by Deb Caletti
Money can’t buy everything, but it sure is nice when you have it, or so Indigo Skye thinks when she receives a 2.5 million dollar tip from a mysterious customer. Indigo was already pretty happy, but suddenly everyone she loves wants to help her decide how to live her life as a millionaire.
June 12th, 2009
by Matt De La Pena
Danny searches for his Mexican roots in the hope that he will be able to bring his father back to the family.
June 12th, 2009
by Hillary Jordan
Laura, a city woman whose life has always been free, and Ronsell, the son of a sharecropper who experienced freedom and respect in Europe during the second World War, find their lives completely changed when Laura’s husband buys a farm in backwoods Mississippi.
June 12th, 2009
by Michael Scott
An ancient book is lost and the modern world could be torn at the seams. Twins Sophie and Josh Newman are swept up in a quest to protect the secret of eternal life when they meet Nicholas Flamel, the 700-year-old discoverer of the magic formula.
June 12th, 2009
by Garth Stein
Meet Enzo, a dog with the senses of a canine and the sense of a human. Laugh, cheer, and cry with Enzo’s family as you ponder life’s ups and downs through the metaphor of auto racing.
June 8th, 2009
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
In She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, Boylan, an English professor at Colby College, wrote eloquently about the transition from James to Jennifer. This equally compelling memoir of her growing up years in Main Line Philadelphia will resonate with anyone who felt “invisible” growing up.
June 8th, 2009
by Marilynne Robinson
In this companion to Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Gilead, the elderly Rev. Boughton’s two adult children, a dutiful daughter and the favorite ne’er-do-well son return home. This meditative, reflective, and soul-searching family attempts to come to terms with the past and each other.
June 8th, 2009
by Judy Blundell
Part mystery and part romance, What I Saw and How I Lied is the story of a teenage girl and her family in post World War II Florida. Over the course of the story, the heroine faces some unpleasant truths and experiences her first love.
June 8th, 2009
Every morning Louise’s mother stands with a group of neighborhood women known as the Cheerleaders, who taunt six-year old Ruby Bridges as she enters the elementary school. Louise never questions the situation until a likable New Yorker with radical views becomes a boarder in their house.
June 8th, 2009
by Lisa Levchuk
Edna can’t talk to her father, her mother is sick, she doesn’t trust her therapist, and she’s having an affair with her teacher. Love and hate, fear and passion, sadness and joy are all visible in this vulnerable yet endearing seventeen-year-old.
February 27th, 2009
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