 Nights
In Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks. Sparks follows the story
of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North
Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe. |
 A
chance encounter with an old flame in Emily Giffin's bittersweet,
sometimes mawkish fourth novel Love
The One You're With causes Ellen Dempsey to consider
anew what could have been. |
 A
Voyage Long and Strange is a history-fueled, self-imposed
mission of rediscovery. A travelogue that sets out to explore
the surprisingly long list of explorers who discovered America,
and what discovered means anyway. |
 No
Sucker Left Behind by Marc Scheer is the only book that
blows the lid off colleges' scandalous price-gouging schemes.
He arms students with innovative tools to fight back and get
a valuable degree for less! |
 Wheelchair
Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball is a memoir
of Melvin Juette's life in Chicago and rise to wheelchair basketball
stardom after he was paralyzed from a gang-related gunshot wound. |
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Not to Tell and Island
of Lost Girls, both of which were on the New York Times
Bestseller list. |
 The
Host is a sci-fi love story by #1 New York Times bestselling
author of the Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer. Her first adult
novel is set in a future where the fate of humanity is at stake. |
 Beautiful
Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
is David Sheff's harrowing - but compelling and evocative -
memoir about his son Nic's addiction to alcohol and drugs, particularly
crystal meth. |
 TV
and radio host Glenn Beck addresses a lot of topical political
issues in An Inconvenient
Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems,
including global warming and Islamic fundamentalism. |
 Jimmy
Buffett, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, is back with
Swine Not?, an irresistible new tale for readers of
all ages. It is a charming and heart-warming story about a family
that happens to include a pet pig. |
 At
its core, Barbara Delinsky's The
Secret Between Us is about family dynamics, particulary
those between a single mother and her teenage daughter after
they are involved in a fatal car accident. |
 At
quick glance, Sloane Crosley's
I Was Told There'd Be Cake seems like a typical essay
collection by a 20-something New Yorker. But she catches readers
from the get-go in her entertaining debut. |
 Ann
Coulter is back with more outrageous statements in If
Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans. Her
fans should find the book wickedly funny and liberals will be
suitably outraged. |
 Zapped
is the 11th novel in Carol Higgins Clark's Regan Reilly series.
This time, husband-and-wife duo Jack and Regan have to solve
several intertwined cases - all while New York City is in the
midst of a blackout. |
 In
Peter Carey's His Illegal
Self, seven-year-old Che hasn't seen his radical hippie
parents since he was young. But one day a woman shows up saying
she is his mom, and the two end up on the run from the law.
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 Madness:
A Bipolar Life is author Marya Hornbacher visceral and
painfully self-aware memoir about her lifelong struggle with
Type I rapid-cycle bipolar, the most serious form of the illness.
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 Ever
wondered how your doctor made a diagnosis? Or why he or she
recommended certain tests? Well, Dr. Jerome Groopman explains
such inquiries in his book How
Doctors Think. |
 Comedy
Central comedian Stephen Colbert brings his witty, off the wall
humor to I Am America (And
So Can You!). In it, the personality-driven pundit tackles
the media, racism and immigration, just to name a few. |
 In
pre-Civil War Maryland, the slaves have a code they use to help
others escape. James McBride weaves a tale of slavery, freedom,
dreams and the future in his lyrical novel Song
Yet Sung. |
 Izzy
Spellman and her zany P.I. family are back in Lisa Lutz's laugh
out loud mystery Curse
of the Spellmans: A Novel. The Spellmans are a unique
bunch not above spying on and tracking one another. |
 Andrew
Morton's Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized
Biography is a fascinating peek into the life of the
actor. Everything about Cruise is up for display in the controversial
book. |
 In
Paws & Effect:
The Healing Power of Dogs, Sharon Sakson reveals the
true human-dog bond through stories of dogs who can smell cancer,
warn their owners about pending seizures and do other amazing
things. |
In Lauren Groff's debut, protagonist Willie Upton must look
through her town's ancestors to determine the identity of her
father. The Monsters
of Templeton is part mystery, part ghost story and part
historical fiction. |
 In
Bill Floyd's The Killer's
Wife, Leigh Wren has moved to Cary, N.C. to start a
new life away from her serial killer ex-husband Randy who is
on death row. But then copy cat murders occur and she must face
the past. |
 Mark
R. Levin describes watching his dog's health decline, then making
the decision to put him to sleep in Rescuing
Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish. |
 In
Cornelia Read's The
Crazy School, protagonist Madeline Dare must unearth
some dark truths about a boarding school for troubled kids in
order to solve two murders. |
 In
Sara Young's My
Enemy's Cradle, half-Jew Cyrla is hiding in the home
of her Dutch relatives. Suddenly she is forced to take the place
of her cousin Anneke and hide among the enemy in a Nazi-run
birthing center. |
 Elinor
Brooke and Kit Neville are all budding artists who are involved
in a love triangle in Pat Barker's Life
Class. After World War I breaks out, the three struggle
with their art and feelings for one another. |
 James
Patterson's Women's Murder Club series is back with 7th
Heaven, the seventh book in the popular series. Co-authored
by Maxine Paetro, 7th Heaven is a step up from several of Patterson's
recent novels. |
 The
Middle Place is Kelly Corrigan's memoir that uses
witticisms and relatability to describe both her own bout with
breast cancer and her father's prostate cancer. |
 Rather
than a mid-life crisis, Emily, the main character in Jill A.
Davis' novel Ask Again
Later is having a quarter-life crisis. When she discovers
her mom has cancer, she happily checks out of life to care for
her. |
 Afterimage
is a mystery by Kathleen George featuring rookie homicide cop
Colleen Greer. A former therapist, Greer uses her background
to solve two cases in which she slightly knew both victims.
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 On
Chesil Beach: A Novel is much smaller in scope than
Ian McEwan's prior books. Taking place in just one day, it
describes a just-married couple's struggles and fear of consummating
their relationship.
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 Poptastic!
My Life in Radio - Tony Blackburn is probably
one of the most recognizable disc jockeys working in Britain
today. He is always busy doing what he does best - playing music
to listeners. |
 My
Life with George: What I Learned about Joy from One Neurotic
(and Very Expensive) Dog is Judith Summers' account
of living with her dog whom got George following the death of
her husband. |
 Alice
Sebold's follow-up to The Lovely Bones is a dark, disappointing
novel. In The Almost
Moon: A Novel, Helen Knightly has just killed her mother
and is recounting her childhood and what led up to the murder. |
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