Honolulu by Alan Brennert
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction Readers Advisor 
An intelligent, headstrong Korean girl (named “Regret” for her parents’ disappointment that she was not born a boy) secretly learns to read and then submits a glamour shot of herself to a matchmaker in the hope of continuing in America the education she is denied at home. When she reaches Hawaii to marry the man who had selected her from her photograph, the education she receives isn’t what she had hoped for...more

The physick book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Recommended by Jenn Belcher, Circulation 

Start with some history of North Shore Massachusetts , a pinch of the supernatural, a dash of mystery, a smidge of romance, and you have The 
Physick Book of Deliverance Dane.  Connie Goodwin is a Harvard graduate student trying to work on her dissertation when her mother asks her to handle the sale of her grandmother’s desolate house in near by Salem .  Thinking it an easy task she consents to handle the matter but while there she discovers an old key with parchment with the name Deliverance Dane on it.  And let the mystery begin...More

The reason for God:  Belief in an age of skepticism  by Timothy Keller
Recommended by Michelle, Head of Technical Services

While the title of the book may be a bit of a turn off for the non-philosophical thinker, it is remarkably readable and enjoyable.  In his book Keller provides a brief introduction to the arguments for Christianity, as well as an explanation of the philosophical and theological answers to many of the questions that the 
skeptic most often makes...More

Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction Readers Advisor 
Nearing 40, Portia Nathan figures she should be happy with her successful career as an admissions officer at Princeton , a nice house  in Princeton , and a long-term relationship with  Mark, Princeton ’s English department...More

Blame by Michele Huneven
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction Readers Advisor 
Patsy MacLemoore is a smart, functioning alcoholic -- a professor at Hallen College in  Altadena , California -- known for loud, lascivious behavior at faculty parties and for missing the occasional class after a night of drinking and pills...More

The Best of Times  by Penny Vincenzi
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction Readers Advisor 
A perfect vacation read for the beach or cottage, Penny Vincenzi’s latest extravaganza of characters and conversation, The Best of Times, parcels out the stories of a random group of people when events conspire to put them on the same stretch of major highway in heavy Friday afternoon traffic.  A tractor trailer truck jackknifes, sets off a chain of collisions and a massive traffic jam that changed the lives of many involved...More