Adult bestseller:
The Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain: 1944. Tess gives up her budding career as a nurse, and ends the engagement to the love of her life, moving to the small, rural town of Hickory, North Carolina where she soon realizes that she may be trapped in an impetuous unhappy marriage there.
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble: This novel questions what makes a good life and a good passing.
The Shoe on the Roofby Will Ferguson: Giller prize-winning author of 419. Thomas Rosanoff, a researcher, also a gifted medical student, is trying to escape his past where his father allowed him to be used as a test subject when he was a boy, being watched over by researchers lurking behind one-way glass.
The Rooster Bar by John Grisham: Mark, Todd, and Zola decided to enter law school to make the world a better place but now as third year students, the three close friends realize that they have borrowed heavily to attend the for-profit law school from which the students have difficulty finding good jobs. They learn that their school is one of several owned by a New York hedge-fund operator who also owns a bank that specializes in student loans. They immediately get the picture. Maybe there is a way out of their predicament and they could expose what is going on.
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman: For the Owens family, love seems to be a curse dating back to the 1600s when Marie Owens loved the wrong man. Susanna Owens knows that her three children are unique so she sets out rules for them to follow but her children don't want to adhere to the rules.
Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan: How well do you know the people you love? Noah and Abdi have been inseparable since they met at one of Bristol's elite private schools. When something happens to Noah, Abdi either can't or won't tell anyone what happened.
The Right Time by Danielle Steel: Since age seven, Alexandra has been cared for by her devoted father. Together they read and enjoy mysteries. Soon she is writing them herself at a level far beyond her years. After her father passes on when she is fourteen, she is cared for by the nuns of a local convent and given the time and encouragement to continue to pursue her talent. She publishes under the pseudonym Alexander Green, her double life only known to those closest to her.
Adult audio book:
The Rooster Bar by John Grisham, read by Ari Fliakos.
Adult biography:
Reckless Daughter: a portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe.
Adult non-fiction:
The Last Castle: the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home by Denise Kiernan.
All We Leave Behind: a reporter's journey into the lives of others by Carol Off.
Member of the Family; my story of Charles Manson, life inside his cult, and the darkness that ended the sixties by Dianne Lake and Deborah Herman.
Junior fiction:
A Big Day for Baseball, #29 in the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne.
