 | Title: The Alexandra Link Author: Berry, Steve Summary: A former secret agent gets pulled back into adventure when his bookstore is burned down and his son is kidnapped. He begins an international race against time to elude assassins and figure out the clues to find the secret of the lost Library of Alexandria in order to get his son back. |
 | Title: Twenty Questions Author: Clement, Alison Summary: June, a cafeteria worker in a local elementary school is offered a ride home (which she declines) when her car breaks down. When she learns that this very same man who offered her a ride the day before killed a woman, June feels a responsibility towards the dead woman's family. |
 | Title: The Black Ice Author: Connelly, Michael Summary: When it's believed that a fellow cop commited suicide, Detective Harry Bosch is more than sceptical when the facts start adding up to murder. This case takes Harry south of the border, to Mexico and into the center of a complex drug trafficing ring know as Black Ice. |
 | Title: Dakota: a Novel Author: Grimes, Martha Summary: Drifter Andi Oliver settles into a small North Dakota town, takes a job at a factory hog farm, befriends an abused donkey, and is nearly murdered. Is her forgotten past or her animal rights crusade the reason? |
 | Title: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food Author: Lee, Jennifer 8. Summary: Who invented the fortune cookie and where? Why is General Tso known in America only by the Chinese restaurant dish named in his honor? And why, wherever you go in America, is there a Chinese buffet awaiting you? Lee answers all these questions and more in this quirky book about the Chinese food business. |
 | Title: Truth and Beauty: a Friendship Author: Patchett, Ann Summary: A touching memoir about this author's friendship with a woman who lost part of her face to cancer. |
 | Title: Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral Author: Radish, Kris Summary: Annie Freeman's death reunited her five closest friends on a cross country trip from Sonoma to Manhattan while sprinkling ashes from her remains as the travel. They are sharing Annie's deepest secret and secrets of their own. This is a hilarious story filled with tears and laughter, not to be missed! |
 | Title: Bridge of Sighs Author: Russo, Richard Summary: Lou Lynch, a hybrid of George Babbit and Willy Loman, looks back at his life growing up in failing Thomaston, New York. Childhood friend Bobby Marconi, reinvented as artist Robert Noonan, takes an alternative path versus Lynch's mild success as a grocer and city burgher. Both loved Sarah Berg, but Lou won her hand. |
 | Title: American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the It Girl, and the Crime of the Century Author: Uruburu, Paula Summary: Captivating true story of a young actress model and her relationship with renound architect Stanford White. Nesbit eventually married Pittsburgh millionaire Harry K. Thaw which led to the crime of the century when Thaw killed White in front of hundreds of witnesses on the rooftop of Madison Square Garden. |
 | Title: Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle Author: Wann, David Summary: Wann offers a blueprint to a more abundant life minus all the stuff by highlighting the absurd. In one example he describes a simple T-shirt which may start as a few tablespoons of petroleum from Venezuela, refined in Curacao, shipped to Delaware where it's transformed into polyester fibers, then combined with cotton from Mississippi and so on... So much for buying locally! |