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Crazy Love You

Lisa Unger
Format: Book

Recommended by Katie in Riverside

Enjoying a successful career with his best friend Priss, a destructive friend who helped him escape bullies in childhood, Ian fears for his life when she becomes irrationally angry about Ian's new relationship.

 
 
Whistling Past the Graveyard

Susan Crandall · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book

Recommended by Karen D. in Joppa

In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. Starla hasn't seen her momma since she was three - that's when Lulu left for Nashville to become...

 
 
Thursday's Children: A Frieda Klein Mystery

Nicci French · Penguin Books, 2015. ©2014
Pages: 368
Format: Book

Recommended by Jennifer R. in Riverside

"Fierce, fascinating and full of insight, Frieda Klein is irresistible." - Val McDermid, bestselling author of Splinter the Silence

The electrifying fourth book...

 
 
Lucia, Lucia: A Novel

Adriana Trigiani · Random House; First Edition edition
Pages: 272
Format: Book

Recommended by Karen in Riverside

Set in the glittering, vibrant New York City of 1950, Lucia, Lucia is the enthralling story of a passionate, determined young woman whose decision to follow her heart changes her life forever.Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old...

 
 
The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups

Leonard Sax · Basic Books
Pages: 287
Format: Book

Recommended by Melisa in Riverside

An acclaimed expert on parenting and childhood development argues that kids today are suffering because their parents are no longer in charge - and explains what parents and educators can do to reverse this trend

 
 
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...

 
 
A Discovery of Witches: A Novel

Deborah Harkness · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Recommended by Jen M. in Riverside

Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies...

 
 
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

Jonathan Eig · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Book

Recommended by Tracy in Abingdon

A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' A Washington Post '50 Notable Works of Nonfiction & Best Science Books 2014' A Chicago Tribune 'Nonfiction Books to Gift 2014' A Slate 'Best Books 2014: Staff...