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Career of Evil

Robert Galbraith · Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 497
Format: Book

Recommended by Tracy in Abingdon

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg.

 
 
Woman with a Secret: A Novel

Sophie Hannah · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Book

Recommended by Katie in Riverside

Published in the UK as The Telling Error, Lisa Gardner calls it "mesmerizing." Liane Moriarty says it's "unpredictable, unputdownable, and unlike anything you've read before." See for yourself...

 
 
Crossing to Safety

Wallace Earle Stegner · Modern Library; Reprint edition
Format: Book

Recommended by Karen in Riverside

Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins   Called a magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since...

 
 
When the Moon Is Low: A Novel

Nadia Hashimi · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Book

Recommended by Bethany in Riverside

Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world - a life of education, work, and comfort - implodes when their country is engulfed...

 
 
Brave Enough

Cheryl Strayed · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 135
Format: Book

Recommended by Margaret in Abingdon

From the best-selling author of Wild, a collection of quotes--drawn from the wide range of her writings--that capture her wisdom, courage, and outspoken humor, presented in a gift-sized package that's as irresistible...

 
 
Rose Under Fire

Elizabeth Wein · Disney Pr
Pages: 360
Format: Book

Recommended by Suzy in Whiteford

While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbr ck, the notorious women's concentration camp. Trapped in horrific...

 
 
The Obsession

Nora Roberts · Berkley Books
Pages: 464
Format: Book

Recommended by Debbie in Riverside

The riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Liar.

"She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite...

 
 
West with the night

Beryl Markham · North Point Press
Format: Book

Recommended by Cathy in Bel Air

West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.