Elizabeth Strout   Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of...

Michael Lewis   The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of...

Lisa Lutz February 28, 2009 by Simon&Schuster

Monica Murphy The next heart-racing, swoon worthy novel from bestselling, international sensations Monica Murphy . . .This was supposed to be the best year of Rowan Lancaster’s life. Instead his...

Janice Hallett The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife Helen, the play’s...

Liz Nugent Lydia Fitzsimons lives in the perfect house with her adoring husband and beloved son.There is just one thing Lydia yearns for to make her perfect life complete, though...

Zizou Corder Charlie and his lion friends have made it safely to Venice, but it turns out that their journey has only just begun. King Boris's palace was meant to...

Fatima Bhutto How far would you run to escape your life?Anita lives in Karachi's biggest slum. Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women....

Bill Bryson Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. "A Short...

Patrick Redmond Michael Turner is about to make a big mistake. Having struggled for years to escape the demons of his childhood - an orphan lost in a maze of...

John McMillan Clear, insightful, and nondogmatic, this book gives us a new appreciation for one of our most ubiquitous institutions. From the wild swings of the stock market to the...

AK Benedict If you get out, you’d think you’d be one of the lucky ones. But you’re not. The house infects you.There’s an old stone house near Coal Hill School....