The uncommon reader  by Alan Bennett
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction Readers Advisor

The Queen of England, never realized that a bookmobile stopped in a side yard of the palace once a week until she follows her yapping, incorrigible corgis around a corner to the library van’s door. ...More

Free for all:  Oddballs, geeks, and gangstas
in the public library by Don Borchert
Recommended by Lucia, Head of Adult Services

Don Borchert, assistant librarian in the L.A. County system,
blows the cover on the real world of public librarianship. This
should be a “must read” for every candidate seeking a master’s in library science degree...More

The ghost by Robert Harris
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction Readers Advisor

Closely paralleling real life, the fictional former British prime minister Adam Lang in Harris' new novel fell out of favor in his home country for his stubborn support of the unnamed American president's "war on terror."  A moderately successful ghostwriter of autobiographies of former rock stars and other faded celebrities is handpicked to help Lang finish his memoirs after the first "ghost" dies accidentally...More

The double bind by Chris Bohjalian
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction Readers Advisor

Laurel Estabrook survived a vicious attack by two masked men while she was on a bike ride, and, though still fragile, goes back to her Vermont college the following year, graduating with a degree in social work.
She’s working at a local homeless shelter when a treasured collection of photographs and undeveloped negatives left behind by one of the shelter’s former occupants...More

Porch Talk:  Stories of decency, common sense and other 
endangered species.  by Phillip Gulley. 
Recommended by Keith, Assistant Director

Porch Talk is filled with common sense stories of family and friends in a small town .  Evening visits on the front porch were a sharp contrast to big screen television...More

The Phoenix Chronicles by Colleen Roberts
Recommended by Lucia, Head of Adult
Services

Brockton author, Colleen Roberts, offers wisdom stories about love, race, work, and family in our city...More

Exit Ghost  by Phillip Roth
Recommended by Lucia, Head of Adult Services

Roth’s character, Nathan Zuckerman, returns to Manhattan for a “procedure” to correct a post-prostate operation. He leaves his safe, isolated Berkshire home for the trauma and
tribulation of the Big Apple...More