Following a potential suicide attempt, the family members of Alice Raikes gather to sit vigil while she lay comatose and reminisce about the young woman's life.

Cotton Malone, Berry's protagonist from The Templar Legacy, returns in another globe-hopping adventure-LIBRARY JOURNAL

A tragicomic tale of mah-jongg, thwarted love and the mysteries of faith in 1970s Carnarsie- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

After witnessing the murders of her husband and parents, Lillian Leyb escapes Russia to the unwelcoming shores of America , only to discover the daughter she believed to be dead is alive living in Siberia . The novel centers on Lillian's journey across the United States in an attempt to reunite with her only child.

A tragic accident causes a family to reexamine its' beliefs and relationships with each other.

While the story of two broken couples-one by infidelity, one by tragedy-contains a number of maudlin moments, this polished novel's touchy-feely title belies the trenchant humor of its take on contemporary New York, especially its literary scene.

Merullo, author of the Revere Beach series and Golfing with God, delivers a comic but winningly spiritual road-trip novel. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell's third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Broadening his canvas and his historical sweep in this memorable and quietly moving novel, Dorris braids the voices and histories of selected members of five generations descended from a raven-haired hellion named Rose Mannion, who flees Ireland for Kentucky. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Finder sets his sixth novel in a small town in Michigan, a place where nothing appears to be going well for anyone. The Stratton Corporation, which makes premium office furniture, has laid off half its workforce, and thousands of ex-employees are furious with the company's C.E.O., Nick Conover; one of them seems to be stalking him.

London's chic boutiques and glamorous socialites star in this comic novel about binge shopping for clothes and makeup. - BOOKLIST

A Manhattan couple reexamine their lives on the afternoon of September 11, 2001.

Shamus-winner Spiegelman's intricate, intelligent second thriller to feature all-too-human New York PI John March explores skullduggery in the world of high finance. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Acclaimed biographer Isaacson examines the remarkable life of "science's preeminent poster boy" in this lucid account.

A day-by-day travel journal intended as a first anniversary present for Jane Harris's best friend, Holly, turns into Jane's rollicking private diary account of the madcap events leading up to Holly and Mark's Italian countryside elopement.-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11.-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Danticat's subject is the 1937 massacre by Dominican islanders of Haitians living within their borders, at the command of Dominican dictator Trujillo as experienced, and then remembered many years afterward, by the story's narrator, Haitian maidservant Amabelle Desir.-KIRKUS REVIEWS

Tells the story of peasant farmer Wang Lung and his marriage to the plain, but hard-working former slave O-lan during the reign of the last emperor in twentieth century China.

This all-encompassing fictional history of London is told through the experiences of a group of diverse families who, over the generations, meet, mingle, intermarry, and feud. - Library Journal

Whitbread Award winner Atkinson puts a thoroughly enjoyable spin on this character-driven detective novel, the follow-up to Case Histories. After receiving a surprise bequest, quitting his job, and moving to a French village, former detective Jackson Brodie is torn between wanting to live a quiet, idyllic life and feeling purposeless. - Library Journal

Christopher Evan Welch kicks and scores with his engaging narration of Grisham's charming tale of touchdowns and tortellini. - Publishers Weekly

[The book] is a visceral and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in that country and its fallout on the day-to-day lives of Ms. Nafisi and her students. It is a thoughtful account of the novels they studied together and the unexpected parallels they drew between those books and their own experiences as women living under the unforgiving rule of the mullahs. - The New York Times

Run, with a title that suggests many things (including Kenya 's athletic prowess and Doyle's political drive), and with a watery looking cover that reflects the whole book's aura of a human aquarium, becomes an elegant melange of family ties. - The New York Times

In postwar working-class Brooklyn , Irish Catholic Michael Devlin, 11, is obsessed with comics, worships Captain Marvel, and wonders why shouting SHAZAM! doesn't turn him into a superhero. His naiveté is crucial to the story, it turns out, since this slice-of-life tale metamorphoses at the finish completely and unexpectedly into fantasy. - Kirkus Reviews

When his parents are killed in a traffic accident, Jacob Jankowski hops a train after walking out on his final exams at Cornell, where he had hoped to earn a veterinary degree. The train turns out to be a circus train, and since it's the Depression, when someone with a vet's skills can attach himself to a circus if he's lucky, Jacob soon finds himself involved with the animal acts-specifically with the beautiful young Marlena, the horse rider, and her husband, August. - Library Journal

The bad seed/nurture vs. nature theme updated as a teenaged sniper's mother tries to understand the why behind her son's criminality, in a series of letters to her not so mysteriously absent husband. - Kirkus Reviews

Set in a world where two kinds of magic exist, one female and the other male, the Wheel of Time series features the hero Rand. Rand is on an epic quest to unite the diverse peoples of his planet against the Dark One, who threatens to destroy their world. - Gale Research

Abby Mason was walking on the beach with her fiancé's six-year-old daughter, Emma, when Abby looked away briefly, and Emma ran ahead and seemingly disappeared. Abby narrates the story of the exhaustive search, the change in her relationship with Jake, and the many other friends and people she meets along the way who offer assistance and support. - Library Journal

Ackerman ( A Natural History of the Senses ) tells the remarkable WWII story of Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw Zoo, and his wife, Antonina, who, with courage and coolheaded ingenuity, sheltered 300 Jews as well as Polish resisters in their villa and in animal cages and sheds. - Publisher's Weekly