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2013 Recommended Reading Lists

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Winter 2013 Reading List A Wanted Man by Lee Child America Again by Stephen Colbert An Irish Country Wedding by Patrick Taylor Defending Jacob by William Landay Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James Friends Forever by Danielle Steel Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Help, Thanks, Wow by Anne Lamott Hide by Lisa Gardner In The Garden Of Beasts by Erik Larson Insurgent by Veronica Roth Into The Woods by Kim Harrison Life of Pi by Yann Martel Live by Night by Dennis Lehane Looking for Alaska by John Green Mad River by John Sandford NYPD Red by James Patterson Phantom by Jo Nesbo Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks Sleep No More by Iris Johansen The Bone Bed by Patricia Cornwell The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Forgotten by David Baldacci The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Racketeer by John Grisham The Sentry by Robert Crais The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom The Twelve by Justin Cronin Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich Wild Swans by Jung Chang Winter of the World by Ken Follett Compiled by FOSL Volunteer	Winter 2013 Featured Book Broken by Karin Slaughter When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own. Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him, and while her role in the death of the county’s popular police chief is unclear, that man’s widow, Dr. Sara Linton, desperately needs Trent’s help to crack the case of a prisoner’s death. While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force. Caught between two complicated and determined women, trying to understand the facts surrounding Chief Tolliver’s death, Trent will uncover explosive secrets—and confront a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed. SOURCE: Copyright © BN.com. All rights reserved.
Spring 2013 Reading List A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan A Week In Winter by Maeve Binchy America the Beautiful by Ben Carson Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel Cold Days by Jim Butcher Collateral Damage by Stuart Woods Coolidge by Amity Shlaes Cross Roads by William Paul Young Dream Eyes by Jane Ann Krentz Ever After by Kim Harrison Ghostman by Roger Hobbs Guilt by Jonathan Kellerman Hit Me by Lawrence Block Insane City by Dave Barry Kinsey and Me by Sue Grafton Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor No Easy Day by Mark Owen Private Berlin by James Patterson Proof of Guilt by Charles Todd Robert B. Parker’s Ironhorse by Robert Knott See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid Speaking From Among the Bones by Alan Bradley Suspect by Robert Crais The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin The Black Box by Michael Connolly The Blood Gospel by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell The Dinner by Herman Koch The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer The Husband List by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly The Intercept by Dick Wolf The Last Man by Vince Flynn The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier The Light between Oceans by M. L. Stedman The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg The Power Trip by Jackie Collins The River Swimmer by Jim Harrison The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond Threat Vector by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner Two Graves by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Until the End of Time by Danielle Steele Compiled by FOSL Volunteer	Spring 2013 Featured Book A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby In his fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances. SOURCE: Copyright © BN.com. All rights reserved.
Summer 2013 Reading List A Step of Faith by Richard Paul Evans Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson All You Could Ask For by Mike Greenberg Benediction by Kent Haruf Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer Breaking Point by C. J. Box Calculated in Death by J. D. Robb Daddy’s Gone a Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark Don’t Go by Lisa Scottoline Fly Away by Kristin Hannah Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi How Children Succeed by Paul Tough Life after Life by Jill McCorkle Mary Coin by Marisa Silver Maya’s Notebook by Isabel Allende Paris by Edward Rutherford Salt, Sugar, Fat by Michael Moss Secrets From the Past by Barbara Taylor Bradford Shadow of Freedom by David Weber Silken Prey by John Sandford Six Years by Harlan Coben Sum It Up by Pat Summitt Taking Eve by Iris Johansen Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg The Ashford Affair by Lauren Willig The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan The Hit by David Baldacci The Last Threshold by R. A. Salvatore The Mystery Woman by Amanda Quick The Story of God and All of Us by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett The Storyteller by Jody Picoult The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud Unintended Consequences by Stuart Woods Unsinkable by Debbie Reynolds Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts Compiled by FOSL Volunteer	Summer 2013 Featured Book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism. In her introduction the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success. SOURCE: Copyright © BN.com. All rights reserved.
Fall 2013 Reading List American Gun by Chris Kyle Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen Bones Of The Lost by Kathy Reichs Calculated In Death by J. D. Robb Death Angel by Linda Fairstein Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan Deadlock by Iris Johansen Deadly Heat by Richard Castle Empire and Honor by W.E.B. Griffin Fatally Flaky by Diane Mott Davidson First Sight by Danielle Steel Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Hotshot by Julie Garwood Inferno by Dan Brown Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood Never Go Back by Lee Child Night Film by Marisha Pessl Purple Cane Road by James Lee Burke Reign Of Error by Diane Ravitch Rose Harbor In Bloom by Debbie Macomber Second Honeymoon by James Patterson Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein Songs Of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford Stolen Prey by John Sandford Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown The Companions by R.A. Salvatore The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith The Guns At Last Light by Rick Atkinson The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman The Panther by Nelson DeMille The Signature Of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert W Is For Wasted by Sue Grafton Zero Hour by Clive Cussler Compiled by FOSL Volunteer	Fall 2013 Featured Book Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult It's well written, it's conscientiously researched and, most important, it presents a character who is a child instead of a disability personified…Handle With Care is a great read, with strong characters, an exciting lawsuit to pull you along and really good use of the medical context. Picoult does a terrific job of evoking [osteogenesis imperfecta] and its peculiarities—from the likelihood that parents might be accused of child abuse (because of fractures that don't quite "make sense") to the incessant push and pull of wanting a child to experience kindergarten friendships, Disney World and ice skating, while worrying constantly that another fragile bone will break. SOURCE: Copyright © The Washington Post. All rights reserved.