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My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout · Random House
Pages: 193
Format: Book

Recommended by Karen in Riverside

A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. Now, in My...

 
 
Twisted River: A Novel

Siobhan MacDonald · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Book

Recommended by Katie in Riverside

A gripping debut psychological thriller for fans of The Silent Wife and The Wicked Girls about two families in crisis and a holiday house swap gone terribly wrong "She would never have fit as neatly into the trunk of his own car."...

 
 
The Blackhouse: A Novel

Peter May · SilverOak; a edition
Format: Book

Recommended by Barb in Bel Air

From acclaimed author and television dramatist Peter May comes the first book in the Lewis Trilogy--a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, a formidable and forbidding world where tradition...

 
 
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

Shonda Rhimes · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 311
Format: Book

Recommended by Margaret in Abingdon

***AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***

In this poignant, hilarious, and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of Grey's...

 
 
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: A Novel

Mitch Albom · Harper
Pages: 496
Format: Book

Recommended by Bob in Bel Air

Mitch Albom creates his most unforgettable fictional character - Frankie Presto, the greatest guitarist to ever walk the earth - in this magical novel about the bands we join in life and the power of talent to change our lives.

In...

 
 
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Sam Quinones · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 384
Format: Book

Recommended by Tracy in Abingdon

In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin -- the cheapest,...

 
 
Station Eleven

Emily St John Mandel · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 333
Format: Book

Recommended by Bethany in Riverside

 

A National Book Award Finalist
A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart...

 
 
The husband's secret

Liane Moriarty · Amy Einhorn Books, Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons ,a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013.
Pages: 396
Format: Book

Recommended by Karen D. in Joppa

Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret, something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives...