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Week of January 23, 2012

In LETHAL by Sandra Brown, accused murderer Lee Coburn claims that Honor Gillette's beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn has come to their house to retrieve it --- at any cost.

No one knew Stieg Larsson like his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. In "THERE ARE THINGS I WANT YOU TO KNOW" ABOUT STIEG LARSSON AND ME, she tells the story of their 30-year romance, Stieg's lifelong struggle to expose Sweden’s Neo-Nazis, his difficult relationships with his immediate family, and the joy and relief he discovered writing the Millennium Trilogy.

Week of January 16, 2012

The narrator of David Levithan’s THE LOVER’S DICTIONARY has constructed the story of his relationship as a dictionary. Through these short entries, he provides an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of being within a couple.

In VENETIA KELLY’S TRAVELING SHOW by Frank Delaney, Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish countryside in 1932. After two hours, Ben’s father, mesmerized by Venetia Kelly, the troupe’s magnetic headliner, makes a fateful decision: to abandon his family and set off on the road with Miss Kelly and her caravan.

Week of January 9, 2012

In OF LOVE AND EVIL by Anne Rice, former contract killer Toby O'Dare, barely recovered from his previous divine mission in ANGEL TIME, is once again summoned by the angel Malchiah to investigate the poisoning of a prominent nobleman and stop the haunting of a diabolical dybbuk.

Jeff Shaara's THE FINAL STORM illuminates some critical events of World War II. With the war in Europe winding down in 1945, the U.S. turns its military resources toward an assault on the island of Okinawa. Meanwhile, a secret mission unfolds to develop a weapon so powerful, not even the scientists who build it know just what they are about to unleash.

Week of January 2, 2012

In BURIED SECRETS by Joseph Finder, Alexa Marcus, the teenage daughter of a billionaire hedge fund titan, is kidnapped, and it’s up to family friend and “private spy” Nick Heller --- a former intelligence operative trained in the Special Forces --- to find her…before time runs out.

Kristin Hannah's NIGHT ROAD follows Lexi Baill, a former foster child with a dark past who moves to the Farradays’ small town. Lexi becomes inseparably close with their family --- but one bad decision on a summer night during their senior year of high school will change everything.

Week of December 26, 2011

THE JEFFERSON KEY by Steve Berry retells a historical trend in a new light: four presidents of the United States have been assassinated, each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were all killed for the shocking same reason: a clause contained in the United States Constitution?

In LITTLE PRINCES, Conor Grennan tells his story. While volunteering at a Nepal orphanage in 2006, Grennan discovered that the children were not orphans: they were trafficked. Despite the danger, he trekked remarkable distances with photographs of the children, miraculously reuniting dozens of families.

Week of December 19, 2011

In Meg Waite Clayton's THE FOUR MS. BRADWELLS, Mia, Laney, Betts and Ginger have reunited to celebrate Betts’s appointment to the Supreme Court. But when Senate hearings uncover a deeply buried skeleton in the friends’ collective closet, they retreat to a summer house and end up reliving their dark past.

In SISTER by Rosamund Lupton, Bee hears that Tess, her younger sister, is missing and returns home to London immediately. She expects to find Tess and give her the usual big sister lecture scolding her flighty behavior --- but Bee never could have prepared for what really awaits her.

Week of December 5, 2011

Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists in Eric Van Lustbader's THE BOURNE DOMINION, and needs the help of his longtime friend, General Boris Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia's most feared spy agency, FSB-2. What he doesn’t know is that in order to remain the head of FSB-2, Karpov must hunt down and kill Bourne.

In THE OTHER LIFE by Ellen Meister, Quinn Braverman is happy and successful --- but she also knows that an alternative reality exists in which she has an entirely different life. When Quinn travels through the portal to the life she could have had, she is faced with a critical decision.

Week of November 28, 2011

In Karen Robards's JUSTICE, attorney Jessica Ford is hired by a prestigious D.C. law firm after barely surviving witnessing the murder of the First Lady. She is deliberately keeping a low profile, until she gets a sensational rape case involving a senator’s son, whom she is defending.

The Willamette River has had fatal flooding, but the past few victims didn’t drown --- they were murdered before they went into the water. Detective Archie Sheridan and reporter Susan Ward team up to hunt the vicious murderer in THE NIGHT SEASON by Chelsea Cain.

Week of November 21, 2011

In THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES, Jean M. Auel continues the story of Ayla and Jondalar and their little daughter Jonayla. Now, Ayla is pursuing the fascinating knowledge and power of the Zelandoni, led by the charismatic First Among Those Who Served the Mother of the Zelandoni of the Ninth Cave.

Iris Johansen's QUINN centers on former Navy SEAL turned cop Joe Quinn. When he first met Eve Duncan, Joe never expected to fall in love in the midst of her tragedy. As their search takes them deep into a web of murder and madness, Joe and Eve must test their resolve to uncover the bone-chilling truth.

Week of November 14, 2011

In SMOKIN' SEVENTEEN by Janet Evanovich, dead bodies are showing up on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but Stephanie Plum’s name is on the killer’s list. Meanwhile, Stephanie must deal with her high-maintenance family and decide between two different, very charming men.

Jim Fusilli's NARROWS GATE tells of the dangerous immigrant neighborhood of Narrows Gate, overlooking the Hudson River. A young neighborhood boy named Sal Benno is pulled into the Mafia, and a complex web of secrets and crime gradually unfolds.

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