Fiction
Black Hills by Dan Simmons — As Custer is dying at his last stand, his spirit enters the body of a ten-year-old Lakota. Simmons’s latest novel moves forward and backward over the next eighty years of the boy’s life, as he grows older and watches the tremendous changes time and history have wrought.
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman — CeeCee Honeycutt is a twelve year old girl given over to the care of her great aunt Tootie, a sort of Southern Auntie Mame, after her crazy mother dies. Tootie whisks her away to her southern mansion and her even more eccentric friends, where CeeCee both gets to be a kid and to start to grow up.
The Pallbearers by Stephen J. Cannell — Walter Dix looked after the boys at the Huntington House Group Home like they were his own. Now, twenty years later, he’s left what appears to be a suicide note asking six of those boys, now men, to be his pallbearers. One of their number is LAPD Detective Shane Scully, but he doesn’t believe that the death was a suicide. But who killed Dix, and why?
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott — Rosie Ferguson, the impetuous yet winning kid from Rosie and Crooked Little Heart, is now a straight-A seventeen year old who has so far managed to conceal her drug addiction from her mother Elizabeth, herself a recovering alcoholic, and her stepfather James. When the truth comes out, though, Lamott’s latest novel shows what happens as this family weathers the crisis.
Snow Blind by Lori G. Armstrong — PI Julie Harris is trapped with her father — and a lot of trouble — by a blizzard in South Dakota while investigating a case of elder abuse.
Shattered by Karen Robards — Lisa Grant grew up as a child of privilege who teased her neighbor, Scott Buchanan. Now their situations are reversed, with Scott a successful DA and Lisa a research assistant for him, having come home to care for her mother after losing her job as a lawyer in the city. But when Scott assigns Lisa to look into some cold case files, far more damaging material from the past starts to appear.
Money to Burn by James Grippando — Grippando’s latest thriller features a young investment banker with a mysteriously disappeared first wife whose identity — and livelihood — is stolen from him. Find out how he gets it back in this timely financial disaster adventure.
Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White — Doc Ford has two friends trapped in a cave and two madmen after him. Find out how he manages in the latest Florida swamp thriller from White.
Hard Rain by David Rollins — Vin Cooper, an internal affairs cop for the Air Force, is sent with his one-time flame Anna Masters to investigate the death of an Air Force colonel in Istanbul and soon embark on a chase that leads them around the world.
Fragile Beasts by Tawni O’Dell — In a Pennsylvania mining town, two teen-aged brothers are taken in after the death of their father by a wealthy, eccentric recluse who keeps a bull on her estate and has a mysterious past.
False Mermaid by Erin Hart — Several years after the still-unsolved mystery of her sister’s murder, Dr. Nora Gavin leaves her work in Ireland for St. Paul, Minnesota, where her sister’s husband is about to remarry. Nora believes he is the real killer, and that he is putting her eleven year old niece in danger.
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake — In 1940, Iris James is the spinster postmistress of a small town on Cape Cod who discovers a secret; Emma Fitch is a newlywed whose husband is a doctor volunteering in London, and Frankie Bard is a reporter covering the war in Europe for American radio audiences. Find out how the lives of the three women intersect with each other and with history in this first novel.
Lost by Alice Lichtenstein — Susan steps out of the house for a few minutes on a cold winter morning and returns to find her husband, who suffers from dementia, gone. Social worker Jeff comes to lead the search, bringing with him Corey, a boy who hasn’t spoken since the day he accidentally lit a fire that kills his family. Will they find the lost man — and will the lost boy find his voice again? Read Lichtenstein’s novel to find out.
Deception by Jonathan Kellerman — The 25th Alex Delaware mystery finds the psychologist investigating the death of a teacher at an exclusive private school, whose body was found in a bathtub filled with dry ice.
Invisible Boy by Cornelia Read — After her sojourn at The Crazy School, Madeline Dare returns to Manhattan, where she finds a skeleton in a private cemetery that turns out to belong to a three-year-old boy who disappeared some months ago, and she quickly gets drawn into the investigation.
Anthill: A Novel by Edward O. Wilson — Raff Cody grows up in Alabama, near the Florida border, and spends his free time exploring the Nokobee swampland, where one day he meets another explorer, a scientist who becomes a sort of surrogate family member and who sponsors Raff’s education, which eventually leads him to Harvard, where he studies law — and then returns to Alabama to fight to keep the Nokobee from developers.
The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller — What happens when someone dies unexpectedly — and tragically, in this case, on 9/11 — and leaves behind relationships that are complicated, messy, and not what they seem? Miller’s novel examines the fates of Gus’s older sister Leslie and his girlfriend, Billy, and of other people who come into their lives after he dies in the Towers.
The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg — The last time Dorothy Shauman saw many of her classmates was on graduation day. Now it is their fortieth high school reunion, and she has come back home to see what has become of everyone else and to discover just who she is.
The Walk by Richard Paul Evans — Seattle executive Alan Christofferson has lost everything — his home, his job, the woman he loved. Feeling he has nothing left to lose, he sets out on foot for Key West, Florida, the farthest away place he can think of. As is so often the case, though, it is the journey he takes there that provides the real story in Evans’s latest.
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen — Seventeen year old Emily Benedict goes back to the small southern town where her mother grew up to live with her grandfather and to try to find out more about Dulcie, her mother. What she finds is a grandfather who doesn’t want to talk, a town with a grudge against her mother, and one woman, Julia Winterson, a former enemy of her mother’s, who is nonetheless willing to take Emily under her wing, and who has secrets of her own.
Nowhere to Run by CJ Box — In Box’s latest mystery, game warden Joe Pickett is out on a routine patrol when he is ambushed and nearly killed by twin brothers, survivalist types who, as it turns out, also seem to be keeping a woman captive — maybe the very woman who disappeared while running in this remote area a year ago.
Nonfiction
Imagination in Place: Essays by Wendell Berry
Devotion: A Memoir by Dani Shapiro — When her son starts to ask questions about God and religion, novelist and memoirist Shapiro is prompted to explore the Jewish faith she left behind and to seek spiritual answers from other faiths as well. Devotion is her account of that search, and what she found.
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