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New Adult Materials at East Granby Library (last updated July 2010)

ItemType

Category

Author

Title

Description

BK/CD

Fiction

Child, Lee

61 hours.

During dangerous winter storm, ex-military cop is enlisted to protect lone witness who local police hope can help convict brutal crime ring.

BK/CD

Fiction

Giffin, Emily

Heart of the matter.

Meeting by chance when accident sends 6-year-old boy to upscale Boston hospital, child's mother and doctor's stay-at-home wife find their lives changing in unexpected ways.

BK/CD

Fiction

Palmer, Michael

The Last surgeon.

Working in mobile clinic while struggling with PTSD, veteran doctor searches for missing war buddy and finds himself pitted against terrifying psychopath who is disguising some of his kills as suicides.

 

Fiction-Fantasy

Butcher, Jim

Changes: A Novel of the Dresden files.

Licensed PI and professional wizard learns he has 8-year-old daughter, who’s been kidnapped by Red Court vampires.

 

Fiction-Fantasy

Harris, Charlaine

Dead in the family.

Telepathic waitress contends with outcome of Faery War, her feelings for vampire, and the Shifter community going public.

 

Fiction-General

Bognanni, Peter

The House of tomorrow.

Home-schooled teenager is forced by his grandmother's stroke to venture out of his geodesic dome habitat and befriends chain-smoking teen who introduces him to pop culture through punk band they form together.

 

Fiction-General

Clay, Heather

Loosing Charlotte.

Estranged from her rebellious sister who dies in childbirth, woman is uprooted from their Kentucky family farm to she assists her grieving brother-in-law with twin newborns.

 

Fiction-General

Crouch, Katie

Men and dogs.

After failure of both her marriage and her business, woman heads home to Charleston, where she is compelled to try to solve mystery behind her father's disappearance when she was a child.

 

Fiction-General

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee

One amazing thing.

When 9 disparate characters are trapped together after earthquake, each of them takes turn telling "one amazing thing" about his or her life.

 

Fiction-General

Evans, Richard Paul

The Walk.

After advertising executive loses everything he holds dear, he embarks on walk across America, a journey where he will meet people, form relationships, and learn important lessons as he walks to a new life.

 

Fiction-General

Farber, Kirk

Postcards from a dead girl.

Telemarketer at travel agency receives postcards, postmarked over year ago, from his old girlfriend who has disappeared.

 

Fiction-General

Fei, Deanna

A Thread of sky.

Widowed after devastating accident and fearful of facing her grief alone, Chinese-American reunites 3 generations of independent women from her estranged family including her mother, sister and daughters during a tour of mainland China.

 

Fiction-General

Fowler, Therese

Reunion.

Successful talk-show host, who is secretly lonely, seizes her chance at love when unexpected reunion with love of her life gives her opportunity to redeem her past.

 

Fiction-General

Giffin, Emily

Heart of the matter.

Meeting by chance when accident sends 6-year-old boy to upscale Boston hospital, child's mother and doctor's stay-at-home wife find their lives changing in unexpected ways.

 

Fiction-General

Giordano, Paolo

The Solitude of prime numbers.

Misfits bond as teens over shared experiences of suffering before mathematically gifted boy accepts research position that takes him far away, a situation that restores their isolation before they meet by chance years later.

 

Fiction-General

Grushin, Olga

The Line.

When rumors about exiled composer's return to Moscow for farewell symphony spark power abuses among officials and bureaucrats, disparate gaggle of strangers evolves into community of friends bonded by long-buried memories.

 

Fiction-General

Hood, Ann

The Red thread.

After loss of her daughter in a freak accident, woman opens adoption agency to place baby girls from China with American families and discovers painful and courageous journeys of both adoptive parents and birth mothers.

 

Fiction-General

Horan, Ellen

31 Bond Street.

Prominent New York City dentist is found stabbed and decapitated in his townhouse.

 

Fiction-General

Lecraw, Holly

The Swimming pool.

7 years after end of affair with married man culminated in unsolved murder of his wife, woman struggles with decimation of her own family life before chance discovery leads her into relationship with her former lover's son.

 

Fiction-General

Lombardo, Billy

The Man with two arms.

Driven to perfect unprecedented ambidextrous ability by his dedicated father, baseball pitcher skyrockets into major leagues and breaks numerous records before unscrupulous reporter misrepresents father's character.

 

Fiction-General

Lynch, Thomas

Apparition & late fictions: A Novella and stories.

Collection of stories are linked by characters that are gone but not forgotten--former spouses, dead parents and missing children--with those that miss them haunted by memory.

 

Fiction-General

Macomber, Debbie

Hannah's list.

On anniversary of his wife's death, doctor receives letter in which she, making one last request, implores him to marry again and asks him to consider 3 women.

 

Fiction-General

Martel, Yann

Beatrice and Virgil.

In tale exploring limitations of language in understanding and describing the Holocaust, novelist and taxidermist collaborate on play about donkey and howler monkey who have survived genocide.

 

Fiction-General

McNally, John

After the workshop.

12 years after graduating from prestigious writers' workshop, writer suffers from chronic self-doubt and decade-long case of writer's block.

 

Fiction-General

Meier, Diane

The Season of second chances.

Single college professor at Amherst College begins to restore old Victorian home she lives in, meets friendly handyman and embraces close-knit community, all of which gives her new lease on life.

 

Fiction-General

Pilcher, Robin

The Long way home.

After her stepfather has stroke in Scotland, woman must deal with her old flame, who as stepfather's caretaker and trusted confidant, has convinced the elderly man to put his house up for public auction.

 

Fiction-General

Quindlen, Anna

Every last one.

Ordinary suburban family is shattered by unanticipated, violent consequences of seemingly casual decisions.

 

Fiction-General

Rachman, Tom

The Imperfectionists.

Preoccupied by personal challenges while running struggling newspaper in Rome, obituary writer confronts mortality, eccentric publisher obsesses over his dog, and other staff members uncover paper's founding by impulsive millionaire.

 

Fiction-General

Smith, Lee

Mrs. Darcy and the blue-eyed stranger: New and selected stories.

14 short stories focused on the bittersweet nature of life.

 

Fiction-General

Spragg, Mark

Bone fire.

While Wyoming sheriff struggles with meth-influenced murder, his wife's addictions and his own manifestation of a genetic disease, octogenarian takes stock of his life and reluctantly accepts help from his college dropout granddaughter.

 

Fiction-General

Wickham, Madeleine

Sleeping arrangement.

Unaware that mutual friend has offered both of them his luxury villa in Spain, 2 families find themselves maneuvering around one anothers' vacation plans, a situation that is further complicated by a secret shared history.

 

Fiction-General

Wilson, E. O.

Anthill.

Adventures of  modern-day Huck Finn in Alabama whose love of ants transforms his life and those around him as he fights condo developers intent on destroying endangered tract of land.

 

Fiction-General

Wilson, Susan

One good dog.

After man loses his job, his wife, and the life he has worked so hard to achieve, he must fulfill community-service obligation at soup kitchen, where he meets pit bull bred for fighting who ends up being his best shot at redemption.

 

Fiction-General

Zevin, Gabrielle

The Hole we're in.

Couple's struggles with financial troubles lead to series of poor choices that affect their 3 children, especially Patsy, the youngest, who will spend her life fighting to overcome the decisions' consequences.

 

Fiction-Historical

Allende, Isabel

Island beneath the sea.

Turn-of-the-19th century African slave and concubine is determined to claim her own destiny against impossible odds.

 

Fiction-Historical

Borodale, Jane

The Book of fires.

Taking job as fireworks maker's apprentice after arriving in mid-18th-century London, pregnant 17-year-old slowly gains trust of her brooding employer and joins his quest to make world's most spectacular fireworks.

 

Fiction-Historical

Cowell, Stephanie

Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet.

Falling in love against backdrop of 19th-century Paris, struggling impressionist artist Claude Monet and enigmatic Camille Doucieux carve out life together that is threatened by Camille's dark past.

 

Fiction-Historical

Cullen, Lynn

The Creation of Eve.

Renaissance portraitist  joins Spanish court of Felipe II after scandal in her native Italy and becomes embroiled in a love triangle involving royal couple and king's illegitimate half-brother, Don Juan.

 

Fiction-Historical

Dixon, Dianne

The Language of secrets.

Successful hotel manager is devastated by deaths of his estranged parents, who hid from him the existence of a child who shared his name and died at the age of 3.

 

Fiction-Historical

Falvey, Patricia

The Yellow house.

Fiery young woman fightis to reunite her family and reclaim their ancestral home during war for Irish independence.

 

Fiction-Historical

Flaming, Matthew

The Kingdom of Ohio.

Discovering old photograph of beautiful mathematical prodigy, antiques dealer remembers his initial dismissal of woman's claim that she had discovered key to time travel, a capability that enables his journey to New York at dawn of mechanical age.

 

Fiction-Historical

Grissom, Kathleen

The Kitchen house.

7-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past working as indentured servant alongside slaves on tobacco plantation, finds her light skin and situation places her between 2 very different worlds that test her loyalties.

 

Fiction-Historical

Grunwald, Lisa

The Irresistible Henry House.

Cared for in series of temporary homes where young women are taught mothering skills, winsome orphan captures hearts of program director and each of his temporary mothers while hoping for permanent home.

 

Fiction-Historical

Harris, Robert

Conspirata: A Novel of ancient Rome.

2nd installment in trilogy that began with Imperium finds powerful and brilliant politician Cicero struggling with the high human cost of agendas gone terribly wrong.

 

Fiction-Historical

Levy, Andrea

The Long song.

Tale inspired by years on either side of 19th-century Jamaica's emancipation finds willful slave moving into her mistress's great house, where she becomes valuable confidante, learns to read and witnesses Baptist War.

 

Fiction-Historical

McMahon, Katharine

The Crimson rooms.

Haunted by death of her World War I soldier brother, struggling attorney is astonished to learn that her brother fathered a child with young nurse, a situation that is complicated by case involving wrongfully convicted veteran.

 

Fiction-Historical

Mcnees, Kelly O'Connor

The Lost summer of Louisa May Alcott.

Imagines future author of "Little Women" experiencing unexpected romance during summer of 1855 in small NH town, where she is forced to choose between love and her dream of independence as a writer.

 

Fiction-Historical

O'Farrell, Maggie

The Hand that first held mine.

50 years after unconventional reporter becomes single mother, present-day London painter navigates first weeks of motherhood upon surviving dangerous labor and learns that her life is disconcertingly linked to the woman from the past.

 

Fiction-Historical

Orringer, Julie

The Invisible bridge.

Novel set in 1937 Europe tells story of 3 Hungarian Jewish brothers bound by history and love, of marriage tested by disaster, of Jewish family's struggle against annihilation by the Nazis, and of dangerous power of art in the time of war.

 

Fiction-Historical

Smiley, Jane

Private life.

As her husband's obsessions with science take darker turn on eve of World War II, woman is forced to consider life she has so carefully constructed.

 

Fiction-Historical

Taylor, M. Glenn

The Marrowbone Marble Company.

Dissatisfied with his factory job, recent World War II veteran forges Marrowbone Marble Company with his cousins, an organization that becomes vanguard for civil rights movement and war on poverty, but also invites trouble that threatens founder's family.

 

Fiction-Historical Romance

Willig, Lauren

The Deception of the emerald ring.

3rd in series including The Secret History of the Pink Carnation and The Masque of the Black Tulip pits top spies of England and France against one another in 1803 Ireland, while woman finds herself forcibly married to her sister's undesirable fiancé.

 

Fiction-Mystery

Brown, Rita Mae

Cat of the century.

Gathering at university to celebrate 100th birthday of her spunky aunt, woman and her sleuthing cats investigate disappearance of close friend who has gone missing after giving aunt an unusual gift.

 

Fiction-Mystery

Craig, Philip R.

A Fatal Vineyard season.

Investigator trys to protect 2 African American actresses menaced by both stalker and local desperadoes.

 

Fiction-Mystery

Craig, Philip R.

A Shoot on Martha's Vineyard.

Arrivals of handsome Hollywood director and old enemy from MA environmental agency spell trouble for investigator, putting his marriage and his life in danger.

 

Fiction-Mystery

Crombie, Deborah

Necessary as blood.

Young mother is missing and only Scotland Yard can stop vicious killer and protect child whose fate hangs in the balance.

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Fiction-Mystery

Davidson, Diane Mott

Sweet revenge.

Catering holiday breakfast for  local library staff, woman is shocked to see supposedly-dead woman who is believed to caterer's ex-husband's killer, an encounter that precedes murder of high-end map dealer.

 

Fiction-Mystery

Franklin, Ariana

A Murderous procession.

Ordered to safeguard daughter of Henry II while en route to her wedding, wise woman must identify killer who is targeting members of the wedding procession.

 

Fiction-Mystery

Stanley, Kelli

City of dragons.

Discovering body of murder victim during San Francisco's 1940 Chinese New Year celebration, p.i. ignores an edict to cover up the case and pursues leads in Chinatown tenements and a high-class bordello.

 

Fiction-Mystery

Tapply, William G.

Dark tiger.

Fishing guide who woke up in hospital 7 years ago with unexplained talents and no memories is visited by mysterious stranger who promises to solve guide's problems if he will investigate staged murder/suicide pact.

 

Fiction-Religious

Lewis, Beverly

The Telling.

Determined to forgo traditional medicine as she struggles to come to terms with grave medical diagnosis, graduate student hopes to find answers and healing in Amish country.

 

Fiction-Romance

Graham, Heather

The Killing edge.

Psychologist specializing in art therapy to help traumatized victims, the survivor of brutal attack 10 years earlier, encounters killer from her past while investigating disappearance of young swimsuit model.

 

Fiction-Romance

Roberts, Nora

Savor the moment.

Wedding baker has been in love with her business partner's older brother since childhood, but she worries that her relationship with the dashing Ivy League lawyer will never move beyond friendship.

 

Fiction-Romance

Trollope, Joanna

The Other family.

After pianist/songwriter dies suddenly, his companion, with whom he had 3 daughters, and  wife he left behind, with whom he had a son, are left to deal with each other and the unexpected terms of his will.

 

Fiction-Romance

Wiggs, Susan

The Summer hideaway.

Private nurse hiding from dangerous past finds solace in working for elderly man, but when his grandson returns home from war, nurse struggles against attraction she feels for him.

 

Fiction-Romantic Suspense

Johnston, Joan

Shattered.

When brutal killer and heir to crime syndicate threatens woman he loves and her twin 8-year-old sons, Texas Ranger vows to stop him.

 

Fiction-Short Stories

 

The Pen/O. Henry prize stories 2010.

Annual collection of short stories judged to be best in America and Canada presents outstanding selection of short fiction, along with concise essays by 3 judges--David Means, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and David Leavitt--on their favorite story, and commentary from 20 prize winners.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Balducci, David

Deliver us from evil.

Shadowy operative and photojournalist are reunited in deadly duel of nerve and wits against surprising enemy, in struggle that leads them around the world at breakneck pace.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Black, Benjamin

Elegy for April.

Dublin pathologist follows path of missing doctor through darker byways of the city.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Box, C. J.

Nowhere to run.

Preparing to leave his temporary game warden position Wyoming, man investigates strange attacks on campers, in case that is complicated by missing runner and man's fears that his job will end for more deadly reasons.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Child, Lee

61 hours.

During dangerous winter storm, ex-military cop is enlisted to protect lone witness who local police hope can help convict brutal crime ring.

LP

Fiction-Suspense

Cussler, Clive

The Silent sea.

December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring shaft on small island off coast of Washington State make extraordinary discovery, only to be interrupted by news of Pearl Harbor.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Dahl, K. O.

The Last fix.

After recovering drug addict is found dead on shore of serene lake, detectives delve into the case, which holds web of secrets and lies that stretches back generations.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Freeman, Brian

The Burying place.

After baby disappears from Minnesota home and sadistic killer forces policewoman to play deadly game, lieutenant needs to move fast to save child and stop killing spree.

 

Fiction-Suspense

George, Elizabeth

This Body of death.

After woman is found dead in isolated cemetery, Inspector and his former partner find that roots of crime trace to long-ago act of violence that has poisoned subsequent generations.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Gross, Andrew

Reckless.

Investigating murder of close friend, private security investigator discovers that seemingly unrelated series of events point to reckless plot that could damage national security.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Johansen, Iris

Eight days to live.

Creepy portrait titled "Guilt" prompts charge of blasphemy from dangerous cult that demands that the artist die.

 

Fiction-Suspense

King, Laurie R.

The God of the hive: A Novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.

Conclusion to best-selling The Language of Bees finds Mary picking up mysterious friend while making her way back to London, Sherlock Holmes investigating questions about ruthless villain while hiding wounded son, and murderous adversaries setting deadly trap.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Mandel, Emily St. John

The Singer's gun.

Manhattan water systems consultant finds his world slowly imploding as his shadowy past as document forger comes back to haunt him.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Patterson, James

The 9th judgment.

Police investigate shooting of mother and her infant at shopping mall and cat burglar who kills wife of A-List actor.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Peters, Elizabeth

A River in the sky.

Hearing that English adventurer plans to search for vanished treasures of Temple in Jerusalem, archaeologist and her Egyptologist husband try to prevent inept excavation and possibility of armed protest in 1910 Palestine.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Rittenband, Richard

A Capital murder: State vs. Governor David Roberts.

Popular CT governor arrested for strangulation murder of beautiful, young lawyer lobbyist in her luxury condominium a few miles south of state capitol in Hartford.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Scottoline, Lisa

Think twice.

After her evil twin sister drugs her, leaves her for dead, and steals her life, good twin must convince everyone she's ever cared about that she is not the deranged twin.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Turow, Scott

Innocent.

22 years after being exonerated for murder of his mistress, now appellate court judge comes under suspicion again when his wife dies and he chooses to keep her death secret for a full day.

 

Fiction-Suspense

Woods, Stuart

Lucid intervals.

After former client waltzes into their favorite eatery claiming to have won the lottery and saying he needs a lawyer, attorney and his ex-partner also recognize need for a bodyguard when bullet crashes through the window.

 

Fiction-Suspsense

Brown, Dale

Executive intent.

When US develops new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits world's superpowers in contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.

 

Fiction-Western

Parker, Robert B.

Blue-eyed devil.

Refusing recruitment by ambitious new chief, itinerant lawmen protect local merchants who chief is harassing for protection money.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Anderson, Melissa

The Way I see it: A Look back at my life on Little House.

Actress who played Mary, the blind sister on "Little House on the Prairie," discusses her life on/off the set, including her relationships with other cast members, what it was like to work with guest stars, and how it felt growing up before millions of viewers.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Bell, Laura

Claiming ground.

Documents author's late-1970s experiences in various eclectic jobs in Wyoming, a journey of self-exploration during which she met numerous eccentrics, struggled to forge a home, and realized her love for someone from her past.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Brinkley, Alan

The Publisher: Henry Luce and his American century.

Profile of media giant founder of such magazines as "Time," "Life," and "Fortune" documents his childhood, university years, and prescient beliefs that transformed magazine industry.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Burden, Wendy

Dead end gene pool.

Descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt presents insider's tour of America's old-money wealthy class, profiling members of her dysfunctional family while identifying toxic factors and behaviors that have influenced their downfall.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Burnett, Carol

This time together: Laughter and reflection.

Comedic actress best known for "The Carol Burnett Show" reveals life filled with ups, downs, and undying love for making people laugh.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Bush, Laura

Spoken from the heart.

Former first lady discusses frantic and fearful months after 9/11, her trip to Afghanistan, her advocacy on behalf of women in oppressed countries, her love of libraries, what really happens in the White House and much more.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Feiler, Bruce

The Council of dads: My daughters, my illness, and the men who could be me.

Author describes how, after being diagnosed with cancer, he enlisted aid of 6 men from key stages in his life, asking this "Council of Dads" to be present at all passages in his daughters' lives, should he not survive.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Fox, Michael J.

A Funny thing happened on the way to the future: Twists and turns and lessons learned.

Film/television star discusses early part of his life and shares his thoughts about lessons that he learned along the way.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Goldberg, Carey

Three wishes: A True story of good friends, crushing heartbreak, and astonishing luck on our way to love and motherhood.

3 single best friends detail how donor vial from fertility clinic was passed from woman to woman but never used because when each woman came into possession of the vial, she met man and got pregnant the old-fashioned way.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Kelley, Kitty

Oprah: A Biography.

Examines personal life and career of  influential icon and discusses her place in modern American culture.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Munson, Laura

This is not the story you think it is…: A Season of unlikely happiness.

Recounts how author told her husband she didn't believe him when he said he no longer loved her, how their relationship unfolded thereafter, and how author stopped basing her happiness on things outside her control.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Peterson, Brenda

I want to be left behind: Finding rapture here on Earth.

Rollicking tale of survival growing up between Baptist Endtimers and apocalyptic environmentalists.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Phillips, Richard

A Captain's duty: Somali pirates, Navy SEALs, and dangerous days at sea.

Describes author's 5 days as hostage of Somali pirates who boarded his ship, the Maersk Alabama, in Gulf of Aden, relating the extreme hardship and dangers he faced and his daring rescue by Navy SEALs.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Remnick, David

The Bridge: The Life and rise of Barack Obama.

Examines experiences of Barack Obama's life and explores ambition behind his rise to presidency, from his relationship with his parents to how social and racial tensions influenced his philosophy.

 

Nonfiction-Biography

Theroux, Phyllis

The Journal keeper: A Memoir.

Writer's memoir covering 6 years of distressing time in her life looks at love, loneliness, growing old, financial worries, spiritual growth, and watching her remarkable mother prepare for death.

 

Nonfiction-Business

Johnson, Simon

13 Bankers: The Wall Street takeover and the next financial meltdown

Provides historical context for 2008 financial crisis and proposes radical solution: megabanks deemed "too big to fail" must be made smaller.

 

Nonfiction-Computers

Hart-Davis, Guy

How to do everything, iPod, iPhone & iTunes.

Guide covers features of latest iPod and iPhone models, along with iTunes and App Store applications.

 

Nonfiction-Cooking

Dispirito, Rocco

Now eat this!: 150 of America's favorite comfort foods, all under 350 calories.

Presents 150 recipes for healthy versions of classic American dishes.

 

Nonfiction-Cooking

Guiliano, Mireille

The French women don't get fat cookbook.

Recipes that reflect author's philosophies about simple preparation, seasonal ingredients and satisfying flavors, providing complementary recommendations for entertaining, menu planning and wine selection.

 

Nonfiction-Cooking

Lebovitz, David

Ready for dessert: My best recipes.

Compendium of recipes for desserts, including cakes, pies, tarts, fruit desserts, custards, soufflés, puddings, frozen treats, cookies and candies.

 

Nonfiction-Cooking

Mayes, Frances

Every day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian life.

Recipe-complemented work continues author's tribute to Tuscany and its people, tracing course of year during which she renovated  13th-century house in  mountains above Cortona.

 

Nonfiction-Cooking

Waters, Alice

In the Green kitchen: Techniques to learn by heart.

30 basic cooking techniques and 50 corresponding recipes.

 

Nonfiction-Cooking

Wizenberg, Molly

A Homemade life: Stories and recipes from my kitchen table.

Creator of award-winning Orangette blog presents memoir about life lessons she learned in kitchens of her youth.

 

Nonfiction-Crafts

Parkes, Clara

The Knitter's book of wool: The Ultimate guide to understanding, using, and loving this most fabulous fiber.

Offers guide to most popular yarns, discussing differences between breeds of sheep, components of wool fiber, processing methods, and how to select right wool for each project, along with 20 project patterns.

 

Nonfiction-Crafts

Rotz, Sharon V.

Quilting through the seasons.

12 quilt projects w/seasonal recipes.

 

Nonfiction-Gardening

Disabato-Aust, Tracy

The Well-designed mixed garden: Building beds and borders with trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, and bulbs.

Design fundamentals, with emphasis on often-neglected topics, such as site evaluation, color theory, and planning for maintenance.

 

Nonfiction-Gardening

Easton, Valerie

The NEW low-maintenance garden: How to have a beautiful, productive garden and the time to enjoy it.

Keeping with today's lifestyles and gardening trends, author explains how to design good-looking garden of ornamental and edible plants with minimal maintenance in mind.

 

Nonfiction-Gardening

Trail, Gayla

Grow great grub: Organic food from small spaces.

Advice for home gardeners on how to grow one's own food in limited spaces, providing coverage of such topics as container plants, organic pest control, and preserving home-grown foods.

 

Nonfiction-General

 

Hill-stead: The Country place of Theodate Pope Riddle.

Nestled at summit of 152 hilltop acres in Farmington, CT, sits what many architectural historians consider to be finest Colonial Revival house in the US.

 

Nonfiction-General

 

Mom: A Celebration of mothers from the Storycorps.

Collection that looks across diversity of experience to present entirely original portrait of motherhood.

 

Nonfiction-General

 

Social Security handbook, 2010.

Overview of Social Security programs.

 

Nonfiction-General

Clarke, Richard A.

Cyber war: The Next threat to national security and what to do about it.

Exposes America's burgeoning new cyber warfare capability and its vulnerabilities and documents 1st skirmishes that have taken place in cyberspace.

 

Nonfiction-General

Hayes, Shannon

Radical homemakers: Reclaiming domesticity from a consumer culture.

Speaks about empowerment, transformation, happiness, and casting aside pressures of consumer culture to live in world where money loses its power to relationships, independent thought, and creativity.

 

Nonfiction-General

Sheehy, Gail

Passages in caregiving: Turning chaos into confidence.

Guide to next life passage for baby boomers outlines 9 crucial steps for effective, successful family caregiving.

 

Nonfiction-General

Yeoman, R.S.

Guide book of United States coins-2011.

Covers American coins from 1616 to the present, including early coins and tokens, mint issues, private, state and territorial coins, commemorative issues, and proofs.

 

Nonfiction-Health

Amen, Daniel G.

Change your brain, change your body: Use your brain to get and keep the body you have always wanted.

Offers advice on how to tap potential of mind-body connection to improve overall health, outlining 18 strategies for such areas as improving willpower, decreasing stress, and balancing hormones.

 

Nonfiction-History

Junger, Sebastian

War.

Offers on-the-ground account of single platoon during its 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.

 

Nonfiction-History

King, Dean

Unbound: A True story of war, love, and survival.

Draws on survivor testimonies to document 1934-1935 flight of 86,000 ill-fated Chinese Communist Army soldiers who fled for their lives from Nationalist adversaries.

 

Nonfiction-History

Mortimer, Ian

The Time traveler's guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for visitors to the fourteenth century.

Profiles everyday life in 14th-century England, covering everything from period beliefs and styles to hygiene and medical practices, and the influence of warfare.

 

Nonfiction-History

Robb, Graham

Parisians: An Adventure history of Paris.

Secrets of the City of Light, revealed in lives of the great, near-great, and forgotten.

 

Nonfiction-History

Sides, Hampton

Hellhound on his trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the international hunt for his assassin.

Details assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the largest manhunt in American history that ensued.

 

Nonfiction-History

Thomas, Evan

The War lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the rush to empire, 1898.

Chronicles America's ferocious drive toward empire during Spanish-American War and Gilded Age.

 

Nonfiction-House/Home

Deen, Paula

Paula Deen's Savannah style.

Guide to gracious living with photographs of Deen's Savannah home and plenty of tips for Southern-style decorating and entertaining.

 

Nonfiction-House/Home

Smallin, Donna

Cleaning plain and simple.

Complete guide to cleaning every room of the house introduces hundreds of quick, efficient, and effective tips and techniques on how to maintain clean home  with practical suggestions for cleaning routines and useful equipment and supplies.

 

Nonfiction-Inspirational

Corrigan, Kelly

Lift.

Author uses story of her 4-month-old child's serious illness to show how, much like a hang glider, a person must go through turbulence before getting lift needed for positive life experience.

 

Nonfiction-Nature

McKibben, Bill

Eaarth: Making a life on a tough new planet.

Argues that large-scale shift in Earth's climate is unavoidable and explains how humans should live if they are going to sustain themselves on new planet that their mistakes have created.

 

Nonfiction-Nature

Montgomery, Sy

Birdology: Adventures with a pack of hens, a peck of pigeons, cantankerous crows, fierce falcons, hip hop parrots, baby hummingbirds, and one murderously big living dinosaur.

Combines popular science with personal anecdotes as author describes her encounters with range of avian personalities from various parts of the world.

 

Nonfiction-Nature

Shetterly, Susan Hand

Settled in the wild: Notes from the edge of town.

Through observations within her own neighborhood in rural Maine, a naturalist looks at how animals, humans and plants share the land, issuing warnings to the reader even as she celebrates the resilience that abounds.

 

Nonfiction-Nature

Tougias, Michael J.

Overboard!: A True blue water odyssey of disaster and survival.

Survivor's tale involving 2005 sailboat voyage to Bermuda and storm that swept away captain and first mate, leaving inexperienced passengers struggling to stay aboard and alive while boat was torn apart.

 

Nonfiction-Parenting

Van Ogtrop, Kristin

Just let me lie down: Necessary terms for the half-insane working mom.

Editor of "Real Simple" magazine shares essays, lists and resonant observations involving lexicon she has created for busy working moms.

 

Nonfiction-Pets

Richards, Susan

Saddled: How a spirited horse reined me in and set me free.

Recovering alcoholic describes her healing journey with horse companion named Georgia, explaining how their relationship enabled author to lead more balanced, committed and loving life.

 

Nonfiction-Reference

 

Guinness world records 2010.

Lists records, superlatives, and unusual facts in areas of fame, business, crime, the natural world, technology, war, the arts, music, fashion, and sports.

 

Nonfiction-Science

Strauch, Barbara

The Secret life of the grown-up brain: The Surprising talents of the middle-aged.

Draws on new research to examine brain's peak capacity in middle age, explaining how growth of white matter and brain connectors enables improved judgment, cognitive function, and problem solving.

 

Nonfiction-Self-help

Brown, Jeff

The Winner's brain.

Uses cutting-edge neuroscience to identify secrets of those who succeed no matter what and demonstrates how their accomplishments have little to do with IQ or upbringing.

 

Nonfiction-Self-help

Matlen, Terry

Survival tips for women with AD/HD.

Ideas to help organize your home/office; parent with patience; manage endless stacks of paper; remember priorities that need your attention, etc.

 

Nonfiction-Self-help

Roth, Geneen

Women, food, and God: An Unexpected path to almost everything .

Likens overeating to an addiction intended to numb painful emotions and counsels readers to eat in accordance with seven key guidelines and with a greater awareness of actual needs.

 

Nonfiction-Self-help

Stengel, Richard

Mandela's way: Fifteen lessons on life, love, and courage.

Shares life lessons learned from author's conversations with former leader, describing experiences that led Mandela to believe such edicts as keeping one's rivals close and courage being more than an absence of fear.

 

Nonfiction-Sports

Turbow, Jason

The Baseball codes: Beanballs, sign stealing, and bench-clearing brawls: The Unwritten rules of America's pastime.

Behind-the-scenes analysis of professional baseball's hidden rules reveals impact of unwritten codes of conduct, retaliatory behaviors, and cheating, providing examples as committed by such figures as Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Don Drysdale.

 

Nonfiction-Travel

Baggett, Jennifer

The Lost girls: Three friends. Four continents. One unconventional detour around the world.

3 friends at crossroads in their20s quit their high pressure New York media jobs, leave their friends and everything familiar behind, and embark on year-long backpacking adventure around the world.

 

Nonfiction-True Crime

Boser, Ulrich

The Gardner heist: The True story of the world's largest unsolved art theft.

Documents unsolved theft of lost Gardner masterpieces, tracing research of late art detective Harold Smith while recounting author's own forays into art underworld of looters, mobsters, and investigators.

 

Nonfiction-True Crime

Phelps, M. William

The Devil's rooming house: The True story of America's deadliest female serial killer.

“Sister Amy”, who opened Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids in Windsor, CT in early 1900s, was accused of murdering both of her husbands and up to 66 of her patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic; her story inspired Broadway hit Arsenic and Old Lace.