WHO'S ON TOP: FICTION

TOP 5 FICTION:

HARDCOVER:

1. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt

2. SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham

3. HAZARDOUS DUTY, by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV

4. THE FIRST PHONE CALL FROM HEAVEN, by Mitch Albom

5. COMMAND AUTHORITY, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney

SPOTLIGHT:

HAZARDOUS DUTY

W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV

On her way to completing a degree in forensic science, Gabby St. Claire dropped out of school and started her own crime scene cleaning business. Now, when a routine cleaning job leads her to a murder weapon the police overlooked, she realizes that the wrong man is in jail. With the help of her new and attractively single neighbor, Riley Thomas, Gabby plays the detective to make sure the right man is put behind bars.

PAPERBACK TRADE:

1. DEAR LIFE, by Alice Munro

2. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James

3. WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, by Maria Semple

4. ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline

5. DARK WITCH, by Nora Roberts

SPOTLIGHT:

ORPHAN TRAIN

Christina Baker Kline

The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask.

Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from "aging out" of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping her out of juvie and worse.

Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly discovers that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.

The closer Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to her own life. A Penobscot Indian, she, too, is an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past. As her emotional barriers begin to crumble, Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life - answers that will ultimately free them both.

Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.

PAPERBACK MASS-MARKET:

1. BIG SKY SECRETS, by Linda Lael Miller

2. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin

3. A MEMORY OF LIGHT, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

4. ENDER'S GAME, by Orson Scott Card

5. A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin

SPOTLIGHT:

BIG SKY SECRETS

Linda Lael Miller

Self-made tycoon Landry Sutton heads to Hangman Bend's Ranch to sell his land to his brother Zane. Though he's got cowboy in his blood, Landry plans to return to city life before the dust even settles on his boots. Of course, he didn't count on falling for Big Sky Country…or Ria Manning.

Ria's starting to settle into country life herself…until she has a close encounter of the terrifying kind with a buffalo. Turns out the peeping monster belongs to the cowboy next door—and he has her running even more scared than his bison. She wants a home where the buffalo don't roam, and the men don't either. Could Landry's homecoming be her heart's undoing?

E-BOOK:

1. SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham

2. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt

3. THE HUSBAND'S SECRET, by Liane Moriarty

4. TAKEDOWN TWENTY, by Janet Evanovich

5. COMMAND AUTHORITY, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney

SPOTLIGHT:

COMMAND AUTHORITY

Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney

Decades ago, when he was a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan, Sr. was sent on what was supposed to be a simple support mission to investigate the death of an operative who had been looking into suspicious banking activities at a Swiss bank. Ryan's dogged tenacity uncovered not only financial deceit, but also the existence of a KGB assassin, code-named Zenith. He was never able to find the killer. But in the shadowy world of covert operations, nothing stays hidden forever. In the present, a new strongman has emerged in the ever-chaotic Russian republic -- the enigmatic President Valeri Volodin. His rise to power was meteoric, but shrouded in deception and treachery. The foundations of his personal empire are built on a bloody secret from his past, and he will eliminate anyone who comes close to that truth. For he has set in motion a plot to return Russia to its former glory and might, with the rest of the world once again trembling in fear of the mighty Bear. When an old friend of the Ryans is poisoned by a radioactive agent, the trail leads to Russia. And Jack Ryan, Jr. -- aided by his compatriots John Clark and the covert warriors of the secretive Campus -- must delve into an international conflict thirty years in the making, and finish what his father started.