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.
The Winner’s Circle, a Joanne Kilbourn mystery by Gail Bowen: The Falconer-Shreve families have shared hundreds of weekends at Lawyers’ Bay. At the end of their first year in law school, some of the lawyers had jokingly styled themselves as “The Winners” Circle. But within the weeks to come, there will be almost insurmountable challenges.
Domina by L.S. Hilton: Judith Rashleigh, now the owner of her very own art gallery and enjoying the life of luxury in Venice, becomes the victim of blackmail when her past catches up with her. Someone knows what she has done and wants her to find a priceless painting for them. As well someone else wants this painting too.
Any Dream Will Do by Debbie Macomber: A powerful standalone novel about a woman who is forced to start her life anew. Shay works hard to rebuild her life and strikes up a friendship with Pastor Drew, becoming close to him and his children. When Caden arrives in town with a disastrous secret that could unravel all the good that she has accomplished, she relies on her courage and faith to embrace a better future.
The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond: Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, a former singer, is now a lawyer and Jake is a partner in a successful practice. When they receive a wedding gift from one of Alice's prominent clients, they decide to join an exclusive, mysterious group known as The Pact.
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware: Isa receives a text from Kate that summons her as well as their two friends to the seaside town where they attended Salten House boarding school seventeen years ago. There they had participated in the Lying Game, a risky contest that tricked fellow boarders and faculty that had consequences, including the mysterious disappearance of their beloved art teacher, Kate's father.
Adult biography:
Summer at Tiffany: a memoir by Marjorie Hart: New York City, 1945. Marjorie and her best friend Marty arrive from the Kappa House at the University of Iowa, planning to find summer positions as shop girls. Turned away from the top department stores, they are hired as pages at Tiffany & Co., the first women to ever work on the sales floor, starting them on a magical life experience.
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 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.
The Epiphany Machine by David Burr Gerrard
Final Girls by Riley Sager: A thriller.
Nipped in the Bud by Susan Sleeman: Paige is working on her first landscaping contract, sprucing up the city park for its upcoming Pickle Fest. The day after a confrontation with the city manager, she finds him in a mound of mulch. With no alibi for the time and plenty of motive, she must dig her way out of this one.
Adult non-fiction: Reading with Patrick A teacher, a student, and a life-changing friendship by Michelle Kuo
Horse Cop by Robert J. Adams: Bob, a country boy from rural Alberta, is accepted into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, embarking on his life's journey.
Adult DVD:
The Lost City of Z: Based on the best-selling true story. In 1925, Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon in search of a myth. What he discovered became legendary.
Young adult: I See London, I See France by Sarah Mlynowski
Junior fiction: Operation: Secret recipe by Geronimo Stilton
Chase by Linwood Barclay:Get ready to run.
Junior non-fiction:
Colors: the rainbow of the natural world
Junior picture book: How to Get Your Teacher Ready by Jean Reagan
Princess Peppa by Neville Astley and Mark Baker
Junior easy reader: Max & Ruby!: Max's Lunch by Rosemary Wells
