FICTION AND MYSTERY

 

Bishop, Anne - Science Fiction
Belladonna (#2 of Ephemera series)
As the Eater of the World spread its dark influence and corruption across the land of Ephemera, Glorianna Belladonna stands alone against the evil entity, until visions lead her to Michael, a man who possesses mysterious powers who could be the key to defeat their mutual enemy.

Byrnes, Michael J. - Suspense
The Sacred Bones
When an ancient burial ossuary is stolen under violent circumstances from beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount and delivered to the Vatican, American forensic scientist Charlotte Hennessey is hired to conduct highly sensitive forensic and genetic tests in order to discern the identity of a 2000-year old crucified man.

Dugoni, Robert - Suspense
Damage Control
Dana Hill, a successful attorney with a leading Seattle law firm, life is thrown into turmoil by a diagnosis of breast cancer and the discovery of her husband's affair. She delays medical treatment to launch a personal investigation into the murder of her twin brother, beaten to death in an apparent robbery-gone-wrong.

Hoag, Tami - Suspense
The Alibi Man
Turning her back on privileged Palm Beach society, ex-narcotics detective Elena Estes wants nothing more than to train her horses in peace, but trouble could destroy everything she has worked for after she finds the body of a young female co-worker. She launches a personal investigation that leads to the Russian mob and a powerful cadre of Palm Beach bad boys.

Jacobs, Kate - Fiction
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Gathering for their weekly knitting club at a small yarn shop on Manhattan's upper west side, a group of friends share such challenges as raising children, navigating the ups and down of their education and careers, and pursuing certain relationships.

Kleypas, Lisa - Romance
Sugar Daddy
Left behind by an ambitious man who considers her off limits, Texas girl Liberty Jones struggles to raise her younger sister and eventually makes her way to the big city, where she falls under the spell of a billionaire tycoon who holds secrets from Liberty's mother past.

Lethem, Jonathan - Romance
You Don't Love Me Yet
Lucinda Hoekke, an employee at The Complaint Line, spends hours listening to anonymous callers air their grievance. She falls madly in love with one of her frequent callers, but her romance has unexpected complications for Lucinda and her alternative rock band in which she plays bass.

McMahon, Neil - Mystery
Lone Creek
Haunted by memories of a teenager's accidental death years earlier, construction hand Hugh Davoren discovers two buried horses on the ranch where he is employed, a finding that places him in terrible danger with the ranch's secretive new owners.

Martinez, Michele - Suspense
Cover-up
Federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas considers three powerful suspects in an investigation of the brutal murder of a high-profile celebrity scandal monger. It is a case that is complicated by affair with an FBI agent and an anonymous stalker who has been tracking her every move.

Palmer, Michael - Suspense
The Fifth Vial
A suspended Harvard Medical School student is kidnapped and left for dead in Rio de Janeiro while presenting a medical paper, while a terminally ill medical genius works on a potentially world-changing cure, and a Chicago detective struggles to identify a mysterious accident victim.

Shapiro, Dani - Fiction
Black & White
After years of estrangement from her famous photographer mother, Ruth Dunne, and the scandal and publicity of nude photos taken of her as a child by her mother, Clara Brodeur returns to New York City when her mother falls ill and is forced to reconcile the challenges of the past and the new life she has built for herself.

Smith, Deborah - Romance
The Crossroads Café
Actress Cathy Deen, known for her beauty, flees to a secluded mountain cabin in North Carolina after being severely scarred in a car accident. There she finds strength, unexpected love and a new life with a man, Thomas, who lost his family in 9-11.

Unger, Lisa - Suspense
Sliver of Truth
Still struggling to recuperate from the events of Beautiful Lies, New York writer Ridley Jones once again finds herself at the center of a global crime network when she picks up a few prints at a local photo lab, prints that reveal the presence of a mysterious, familiar, and supposedly dead figure from her past.

 

NONFICTION

 

158 Gi - Applied Psychology
by Gilbert, Daniel T.
Stumbling on Happiness
This is not a self-help book, but an explanation of how the human imagination often negatively affects our happiness. Gilbert presents happiness as a rarely good emotion as we imagine it and rarely lasts as long as we think it will. The same can be said of unhappiness. The author's technique makes this complex subject accessible to the non-academic reader.

303.34 Ia - Social Science
by Iacocca, Lee A.
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Iacocca is outraged at today's leaders. At 82, he has seen the U.S. overcome some of its worst crises, including the Great Depression and WWII, through great leadership. Now he believes our government has fallen under the grip of arrogant ideologues.The former CEO of Chrysler offers his no-nonsense assessments of American politicians and shares his life lessons.

640 Wa - Self-Help
by Walsh, Peter
It's All Too Much: an Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
Peter Walsh, the organizational guru from TLC's hit show, Clean Sweep, knows how easy it is for clutter to creep into your life and how hard it is to get rid of it. In this book, he shares his proven system for letting go of your emotional and physical clutter so that you can create a happier, more stress-free home and life.

956.92 Ga - Current Events
by Brigitte, Gabriel
Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
As a Christian survivor of the vicious war between Lebanese Christians and Muslims, Gabriel tells of her own horrific experiences in hope of warning the democratic and Western world to protect its people and societies.

Deen, P - Autobiography
Paula Deen:It Ain't All About the Cookin'
The host of the Food Network's Paula Deen's Home Cooking shares stories from her private life, from events that inspired her down-home values and the success secrets of her popular restaurant to her struggles with agoraphobia and a difficult marriage.

Godwin, P. - Biography
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: a Memoir of Africa
An urgent and often shocking eyewitness account of the living nightmare that is today's Zimbabwe, under the crazed dictator Robert Mugabe. Godwin writes an emotionally grippring, intimate, and heartbreaking story.

Latus, J - Biography/Autobiography
If I am Missing or Dead
A dual portrait of the author and her late sister traces how both suffered form years of abuse at the hands of men before the author successfully escaped her own cycle of violence, a survival that was overshadowed by her sister's murder by a lover.


Compiled by the Staff of the Butman Fish Library