Noteworthy titles from our June 16 , 2010 Title Swap:

Arnold, Gaynor - Girl in a Blue Dress A heart-warming story of first love: a cocky young writer is smitten by a pretty girl in a blue dress

Bernstein, Harry - The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers The 93 year old author reminisces about growing up in early 1900’s England. The “invisible wall” in the town separates Jews from Christians yet his older sister falls in love with someone from the other side.

Box, C.J. - Blue Heaven A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother are on the run in the Idaho woods, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder.

Boyle, T.C. - The Women A story of women who invest everything, at great risk, in that mysterious "bank of feeling" named Frank Lloyd Wright.

Brashares, Ann - My Name is Memory Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, Daniel and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all.

Brennert, Alan – Molokai This sweeping novel tracks the grim struggle of a Hawaiian woman who contracts leprosy as a child in Honolulu during the 1890s and is deported to the island of Molokai, where she grows to adulthood at the quarantined settlement of Kalaupapa.

Cook, Claire - The Seven Year Switch After being left alone to raise young daughter for seven years, Jill's husband Seth re-enters her life after seven years asking for forgiveness.

Cunningham, Laura - Sleeping Arrangements A humorous memoir about growing up in an extremely unusual Bronx household in the 1950s

Dai, Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” When the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation their re-education takes a most surprising turn.

Delinsky, Barbara - Not My Daughter A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test.

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee - Sister of My Heart For the Chatterjees, an upper-caste Calcutta family fallen on hard times but tenaciously remain in their decaying mansion of mystery and faded glory, using storytelling from generation to generation as a lifeline.

Donnelly, Jennifer - The Tea Rose East London, 1888-a city apart: here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, a bright and defiant young woman dares to dream of a life beyond tumbledown wharves, gas lit alleys, and the grim and crumbling dwellings of the poor.

Dosa, David - Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat Dosa, a geriatrician with a strong aversion to cats, tells the endearing story of Oscar the cat. Oscar is no ordinary cat, he possesses an extraordinary gift: he knows instinctively when the end of life is near.

Epstein, Jennifer Cody - The Painter From Shanghai 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.

Fabiano, Laurie - Elizabeth Street A multigenerational saga that opens in an Italian village in the 1900s and then crosses the ocean to New York's Lower East Side to tell the dramatic story of the heroine, Giovanna, and how she triumphs over tragedy.

Gantt, DeVa - A Silent Ocean Away: Colette's Dominion Charmaine Ryan knows only poverty and pain growing up. In the wake of a horrifying tragedy, she seeks a new life, and fate leads her into the private world of the wealthy Duvoisin clan.

Gardner, Lisa – Hide While on the trail of a twisted serial killer, Detective Dodge must track down a woman from his past who may be every bit as dangerous as the killer.

Goolrick, Robert – The Reliable Wife In rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting.

Grabenstein, Chris - Tilt A Whirl A billionaire real estate tycoon is found murdered on the “Tilt A Whirl” at a seedy seaside amusement park and John Ceepak, a former MP just back from Iraq, heads up the murder investigation.

Green, Jane – The Beach House A heartwarming tale of how a land-rich but cash-poor 65-year-old widow saves her Nantucket home by taking in summer boarders.

Green, Jane – Promises to Keep A family is suddenly thrown together when each person receives a shocking note that summons them all for one extraordinary summer in Maine.

Guterson, David – Snow Falling on Cedars In 1954, a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned at San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder.

Harris, Joanne - Five Quarters of the Orange Returning to the small Loire village of her childhood to run a cafe, Franboise Dartigen soon finds that hidden among her mother's recipes are clues that will lead her to the truth of long ago.

Hood, Ann – The Knitting Circle 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.

Horan Nancy – Loving Frank A fictionalization of the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney, best known as the woman who wrecked Frank Lloyd Wright's first marriage.

Kallos, Stephanie – Broken for You The story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect.

Kellerman, Jesse – The Executor In this thriller, a graduate student recently kicked out of their shared apartment by his girlfriend, answers a want ad for a “Conversationalist”. And so he meets a woman who, with her old-world ways and razor-sharp mind, is his intellectual soul mate.

Mantel, Hilary – Wolf Hall In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man, Thomas Cromwell, dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power.

Patchett, Ann – Bel Canto At a lavish birthday party, Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage.

Pickard, Nancy – The Scent of Rain and Lightning The man convicted of murdering Jody's father, twenty-six years ago is being released from prison and is returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas.

Quindlen, Anna – Black and Blue For 18 years Fran Benedetto kept her secret and hid her bruises. She stayed with Bobby because she wanted her son to have a father, and because, in spite of everything, she loved him. Then one night, when she saw the look on her ten-year-old son's face, Fran finally made a choice--and ran for both their lives.

Rhodes, Jewell Parker - Douglass’ Women This novel draws a private portrait of Frederick Douglass through the alternating voices of the two women who love him: his wife, Anna, an illiterate laundress who helps him escape from slavery and his mistress, Ottilie Assing, a German heiress who travels the world with him.

Sedaris, David – When You Are Engulfed in Flames Sedaris’ latest collection of essays that use life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers is “laugh out loud funny”.

Shors, John – Beneath a Marble Sky This "passionate, lush, and dramatic" novel reveals the story behind the building of the Taj Mahal and the destruction of a royal family.

Stegner, Wallace – Angle of Repose In this Pulitzer prize winning novel, a wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead.

Stockett, Kathryn – The Help In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, with the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.

Umrigar, Thrity- The Space Between Us Set in modern-day India, it is the story of Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife and Bhima, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years.

Unger, Lisa – Beautiful Lies A young New York writer, a privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother does a good deed which has terrible consequences and leaves her running for her life.

Verghese, Abraham - Cutting for Stone Twin brothers born to a secret union are the focus of this family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home.

Walls, Jennifer – Half Broke Horses From the author of The GlassCastle, a true-life novel about Walls' grandmother--horse trainer, teacher, flapper, rancher, and pilot.

Zola, Emile – Ladies Paradise The story of how the first department stores in nineteenth-century Paris made shopping into a religion, and of the love between enterprising store owner Octave Mouret and the rags-to-riches heroine Denise Baudu.

Zuzak, Markus – The Book Thief Anovel about how a young girl’s love of books helps a community survive World War II and the Holocaust.