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The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman. (940.5318)

Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón. Staff recommendation

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen.

Later, At the Bar: A Novel in Stories by Rebecca Barry. Staff recommendation

The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett.

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.

Away by Amy Bloom.

Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian.

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.

Moloka'i by Alan Brennert.

Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell.

Five Skies by Ron Carlson.

Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon.

The Great Man by Kate Christensen.

An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England by Brock Clarke.

Yellowcake by Ann Cummins.

Brother I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat. (813)

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies.

Varieties of Disturbance: Stories by Lydia Davis.

Falling Man by Don DeLillo.

Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos

Maytrees by Annie Dillard.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards.

What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel by Dave Eggers.

The Gathering by Anne Enright.

Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki.

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. Staff recommendation

World Without End by Ken Follett.

The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz.

Eat, Pray, Love: by Elizabeth Gilbert. (910.4)

The Whole World Over by Julia Glass.

Intuition by Allegra Goodman.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Staff recommendation

Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon.

The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley.

Once in a Promised Land by Laila Halaby.

Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.

North River by Pete Hamill.

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon.

Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand

Infidel by Ayann Hirsi Ali (B Hirsi Ali)

Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman.

The Mistress's Daughter by A.M. Homes.  (B Homes)

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood.

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. 220.6

The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson.

All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones.

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones.

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan.

The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits.

No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July.

Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. (641.0973)

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.  Staff recommendation

The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle.

The selected works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson. (Mystery)

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson. Staff recommendation

Lost Hearts in Italy by Andrea Lee.

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee.

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman. (Mystery)

Waiting to Surface by Emily Listfield.

Charity Girl by Michael Lowenthal

After This by Alice McDermott.  Staff recommendation

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.

Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney. 916.2

Far Country by Daniel Mason.

Trespass by Valerie Martin.

Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin.

Of Men and their Mothers by Mameve Medwed.

Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles.

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu. Staff recommendation

Last Empress by Anchee Min.

The Big Girls by Susanna Moore.

The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen.

The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro.

Channeling Mark Twain by Carol Muske-Dukes. Staff recommendation

Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates.

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell.

Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan.  Staff recommendation

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje.

Songs Without Words by Ann Packer.

Snow by Orhan Pamuk. Staff recommendation

Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake.

Run by Ann Patchett.

Consumption by Kevin Patterson.

The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta.

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson.

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult.

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. (394.12)

The Saturday Wife by Naomi Ragen.

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth.

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer.

Almost Moon by Alice Sebold.

Peony in Love by Lisa See.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. Staff recommendation

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.  Staff recommendation

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak.

Black & White by Dani Shapiro.

Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories by Jim Shepard.

Testimony by Anita Shreve.

Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven by Susan Richards Shreve. (616.835)

The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver.

Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley.

Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer.

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.

Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy by Doug Stumpf.

Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama.

Digging to America by Anne Tyler.  Staff recommendation

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. (304.2)

Summer Reading by Hilma Wolitzer.

A Woman in Jerusalem by Abraham B. Yehoshua.

Book Group Kits To Go Do you belong to a book group or have you thought about starting or joining one? The library now offers book group kits that contain multiple copies of popular book group titles along with a reading guide and a list of suggestions for other book group choices. You can check out the kit for four weeks, distribute the copies to members and return the kit for your next month’s choice! Websites www.bookbrowse.com/bookclubs www.bookclubgirl.com www.bookmuse.com www.readinggroupguides.com www.readinggroupchoices.com Publishers’ websites www.penguinputnam.com/readingguides www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read www.wwnorton.com/trade/rgg.htm Novelist Novelist A electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles Books  The Book Group Book 374.22 Book Book Lust 011.73 Pearl More Book Lust 011.73 Pearl Essential Guide for Reading Groups 374.22 2008 Osborne Good Books Lately 374.22 Moore Readers Choice: 200 book club favorites 028.1 McMains Reading Group Choices [Annual]. 374.22 Reading Talking about books 374.22 Fineman A year of reading: a month-by-month guide to classics and crowd-pleasers for you and your book group 011.73 Ellington Magazine Bookmarks [Every two months].

June 2010

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