TOP 5 FICTION:
HARDCOVER:
1. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt
2. THE INVENTION OF WINGS, by Sue Monk Kidd FIRST
3. LOVE, by James Patterson and Emily Raymond
4. SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham
5. LOST LAKE, by Sarah Addison Allen
SPOTLIGHT:
LOVE
James Patterson and Emily Raymond
An extraordinary portrait of true love that will move anyone who has a first love story of their own. Axi Moore is a "good girl": She studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone how all she really wants is to run away from it all. The only person she can tell is her best friend, Robinson--who she also happens to be madly in love with.
When Axi spontaneously invites Robinson to come with her on an impulsive cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree to out of control after the teens find themselves on the run from the police. And when Robinson suddenly collapses, Axi has to face the truth that this trip might be his last.
A remarkably moving tale very personal to James Patterson's own past, FIRST LOVE is testament to the power of first love--and how it can change the rest of your life.
PAPERBACK TRADE:
1. AFTER LIFE, by Kate Atkinson
2. A WEEK IN WINTER, by Maeve Binchy
3. WINTER'S TALE, by Mark Helprin
4. DARK PLACES, by Gillian Flynn
5. ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Klin
SPOTLIGHT:
WINTER'S TALE
Mark Helprin
New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake, orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.
Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying.
Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and besieged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.
PAPERBACK MASS-MARKET:
1. SILENCING EVE, by Iris Johansen
2. NYPD RED, by James Patterson ad Marshall Karp
3. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin
4. ENDER'S GAME, by Orson Scott Card
5. GUILT, by Jonathan Kellerman
SPOTLIGHT:
SILENCING EVE
Iris Johansen
Is she dead or alive? That is the question on everybody’s lips. Eve appears to have been killed -- that’s what everyone attending her funeral thinks, at least. But not even some of her top-brass colleagues know for sure whether her death is a hoax -- a way to ensnare her brutal captor, Jim Doane, once or for all. But even if Eve really is still alive, how much longer can this charade continue before she falls into even greater danger? CIA agent Catherine Ling will waste no time trying to find out. Years ago, Eve risked everything to help Catherine find her missing son. Now Catherine, along with Eve’s beloved Joe Quinn and Jane MacGuire, will go to the ends of the earth to save her…
E-BOOK:
1. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt
2. THE ROSIE PROJECT, by Graeme Simsion
3. SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham
4. THE INVENTION OF WINGS, by Sue Monk Kidd
5. THE HUSBAND'S SECRET, by Liane Moriarty
SPOTLIGHT:
THE ROSIE PROJECT
Graeme Simsion
An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.
Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a “wonderful” husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical—most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.
Yet Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent—and on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.
The Rosie Project is a moving and hilarious novel for anyone who has ever tenaciously gone after life or love in the face of overwhelming challenges.
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