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May 2013

Today's Events

10:30am - Stitch 'n' Listen at McCollough
2:00 pm - Summer Volunteers
4:30 pm - Mystery Lovers Book Discussion: A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
5:00 pm - Adult Education Class

Thursday, May 23
Today's Hours:


Central	9am-9pm
East	Closed
McCollough	9am-8pm
North Park	9am-8pm
Oaklyn	9am-8pm
Red Bank	9am-8pm
Stringtown	Closed
West	Closed

Take & Talk for Adults

Take & Talk are book discussion sets (at least 10 copies) of classic/award-winning titles in a convenient tote--complete with discussion questions. Please realize that on rare occasions, a set may consist of fewer titles due to patrons checking out single copies.

Anyone may check out an entire set of Take & Talk books. The circulation period is 3 weeks. The person checking out the set is responsible for returning all the books in their tote at the designated due date. Discussion questions are included with each set. These sets are ideal for book club leaders and classroom teachers. The sets are readily available at Central Library, or they may be sent to any branch location. Please allow 2 working days for delivery to another location.

To reserve your set of Take & Talk books, please contact Erika Qualls, Popular Materials Center Supervisor, at (812) 428-8229 or Ask EVPL.

Take & Talk for Adults
	Akpan, Uwem Say You're One of Them	A collection of five modern short stories about children in different war-torn African countries.
	Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.
	Anshaw, Carol Carry the One	When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect and reconnect throughout 25 subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays and tragedies.
	Asimov, Isaac I, Robot	Nine stories about the development of robots with the ability to read minds, experience human emotions, and take over the world.
	Austen, Jane Northanger Abbey	Under the guidance of a sophisticated English couple, a young woman learns to discard her romantic illusions and to appreciate the value of good sense and true affection.
	Barnes, Julian The Sense of an Ending	This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all of this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. but he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider various things, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and his place in the world.
	Bissinger, H.G. Friday Night Lights	The Permian High School football team gives the residents of economically-depressed Odessa, Texas, something to cheer about.
	Bohjalian, Chris The Buffalo Soldier	After losing their children in a flash flood, a couple's marriage is tested by grief, adultery, and the addition of an African American foster boy to their lives.
	Boyne, John The Boy in the Striped Pajamas	Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the nine-year-old son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
	Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451	A fireman whose job is to burn books meets two people who cause him to question his profession and change his ways.
	Braestrup, Kate Here If You Need Me	The author documents her decision to pursue her husband's ambition to become a minister after his tragic accidental death, describing how she eventually became a spiritual counselor for families with missing loved ones during search-and-rescue missions.
	Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre	A governess's love for the father of her ward is frustrated by the revelation that he is married to an insane woman.
	Buchan, Elizabeth Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman	When her happy marriage and successful career fall apart after twenty-five years, a middle-aged woman struggles with the prospect of starting over until the reappearance of an old flame.
	Burroughs, Augusten Running with Scissors	Both horrifying and hysterical, the true story of a boy whose mother, a delusional poet, gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist.
	Cheever, Susan American Bloomsbury	Examines Concord, Massachusetts in the middle of the 19th century, and the melodrama that played itself out among the transcendentalist writers and thinkers who lived there.
	Chen, Pauline Final Exam	In a series of reflections on the world of modern medicine, a young doctor describes how physicians must deal with the inescapable reality of death and her personal experiences throughout her education, residency, and practice with mortality.
	Chopin, Kate The Awakening	A Victorian-era New Orleans wife and mother experiences desire and attraction to a younger man while on summer vacation with her children.
	Cisneros, Sandra (7 Copies) Caramelo	During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, a young Mexican American woman listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers.
	Cooper, Anderson Dispatches From the Edge	The correspondent and anchor for CNN recounts events from his life and career, offering a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most devastating modern tragedies and their effect on his own life.
	Day, Cathy The Circus in Winter	From 1884 to 1939, a circus winters in a small Indiana town and provides a magical backdrop for the daily lives of the town's inhabitants.
	Delinsky, Barbara Not My Daughter	Devastated by her teenage daughter's pregnancy, a single mother and high school principal is targeted by unfair criticism when the pregnancies of additional teens are rumored to be part of a pact.
	Diamant, Anita The Red Tent	A fictional account of Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, her birth and childhood in Mesopotamia, her years in Canaan, and her death in Egypt.
	Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities; and Great Expectations	In A tale of two cities, during the French Revolution, a ne'er-do-well goes to the guillotine in place of his look-a-like because of his devotion to the woman that both love. In Great expectations, a young man in 1820s London who expects to be reared by a rich patron and to marry a wealthy young woman finds his hopes dashed.
	Doyle, Arthur C. Hound of the Baskervilles	Sherlock Holmes is called upon to solve the mysterious death of Lord Baskerville and attempts on the life of his heir, after rumor suggests that an ancient curse in the form of a vicious supernatural hound is once again at work to destroy the Baskerville line.
	Doyle, Arthur C. (6 Copies) Study in Scarlet	In their first adventure together, Holmes and Watson unravel a scarlet thread of murder which began years before in Salt Lake City.
	Dubus, Andre III House of Sand and Fog	An Iranian immigrant buys a bugalow at public auction for his family, but the house's former owner and her lover go to extremes to get her house back.
	Dugard, Jaycee A Stolen Life	The memoir of Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old, and was missing for over 18 years before her reappearance in 2009.
	Dyja, Thomas Play for a Kingdom	In the spring of 1864, during the Civil War battle of Spotsylvania, the 14th Brooklyn company is challenged to a series of baseball games by an Alabama infantry.
	Ebershoff, David The 19th Wife	Intertwines the story of Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, and a modern mystery in which a polygamous man has been found murdered and one of his wives is accused of the crime.
	Edwards, Elizabeth Resilience	The author recounts some of the difficulties she has faced, including the death of her son, cancer, and her husband's public affair, and shares how she has managed to adapt and survive.
	Eisenhower, Julie Nixon Pat Nixon: The Untold Story	A biography of a truly remarkable First Lady: Pat Nixon. From her courtship with the young California lawyer whom she accompanied to the White House, through the horrors of the Vietnam era and Watergate, here is a loving portrait of the gallant woman admired by millions.
	Eisenhower, Susan Mrs. Ike: Memories & Reflections on the Life of Mamie Eisenhower	This is a portrait of a beloved First Lady and an incisive account of a complex marriage. Examines the life of Mamie Eisenhower, a saucy young lady who found her match in handsome Ike Eisenhower, and their adventures, misunderstandings, and glowing triumphs.
	Ellis, Joseph Founding Brothers	Examines six moments in the lives of America's founders that helped to determine the course of the nation's history.
	Erdrich, Louise The Painted Drum	Discovering a cache of Native American artifacts while appraising an estate in New Hampshire, a woman investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it.
	Faulkner, William Big Woods: The Hunting Stories	William Faulkner's most famous stories are collected in this volume--in which he observed, celebrated, and mourned the fragile otherness that is nature, as well as the cruelty and humanity of men.
	Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury: the corrected text	The disintegration of a Mississippi plantation family which clings to outworn aristocratic conventions.
	Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender Is the Night	The tragic romance of an actress and an American couple, with the demise of the husband/psychiatrist as the wife/patient grows stronger.
	Fowler, Connie May Before Women Had Wings	A young woman attempts to make sense of a family life where fear and retribution are more plentiful than hope and love.
	Franklin, Tom Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter	Constable Silas Jones must confront his former friend Larry Ott, who has lived under suspicion for 20 years since a girl disappeared while on a date with him. After another girl disappears again, Larry is blamed once again.
	Gaines, Ernest J. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman	Presents the story of the long life of Miss Jane Pittman, who began her life as a slave in the South and who marched for her civil rights in the 20th century at the age of 110.
	Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying	In Louisiana in the 1940s, a school teacher helps a death row inmate prepare for his execution.
	Garcia Márquez, Gabriel Love in the Time of Cholera	A patient Colombian waits fifty years for the love of his life.
	Garcia Márquez, Gabriel One Hundred Years of Solitude	The mysterious history of the Buendia family of the village of Macondo recapitulates the history of Latin America.
	Gardner, Chris The Pursuit of Happyness	In a candid, personal memoir, a successful entrepreneur traces his journey from growing up with an abusive stepfather, to life on the streets as a homeless man with a small toddler, to his battle to the top as a self-made millionaire.
	Gilbert, Elizabeth Eat Pray Love	Presents the memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure, guidance, experience and wholeness.
	Greitens, Eric The Heart and the Fist	The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.
	Grimwood, Ken Replay	A fatal heart attack returns forty-three-year-old Jeff Winston to his eighteen-year-old body, in 1963, and with his memory of the next twenty-five years intact and the freedom to change his actions, he begins to live his life over again.
	Grogan, John Marley & Me	A tribute to Marley, a Labrador retriever, who never fit the mold for normal dogs, but knew how to give unconditional love.
	Gruen, Sara Water for Elephants	Looking back on his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, an elderly man reminisces about his friendship with the star of the equestrian act, and an elephant who gave them hope.
	Haley, Alex Roots	The author shares the saga of an African American family that extends from his ancestor Kunta Kinte, an African brought to mid-eighteenth-century America as a slave, to himself.
	Hannah, Kristin Home Front	Struggling with a marital estrangement that is further complicated when one of them is deployed, military couple Michael and Joleen Zarkades are forced to confront their problems while protecting the security of their family in the wake of a brutal tragedy.
	Hannah, Kristin True Colors	In a small Washington town, three sisters' once-solid world is broken apart by jealousy, passion, and betrayal until one of their family is arrested and tried for murder.
	Harbach, Chad The Art of Fielding	A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a teammate and the president's daughter.
	Haruf, Kent Plainsong	In an eastern Colorado town, a teacher gets several damaged families to interact and care for one another.
	Harvey, Steve Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man	"From the host of the popular 'Steve Harvey morning show' comes a funny, honest, and foolproof guide for all women that takes them inside the heads of men and shows how men think about love, sex, and commitment"-Publisher.
	Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter	In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.
	Hemmings, Kaui Hart The Descendants	The scion of the last Hawaiian land-owning clan finds his privileged life interrupted by an accident that leaves his wife in a coma and for him to deal with his problem children.
	Hoag, Tami Down the Darkest Road	1980s California FBI agent Vince Leone taps into the powers of science-based forensic techniques to unveil dark secrets and stop a killer who is terrorizing the citizens of Oak Knoll.
	Hoffman, Beth Saving CeeCee Honeycutt	Relegated to the care of an eccentric great-aunt after her mentally unbalanced mother's accidental death, a 12-year-old girl is quickly surrounded by the strong women and cultural elements of her new Savannah community.
	Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner	Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a story that spans the final days of the nation's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
	Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns	Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in war-torn Kabul and incur losses over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage.
	Hughes, Kathleen Dear Mrs. Lindbergh	In the wake of their elderly parents' carefully orchestrated disappearance, the shocked adult children read a series of letters to Anne Morrow Lindbergh by their mother, revealing how their parents finally discovered what was missing in their lives.
	Hunt, Angela The Nativity Story	Presents the story of Jesus' birth and the arrival of the wise men and shepherds at the manger.
	Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God	Follows the fortunes of a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida.
	Huxley, Aldous Brave New World	In the world of the future, rapid technolgical progress results in social chaos, rather than social utopia.
	Idliby, Ranya The Faith Club	Traces how three American women of different faiths worked together to understand one another while identifying the connections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, during which they openly discussed the issues that divided them.
	Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go	In a dystopian England of the 1990s, a reunion of three friends, raised in a special school because of their uncertain parentage, brings confrontation with their pasts.
	Jordan, Hillary Mudbound	A landowning family and their black sharecroppers struggle with the mores of the Jim Crow South in the postwar Mississippi Delta.
	Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees	After her "stand-in mother" insults the three biggest racists in town, a young girl joins her on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three eccentric African American bee-keeping sisters.
	Kimmel, Haven A Girl Named Zippy	The author offers a chronicle of growing up in a small town in America's heartland, offering portraits of her family and her encounters with the complexities of the adult world, romance, and small-town life during the 1960s and 1970s.
	Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams	A young woman returns to her Arizona hometown to confront her past and ailing father, only to find the town threatened by an environmental catastrophe.
	Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air	The author's eyewitness account of what happened during his climb up Mt. Everest, while on assignment to report on the growing commercialization of the planet's highest mountain.
	Landvik, Lorna Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons	From the initial formation of a book club and over the course of the next thirty years, five women in small-town Minnesota share the events, triumphs, tragedies, hardships, joys, and sorrows of their lives.
	Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird	A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
	Lewis, C. S. The Chronicles of Narnia	A noble lion and the royal leaders of Narnia struggle against the magical forces of evil.
	Maguire, Gregory (7 copies) Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West	The wicked witch of the west from the Wizard of Oz tells her side of the story.
	Maron, Margaret The Bootlegger's Daughter	While campaigning Deborah seeks out evidence of a murder that happened eighteen years ago.
	Martin, Lee (7 copies) The Bright Forever	While riding her bicycle to town, the nine-year-old daughter of the most affluent family in a small Indiana town disappears.
	Mayes, Frances Under the Tuscan Sun	Explore the fascinating people, landscape, and history of Italy as the author celebrates the tastes and pleasures of Italian life in the Tuscany countryside.
	McCall Smith, Alex The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency	When Precious Ramotswe, an African woman detective in Gaborone, Botswana sets out on the trail of a missing child, she encounters numerous dangerous situations.
	McCarthy, Cormac The Road	In an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
	McCullers, Carson The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	An adolescent growing up in Georgia experiences the haunting abyss encountered by human beings in their attempts at love.
	McLarty, Ron The Memory of Running	After his parents die in an accident, an overweight and out of shape man uncovers his old Raleigh bicycle and begins a cross-country journey.
	McMillan, Terry The Interruption of Everything	Setting aside her own dreams for her responsibilities as the wife of a workaholic husband, mother of three children, and caretaker for her live-in mother-in-law, a woman finally realizes how to meet her own needs.
	McMullan, Margaret In My Mother's House	While remembering her uncle's viola lessons and other elements from their Vienna home, a young woman becomes increasingly obsessed with her need to understand why her mother refuses to discuss the family's experiences during World War II.
	Morgan, Robert Gap Creek	A strong, young woman living in Applachia in 1899 struggles to overcome natural diasters, tragedies, and grifters during the first year of her marriage.
	Morgenstern, Erin The Night Circus	Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
	Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye	An eleven-year-old black girl prays for her eyes to turn blue so people will consider her beautiful.
	Mosley, Walter Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned	Fourteen stories about Socrates Fortlow, a tough ex-convict who is determined to challenge the violence and anarchy in his world and in himself.
	Mosley, Walter Devil in a Blue Dress	Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the jazz joints of the late 1940's Los Angeles.
	Mosley, Walter Fortunate Son	Sharing a close bond in spite of very different backgrounds, a handsome white man of privilege and an impoverished black youth with poor health are separated by tragedy and reunited by a common enemy years later.
	Myron, Vicki Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World	Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town's struggles with the 1980s farm crisis.
	Nafisi, Azar Reading Lolita in Tehran	A memoir about teaching women Western literature in revolutionary Iran and the author's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women.
	Niffenegger, Audrey The Time Traveler's Wife	A couple vows to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts the husband involuntarily into the world of time travel.
	Novik, Naomi Black Powder War	The third book in the Temeraire series. It concerns the further adventures of Temeraire and Captain Laurence. The duo faces conflict with both the Turks, who have failed to produce three dragon eggs purchased by the English, and with Temeraire's new blood enemy, Lien, the albino celestial dragon.
	Novik, Naomi His Majesty's Dragon	The first book in a series set in the Napoleonic era of the early nineteenth century. Temeraire introduces a world in which dragons are a well known and accepted part of military life. The formidable flying creatures are controlled by the mysterious Aerial Corps, whose members tame, harness, and ride the dragons as powerful air combat forces.
	Novik, Naomi Throne of Jade	The second book in the Temeraire series, Laurence discovers that Temeraire is among the rarest and finest of dragons, a Chinese Celestial, and that the Chinese want the dragon back. Temeraire agrees to go only if accompanied by Laurence, and after an eventful sea voyage, they arrive in China, where they face political pressures and other dangers from the Chinese imperial court.
	Oates, Joyce Carol We Were the Mulvaneys	The youngest Mulvaney, in writing a family history, discovers the secret of their downfall and attempts to reunite the family.
	Obmascik, Mark The Big Year: a Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession	Every year on January 1, a quirky crowd of adventurers storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year -- a grand, grueling, expensive, and occasionally vicious, "extreme" 365-day marathon of birdwatching.
	Orenstein, Peggy Cinderella ate my daughter : dispatches from the front lines of the new girlie-girl culture	Reveals the dark side of pink and pretty in this wake up call to parents, and offers ways to prevent raising daughters who only care about image.
	Orlean, Susan The Orchid Thief	A true story of beauty and obsession in Florida which weaves a seductive tale of plant smugglers, swamp explorers, and the strange effects orchids have on the eccentric collectors who must possess them.
	Orwell, George 1984	A satire of totalitarian barbarism, with continued warfare as the price of bleak prosperity.
	Oufkir, Malika Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert	The eldest daughter of General Oufkir, the King of Morocco's closest aide, Malika Oufkir was adopted by the king at age of five as a companion for his daughter. She spent most of her childhood and adolescence within the gilded walls of the palace, living an extraordinarily privileged yet secluded life.
	Pausch, Randy The Last Lecture	The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
	Pearl, Matthew The Dante Club	In 1865 Boston, a literary club fights to keep Dante's works alive in the New World while a series of murders erupts, threatening to unveil the club's secret.
	Philbrick, Nathaniel In the Heart of the Sea	A tragic tale of survival of the crew of the whaleship, Essex, which was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale in the South Pacific.
	Picoult, Jodi Change of Heart	Her life shattered by a devastating act of violence, a woman is forced to make a pivotal choice that involves her eleven-year-old daughter and a salvation-seeking criminal.
	Picoult, Jodi Handle With Care	After her daughter contracts a fatal disease, a woman must confront some serious questions that ultimately lead to one final epiphany: what constitutes a valuable life.
	Picoult, Jodi Nineteen Minutes	In the aftermath of a small-town school shooting, a lawyer finds himself defending a youth who desperately needs someone on his side, while a detective works with the primary witness, who is the daughter of the judge assigned to the case.
	Picoult, Jodi Sing You Home	Ten years of infertility issues culminate in the destruction of music therapist Zoe Baxter's marriage, after which she falls in love with another woman and wants to start a family, but her ex-husband, Max, stands in the way.
	Picoult, Jodi Vanishing Acts	Working with a search and rescue bloodhound team to find missing people, a single mother anticipates her upcoming nuptials, until a series of unsettling flashbacks threatens to devastate her life.
	Powell, Julie Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen	The author imposed a self-rescue mission upon herself as she decided to cook every recipe in Julia Child's book, Mastering the art of French Cooking, in one year.
	Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49	A woman finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some interesting characters, and attains a considerable amount of self-knowledge.
	Reagan, Nancy I Love You, Ronnie	In more than 40 years of letters to his wife, Nancy -- sometimes written from just across the same room -- Ronald Reagan reveals not only an abiding love but an enduring gift for courtly whimsy.
	Reichs, Kathy Flash and Bones	Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan investigates a possible FBI cover-up with ties to the disappearance of a NASCAR crew member's sister, a right-wing extremist group, and a secret substance.
	Rentschler, Linda Ann Mother	A grief-afflicted woman puts five years of mourning her mother to use by starting a tender journey of self-discovery with a similarly afflicted soul, a college student who has suddenly lost her mother to an accident.
	Rosney, Tatiana De Sarah's Key	On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, an American journalist is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of a young girl caught up in the raid.
	Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye	A teenager who knows he is about to be dropped by his school leaves early one day and spends three days and nights in New York city.
	Sebold, Alice Lovely Bones	The spirit of a fourteen-year-old girl describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief in their efforts to find the killer and come to terms with what has happened.
	See, Lisa (3 copies) Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	A story of friendship set in nineteenth-century China follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.
	Setterfield, Diane The Thirteenth Tale	Having spent sixty years creating a series of alternate identities for herself, an enigmatic author chooses a young biographer to finally tell her long-hidden life story and disclose the truth about her secretive birth.
	Shaffer, Mary Ann The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society	As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, a writer discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
	Simon, Lizzie Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D	What is it like to be "bipolar"? Lizzie Simon, a 23-year-old afflicted with this form of mental ailment, goes on a road trip in search of others like her and tells all in this frank and surprising memoir.
	Sittenfeld, Curtis Prep	During the late 1980s, a fourteen-year-old leaves her middle-class Indiana family to enroll in an elite New England boarding school, becoming a shrewd observer of the rituals and mores of upper-class Easterners.
	Skloot, Rebecca The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
	Smith, Patti Just Kids	Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe.
	Sparks, Nicholas The Best of Me	Two former high school sweethearts return to their hometown for the funeral of a mentor and confront the choices they have made since they last met.
	Steinbeck, John East of Eden	Generations of two Salinas Valley, California, families reinact the fall of Adam and Eve and the rivalry of Cain and Abel.
	Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath	The plight of the "Okies" is chronicled in the Joad family's desperate emigration from the dust-bowl to California.
	Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men	Two laborers work from ranch to ranch in the Salinas Valley of the 1930s, frustrated in their hope of having a place of their own.
	Stockett, Kathryn The Help	In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, 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.
	Sun, Stone, & Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories	Presents a collection of twenty stories of extraordinary quality, written by the finest Mexican authors born during the first half of the twentieth century.
	Tartt, Donna The Little Friend	Growing up in a small Mississippi town in a family haunted by the murder of her brother, a teenage girl decides to find her brother's murderer and exact her revenge.
	This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men & Women	A collection of eighty essays exploring the personal beliefs of a diverse assortment of contributors, both famous and unknown, who reflect on their faith, the evolution of their beliefs, and how they express them.
	Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	The tale of the fateful power of the One ring as all the members of the fellowship, hobbits, elves and wizards, are plunged into a clash between good and evil.
	Truman, Margaret Bess W. Truman	Drawing on her personal reminiscences and her parents' voluminous correspondence, the author offers an intimate portrait of her reticent mother.
	Vreeland, Susan Girl in Hyacinth Blue	An art professor visits the home of a colleague and discovers a painting that its owner claims to be an authentic Vermeer.
	Waldman, Ayelet Daughter's Keeper	When her daughter is swept into the maelstrom surrounding the war on drugs, a woman finds herself embroiled in a courtroom drama.
	Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence	A woman who has incurred scandal is loved by a man lacking the courage to break with the conventions of New York society in the 1870's.
	Wiesel, Elie Night	A chronicle of the holocaust through the eyes of a 14 year old Hungarian Jew who survived Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna and Buchenwald.
	Wiggins, Marianne Evidence of Things Unseen	An amateur scientist and ex-soldier from World War I and a glassblower's daughter eventually work at the Oak Ridge Laboratory and die from radiation sickness, only to have their son inquire into their lives.
	Wilder, Thornton The Bridge of San Luis Rey	After witnessing the deaths of five people when a bridge collapses in Peru, a monk is consumed with the need to discover whether it was divine intervention, or a capricious fate that took their lives.
	Williams, Gregory Howard Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black	It's the story of Gregory Howard Williams who lived in Virginia during the 1950s and had most of the extras and then moved to Indiana to live with his father's people who were dirt poor.
	Young, William The Shack	Four years after his daughter was abducted and evidence of her murder was found in an abandoned shack, a man returns to the shack in response to a note claiming to be from God, and has a life-changing experience.