Adult bestseller:
Look Behind You by Iris Johansen: San Diego. The series of crimes all require the specific skills of Kendra Michaels, who works for both the ICA and the FBI. The objects left behind are souvenirs of previously unsolved serial murder cases around the country.
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for her story collection Interpreter of Maladies. A family saga of the Ganguli family who arrived from Calcutta, doing their best to become Americans.
The Break Down by P.A.Paris: A thriller. Cass passed a car in the woods on a winding rural road in the middle of a downpour. She remembers the woman sitting inside. If she had stopped, something might have happened to her too. She can't say anything because she had promised her husband that she wouldn't take that shortcut home. The she starts to receive silent calls and the feeling that someone is watching her.
The Painted Queen by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess. An Amelia Peabody novel of suspense set in Cairo during the 1912-1913 excavation season.
A Distant View of Everything by Alexander McCall Smith. An Isabel Dalhousie novel. A new baby brings plenty of joy to Isabel and her husband Jamie but their four year old Charlie is not too keen about his new brother. Meanwhile Bea, who is considered something of a matchmaker as well as being an old acquaintance of Isabel’s, asks her to discreetly check out the match she has made between a wealthy female friend and a cosmetic surgeon whom she had introduced at a recent dinner party.
Adult fiction:
Hunting Houses by Fanny Britt: Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award
Hum If You Don't Know the Words by Bianca Marais: 1970s Johannesburg. Nine year old Robin and her parents' lives change as does Beauty's when her daughter goes missing.
Adult fiction in the Man Booker Prize shortlist:
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster: March 3, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson is born in Newark, New Jersey, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, growing up against the tumultuous terrain of mid-twentieth century America.
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry: Previously Man Booker Prize short listed author of The Secret Scripture and A Long Long Way: In the 1850s, from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, two young men and Winona, as a family unit, experience the American and Civil Wars.
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor: Midwinter in the early years of this century when a teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills in the heart of England. As the search goes on, so does everyday life.
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders: February 1862. The Civil War is not yet one year old when President Lincoln's eleven year old son Willie passes on and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery.
Adult non-fiction: Reading with Patrick A teacher, a student, and a life-changing friendship by Michelle Kuo
Young adult: I See London, I See France by Sarah Mlynowski
Junior easy reader: Max & Ruby!: Max's Lunch by Rosemary Wells
Junior fiction: Operation: Secret recipe by Geronimo Stilton
Junior picture book: How to Get Your Teacher Ready by Jean Reagan
