KDL Recommends

Follows events in the life of a concierge whose deliberately concealed intelligence is uncovered by an unstable but intellectually precocious girl.

On the eve of her 9th birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother’s lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake.

Illustrates post-industrial America, where wildlife, jobs, and whole ways of life go extinct and the people have no choice but to live off what is left behind.

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.

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place. (Book 1 of the Hunger Games Trilogy)

Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shadowed by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders.

First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a world, forever altered.

Follows the fates of five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage.

The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.

Alice Howland is a celebrated Harvard
professor at the height of her career when she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment.

Pulls back the curtains on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns. Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story.

A hilarious and moving memoir about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis.

Connected solely by a desk of enormous
dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three struggle to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.

Henrik Vanger hires journalist Mikael Blomkvist to get to the bottom of his niece Harriet’s disappearance forty years earlier. Lisbeth Salander, a tattooed genius hacker assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of iniquity, an astonishing corruption—and a surprising connection between themselves. (Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy)

The author examines the causes of the U.S. stock market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, and shareholder demand for excessive profits.

The timeless story of a young Marine
lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood.

Reveals the secrets of the world’s greatest distance runners and how the author trained for the challenge of a lifetime.

Over twenty years, snapshots of an unlikely relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. Dex Mayhew and Em Morley face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.

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 view one another.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells became one of the most important tools in medicine.

Marion and Shiva are twin brothers born of a secret union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.