By Alexander McCall Smith
Series No.1 Ladies Detective Agency

“Precious Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, investigate local advice columnist Aunty Emang, who may be linked to trouble at a local medical clinic and the cobra that somehow ended up in Precious's office (From the Publisher).”

By Clara Kramer
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“This heart-stopping story of a young girl hiding from the Nazis is based on Clara Kramer's diary of her years surviving in an underground bunker with seventeen other people (From the Publisher).”

By John Burnham Schwartz

In 1959, Haruko marries the Prince of Japan, becoming the first commoner to enter the mysterious world of Japanese royalty.

By Richard North Patterson

David Wolfe's life is thrown into turmoil when he is asked to defend a Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret love affair.

By Rohinton Mistry
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey..

By Joseph E. Persico

Non-fiction account examining Franklin Delano Roosevelt's relationships with the women around him.

By Peter Robinson
Series Inspector Banks Mysteies

Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Annie Cabbot must work together to solve two chilling crimes.

By Sue Miller

Anna Dunlap finds herself caught in a custody battle for her four-year-old daughter Molly.

By Kathryn Stockett
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian, Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.

By Susan Wiggs

Upon learning of her husband’s affair, Sarah Moon resettles in her California hometown only to learn she is pregnant.

By Ann Hood

After the sudden loss of her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle as a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days. The women welcome her and reveal their own personal stories of loss, love, and hope.

By Mildred Armstrong Kalish

“Recounted in a luminous narrative filled with tenderness and humor, Kalish’s memoir of her childhood shows how the right stuff can make even the bleakest of times seem like “quite a romp” (From the Publisher).”

By Jeffrey Eugenides
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41–year–old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this mesmerizing saga of a near–mythic Greek American family.

By Richard Russo

An unlucky man in an unlucky town, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles - a busted knee, unemployment, a broken truck, and a lack of money.

By Jennifer Cody Epstein

A fictional portrait of Pan Yuliang, a real-life 20th-century Chinese prostitute turned successful artist. It is the story of a woman forced to choose between following her heart and pursuing her art.

By Pat Conroy
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

Interweaves the events of Tom Wingo's summer in New York and his relationship to Susan Lowenstein, his sister Savannah's beautiful psychiatrist and the complex history of the South Carolinian Wingo family, from World War II, through Vietnam.

By Danny Scheinmann

Waking up in a hospital to learn that his girlfriend has died, grief stricken Leo discovers a surprising secret.

By Robert Goolrick
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

“Robert Goolrick's intoxicating debut novel delivers a classic tale of suspenseful seduction, set in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis (From the Publisher).”

By Sue Miller

Two unconventional women confront the costs and challenges of love.

By Alexander McCall Smith
Series No. 1 Ladies\' Detective Agency

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency tries to discover if a local football team's games are fixed.

By Richard Russo

The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to where they honeymooned, Cape Cod.

By James Lee Burke
Series Dave Robicheaux Novels

Detective Robicheaux struggles with alcoholic rage while fighting to protect a devastated New Orleans.