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The Night Ferry by Michael Robotham
Attending her high-school reunion at the request of her long-estranged friend, Cate, Ali Barba, a Sikh detective with the Metropolitan Police, suddenly finds herself investigating Cate’s death after she and her husband are run down by a hit-and-run driver. |
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Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: A Woman's Guide to Unblocking Creativity by Susan O'Doherty
Counsels writers on how to understand and overcome creative blocks, addressing obstacles of particular concern to women, from a fear of success and competing in male-dominated fields to balancing the needs of a job and family, in a guide that also shares tips on how to address procrastination. |
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Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting by Gina Kolata
Society’s obsession with dieting and weight loss reveals how they are less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals, in this account of the place of diets in American society. |
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The Complete Quick & Hearty Diabetic Cookbook by American Diabetes Association
Every meal of the day is covered, including recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, side dishes, main courses, and desserts. You can choose from more than 250 fast and simple-tomake, low-fat recipes with old-fashioned good taste. |
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The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
In the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance, Frank Bascombe confronts the perils of Thanksgiving as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore. |
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Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir
A fictional portrait of Lady Jane Grey, the great-niece of Henry VIII and cousin to his children, follows her turbulent life against the backdrop of Tudor power politics and religious upheaval, from her youth, to her nine-day reign as Queen of England, to its tragic aftermath. |
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Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
Harboring romantic notions about golden-age Hollywood film stars, thirty-one-year-old Philadelphia café manager Cornelia Brown embarks on a too-good-to-be-true relationship with the debonair Martin Grace, while across town, an eleven-year-old abandoned girl seeks out her estranged father. |
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Here If You Need Me: A True Story by Kate Braestrup
The author documents her decision to pursue her husband’s ambition to become a minister after his tragic accidental death, describing how she eventually became a spiritual counselor for families with missing loved ones during search-and-rescue missions. |
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The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel by Stef Penney
When her teenage son disappears in the aftermath of a brutal murder, a determined mother sets out from her snow-covered nineteenth-century settlement to find him, an effort that is hampered by vigilante groups and the harrowing forces of nature. |
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The Indian Bride by Karin Fossum
Inspector Konrad Sejer heads up the investigation into a brutal murder after the battered body of a woman is found outside of the town of Elvestad on the same day that the townspeople are expecting to meet the new Indian bride of local bachelor Gunder Jomann, who unexpectedly has returned home married after a two-week trip to India. |
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Mary Modern: A Novel by Camille Deangelis
Frustrated by her unsuccessful attempts to become pregnant, genetic researcher Lucy Morrigan — living with her boyfriend in her family’s crumbling old family mansion — successfully clones her grandmother from a blood stain on an old apron, but instead of a baby, she brings to life a twenty-two-year-old woman, confused by the modern world and by the remnants of lives she cannot remember. |
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A Day at the Beach by Helen Schulman
In a novel that takes place over the course of an eventful twenty-four hours, the troubled marriage of famed choreographer Gerhard Falktopf and his dancer wife Suzannah is profoundly affected by the events of September 11. |
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H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Mark Walden
Kidnapped and taken to H.I.V.E. where he will be trained in everything villainous by Dr. Nero and his staff, Otto finds himself on an island far away from his family, friends, and home and so must work with a group of other kidnapped students to break out before it’s too late. |
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Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume by Jennifer O'Connell
A collection of personal essays by some of today’s most popular young adult and women’s fiction writers considers the ways in which the books of Judy Blume influenced their emotional, social, and physical developments, in a volume that includes contributions by Meg Cabot, Cara Lockwood, and Megan McCafferty. |
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The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel
The Master Key is here given to the world as a means of tapping the great Cosmic Intelligence and attracting from it that which corresponds to the ambitions, and aspirations of each reader. |
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The Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes: A Novel by Cathy Holton
More than a year after the Kudzu Debutantes exacted sweet revenge on their unfaithful spouses, Nita is preparing for marriage to a younger man, single and slim Lavonne has launched her own business, and Eadie is still married to celebrated novelist Trevor, until they are forced to reunite to match wits against the conniving Virginia Broadwell, first lady of Ithaca, Georgia. |
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Zoo Station by David Downing
When an American journalist living in 1939 Germany agrees to write articles for the Soviets, he gets dragged into dangerous activities and is sought by warring factions when British and Nazi intelligence discover his actions. |
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The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm by Juliet Nicolson
Chronicling four months during 1911, an evocative portrait of an English society on the brink of turbulent change describes such milestones as the crowning of a new king, strikes that paralyzed British industry, and the first London appearance of the Ballets Russes, from the viewpoints of a debutante, a suffragette, a trade unionist, a butler, a politician, the queen, and others. |
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Miss Julia Strikes Back by Ann B. Ross
Hosting a party while her husband and Hazel Marie are away, Miss Julia discovers that her Princess Diana ring replica and other jewelry pieces have been stolen, and she packs up Little Lloyd, Etta Mae Wiggins, and an inebriated private investigator in order to catch the thieves in Palm Beach. |
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Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
With her one true love by her side, a teenage girl, who has the rare ability to see what others cannot, is chosen by two faery realms to face the ultimate trial, becoming the Summer Queen they have been seeking for more than nine centuries if she succeeds. |
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Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters by Jessica Valenti
The creator of Feministing.com presents evidence of the ongoing spirit of feminism that considers a wide range of topics from health and reproductive rights to violence and education, in a volume that challenges modern criticisms of today’s young women and invites the newest generation to become comfortable with feminist activism. |
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Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters by James M. Tabor
Documents the tragic deaths of seven mountaineers who aspired to climb Mt. McKinley in 1967, revealing practices of cover-up and finger-pointing that prevented an effective rescue attempt, in an account based on team survivor interviews, government documents, and unpublished personal writings. |
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Girls of Riyadh: A Novel by Rajaa Alsanea
Originally banned in Saudi Arabia, the tale of four young women university students from Riyadh follows their struggles to navigate the precarious paths between desire, fulfillment, and Islamic tradition while witnessing the ways in which the Arab world is being changed by new economic and political realities. |
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Austenland: A Novel by Shannon Hale
Because her obsession with Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” is ruining her love life, Jane Hayes is delighted when she gets the chance to take a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women. |
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Mitt & Minn at the Wisconsin Cheese Jamboree by Kathy-Jo Wargin
Two white-footed mice, one who lives in Michigan and one in Minnesota, are both seeking home and family when they meet at a cheese-eating contest in Wisconsin. |