KDL Recommends

On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.

A memoir reveals the inside of militant Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan and the culture shock of moving to the United States, in a book that explores the author’s search for his Islamic identity.

After his best friend’s daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romance and rescue his son, not foreseeing how his whole world will shatter in the process.

A conclusion to the trilogy that includes The Traveler and The Dark River finds Gabriel coming close to finding his father only to encounter an unimaginable new threat, while his brother Michael, firmly allied with the enemy, endeavors to wrest power from the leaders of the Brethren.

A chronicle of the period in American history between Columbus’s discovery of the New World and Jamestown’s founding evaluates the dramatic voyages and first-contact experiences of numerous European adventurers in search of such elusive treasures as gold, the fountain of youth, and potential religious converts.

Forced to set aside her Ph.D. research in order to help the settling of her late grandmother’s abandoned home, Connie Goodwin discovers a hidden key among her grandmother’s possessions that is linked to a darker chapter in Salem witch trial history.

Tiring of playing the hostess as her fiftieth birthday approaches, celebrity chef Augusta Simpson endeavors to distance herself from her overly dependent loved ones and receives assistance from handsome fellow chef Oliver in her efforts to launch an on-air cooking class. By the author of The Friday Night Knitting Club.

Dakota Walker—along with her father, her grandparents and her mother’s best friend, Catherine—visits her Gran for the Christmas holidays in Scotland, where the family members reminisce about Dakota’s mother, Georgia, from Georgia’s childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mom, in a story that takes place a year after the best-selling Knit Two.

A compelling account of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 brings together the divergent stories of two very different men who played a key role in shaping the history of the event—visionary architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and Dr. Henry H. Holmes, an insatiable and charming serial killer who lured women to their deaths. Reader’s Guide available.

A fascinating journey inside the human mind draws on the latest tools of neuroscience to explore the decision-making process as a blend of both feeling and reason and, utilizing cutting-edge research, explains how we can make better decisions. By the author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist.

Compelling and fiercely honest, Base Ten exposes the daily battles of women scientists fighting to preserve a family life and succeed in a discipline that functions on the archaic belief that every scientist has a “wife” at home. Inspired by distinguished scientists Sandra Moore Faber and Vera Rubin, this striking novel vividly captures the struggles of women in science.

Left to die in an abandoned mansion as the prey of a vampire, Sunshine is stunned to find herself unharmed and must come up with a way to save her undead host from the perils of the daylight world, in a seductive tale of supernatural desire from the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Hero and the Crown.

Rendered a confidant and supportive friend for her willingness to listen to her neighbors in genocide-stricken Rwanda, baker Angel Tungaraza provides decadent confections and transforming counsel to a series of troubled customers.

Tormented by voices in her head after biting a domyter, Jaz is ordered to perform her next mission flawlessly or face unemployment, a situation for which she must prevent her latest target from destroying humanity by transporting gnome larvae into deep space. By the best-selling author of Biting the Bullet.

When a failing custom wedding shoe business in Greenwich Village falls unexpectedly into her lap, apprentice Valentine Roncalli is challenged to bring her family’s old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century.