[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner reserve now! The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian. [divider sid="divider-1307557145" type="blank" [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Turning the Tide by Ed Offley reserve now! The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity, [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins reserve now! Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine them part of a novel [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary reserve now! One of Cary's most memorable novels--the uproarious tale of Gulley Jimson, artist, genius, con man, and aging lover. From "one of the outstanding humorous writers of the century". [divider sid="divider-1307557145" type="blank" margin-bottom="0"] [/box]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Lennon Revealed by Larry Kane reserve now! John Lennon-working class hero, rebel with a cause, citizen of the world. He would have been 65 this year. A quarter of a century after his death, the questions remain: what was John Lennon really like, what drove him to the heights [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese reserve now! Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] The Snowman by Jo Nesbo reserve now! In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris reserve now! When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Still Missing by Chevy Stevens reserve now! On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals—sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her [...]
The Adult Summer Reading Program, "Novel Destinations", concluded this week with the awarding of the grand prize gift basket -- a delectable selection of snack items from around the world -- to Richard Clapper (below right, with Adult Services Director, Mark Pinto). He was among 20 participants in the Program who read at least 15 books that were set in [...]
