fiction New Non Fiction Oldies But Goodies Mysteries Historical Fiction Chick LitRomance

New Fiction

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presco (F Albom) - Popular guitarist Frankie Presto finds his music can magically alter peoples' lives.

The Widow (F Barton) - here's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment. Now there's no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truth--that's all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything..

The Dust That Falls from Dreams (F de Bernières) - a sprawling story about the members of a wealthy English family and the neighbors, friends and servants who constellate around them at their grand house in London during the first few decades of the 20th century.

Ruby (F Bond) - "Ephram Jenkins has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, 'the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,' is already quite damaged, but Ephram is forcibly drawn to her. As soon as she becomes a young woman and has any power of her own, Ruby flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York City. Years later, when a funeral forces her to return home, 30-year-old Ruby will find herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. With the terrifying realization that she might not be strong enough to fight her way back out, Ruby struggles to survive her memories of the town's dark past. Meanwhile, Ephram must choose between loyalty to the sister who raised and stood by him and the chance for a life with the woman he has loved since he was a boy

The Gilded Life of Madline Duplaine (F Brockhorst) - Collecting quotes for the obituary of a legendary film producer, young journalist Thomas Cleary is invited by the man's eccentric daughter to tour the exclusive upper echelons of Hollywood society, where he pursues a romance with an enigmatic shut-in.

Remembrance (F Cabot) - All Susannah Simon wants is to make a good impression at her first job since graduating from college (and since becoming engaged to Dr. Jesse de Silva). But when she's hired as a guidance counselor at her alma mater, she stumbles across a decade-old murder, and soon ancient history isn't all that's coming back to haunt her.

At the Edge of the Orchard (FChevalier) - James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England, brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. Swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert, who has been running west since, trying to escape his memories of what happened, taking solace in a very different kind of tree--the redwoods and sequoias of California. But Robert's past catches up with him and he's forced to confront what he's running from and work out for himself that you can't run forever

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The Queen of the Night (F Chee) - Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singers' chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all. As she mines her memories for clues, she recalls her life as an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept up into the glitzy, gritty world of Second Empire Paris. In order to survive, she transformed herself from hippodrome rider to courtesan, from empress's maid to debut singer, all the while weaving a complicated web of romance, obligation, and political intrigue.

The Royal We (F Cocks) - American Rebecca Porter was never one for fairy-tales. Her twin sister Lacey was always the romantic, the one who daydreamed of being a princess. But it's adventure-seeking Bex who goes to Oxford and meets dreamy Nick across the hall and thus Bex who accidentally finds herself in love with the eventual heir to the British throne. Nick is everything she could have imagined, but Prince Nicholas has unimaginable baggage: grasping friends, a thorny family, hysterical tabloids tracking his every move, and a public that expected its future king to marry a native. On the eve of the most talked-about wedding of the century, Bex reflects on what she's sacrificed for love--and exactly whose heart she may yet have to break

Blueprints (F Delinksy) - Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television. Caroline takes pride in her work, and in the way she connects with the show's audience. But when she is told the network wants her daughter to replace her as host-the day after Caroline's fifty-sixth birthday-she is devastated. The fallout couldn't come at a worse time

The Precious One (F de los Santos) - A tale told in alternating voices traces the collaborative efforts of an estranged millionaire and the daughter he abandoned 17 years earlier to reconcile and write his memoir"

The Green Room (F Enright) - Spanning thirty years, "The Green Road" tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart."-

Purity (F Frazen) - Pip Tyler accepts an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world, in order to find out who she really is, but for reasons she can't understand, she is drawn to Andreas who is on the lam in Bolivia.

Our Endless Numbered Days (F Fuller) - Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons. When Peggy finds a pair of boots in the forest and begins a search for their owner, she unwittingly unravels the series of events that brought her to the woods and, in doing so, discovers the strength she needs to go back to the home and mother she thought she'd lost. After Peggy's return to civilization, her mother begins to learn the truth of her escape, of what happened to James on the last night out in the woods, and of the secret that Peggy has carried with her ever since

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Inside the O’Briens (F Genova) - Seasoned, respected Boston police officer Joe O'Brien discovers that he has Huntington's disease and that each of his four adult children have a fifty percent chance of inheriting it, and as they watch the disease progress in their father, the children must find the courage to live with a life at risk or to learn their fate.

The Fall of Princes (F Goolrich) - 1980s Manhattan shimmers like the mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the kind of wealth that grants them access to anything--and anyone--they want. Until, one by one, they fall.

The Forgetting Time (F Guskin) - "Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now--and life as she knows it stops"--Provided by publisher.

Our Souls at Night (F Haruf) - A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.

Everyone who read this book loved it.

Finders Keepes (F King) - Morris Bellamy is a fan of author John Rothstein and his beloved character Jimmy Gold, but livid that Rothstein hasn't published in decades and now has sold the character rights to Jimmy Gold to an advertising firm, Bellamy kills Rothstein, robs him, and finds notebooks containing the notes for another Jimmy Gold novel in the process. He is sent to jail for another crime, however, and the notebooks remain hidden for decades until they are found by thirteen-year-old Pete Saubers. Now, Pete and his family are in Bellamy's crosshairs when the psychopath is released after thirty-five years in prison.

A Knight of Seven Kingdom (F Martin) - Compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones title "A Song of Ice and Fire", that takes place a century before and recounting when the Targaryen line still held the Iron Throne, telling the story of Ser Duncan the Tall who towers above his rivals in stature if not in experience and Egg whose true name is Aegon Targaryen and who is a prince of the realm.

A Fall of Marigold (F Meissner) - September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries...and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she's made"

The Beekeepers Daughter (F Montefiore) - England 1933. Grace Hamblin is growing up on the beautiful estate of the Marquiss and Marchioness of Penselwood. The beekeeper's daughter, she knows her place and her future, that is until her father dies and leaves her alone. Her childhood friend Freddie has recently become her lover, and she is thankful when they are able to marry and take over her father's duties ... Massachusetts, 1973. Grace's daughter Trixie Valentine is in love with an unsuitable boy. Jasper Duncliffe is wild and romantic, and in a band that might be going somewhere. But when his brother dies and he is called home to England, Jasper promises to come back for Trixie one day, if only she will wait for him.

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God Help the Child (F Morrison) - Sweetness, a light-skinned African American, never gave her dark-skinned daughter, Bride, her full love because of the hue of her skin. As an adult, Bride is beautiful and successful, but she has never overcome that childhood rejection, something Sweetness is only now coming to understand.

Me Before You (F Moyes) They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose--Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident"

Everything I Never Told You (F Ng) - the story of the Lees, a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Marilyn and James are determined that Lydia, the middle and favorite child, will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue: for Marilyn, that her daughter becomes a doctor; for James, that Lydia is popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the center of every party. When Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed.

Jack of Spades (F Oates) - Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about: he has a top agent and publisher in New York, and his twenty-eight mystery novels have sold millions of copies around the world. He also has a loving wife and three grown children and is a well-known philanthropist in his small New Jersey town. But Rush is hiding a dark secret. Under the pseudonym "Jack of Spades," he pens another string of novels--dark potboilers that are violent, lurid, even masochistic. These are novels that the refined, upstanding Andrew Rush wouldn't be caught reading, let alone writing. But when one day his daughter comes across a Jack of Spades novel that he has carelessly left out, she begins to ask questions. Meanwhile, Rush receives a court summons in the mail explaining that a local woman has accused him of plagiarizing her own self-published fiction. Rush's reputation, career, and family life all come under threat--and unbidden, in the back of his mind, the Jack of Spades starts thinking ever more evil thoughts

Off the Pages (F Picoult) - When Delilah is united with Oliver, a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairytale, the line between what is on the page and what is possible is blurred, and all must be resolved for the two to live happily ever after.

**The Traitor’s Wife (F Pataki) - Socialite Peggy Shippen seduces Benedict Arnold, a military commander in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War, and after they marry she and her former lover, British spy John André, convince Arnold, who has become disillusioned with his hero George Washington, to hand over West Point to the British.

The Cellar (F Preston) - For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet.

Love May Fail (F Quick) - Portia Kane is having a meltdown. After escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, she finds herself back in South Jersey, a place that remains largely unchanged from the years of her unhappy youth. Lost and alone, looking for the goodness she believes still exists in the world, Portia sets off on a quest to save the one man who always believed in her--and in all of his students: her beloved high school English teacher, Mr. Vernon, who has retired broken and alone after a traumatic classroom incident

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The Liar (F Roberts) - Devastated to learn that her unfaithful husband had actually married her using an alias, Shelby returns with her young daughter to her Tennessee hometown and pursues a new relationship before her husband's past poses dangerous threats.

Every Fifteen Minutes (F Scottolini) - Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric's entire world begins to crumble.

The Knockoff (F Skyes) - he story of Imogen Tate, editor-in-chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twenty-something former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app.

The Rocks (F Sparks) - Lulu and Gerald, octogenarians who haven't spoken for more than fifty years despite having once been married and still living within a few miles of each other, finally confront the secret of their past.

See Me (F Sparks) - A chance encounter on a rain-swept road will alter the life course of Colin, who is trying to put his bad decisions and violent past behind him, and Maria, the hardworking daughter of Mexican immigrants with a law degree and her own past, by challenging held assuptions about each other and themselves.

The Sunken Cathedral (F Walbert) - Tells the stories of four women living in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, more or less now. Two, Marie and Simone, friends for decades, are widows in their seventies, yet robust, engaged, appetiteful, even ready to find love again. They were immigrants, survivors of World War II in Europe, and now are living alone in the houses where they raised their children. Elizabeth is Marie's tenant, the mother of a 13 year old boy, a woman convinced that others have some secret way of being, of contending with the world, some confidence and certainty she lacks. ...The Art Historian, who takes a painting class with Marie and Simone and works on a series of paintings of the city underwater, is a witness of sorts, a woman who watches the neighborhood, the weather (it is post-Sandy or some cataclysmic event like it.

The Emperor of Any Place (F Wynne-Jones) - After his father dies, a son finds a diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a small Pacific island in World War II, but he's confused as to why his father was reading it Available as print and e book

New Non Fiction**New Book

Unforgettable: a Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime (070.92 Sim) - Scott Simon began tweeting from his mother's hospital room in July 2013, he didn't know that his missives would soon spread well beyond his 1.2 million Twitter followers. Squeezing the magnitude of his final days with her into 140-character updates, Simon's evocative and moving meditations spread virally. Over the course of

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a few days, Simon chronicled his mother's death and reminisced about her life, revealing her humor and strength, and celebrating familial love.

Miracles from Heaven (231.7 Bea) - In a true story of faith and blessings, a mother tells of her sickly young daughter, how she survived a dangerous accident, her visit to Heaven and the inexplicable disappearance of the symptoms of her chronic disease.

The Human Age (304.2 ACK) - Explores the history of civilization and the effect humans have on nature. Ackerman takes us on an exhilarating journey through new technology and our new reality introducing us to many of the people and ideas that perhaps will save our futures

You might also want to read Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife (940.53 ACK) - Relates the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers at the Warsaw Zoo, who helped save the lives of approximately three hundred Polish Jews during World War II by housing and feeding them on zoo grounds and teaching them how to "pass" as Aryan.

I Will Always Write Back (305.23 Ali) - In this ... dual memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became best friends--and better people--through their long-distance exchange [as pen-pals]"

A List of Things that Didn’t Kill Me (362.19 Sch) - "In his memoir, Jason Kovacs tells the story of growing up with an abusive father, who contracted HIV and ultimately died of AIDS when Jason was a teenager.

Unconditional Honor: Wounded Warriors and Their Dogs (362.4 Sco) -Show[s] how service and therapy dogs are having a profound impact on the lives of military personnel injured in action. Not only do our veterans deal with physical injuries, but they often return with psychological issues that can be treated with help, companionship, and love from working canines"-

Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (428.2 Nor) - A witty approach to the uses and misuses of the English language, featuring descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in punctuation, spelling, and usage, and explaining how to handle them.

Find Zero (515.3 ACZ) Examines the history of numerals, discussing the early Babylonian cuneiform numbers, the later Greek and Roman letter numerals, and the Hindu-Arabic numbers we use today

Dark Matter and the Dinosaur (523.1 Ran) - Weaving together the cosmos' history and our own in an expanding intellectual adventure story, 'Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs' takes us from the mysteries of dark matter and our cosmic environment to the conditions for life on Earth"-

Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America (364.15 Coo) - Recounts the circumstances surrounding the murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese by Winston Moseley in New York during 1963.

When Breathe Becomes Air (616.9 Kal) - At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated

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Hemingway’s Paris (813 Whe) - Contains black-and-white photographs and journal entries by photojournalist Robert Wheeler in which he attempts to capture and interpret the Paris that Ernest Hemingway experienced in the first part of the twentieth century.You might want to pair this book with Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast or McClain’s The Paris Wife

Dickens and The Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor (823 Ric) - he story of the recently discovered London workhouse that Charles Dickens lived almost next door to in the years before he wrote "Oliver Twist," told by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these new findings and helped save it from demolition.

Capital Dames (973.7 ROB) - A history of the role women played during the United States Civil War in Washington, D.C.

Biography

Thomas Becket (B Becket) – This is a suspenseful, meticulously researched of Thomas Becket. Becket the son of middle-class Norman parents, who rose to be the second most powerful man in England and the archbishop of Canterbury, and after being forced to choose between King Henry II and the Catholic Church chose his faith and was martyred for it.

The Half that’s Never Been Told ( B Doctor Dread) – No reggae fan can afford to miss lively, rich, from-the-hip account of Doctor Dread, one of the industry’s most unlikely visionaries.

Coco Chanel : An Intimate Life (B Chanel) - Chronicles the life of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel from her childhood in an orphanage, designing her own perfume and becoming a fashion icon until her death in 1971

Joan of Arc (B Joan) – The real Joan of Arc was a more flawed, more human figure than her name suggests. This book enhances the story of Joan.

Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty (F Ford) - Discusses the life of Eileen Ford that focuses on her success building and running the Ford Modeling Agency.

Michael Jordan (B Jordan) - Traces the life of one of the most legendary basketball players in the history of the sport, drawing upon interviews with Jordan's friends, family, and teammates, and following his career from college to the NBA"Traces the life of one of the most legendary basketball players in the history of the sport, drawing upon interviews with Jordan’s friends, family, and teammates, and following his career from college to the NBA.

The Immortal Irishman (B Meagher) - A biography of Thomas Francis Meagher, who, during Ireland's Great Hunger of the 1840s led an unsuccessful uprising against the British rule, was sent to a Tasmanian prison colony which he escaped arriving in New York as a revolutionary hero back from the dead to lead a group of Irish-American troops in many of the fiercest battles of the Civil War and who had a dream to return to Ireland and liberate his homeland from British rule.

Reagan : The Life (B Reagan) – The biography follows President Reagan as he leaves Illinois to pursue his larger roles as a movie star to his participation in politics to becoming President of the United States. This is a great story.

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Not New, But Great Reads

A False Sense of Well Being (F Braselton) - Thirty-eight-year-old Jessie Maddox finds herself unfulfilled in her life as the perfect mother and housewife, and as she struggles to work through her midlife crisis, she begins to fantasize about killing her husband and becoming the perfect grieving widow.

The Midwife’s Confession (F Chamberlain) - Tara and Emerson are shocked when their best friend Noelle, a midwife with a zest for life, commits suicide, and an unfinished note she leaves behind sends them on an emotional journey that changes everyone's life.

Someone to Love (F Deveraux) - While still mourning the death of his fiancée, Jace Montgomery decides to buy a house in England that he found a picture of in one her books; and after moving into his new home, he discovers it is haunted, finds love with a foreign correspondent, and begins to unravel the mystery of his lover's suicide.

The 19th Wife (F Ebershoff) – Follows the parallel stories of Ann Eliza Young, the estranged wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young, and her campaign to end polygamy in the United States, and Jordan Scott, the son of a polygamist family in twenty-first-century Utah, who returns after years away from the fundamentalist sect to learn the truth about his father's death.

The Gathering (F Enright) - The death of Liam Hegarty, found drowned in the sea at Brighton, England, sparks a crisis in the life of his middle sister Veronica, who goes to retrieve the body and bring Liam home to Dublin where the Hegarty clan is gathering to mourn and remember.

Love Medicine (F Erdrich) - Presents the story of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines, two extended families who live on and around a Chippewa reservation in North Dakota and of Lipsha Morrissey, a young man who attempts to bring his wandering grandfather back to his long-suffering grandmother with a love medicine made from gooseheart.

Where the River Runs (F Henry) - Meridy Dresden, a successful mother and wife, returns to her hometown of Seaboro, South Carolina, to do research on the Gullah, and interviews her family's former housekeeper discovering secrets of her own past.

The Quiet Girl (F Hoeg) - World-renowned circus clown Kasper Krone begins working with a mysterious order of nuns, protecting a group of children with special powers, and when one of the children vanishes, Krone sets out to find her, and in the course of his search uncovers shocking truths about the girl's identity and the nuns' true intentions.

The Winter Guest (F Jenaoff) - When Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village, wounded, but alive, she risks the safety of herself and her family, to hide Sam--a Jew. Soon her concern for the American grows into something much deeper--an attraction that will culminate in a singular act of betrayal that endangers them all--and sets in motion a chain of events that will reverberate across continents and decades.

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The Children Act (F McEwan) - Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts. But Fiona's professional success belies domestic strife. Her husband, Jack, asks her to consider an open marriage and, after an argument, moves out of their house. His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears

Someone (F McDermott) - The story of an Irish American Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old ag

The Winter People (F McMahon) - Ruthie Washburne does not understand her mother's insistence that they live off the grid, until her mother suddenly vanishes and she finds the diary of Sara Harrison Shea, a woman who disappeared months after the tragic death of her daughter and is rumored to haunt the streets of West Hall, Vermont, and gains insight into Sara's desperate need to hold her daughter once again.

How Elizabeth Browning Saved my Life (F Medwed) - Boston antiques dealer Abby Randolph, betrayed by an old friend, dumped by her lover, and grieving the death of her mom, makes the surprising discovery that an old chamber pot she inherited from her mother once belonged to poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and is worth nearly one hundred thousand dollars--a fact that brings a lot of people from her past calling.

The Perfect Man (F Murr) - The closeness of five friends growing up in 1950s Pisgah, Missouri--including Rajiv Travers, a boy born to a East Indian mother and English father, abandoned by his family, and adopted by the American romance writer his uncle left behind by suicide--is threatened when a love triangle develops within their group and the dark secrets of Pisgah's residents emerge.

Little Bird of Heaven (F Oates) - n two related narratives Krista Diehl and Aaron Kruller describe their emotions and opinions about the murder of Aaron's mother, Zoe, each blaming the other person's father for the killing and eventually coming to terms with their obsession over the case and one another.

The Invisible Bridge (F Orringer) - Jews have limited opportunities in Hungary in the years prior to World War II, so Andras Levi leaves to Paris to study architecture, where he meets Klara, a fellow Hungarian; but when war breaks out, he and Klara return to their homeland where they take up the fight against the Nazis.

Me and Mr. Darcy (F Potter) - Emily Albright has given up on men and dating, realizing the real thing can never compare to Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy, and decides to spend her Christmas vacation touring England and visiting the sites that inspired Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", but when the real Mr. Darcy turns up on the English countryside, Emily wonders if her fantasy has just become reality

If you cannot get enough of Mr. Darcy, you should read: The Darcy Series by Elizabeth Aston (F Aston) includes the Darcy Connection, Mr. Darcy’s Dreams, Mr. Darcy’s Daughters. For a more

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bizarre Darcy try Mr. Darcy Vampyre or The Pemberley chronicles : a companion volume to Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice (F Collins)

The Echo Maker (F Powers) - Karin Schulter reluctantly returns to her hometown to nurse her brother, Mark, back to health after he suffers a traumatic head injury in a car accident on a remote Nebraska road, but her task is made more difficult when he wakes from his coma only to claim that she is an imposter, and she turns to renowned neurologist Gerald Weber for help.

Little Nights (F Rice) - Clare's niece, Grit, comes to live with her after she is thrown out by her abusive father and passive mother Anne, to whom Clare has not talked for almost twenty years

The Deep Blue Sea (F Rice) - Pell Davis travels to the island of Capri, where she hopes to find Lyra Davis, the mother who left Pell and her sister behind years earlier, and maybe find a new family to replace the father she recently lost.

Nobody’s Fool (F Russo) - Sixty-year-old Sully is down on his luck and has to deal with a landlady who wants him evicted, an estranged son who is headed down the same road as Sully, a neurotic ex-wife, unreasonable girlfriend, and the ghost of his own abusive father.

All That is (F Salter) - In the years after World War Two, ex-naval officer Philip Bowman finds a place for himself in America as a book editor, and an enthralling woman sets him on a course he could never have imagined for himself.

Saint Maybe (F Tyler) - In 1965 the Bedloe family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore. Seventeen-year-old Ian has dreams for the future, until the night when he meddles in his older brother's life--and from that careless moment on, nothing can ever be the same.

A Spool of Blue Thread - The changing needs of aging parents impact a family gathering during which Abby Whitshank relates how her husband and she fell in love during the summer of 1959 and shares decades of marriage impacted by children and long-held secrets

The Beginner’s Goodbye (F Tyler) - Aaron, a middle-aged man ripped apart by the death of his wife Dorothy, is gradually restored by her unexpected appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market--helping him to live in the moment and to find some peace.

The Space Between Us (F Umrigar ) - Bhima, a domestic servant in the household of Sera Dubash, an upper-class Parsi housewife, develops a bond with her employer over the course of many years as they both suffer through abusive marriages, loss, and disappointments, but their friendship still cannot overcome the restrictions of class and money.

The Same Sky (F Ward) - Tells the story of Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother in Honduras along with her four year old twin brothers. Her mother is sending money home from Texas where she's trying to make a better life for her family, but she only has enough to bring one son to her. When Carla's grandmother dies, Carla decides to take

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her fate into her own hands and embarks on a dangerous journey across the border with Junior, the twin left behind.

How to be Lost (F Ward) - New Orleans cocktail waitress Caroline Winters, having run away from her home in New York fifteen years earlier following the disappearance of her little sister, Ellie, spots a picture of a woman in a magazine that she believes is Ellie, now grown up, and embarks on a quest to find the woman and heal her family.

You’re Not You (F Wildgen) - Bec, a Wisconsin college student who is beginning to question her future, applies for a summer job as caretaker for Kate Norris, a mid-thirties woman paralyzed by ALS, and her friendship with Kate soon comes to transcend everything else in her life.

Mystery Books** New

**Memory Man (F Baldacci0 - A man with perfect memory... must solve his own family's murder

Isabelle Moon (F Benedict) - Kate Russell believes she has found a safe haven in quiet Carystown, Kentucky, but she finds her past under unwanted scrutiny when she tells skeptical Sheriff Bill Delaney that the ghost of Isabella Moon--a nine-year-old girl who disappeared two years earlier--appeared to her in a dream to reveal where her body is buried.

Below Zero (F Box) - Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's family is stunned when their daughter Sheridan receives a text message from April, a foster child they believed had died six years earlier, and when Joe links the calls to the scenes of environmental crimes, he knows he must somehow find a way to rescue April--if indeed the messages are from her.

The Longings of Wayward Girls (F Brown) - It’s an idyllic New England summer, and Sadie is a precocious only child on the edge of adolescence. It seems like July and August will pass lazily by, just as they have every year before. But one day, Sadie and her best friend play a seemingly harmless prank on a neighborhood girl. Soon after, that same little girl disappears from a backyard barbecue—and she is never seen again. Twenty years pass, and Sadie is married with two children and living in the same town, but a boy from her old neighborhood returns to town and the nightmare of that summer resurfaces and its unsolved mysteries finally become clear

What Alice Knew: The Curious Case of Henry James and Jack the Ripper (F Cohen) - Despite the fact that she is confined to her bed, Alice James is determined to investigate when Jack the Ripper begins to terrorize London and Alice recruits her two brothers, a famous author and a young psychologist, to collect the evidence she needs to solve the mystery.

Fatally Flaky (F Davidson) - Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz, planning a wedding reception for a spoiled bride who has decided to change the location to the Gold Gulch Spa, investigates the death of a family friend who died in a suspicious car accident and uncovers a link between the man's death and research being conducted at the sp

Frog Music (F Donoghue) - Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called

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Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts.

The Virgin Suicides (F Eugenides ) - Te five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy,

The Cuckoo’s Calling (F Galbraith) - Detective Cormoran Strike investigates the supposed suicide of supermodel Lula Landry, called The Cuckoo by her friends.

**Rogue Lawyer (F Grisham) - A nomadic lawyer because of frequent death threats, Sebastian Rudd takes on a case involving a brain-damaged young man accused of murdering two little girls.

Inside (F Harvey) - Myrden, having been released from jail after DNA evidence exonerated him from a murder he was charged with fourteen years earlier, waits for a million dollar settlement from the government while trying to readjust to life outside the prison walls in which his wife has moved on and his children have grown up.

Witch Cradle: a Mystery (F Hills) - Constable John McIntire's investigation of the mysterious deaths of two persons buried sixteen years in an unused cistern draws the attention and suspicion of the federal government on the small Michigan community in January 1951.

Dark Horse (F Hoag) - When an eighteen-year-old girl is taken by a dangerous killer, ex-cop Elena Estes is the only one who seems interested in saving her, and as she races against time to save the young woman, she joins forces with the victim's younger sister as they try to beat a madman before he can kill again.

Ghostman (F Hobbs) - When the robbery of an armored car from an Atlantic City casino goes spectacularly wrong, the man who orchestrated it calls upon a former employee, an experienced "fixer" sometimes known as "Jack Delton," to clean up the mess. Jack has 48 hours to find the surviving henchman and the over one million dollars before an ink bomb hidden in the cash goes off, as well as deal with FBI agent Rebecca Blacker and the local kingpin.

The Good German (F Kanon) - CBS correspondent Jake Geismar uses his latest assignment, a series of articles on the Allied occupation during World War II, as an excuse to look for the German mistress he left behind at the outbreak of the war.

The Game: a Mary Russel Novel (F King) - Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, but when Holmes' gravely ill brother brings news of a mystery, the couple set off to solve another mystery that is complicated by the government, family ties, and a decades-old secret.

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Dangerous Refuge (F Lowell) - Environmental conservancy advocate Shaye Townsend and big city cop Tanner, who has come home to work on his uncle's historic ranch, join forces to uncover the truth behind Tanner's uncle's death, but when Shaye becomes a killer's target, Tanner realizes he'd give up anything to protect her, including his life

The Killer’s Kiss (F Lashner) - A lifetime of making bad decisions leads Philadelphia district attorney Victor Carl to the brink of destruction when Julia, the love of his life, shows up on his doorstep claiming she wants to rekindle their old flame and he takes her in--shortly before detectives arrive to tell him Julia's husband has been found murdered.

After I’m Gone (F Lippman) - When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette 'Bambi' Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative--if not all legal--businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanished

Executive Privilege (F Margolin) - Private detective Dana Cutler is called upon to follow a young college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on her activities; however, when she turns up dead after a secret meeting at the White House, Cutler becomes a suspect.

The Dead Hour (F Mina) - Young Paddy Meehan, a night beat reporter for the "Scottish Daily News" in 1984, goes to follow up on a domestic disturbance report only to be assured by the man ofthe house that all is well, and slipped a bribe to make sure the incident stays out of the paper, but when she learns the following morning that a woman was beaten to death after she left, Paddy determines to do the right thing and discover the truth.

You might also want to read Slip of the Knife by Denise Mina

The Carbon Mystery (F Minachino) - Retired physicist and amateur sleuth Gloria Lamerino and her boyfriend, homicide detective Matt Gennaro, team up to investigate two homicides as well as find out who and why someone is stalking Gloria's Goddaughter, MC.

This series includes the Nitrogen Mystery and Oxygen Mystery. They are stand alone mysteries

Big Little Lies (F Moriarity)- Follows three women, each at her own personal crossroads, as they work together to solve the impossible murder

A Heartbeat Away (F Palmer) - Virologist Griffin Rhodes, locked in a maximum security prison for alleged terrorist acts, is called upon for help when a terrorist group unleashes a deadly virus in the Capitol Building, forcing the president of the United States, who is also inside the building, to literally quarantine the federal government.

The Nobody Album (F Parkhurst) - Octavia Frost travels to the West Coast to investigate the murder of Bettina Moffett, her estranged son Milo's girlfriend, and help him clear his name after he is charged with the crime.

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The Last Kiss (F Rice) - Nell Kilvert, a year after the death of her eighteen-year-old boyfriend Charlie Rosslare, asks Gavin Dawson--Sheridan Rosslare's former lover, and Charlie's mother--for help to uncover the truth behind Charlie's mysterious murder

Beachcomber (F Robards) - While attempting to extricate herself from mob ties once and for all on North Carolina's Ocracoke Island, Philadelphia attorney Christy Petrino walks into a homicide and becomes the next target of a serial killer.

In the Dead of Summer (F Roberts) - When one of her students is kidnapped, English teacher Amanda Pepper gets mad, and then tenaciously searches for the girl, all the while getting closer and closer to deadly danger.

This is just one book in the Amanda Pepper Mysteries.

Lila (F Robinson) - Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.

Accused (Scottolini) - The Rosato & Associates firm receives a request from a thirteen-year-old prospective client. Allegra Gardner's sister Fiona was murdered six years ago and Allegra believes that the accused, Lonnie Stall, is innocent and has been wrongly imprisoned.

** Corrupted (A Rosato and Dinunzio Novel) – (F Scottoline) - Thirteen years ago, Bennie Rosato took on Jason Lefkavick, a twelve-year-old boy who was sent to a juvenile detention center after fighting a class bully. Bennie couldn't free Jason, and to this day it's the case that haunts her. Jason has grown up in and out of juvenile prison, and his adulthood hasn't been any easier. Bennie no longer represents those accused of murder, but when Jason is indicted for killing the same bully he fought with as a kid, she sees no choice but to represent him. She doesn't know whether or not to believe his claims of innocence, but she knows she owes him for past failures-of the law, of the juvenile justice system, and of herself. Forced to relive the darkest period of her life, Bennie will do everything in her power to get the truth, and justice

The Art Forger (F Shaprio) - Young artist Clair Roth, who reproduces famous works of art for an online retailer, is drawn in to the world of art forgery when she is persuaded to forge a Degas masterpiece for the Gardner Museum to replace a stolen painting.

Historical Fiction** New Book

**A God in Ruins (F Atkinson) - Tells the dramatic story of the twentieth century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy--would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather--as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have.

The Dust That Falls from Dreams (F Berneries) - The story of the members of a British family whose lives are shaped by the aftermath of World War I.

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The Secret Chord (F Brooks) - Follows the life of David, from shepherd to soldier to king, told through the eyes of the king's courtier and counselor, Nathan.

**The Edge of the Orchard (F Chevalier) - The Black Swamp in 1838. Swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert, who has been running west since, trying to escape his memories of what happened, taking solace in a very different kind of tree--the redwoods and sequoias of California. But Robert's past catches up with him and he's forced to confront what he's running from and work out for himself that you can't run forever.

The Red Tent (F Diamant) - The story of Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, is told from her point of view, beginning with the story of her mothers, Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah. These wives of Jacob give her the fits that are to sustain her through a damaged youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land.

All the Light We Cannot See (F Doerr) - A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Sacred Hearts (F Dunant) - In the year 1570, the convent of Santa Caterina is disrupted by the arrival of sixteen-year-old Serafina, the daughter of a noble family who has been forced to attend the convent and begins a complex relationship of trust and betrayal with one of the nuns that will bring about a rebellion among the nuns that is further complicated by the dictates of the Counter-Reformation.

**Elizabeth Street (F Fabiano) - Giovanna Costa, reeling from personal tragedies, leaves Italy to settle in New York where she finds companionship, becomes a mother, and starts a successful business, but her small triumphs attract the attention of the Black Hand gang of extortionists, and while she struggles to remain neutral, Giovanna finally realizes she must fight to save the life she has built.

The Pope’s Daughter (F Fo) -Tells the story of Lucrezia Borgia, the daughter of a notorious pope who was thougth to be a murderess, temptress, incestuous lover, loose woman and femm fatale, but there is always more than one version of a story.

The Girl Who Came Home: A novel of the Titanic F Gaynor) - Ireland, 1912, Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in an unknown new place, her heart remains in Ireland with Séamus, the sweetheart she left behind. When disaster strikes, Maggie is one of the few passengers in steerage to survive. Waking up alone in a New York hospital, she vows never to speak of the terror and panic of that fateful night again. Chicago, 1982, Adrift after the death of her father, Grace Butler struggles to decide what comes next. When her great-grandmother Maggie shares the painful secret about Titanic that she's harbored for almost a lifetime, the revelation gives Grace new direction, and leads both her and Maggie to unexpected reunions with those they thought lost long ago

The Nightengale (F Hannah) - "Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war

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progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also their strength and their individual senses of right and wrong.

Stormy Weather (F Jiles) - After their father's death, the three Stoddard girls travel with their mother back to the family farm where they struggle to survive during the Dust Bowl and put all of their faith in the success of a wildcat oil well

The Paris Wife (F McLain) - Portrays the love affair and marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Mowrer from their Chicago meeting in 1920 to their lives during the Jazz Age in Paris, but as Ernest struggles to find his literary voice, Hadley tries to define her role in their relationship as wife, friend, and muse.

Paula McLain’s other book if the 2015 Circling the Sun

A Fall of Marigolds (F Meissner) - September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries...and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she's made

Tulip Fever (F Moggach) - Cornelis Sandvoort, a wealthy merchant in 1630s Amsterdam, and his beautiful young wife Sophia have been unsuccessful in conceiving a child, but things get even more complicated when Sophia and Jan van Loos, the artist Cornelis hires to paint their portrait, begin to desire each other.

Cleopatra’s Daughter (F Moran) - Selene, the daughter of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, is taken with her twin Alexander and younger brother Ptolemy to Rome following the deaths of her parents where she grows up in the household of Octavia, the wife Antony abandoned for Cleopatra, and adjusts to life in the midst of political intrigue.

Other books by Michele Moran: The Heretic Queen, Nefertiti

The Chaperone (F Moriarity) - Adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and her thirty-six-year-old chaperone have their lives changed on their visit to New York City in the summer of 1922.

Another book by Laura Moriarty is the Rest of Her Life - Leigh's strained relationship with her eighteen-year-old daughter, Kara, is put to the test after Kara accidentally kills another teenaged girl--an event that forces Leigh to also deal with her resentment toward her husband and her feelings about her mother.

Abundance: a Novel of Marie Antoinette (F Naslund) - A fictional autobiography in which Marie Antoinette shares the story of her life, from her baptism, to the royal courts of France, to the guillotine.

** The Accidental Empress (F Pataki) - When Elisabeth, or Sisi, a young duchess from Bavaria, accompanies her sister to the Habsburg court for her upcoming wedding to Emperor Franz Joseph, she accidentally falls in love with and wins the heart of her sister's intended groom. After she marries Franz Joseph and becomes the Empress of one of the largest empires in the world, Sisi must then learn to survive in one of the most treacherous royal courts that ever existed.

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Time and Chance (F Penman) - Two years into his reign, Henry II, in hopes of subduing the Church, elevates his friend and confidant Thomas Becket to the position of Archbishop of Canterbury in a move that results in treachery and murder.

Other books of historical fiction of Sharon Kay Penman: A King’s Ransome, The Devil’s Brood, Lionheart, When Christ and his saints slept

** Salt to the Seas (F Sepetys) - As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull. This masterful work of historical fiction is inspired by the real-life tragedy that was the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff--the greatest maritime disaster in history.

You might also like Eric Larsen’s Dead Wake and Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See

How to be Both (F Smith) - "Intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance painter and a modern teenage girl ... two characters inhabit the spaces between categories. In one half of the book, we follow the story of Francescho del Cossa, a Renaissance painter in fifteenth-century Italy who assumes a dual identity, living as both a man and a woman. In the novel's other half, George, a contemporary English teenage girl, is in mourning after the death of her brilliant, rebellious mother. As she struggles to fill the void in her life, George finds her thoughts circling again and again around a whimsical trip she and her mother once made to Italy, to see a certain Renaissance fresco

We are not Ourselves (F Thomas ) - Born in 1941 in Queens and raised by alcoholic Irish immigrant parents, Eileen Tumulty dreams of better life and she thinks she's found the perfect partner in a promising research scientist, but Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same American Dream and later it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper psychological shift.

Innocent Traitor (F Weir) - An historical fiction depicting the life and reign of Lady Jane Grey, who finds herself in the middle of civil unrest that plagued the House of Tudor during the sixteenth century.

Chick Lit** New Books

Still Life (F Fielding) - Interior designer Casey Marshall, severely injured and left in a coma after being hit by a car, can still hear what is going on around her, and finds herself privy to some very disturbing information--including the fact that someone may have tried to kill her.

** Saving Grace (F Green) - Grace and Ted Chapman, literary power couple, are good at hiding the secret of Ted's rages and moodswings and Grace's dark past until Ted's longtime assistant leaves, and they find their marriage threatened when they hire new assistant Beth.

Tempting Fate (F Green) - Gabby, who has been happily married to Elliot for eighteen years, begins to develop a long-distance friendship with the handsome, and younger, Matt, but soon it develops into an emotional affair and Gabby must discover her limits and boundaries before she has to face life-changing consequences.

Other books by Jane Green: Promises to Keep, Family Pictures, Swapping Lives, Second Chance

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Something Borrowed (F Giffin) - Rachel White, a young Manhattan attorney, finds her ordered life in an uproar when she gets drunk on her thirtieth birthday and winds up in bed with her best friend's fiancé, Dex.

Sea Escape (F Griffin) - Busy nurse, wife, and mom Laura Martinez, trying to persuade her estranged mother Helen to choose life after a devastating stroke, reads her the love letters written to her by Laura's father when he was a reporter in Vietnam during the war, and discovers a common thread shared by her and her mom.

Silver Girl (F Hilderbrand) – Meredith Martin Delinn, under siege after it is learned her husband cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars, persuades her estranged friend Connie Flute to take her along to Connie's house in Nantucket, where the two women, both nursing their broken hearts, learn lessons of love, healing, and redemption.

Other books by Hilderbrand: Winterland, Summerland, The Matchmaker (in Print and e book)

**The Mystery of Mercy Close (F Keyes) - In a true story of faith and blessings, a mother tells of her sickly young daughter, how she survived a dangerous accident, her visit to Heaven and the inexplicable disappearance of the symptoms of her chronic disease.

Other Books by Marian Keyes: The Brightest Star in the Sky and Sushi for Beginners

I’ve Got Your Number (f Kinsella) - After she loses her engagement ring and her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations.

Other Books by Sophia Kinsella: The Shopaholic series

** Emma: a Modern Retelling (F McCall Smith) - he summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury, where she will live with her health-conscious father until she is ready to launch her interior-design business and strike out on her own. In the meantime, she will do what she does best: offer guidance to those less wise in the ways of the world than herself"

Southern Comfort (F Michaels) - Special agent Kate Rush resigns from the DEA and moves back to her native Miami where she is intrigued by a job offer to watch a property suspected of being a center for human trafficking, and teams up with former homicide detective Patrick "Tick" Kelly, who has been hiding and writing novels since his family was murdered, but through their work together, Kate and Tick find an opportunity for a second chance at happiness.

Me Before You (F Moyes) - "They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose--Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident.

Now a motion pictureOther Books by Jo Jo Moyes: The Girl You Left Behind, One More Chance

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Little Night (F Rice) - Clare's niece, Grit, comes to live with her after she is thrown out by her abusive father and passive mother Anne, to whom Clare has not talked for almost twenty years.

Jennifer Weiner (F Weiner)All Fall Down - Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her mother's barely dealing at all. As she struggles to hold her home and work life together, and meet all of the needs of the people around her, Allison finds that the painkillers she was prescribed for a back injury help her deal with more than just physical discomfort--they help her feel calm and get her through her increasingly hectic days"

Before We Met (F Whitehouse) - Hannah, who believes she has married the perfect man, begins to have doubts after her husband disappears during a trip to the United States and his coworkers, who know nothing about the trip, have a different story to tell about the man she thought she knew. Digging deeper into his life, Hannah is led to a place of violence and fear.

A Desirable Residence (F Wickham) - Liz and Jonathan Chambers need to find a solution to their two mortgages and mounting debt after the couple buys a tutorial college, but after a suggestion from estate agent Marcus Witherstone, a young couple from London begins renting, which leaves Jonathan to run the college and the Chamber's teenage daughter to taken an active interest in the tenants.

Last Night at Chateau Marmont (F Weisberger) - Brooke has always supported her husband Julian's dream of becoming a musician, but when a chance performance on the "Tonight Show" makes Julian an overnight star, the fame becomes too much for the couple to handle and causes Brooke to wonder what she really wants out of life.

The Beekeeper’s Ball (F Wiggs) - Isabel Johnson returns to Bella Vista to turn her childhood home into a destination cooking school and forget her past, but Cormac O'Neill wants to dig up old history.

Women Writers That Women LoveNora Roberts (F Roberts)Valley of Silence - A circle of six, including Irish sorcerer Hoyt, his vampire twin Cian, the witch Glenna, the warrior Blair, shape-shifter Larkin, and the scholar Moira--who has traveled through time to claim her rightful place as queen of the ancient kingdom Geall--band together to fight the evil queen Lilith and her vampire army in a battle that will determine the fate of the world, while Cian and Moira struggle to deny their passion for each other.

Vision in White - A circle of six, including Irish sorcerer Hoyt, his vampire twin Cian, the witch Glenna, the warrior Blair, shape-shifter Larkin, and the scholar Moira--who has traveled through time to claim her rightful place as queen of the ancient kingdom Geall--band together to fight the evil queen Lilith and her vampire army in a battle that will determine the fate of the world, while Cian and Moira struggle to deny their passion for each other. Part of a Series

Anne Rivers Siddons (F Siddons)

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The Girls of August - Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year, but when one of the girls dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart, until years later, a new marriage reunites them and they decide to come together once again on a remote barrier island off the coast of South Carolina, and there they make startling discoveries that will change them in unexpected ways.

Off Season - After the unexpected death of her husband, Cam, Lily sets off on a road trip to their favorite spot on the coast of Maine, where she takes a hard look at her past and tries to make sense of her future.

Romance

Summer Rental (F Andrews) - Thirty-something childhood friends Ellis, Julia, and Dorie take a vacation to the Outer Banks in order to get away from their problems and are forced to face their secrets and start down a path of forgiveness, while spending time with a landlord who is barely able to keep his beach house and a woman in need of a hiding place and a new identity.

The Pretend Wife (Asher) - Gwen Merchant agrees to pretend to be her ex-boyfriend Elliot Hull's wife for a weekend visit to his dying mother's lake house and ends up questioning her marriage to a nice but underwhelming anesthesiologist and her thoughts about love.

Ancient Light (Banville) - An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of fifteen with his best friend's mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization.

A Year of Pleasures (F Berg) - Middle-aged widow Betta Nolan sells her Beacon Hill brownstone and moves into an old Victorian house in a small town in Illinois where she tries to begin a new life with old friends and new neighbors.

Bespelling Jane Austen (F Balogh) - Contains four stories in which the authors put a supernatural slant on plots developed by Jane Austen in her novels.

Evening Class (F Binchy) - Teacher Aidan Dunne, passed over for the principal's job, is instead offered a post as head of a new evening school where he somewhat assuages his dream of visiting Italy by offering classes in Italian and draws an assortment of students whose lives are all transformed by the vivacious instructor, Nora O'Donoghue.

Liberating Paris (F Bloodsworth- Thomason) - group of long-time friends in Paris, Arkansas, all just past their fortieth birthdays, are drawn into the drama that ensues when local gynecologist Woodrow McIlmore, happily married to his high school sweetheart, Milan, is forced into a confrontation with his lost love, Duff, mother of the young man Wood's daughter plans to marry.

Away (F Bloom) - Lillian Leyb travels to America alone, hoping to create a new life for herself after losing her family back in Russia, but when she learns her daughter may be alive, Lillian embarks on a journey that takes her around the world in search of love and redemption.

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By the River Piedro I Sat Down and Wept (F Coehlo) - Pilar, an independent young woman, renews her relationship with a childhood friend who is now a maverick seminarian, and together they follow a spiritual path to true love.

Sweet Salt Air (F Delinky) - wo childhood friends reunite at a summer retreat, each harboring a horrible secret that would test the bounds of their longtime relationship if revealed.Paint it Black (F Fitch) - Art model and runaway Josie Tyrell believes she has found true love with art student Michael Faraday, who introduces Josie to a world of sophistication and beauty, but when Michael dies, Josie is forced to try and rebuild her life and make amends with her family.

The Diary (Goudge) - he adult daughters of Elizabeth Marshall set out to learn the truth when they discover a diary written by their mother, who is near death following a stroke, in which she tells of the painful choice she made as a young woman between two men.

The Confessions of Max Tivoli (F Greer) - Max, born with the body of a very old man, finds his physical body growing younger as his mind grows older, giving him multiple chances to win the heart of Alice, the neighbor girl he fell in love with as a child, and who fails to recognize him as they meet again and again throughout their lives.

Midnight in Austenland (F Hale) - Charlette Kinder leaves her life in America for Pembrook Park, the country manor that offers an immersive Jane Austen experience, to find a new love.

Love in the Present Tense (F Hyde) - Pearl, only thirteen when she gives birth to her son, Leonard, and on the run for accidently killing his father, begins leaving the child with her neighbor Mitch while she is at work, and Mitch and Leonard are left to figure out how to approach the future when Pearl fails to return home from work one day.

The Dovekeepers (F Hoffman) - our women, Yael--whose father, an expert assassin, has never forgiven her for her mother's death during childbirth--Revka--a local baker's wife who witnessed the murder or her daughter by Roman soldiers--Aziza--a warrior's daughter who was raised like a son--and Shirah--a woman born with uncanny insight and knowledge of ancient magic--are drawn to Masada, a mountain the Judean desert where, in 70 CE, nine hundred Jews withheld for months against armies of Romans

Not a Day Goes By (F Harris) - Two people from dramatically different backgrounds find love with one another, but their beautiful wedding is threatened by secrets from their pasts.

Family (F Kingsbury) - While coping with overwhelming paparazzi and their love for each other, celebrity Katy Hart testifies against a fan who assaulted her, and actor Dayne Matthews seeks guidance from God and looks forward to meeting his siblings.

The Diner (F Koch) - Meeting at an Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons' act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love.

The Girl You Left Behind (F Moyes) - Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War II, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant.

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The History of Time (Krauss) - Presents a narrative about an aged author who flees Nazi-occupied Poland leaving his unpublished manuscript behind and a teenage girl in New York who was named after the heroine in Leo's book which was published under a different man's name.

One Day (F Nicholls) - he single day that Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley spend together in 1988, the day after college graduation in Edinburgh, makes a distinct impression on each of them and a relationship forms only after they part ways and are reunited once a year on the same day for twenty years.

Bell Canto (F Patchett) - A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice president of a small South American country, form bonds with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle, united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano.

Redeeming Love (F Rivers) - Retells the story from the Bible book of Hosea, set in California's gold country in 1850, in which Angel, sold into prostitution as a child, cannot accept that her husband truly cares for her, and must make peace with God before she feels free to take the love Michael offers.

Bed of Roses (F Roberts) - Emma Grant's love of romance has helped her turn the wedding planning company she started with her three best friends into a success, but that same romantic streak may ruin her one chance at true love when her feelings for Jack, a longtime friend of all four girls, turn towards more than friendship.

Peony in Love (F See) - In post-Ming dynasty China, Peony, a young girl betrothed to someone she has never met, observes a handsome man while hidden from view at a performance of the opera "The Peony Pavilion"--a work that has compelled young Chinese women to starve themselves to death--and, dead at sixteen, begins a transformative journey as a "hungry ghost."

American Wife (F Sittenfeld) - Alice, a kind and bookish only child born in Wisconsin in the 1940s, is very satisfied with her life as a school librarian and registered Democrat until she meets and falls in love with Charlie Blackwell, the son of a large, wealthy clan, and though she learns to adjust to their way of life, things change when he is elected president, and after eight years in the White House Alice is forced to reexamine who she is, what she believes, and how she wants to live.

A Wedding in Provence (F Sussman) - When Olivia and Brody drive up to their friend's idyllic inn, set in a valley in the Mediterranean town of Cassis--they know they've chosen the perfect spot for their wedding, but when Olivia and Brody's guests check-in, their peaceful wedding weekend is quickly thrown off balance as each guest has an agenda of his or her own.

Brooklyn (F Toibin) - Eilis Lacey takes advantage of a sponsorship that will allow her to escape the troubled economy of Ireland and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood, and after leaving her family behind, Eilis gets a job in a department store and falls in love with Tony, a man with a big Italian family, but the serendipity of her new life is shattered by bad news from Ireland.

The Shoemaker’s Wife (F Trigiani) - Enza and Ciro meet as teenagers despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart in the Italian Alps. When Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America, leaving behind a bereft Enza. Unbeknownst to one another, they

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both build lives in America, until fate intervenes and reunites them, but not before Ciro has volunteered to serve in World War I.

Those We Love Most (F Woodruff) - aura Corrigan is married to Pete, to her college sweetheart, and happily raising her three children in a northern Chicago suburb, when in a single turn of fate, her entire world comes crashing down and everything that she thought she knew changes, and as Maura learns to move forward carrying the weight of grief and crushing guilt of an unforgivable secret, Pete senses the difference and begins to drown his sorrows in alcohol.