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Alameddine, Rabih.
The hakawati.
In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father’s deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama
remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories. Osama’s
grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching stories–of his
arrival in Lebanon, an orphan of the Turkish wars, and of how he earned the name al-Kharrat, the fibster–are interwoven with classic tales of the Middle East, stunningly reimagined.

Aston, Elizabeth.
Mr. Darcy’s dream.
When Phoebe, Mr. Darcy’s niece, is shattered by an unhappy romance, she retreats to Pemberley and is joined by kind-hearted Louisa Bingley and several
handsome strangers–all hopeful of winning the girls’ hearts. Mischief and love
triangles abound, making life as difficult as possible for anyone connected with the Darcy family.

Atherton, Nancy.
Aunt Dimity slays the dragon. [Mystery]
U.S. ex-pat Lori Shepherd and Aunt Dimity investigate sabotage (and possible regicide) at a local Renaissance faire held in the idyllic Cotswolds
village of Finch.

Barlow, Toby.
Sharp teeth. [Horror]
“An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.’s down and out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will–and they’re bent on domination at any cost. Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kind-hearted, besotted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack. Anthony has no idea that she’s more than she seems, and she wants to keep it that way. But her efforts to protect her secret lead to murderous results”–Publisher. Winner of Bram Stoker Award.

Barnes, Jonathan.
The domino men. [Fantasy]
In an earlier century, Queen Victoria made a Faustian bargain, signing London and all its souls away to a nefarious, inhuman entity. Now, generations later, the bill has finally come due.

Bass, Jefferson.
Bones of betrayal. [Mystery]
Bill Brockton forensic series

Bauermeister, Erica.
The school of essential ingredients.
Eight students gather in Lillian’s Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen as Chef Lillian, a woman whose connection with food is both soulful and exacting, helps them to create dishes whose flavor and techniques expand beyond the restaurant and into the secret corners of her students’ lives.

Beachy, Kyle.
The slide.

Berenson, Alex.
The silent man. [Suspense]
Espionage; bk.3

Bi, Feiyu.
The moon opera.
Chinese opera

Binchy, Maeve.
Heart and soul.
A story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new in Ireland.

Blackstock, Terri,
Double minds. [Mystery]
Nashville singer

Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
The women. [Historical]
Recounts the life of Frank Lloyd Wright as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him: the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff; the
passionate Southern belle Maud Miriam Noel; the spirited Mamah Cheney,
tragically killed; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin.

Brallier, Kate.
The boundless deep. [Romance]
Nantucket Whaling

Briggs, Patricia.
Bone crossed. [Fantasy]
Car mechanic/shapeshifter Mercy Thompson must protect her friends from vampire queen Marsilia’s revenge. Series.

Brockmann, Suzanne.
Dark of night. [Suspense]
Badly shaken after the loss of one of their own, the men and women of Troubleshooters Inc. go up against their most deadly opponents yet–the
clandestine organization called The Agency.

Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien.
Ms. Hempel chronicles.
Middle school teachers

Carroll, Jonathan.
The ghost in love. [Fantasy]
A man falls in the snow, hits his head on a curb, and dies. But something strange occurs: the man doesn’t die, and the ghost that’s been sent to take his
soul to the afterlife is flabbergasted. Going immediately to its boss, the ghost asks, what should I do now? The boss says, we don’t know how this happened but we’re working on it. We want you to stay with this man to help us figure out what’s going on. The ghost agrees unhappily; it is a ghost, not a nursemaid. But a funny thing happens–the ghost falls madly in love with the man’s girlfriend, and things naturally get complicated. Soon afterward, the man discovers he did not die when he was “supposed” to because for the first time in their history, human beings have decided to take their fates back from the gods. It’s a wonderful change, but one that comes at a price.–From publisher description.

Center, Katherine.
Everyone is beautiful.
Smart Funny Women

Child, Lincoln.
Terminal freeze. [Suspense]
A group of scientists undertake an expedition to Alaska’s Federal Wilderness Zone to study the effects of global warming. The expedition changes suddenly when the group heads out on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave and makes an astonishing find.

Davis, Susan Page.
Inside story.
Naval Romantic Suspense

Dekker, Ted & Erin Healy
Kiss.
After a car accident puts Shauna McAllister in a coma and wipes out six months of her memory, she tries to sort out what happened that night by jarring her memory to life. Instead, she acquires a mysterious mental ability that will either lead her to truth or get her killed by the people trying to hide it.

Delaney, Frank,
Shannon. [Historical]
Ireland

Delinsky, Barbara.
While my sister sleeps.

Duncan, Glen,
A day and a night and a day.
A Grand Inquisition for the twenty-first century, in which love, loyalty, reason, and truth are on trial, and morality hangs in the balance. It is the story of Augustus Rose, an unlikely operative in a terrorist network, and his interrogator, Harper, a ruthless ambassador for the darkest forces at work in our times.

Edwards, Selden.
The little book.
Time traveling rock musician

Ellis, Robert,
The lost witness. [Suspense]
Legal

Emerson, Earl W.
Cape Disappointment. [Mystery]
Recovering from near-fatal injuries from a bomb blast and grief over the loss of his wife, Kathy, Seattle PI Thomas Black tries to piece together memories, hallucinations, and the ravings of an alcoholic ex-CIA hit man.

Emerson, Kate.
Secrets of the Tudor court: pleasure palace. [Historical]

Emley, Dianne.
The deepest cut.

Ephron, Hallie.
Never tell a lie. [Suspense]
Ivy and David Rose, happily married high school sweethearts and expecting their first child, are plunged into a growing web of suspicion when a young,
pregnant high school classmate disappears and David’s past is exposed in this
tale of obsession.

Farooki, Roopa.
Corner shop.
Delphine Khanum fantasizes about rekindling her relationship with her father-in-law Zaki, whom she loved long before she met and married his son. But
as she discovers in this richly layered, multi-generational tale, the closer
one’s dreams become, the more risk there is of losing sight of what really
matters.

Fay, Juliette.
Shelter me.
Four months after her husband’s death, Janie LaMarche remains undone by grief and anger. Her mourning is disrupted, however, by the unexpected arrival of a builder with a contract to add a porch onto her house. Stunned, Janie realizes the porch was meant to be a surprise from her husband and now his last gift to her. As the porch takes shape, Janie discovers that the unknowable terrain of the future is best navigated with the help of others, even those we least expect to call on, much less learn to love.

Forman, Steven M.
Boca knights. [Suspense]
Humorous ex-cop

Fowler, Earlene.
Love mercy.
After being widowed, Love Mercy Johnson has come to terms with her life in Morro Bay, California. She spends her time writing columns for a regional magazine, helping her in-laws work their ranch, and trying to move on. But her dreams of reconciliation with her long-estranged grandchildren come true when her eighteen-year- old brokenhearted granddaughter, Rett, unexpectedly shows up. Together they struggle to co-exist while confronting old resentments and painful memories. When a family crisis forges an unexpected connection between the two grieving women, they must discover if by working together, they can change their lives, and the lives of those they love, for the better.

Gershow, Miriam.
The local news.
Bright, precocious but socially awkward Lydia Pasternak reports on the aftermath of her older brother’s disappearance. Danny was everything Lydia wasn’t: at ease with their parents, popular in school, physically imposing, beloved by the opposite sex. Danny went from being Lydia’s playmate in their youth to her tormentor in high school, so his disappearance leaves Lydia with some very mixed feelings, one of which is relief. As time goes on and the weekend search parties prove more and more fruitless, Lydia struggles with the fact that her geeky best friend, David, has feelings for her; she also obsesses over the private investigator hired by the family and allows herself to be sucked into the social world Danny once dominated.

Gores, Joe,
Spade & Archer. [Mystery]
The prequel to Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon.

Gottlieb, Andrew,
Drink, play, f@#k: one man’s search for anything across Ireland, Vegas, and Thailand.
In this fictional male take-off of Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, Bob Sullivan, a jilted husband, sets off to explore the world, experience a meaningful connection with the divine, and rediscover his passion. His travels lead him from his home in New York City to a drinking bender across Ireland, through the glitz and glamour that is Las Vegas, and to the hedonistic pleasure palaces of Thailand. After a lifetime of playing it safe, Mr. Sullivan finally follows his heart and lives out everyone’s deepest fantasies.

Graham, Jo,
Black ships. [Fantasy]
The daughter of a slave taken from fallen Troy, Gull was chosen to become the voice of the Lady of the Dead and counsel kings. But when nine black ships appear, captained by exiled Prince Aeneas, she joins him as his guide and leads him to his destiny.

Greeley, Andrew M.
Irish tweed: a Nuala Anne McGrail novel.
Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne, investigate the brutal beating of Finnbar Burke, the “nice fella” with whom their shy, golden-haired nanny has fallen in love, who is found floating in the Chicago River. Set in late nineteenth-century Chicago.

Green, Tim,
Above the law. [Suspense]
“Tim Green returns with a new legal thriller featuring his female protagonist from one of his most successful books, The letter of the law, Casey Jordan”–Provided by the publisher.

Gregory, Jill.

The illumination.

Natalie Landau, a museum curator with an expertise in protective amulets and magical beliefs, has received a puzzling gift from her sister Dana–a necklace with a blue evil eye pendant on it. When Natalie learns Dana was murdered only hours after sending the gift, she begins to think the amulet had something to do with her sister’s death.

Hannah, Kristin.
True colors.
In a small Washington town, the Grey sisters once-solid world is broken apart by jealousy, passion, and betrayal until one of their family is arrested and tried for murder.

Harper, Karen S.
Mistress Shakespeare. [Historical]
Spanning half a century of Elizabethan and Jacobean history and sweeping from the lowest reaches of society to the royal court, this richly textured novel tells the real story of Shakespeare in love.

Harwood, John,
The seance.
Follows The Ghost Writer.

Hendricks, Judith Ryan.
The laws of Harmony.
Sunny Cooper has been running since she was eighteen, both from the New Mexican commune where she grew up and from the haunting memory of her younger sister’s death. When a second tragic accident turns her world upside down, Sunny runs again, to the town of Harmony on San Miguel Island where she takes a new job, learns to ride a motorcycle, and makes some surprising new friends. But the past is never far behind.

Hinck, Sharon.
Stepping into sunlight.
Christian Fiction

Houghteling, Sara.
Pictures at an exhibition. [Historical]
War art treasures

Huston, Charlie.
The mystic arts of erasing all signs of death. [Mystery]
Cleaning crime scenes

Isenberg, Lynn.
The funeral planner goes to the White House.
“So the White House has tapped ‘life-celebration entrepreneur’ Madison Banks to create a new national holiday…complete with a celebrity-studded multimedia extravaganza…to honor those who have passed on, reinvigorate the populace and basically save the country. No pressure…”–p. [4] of cover. Series; bk.2

Jacobson, Alan,
The 7th victim. [Suspense]
FBI

Jenoff, Pam.
Almost home. [Suspense]
Espionage

Jordan, Toni.
Addition.
In Melbourne, Australia, a neurotic, 35 year old woman who loves to count meets an Irish transplant named Seamus Joseph O’Reilly and with some gentle encouragement decides to give love a chance. Can she find a happy medium between her obsession and living life to its fullest?

Keefer, Janice Kulyk,
The ladies’ lending library.
Ukrainian women

Kelly, Cathy.
Lessons in heartbreak.
“Izzie Silver, a warmhearted Irishwoman with a mane of chestnut hair and a zest of life, is a New York success story, a highly successful booking agent at a top-notch modeling agency. But while she dreams of starting an agency for plus-size models, at heart she’s still the convent schoolgirl from the exquisite
Irish coastal town of Tamarin.

Killham, Nina.
Believe me. ”

Kingsbury, Karen.
This side of heaven. “A story of family secrets, broken relationships, and a love strong enough to span a nation”–Provided by publisher.

Koomson, Dorothy.
Marshmallows for breakfast.
Smart Funny Women

LaHaye, Tim F.
Luke’s story.
Recounts the life story of the author of the Gospel of Luke–from his life as a slave to his university studies as a medical student at Tarsus, from his acquaintance with Saul (Paul) of Tarsus to his ultimate discipleship and
decision to write the story of Christ.

Lashner, William.
Blood and bone. [Suspense]
Legal Mystery

Lawrence, Margaret K.
Roanoke. [Historical]

Lee, Janice Y. K.
The piano teacher.
In 1952, newlywed Claire Pendleton accompanies her civil servant husband to Hong Kong and is hired by the wealthy Chen family as a piano instructor for their young daughter. Through her position with the Chens, she meets their chauffeur, Will Truesdale, and embarks on a passionate affair with him. However, Will has a troubled past, which began during the Japanese occupation at the onset of WWII when Will fell in love with Chinese-Portugese beauty Trudy Liang. Now, as Will’s past catches up to him, Claire realizes that her future is in jeopardy. The Piano Teacher is a “rich and intimate look at what happens to people under extraordinary circumstances” (Booklist).

Lewis, Simon,
Bad traffic: an Inspector Jian novel. [Mystery]

May, Peter,
Snakehead. [Suspense]
In the fourth of Peter May’s China thrillers, American pathologist Margaret Campbell finds herself back on home soil, only to be faced by a truck full of dead Chinese and an unavoidable confrontation with her past.

Medlicott, Joan A.
Promises of change.
Covington series

Moody, David,
Hater. [Horror]
Concerns a young father who attempts to save himself and his family from a world moving inexorably and mysteriously toward chaos and violence. Danny McCoyne spends his days plugging away at a thankless, fulfilling job as a minor bureaucrat in an unnamed English city. When he witnesses a series of brutal attacks, he’s somewhat at a loss. Were these isolated instances or signs of something larger? Danny isn’t the only one noticing the uptick in violence, however. Soon news reports are full of stories about Haters–once well-behaved, normal people who begin unleashing vicious, seemingly unprovoked attacks on friends, family members and strangers with often homicidal aggression, and no one seems to know why.

Moore, Christopher,
Fool.
Pocket, King Lear’s fool, sets out to straighten out the mess the mad king has made of the kingdom and the royal family, only to discover the truth about his own heritage. Humorous Historical.

Morin, Donna Russo.
The courtier’s secret. [Historical]
Set in France in 1682, during the time of Louis XIV, this novel tells the story of Yvette, a courtier in Versailles. After using her secret fencing skills
to save one of the king’s Musketeers, she continues her life disguised as a man, but her double life and insider knowledge also puts her in danger.

Nash, Jennie,
The only true genius in the family.
Artist family

Newmark, Elle.
The book of unholy mischief. [Historical]
In 15th-century Venice, starving street urchin Luciano steals a pomegranate from a market stall and, in a strange twist of fate, becomes the apprentice of the Maestro Ferraro, the chef at the Doge’s Palace. As Luciano settles into his new life, he soon discovers that the Doge is searching for a legendary book, rumored to contain ancient alchemical lore that will enable whoever possesses it to achieve immortality. What’s more, it seems that his beloved master and teacher is somehow involved. Renaissance Italy comes to life in this exciting tale of adventure and intrigue.

O’Brien, Ally.
The agency.
Smart Funny Women

Ochse, Weston.
Scarecrow gods.
“Scarecrow Gods is the tale of Maxom Phinxs, a black man tortured and disfigured in Vietnam. Maxom, called the Maggot Man by the Tennessee locals, is feared and reviled because of his appearance. Even so, he takes under his wing a troubled young boy named Danny who’s fighting incest rumors to repair a shattered family, wondering every day if his sister will return to clear it all up.

Oden, Scott.
Memnon. [Historical]
Alexander the Great

Olson, John B.
Shade. [Mystery]
Paranoid schizophrenia in CA

Palmer, Michael,
The second opinion. [Suspense]
A physician’s daughter must confront a conspiracy of doctors to uncover an evil practice that touches every single person who ever has a medical test.

Parker, K. J.
The company.
Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island. They take with them everything they could possibly need: food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives. But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one. The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep them together. Only then do they begin to realize that they’ve brought with them rather more than they bargained for.

Parker, Robert B.
Night and day. [Mystery]
Paradise, Massachusetts, Police Chief Jesse Stone must deal in his own laconic way with the town’s rights and wrongs, including a Peeping Tom, the Paradise Free Swingers, and a firestorm of protests at the junior high school.

Parker, T. Jefferson.
The renegades. [Mystery]
Sheriff’s deputy Charlie Hood is transferred to the supposedly quiet desert community of Antelope Valley, only the quietness is shattered one night
during a routine call: someone guns down his partner, Terry Laws, in their
patrol car. Hood is out to find the killer Wild West style.

Parrish, Christa.
Home another way.
Forgivenness

Phillips, Susan Elizabeth.
What I did for love. [Romance]

Robb, J. D.
Promises in death. [Mystery]
Amarylis Coltraine had recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she’s been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she’s taken down just steps away from her apartment, disarmed, and killed with her own weapon, for Eve Dallas the victim isn’t “just one of us”.

Robinson, Peter,
All the colors of darkness. [Mystery]
Alan Banks

Rose, Karen,
Kill for me. [Suspense]
For Me trilogy; bk.3

Rozan, S. J.
The Shanghai Moon. [Mystery]
Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Smith, Chinese-American private investigator Chin is brought in by former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a
case that involves tracking down a valuable brooch, the Shanghai Moon,
which disappeared during WWII.

Seitz, Rebeca,
Coming unglued: a Sisters, Ink. novel.
Scrapping plans: a Sisters, Ink novel.
Smart Funny Women

Sewell, Kitty.
Bloodprint: a novel of psychological suspense.

Simmons, Dan.
Drood. [Historical]
Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens’ life, this book explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author’s last years and may provide the key to his final, unfinished work: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”.

Spiller, Nancy.
Entertaining disasters: a novel (with recipes).
An unnamed freelance writer for the LA glossy Food Writer undergoes a panic-stricken week before she must host the exclusive dinner party that she has actually invented in her columns.

Stanger-Ross, Ilana.
Sima’s undergarments for women.
Female Self-acceptance

Steel, Danielle.
One day at a time.
Mothers & daughters

Stockett, Kathryn.
The help.
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–black and white, mothers and daughters–view one another.

Suarez, Daniel,
Daemon. [Suspense]
After the premature death of Matthew Sobol, a legendary computer game designer, a daemon that he designed to dismantle society and bring about
a new world order is activated and it’s up to an unlikely alliance to decipher Sobol’s intricate plans and wrest the world from the grasp of his computer program.

Swarup, Vikas.
Slumdog millionaire.
“Originally published as Q & A.”

Tatlock, Ann.
The returning.
Ex-convict John Sheldon returns home to his wife Andrea and their three children. While incarcerated, he committed his life to Christ and wants to hold fast to his newfound faith. Andrea is wary of his conversion, son Billy is delighted, and daughter Rebekah is skeptical. Six-year-old Phoebe doesn’t remember her father and is withdrawn. Can John and Andrea mend the rifts that have torn their family apart?

Trigiani, Adriana.
Very Valentine.
Italian American shoe makers

Verghese, Abraham,
Cutting for stone.
Ethiopia

Walker, Shiloh.
Fragile. [Romance]

Weitz, Patricia,
College girl.

West, Michael Lee.
Mermaids in the basement.
Fathers & Daughters

Wexelblatt, Robert.
Zublinka among women
Older men in exile. Wakefield Author

Wiesel, Elie,
A mad desire to dance.
Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Therese Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of
surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a
reputation for herself in the Polish resistance–only to die in an accident
shortly after the war.

Willig, Lauren.
The temptation of the night jasmine. [Historical Romance]
After twelve years in India, Robert, Duke of Dovedale, returns to his estate in England to avenge the murder of his mentor during the 1803 Battle of Assaye. Robert plans to infiltrate the infamous, secretive Hellfire Club to uncover the murderer’s identity–but he has no idea that an even more difficult challenge awaits him, one Lady Charlotte Lansdowne. Series.

Wilson, Budge.
Before Green Gables.
An authorized prequel to L.M. Montgomery’s classic series about the irrepressible red-haired orphan follows Anne’s early years before her adoption
by the Cuthberts.

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