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Acosta, Marta. The bride of Casa Dracula. [Smart Funny Women]
In this spicy comedy of manners with fangs, the third in a series, Milagro is having serious problem planning her wedding.

Alexander, Tamera. Remembered. [Historical]
Fountain Creek chronicles; bk. 3
Inspirational Fiction

Anand, Valerie.The House of Allerbrook. [Historical]
Tudors/Great Britain

Angsten, David. Night of the furies. [Suspense]
Greek mythology combines with adventure

Armstrong, Kelley. Living with the dead. [Fantasy]
They’re smart, sexy, and supernatural. They’re the men and women of the Otherworld (bk.14)–a realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves who live unseen among us. Only now a reckless killer has torn down the wall, trapping one very human woman in the supernatural cross fire.

Auster, Paul. Man in the dark.
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget–his wife’s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter’s boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself.

Austin, Lynn N. Until we reach home. [Historical]
Life in Sweden seems like an endless winter for three sisters after their mother’s and father’s suicides. Joining 16 million other immigrants who leave their homelands for America between 1890 and 1920, Ellin, Kirsten, and Sophia begin the long, difficult journey fraught with hardships to Chicago.

Barclay, Linwood. Too close to home. [Mystery]
The Langleys and the Cutters are next-door neighbors in upstate New York- -or at least they are until the Langleys are killed late one hot summer night. No one has any clue why, or any leads, but unbeknownst to anyone, teenaged Derek Cutter had been in the Langley house when the family was murdered.

Billerbeck, Kristin. Back to life: a Trophy Wives Club novel.
Smart Funny Women
Inspirational Fiction

Bridgers, Sue Ellen. All we know of heaven. [Historical]
N.Carolina

Bruen, Ken. Once were cops. [Mystery]
Michael O’Shea is a member of Ireland’s police force, known as The Guards. He’s also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he’s known, has his lifelong dream come true–he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shay’s dream is about to become New York’s nightmare.

Buruma, Ian. The China lover. [Historical]
In Buruma’s reimagining of the life of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, a Japanese torn among patriotism for her parents, a homeland, worldly ambition, and sympathy for the Chinese, she would reflect almost exactly the twists and turns in the history of modern Japan.

Carey, Jacqueline. It’s a crime.
Accounting fraud.

Casey, Kathryn. Singularity. [Mystery]
Texas Rangers

Chercover, Sean. Trigger city. [Mystery]
Chicago

Chiaverini, Jennifer. The quilter’s kitchen: an Elm Creek Quilts novel with recipes.

Chidley, Elise. Your roots are showing.[Smart Funny Women]
Debut romantic comedy about marriage, mistakes, and mending them.

Chute, Carolyn. The school on Hearts Content Road. The story of Mickey Gammon, a fifteen-year-old dropout who has been evicted from his home and introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement. Run by “The Prophet,” the Settlement is a rural cooperative in Egypt, Maine. It is there that Mickey meets another deserted child, six-year-old Jane, whose mother is in jail on trumped-up drug charges. As they struggle to adjust to their new, complex surrogate family, Mickey and Jane witness the mounting unrest within the Settlement’s ranks, which soon builds to a shocking and devastating crescendo.

Connelly, Michael. The brass verdict. [Suspense]
When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Mickey Haller (The Lincoln Lawyer) inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent’s killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent’s killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together.

Coppernoll, Christopher L. A beautiful fall.
High-powered Boston attorney Emma Madison is celebrating her latest courtroom victory when she gets a call from a number she doesn’t recognize. Area code 803 home. Juneberry, South Carolina eight hundred miles, twelve years, and a lifetime away from Boston. Emma’s father has had a serious heart attack. She has to work fast to arrange the affairs of his small-town law practice so she can return to her life and career in Boston. And then Michael Evans shows up. Enveloped in the warmth of family and small-town life and discovering that she still cares for Michael Emma knows she’ll have to make a choice between the career she’s worked so hard to build and the love she left behind.

Corin, Joshua. Nuclear winter wonderland. [Suspense]
Nuclear terrorism

Cox, Michael. The glass of time: the secret life of Miss Esperanza Gorst: narrated by herself. [Suspense]
Taking a job as a Victorian lady’s maid in the household of baroness Tansor, nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst hides the truth about her mission to uncover her mistress’s secrets about a past injustice that has affected Esperanza’s own life. By the author of The Meaning of Night.

Dajani, Nadine. Cutting loose. [Smart Funny Women]
Florida

DeMille, Nelson. The gate house. [Suspense]
Sequel to The Gold Coast.

Dickson, Athol. The cure. [Inspirational]
In the surge of a single sin, Riley’s wife, daughter, and faith all washed away. He now haunts the streets, a mere shadows of the godly man he once was. And then he hears of a town in Maine where miracles are happening. Awaiting Riley is a hope beyond his dreams, but will his past destroy this second change at life?

Erickson, Carolly. The tsarina’s daughter. [Historical]
From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family.

Evans, Richard Paul. Grace.
An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.

Flynn, Vince.Extreme measures: a thriller.
Mitch Rapp suspense

Ghosh, Amitav. Sea of poppies. [Historical]
In 1838, with the Opium Wars in full swing, the stories of a down-on-his- luck raja, a freed American slave, a French orphan, and a high-caste widow (among others) converge on the Ibis, a former slave ship now transporting a motley crew of sailors, indentured servants, and stowaways across the “Black Water” (the Indian Ocean) to China.

Glass, Julia. I see you everywhere.
Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious sister who is a good student, and yearns for a good marriage, a career and a family. Clem Jardine is the younger sister — the uncontainable rebel, daring and irresistible to men, and a constant source of frustration to her more reliable sister. Alternating between the sisters voices, this novel unfolds across a 25-year span, from 1980 to 2005, beginning when Louisa and Clem are in their early twenties. A tale of jealousy and anger, affection and devotion.

Gonzalez, Bea. The bitter taste of time. [Historical]
Spain; 20th C.

Graff, Laurie. The shiksa syndrome. [Smart Funny Women]
Humorous Romance

Gramont, Nina de. Gossip of the starlings.
Boarding school best girlfriends

Green, Kim. Live a little.
Family drama about motherhood

Gunn, Robin Jones. Engaging Father Christmas.
A novella about a woman searching for love, and finding so much more in the arms of a certain Father Christmas this holiday season.

Hannah, Sophie. Hurting distance. [Mystery]
Great Britain

Hearst, Dorothy. Promise of the wolves.
In the Wide Valley, 14,000 years ago, a female wolf broke pack rules–she had an unauthorized litter of pups. To top things off, they were fathered by an Outsider. Though Kaala, one of those young wolves, is a bit of an outcast, she is determined to find her place in the pack. But that won’t be easy, especially since she also breaks pack rules–by saving a young girl’s life and spending time with humans.

Hemon, Aleksandar. The Lazarus project. [Historical]
Chicago murder

Jarrar, Randa. A map of home.
Coming-of-age Arab-American women

Johansen, Iris. Dark summer. [Suspense]
Devon Brady is a devoted veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital at an island search-and-rescue site. When Jude Marrok arrives with his wounded black lab Ned, Devon has no idea that she is about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror, destruction, and unstoppable passion.

Johnson, Diane. Lulu in Marrakech.
Women travelers

Kava, Alex. Exposed: a Maggie O’Dell novel. [Suspense]

Kellerman, Jonathan. Bones: an Alex Delaware novel.
The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something “real dead … buried in your marsh.” The co-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it’s a prank, but when a young woman’s body turns up in L.A.’s Bird Marsh preserve no one’s laughing. And when the bones of more victims surface, homicide detective Milo Sturgis realizes the city’s under siege to an insidious killer.

Kingsbury, Karen. Sunset.
As John Baxter makes plans to marry Elaine, one of the Baxters enters into the most trying season of all. Sunrise series; bk.4

Kleypas, Lisa. A Wallflower Christmas. [Romance]
It’s Christmastime in London and Rafe Bowman has arrived from America for his arranged meeting with Natalie Blandford, the very proper and beautiful daughter of Lady and Lord Blandford. But when four former Wallflowers try their hand at matchmaking, no one knows what will happen. And winning a bride turns out to be more complicated than Rafe Bowman anticipated, especially for a man accustomed to getting anything he wants.

Krasikov, Sana. One more year: stories.

Lackey, Mercedes. Foundation: a novel of Valdemar. [Fantasy]
In this chronicle of the early history of Valdemar (The Collegium Chronicles; bk.1), Mercedes Lackey’s bestselling world, a thirteen-year-old orphan named Magpie escapes a life of slavery in the gem mines when he is chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar to be trained as a Herald.

Laiz, Jana. Weeping under this same moon.
Based on the true story of two teenage girls from different cultures, whose paths intertwine, dramatically altering the course of their lives. It is a testament to the power of love and the spirit of volunteerism, affirming that doing for others does so much for one’s self.

Lawton, John. Second violin. [Mystery]
Frederick Troy; Great Britain

Le Carre, John. A most wanted man.
A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and America scent a sure kill in the “War on Terror,” and converge upon the innocents.

Lewis, Beverly. The longing. [Inspirational]
The courtship of Nellie Fisher; bk. 3. Although she still prays for Caleb, Nellie Mae Fisher has broken up with her beau, and now, her heart’s greatest longing is for more knowledge of the Lord.

Lippman, Laura. Hardly knew her: stories.
A collection, for the first time, of a mix of award-winning short stories and a new novella by the author. Lippman has won every major mystery award.

Liss, David. The whiskey rebels. [Historical]
Ethan Saunders, a former spy for George Washington, is recruited by Alexander Hamilton to find his ex-fiancee’s missing husband. Meanwhile, Joan Maycott and her veteran husband, amid hardship and deprivation on the western Pennsylvania frontier, find unlikely friendship and a chance for prosperity with a new method of distilling whiskey. As their causes intertwine, Joan and Saunders find themselves on opposing sides of a daring scheme that will forever change their lives and their new country.

Long, Kate. Family sold separately.
Humorous British family

Maguire, Gregory. A lion among men. [Fantasy]
In this third novel of this bestselling series (Wicked), civil war looms in Oz, and an ancient oracle named Yackle prepares for death. But before she can die, the Cowardly Lion arrives seeking knowledge about Elphaba Thropp,
the Wicked Witch of the West–the woman who had defended him when he was a cub.

Maitland, Karen. Company of liars. [Historical]
In 1348, as the Black Plague holds England in it’s grip, nine strangers attempt to outrun death. Each member has their own story to tell and each has a secret.

McFadyen, Cody. The darker side. [Mystery]
In FBI agent Smoky Barrett’s 3rd appearance, she’s been asked to leave her L.A. field office for Washington, D.C., when a high-profile politician’s daughter is murdered during a flight east. To Smoky, Lisa Reid’s death is sad but not special enough to require Smoky’s presence–until she learns that the woman, stabbed by her unknown seatmate, was actually a pre-op transsexual.

McMaster, Rhyll. Feather man.
Young women in Australia

Mead, Richelle. Succubus dreams. [Fantasy]
Georgina Kincaid; bk. 3/Demonic Romantic Suspense

Meissner, Susan. The shape of mercy. [Inspirational]

Miller, Linda Lael. A McKettrick Christmas. [Romance]
Lizzie McKettrick is homeward bound with her fiance, Whitley Carson, when their train is derailed, leaving passengers stranded on Christmas Eve. While Whitley is concerned only with himself, a handsome doctor enlists Lizzie’s help treating injured passengers. Soon Lizzie realizes that Christmas truly is a season of miracles and love.

Mitchell, Siri L. A constant heart. [Romance]
Born with the face of an angel, Marget Barnardsen is blessed. Her father is a knight and now she is to be married to the Earl of Lytham. When her introduction to court goes awry, Marget fears she’s lost her husband forever. Desperate to win him back, she’ll do whatever it takes to capture his love.

Morozzi, Gianluca. Blackout. [Suspense]
Italian serial killer

Mosley, Walter. The right mistake: the further philosophical investigations of Socrates Fortlow.
Ex-convict Socrates in LA

Neville, Katherine. The fire. [Thriller]
2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family’s ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother’s birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin (The Eight), believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world, burying with them the secrets of the power that comes with possessing it. But Alexandra arrives to find that her mother is missing and that a series of strategically placed clues, followed swiftly by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious assortment of house guests, indicates that something sinister is afoot.

O’Rourke, Sally Smith. Christmas at Sea Pines Cottage. [Romance]

Parker, Robert B. Rough weather. [Mystery]
Parker once again proves he is a force of nature in this mystery where a hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible–the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past.

Parsons, Golden Keyes. In the shadow of the Sun King. [Historical]
The darkness to light series; bk. 1/Louis XIV of France

Penman, Sharon Kay. Devil’s brood. [Historical]
Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine

Petterson, Per. To Siberia.
In the years before the Nazis arrive, two young people growing up in Danish Jutland have dreams of leaving their frigid coastal town while coping with distant parents, eccentric family members, and the cold winds. In the aftermath of their grandfather’s suicide, the arrival of puberty and most tragically, the German invasion, their idyllic childhood changes forever.

Picardie, Justine. Daphne. [Historical]
Fictional biography of Daphne Du Maurier, author of Rebecca.

Prose, Francine. Goldengrove.
A young girl faces the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister’s enigmatic boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them. She learns about the power of art, of time and place, the mystery of loss and recovery. But for all the darkness at the novel’s heart, the narrative itself is radiant with the lightness of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of teenage life.

Quick, Matthew. The silver linings playbook.
Humorous Divorced men

Rash, Ron. Serena. [Historical]
In 1929, ruthless timber baron George Pemberton and his new bride Serena arrive in the North Carolina mountains, where they establish a lumber camp. Razing forests as quickly and cheaply as possible, they treat the land badly and their workers even worse. Confident that their wealth and status exempt them from obeying the law, the duo deftly dispatches any and all obstacles in their way–even if it means committing murder. An Appalachian version of Macbeth, this novel explores the dark side of the American Dream.

Rhodes, David. Driftless.
Milkweed national fiction prize/Wisconsin

Rose, M. J. The memorist. [Mystery]
Vienna

Scotch, Allison Winn. Time of my life.

Scott, Elizabeth. Living dead girl. [Suspense]
“Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared.” When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends: her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her.

Shreve, Anita. Testimony.
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora’s box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices–those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal–that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.

Smith, Michael Marshall. The servants. [Horror]
Haunted houses

Spechler, Diana. Who by fire.
Bits and Ash were children when the kidnapping of their younger sister, Alena–an incident for which Ash blames himself–caused an irreparable family rift. Thirteen years later, Ash is living as an Orthodox Jew in Israel, cutting himself off from his mother, Ellie, and his wild-child sister, Bits. But soon he may have to face them again; Alena’s remains have finally been uncovered. Now Bits is traveling across the world in a bold and desperate attempt to bring her brother home and salvage what’s left of their family.

Steel, Danielle. A good woman.
Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. When she is betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a
life of service.

Swain, James. The night stalker: a novel of suspense.
Serial Killers in FL

Taylor, Patrick. An Irish country Christmas.
Irish country; bk. 3

Updike, John. The widows of Eastwick.
Sequel to The Witches of Eastwick

Vanderbilt, Annie. The secret papers of Madame Olivetti.
Smart Funny Women in France

Veitch, Kate. Without a backward glance.
On a stifling Christmas Eve in 1967 the lives of the four McDonald children changed forever when their mother abandoned them. Forty years later they struggle to come to terms with their mother’s reappearance, while at the same time their beloved father is progressing into dementia.

Vincenzi, Penny. An outrageous affair.
Cloe Windsor discovered that the truth could kill when her famous, rich and charming husband committed suicide…. Fleur FitzPatrick found out that the truth could kill during the long and painful journey to avenge her father’s death. Caroline Hunterton had always known of its destructive power, but her long buried past was a secret which could not be kept forever. From the Suffolk countryside in World War II to the decadence of post war Hollywood, from the glitz of Madison Avenue to the excesses of the theatrical aristocracy in London, this novel tells the story of one such truth, brought to light by the brutal investigative skills of one man, and by the publication of the book he was determined to write.

White, Bailey. Nothing with strings: NPR’s beloved holiday stories.
For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time.

Wilson, F. Paul. By the sword: a Repairman Jack novel. [Suspense]
Hired to find a legendary Japanese sword that had been stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum, Jack finds his task complicated by dangerous rivals for the sword and a pregnant teen who is carrying a child of destiny.

Woods, Stuart. Hot mahogany. [Suspense]
CIA boss Lance Cabot hires Stone Barrington to watch over his brother Barton, a former army intelligence officer suffering from amnesia. As Stone discovers, Barton is a spy with a rather unusual hobby: building and restoring antique furniture. Barton is also a man with a past that is linked to the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty years earlier. Stone soon finds out that Barton, and some shady characters of his acquaintance, may be hiding a lot more than just a few forged antiques.

Woodsmall, Cindy. When the soul mends. [Romance]
Sisters of the quilt; bk. 3/Inspirational

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