|
Patron Picks January 2017 Barbara, Beverly, Calli, Cheryl, Elena, Hannah, Jared, Kimberly, Lisa, Naomi, Sarah, Ted, Tiffany, Traci, participated in the adult reading program and offer these suggestions.
|
|
|
|
|
The bone garden : a novel
by Tess Gerritsen
The discovery of the skeleton of a woman murdered nearly two centuries earlier sends Boston medical examiner Maura Isles on the trail of a long-dead serial killer who terrorized Boston with crimes in which Norris Marshall, a Harvard Medical School student and reluctant resurrectionist, had become the prime suspect and enlisted the help of classmate Oliver Wendell Holmes to find and stop the murderer.
Call Number: F GERRITSEN, TESS
|
|
|
The Boston girl : a novel
by Anita Diamant
Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her "How did you get to be the woman you are today?" She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naïve girl she was and a wicked sense of humor.
Call Number: F DIAMANT, ANITA
|
|
|
Come home
by Lisa Scottoline
Rebalancing her life and career after a painful divorce, pediatrician Jill learns that her ex has died from an alleged overdose that her former stepdaughter believes was actually murder, a situation that forces Jill to choose between her duty to past circumstances and her future happiness.
Call Number: F SCOTTONLINE, LISA
|
|
|
Comfort me with apples : more adventures at the table
by Ruth Reichl
In the sequel to Tender at the Bone, the noted food critic describes her odyssey from chef to food writer, traces her journey through restaurants from Bangkok to Paris to Los Angeles, and offers colorful anecdotes about her life and encounters with great food.
Call Number: B REICHL, RUTH
|
|
|
Heartbreak creek
by Kaki Warner
Edwina Ladoux, a Colorado mail-order bride, is glad for the 3-month courtship period she agreed to with Declan Brodie and his four rambunctious children, but finds herself experiencing a change of heart when Declan's first wife suddenly returns.
Call Number: F WARNER, KAKI
|
|
|
I am number four
by Pittacus Lore
Lorien Legacies #1
Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. We have lived among you without you knowing.
John Smith--one of nine aliens from the planet Lorien--struggles to outrun his past, discover his future and live a normal life in Paradise, Ohio, as one by one his fellow Loriens are being killed by evil beings.
Call Number: TEEN LORE, PITTACUS
|
|
|
The king's curse
by Philippa Gregory
Married to loyal Lancaster supporter Sir Richard Pole to minimize her claim to the throne of Henry VII, Margaret becomes an advisor to newlyweds Prince Arthur and Katherine of Aragon before witnessing the rapid ascent of Henry VIII.
Call Number: F GREGORY, PHILIPPA
|
|
|
The suicide of Claire Bishop : a novel
by Carmiel Banasky
Greenwich Village, 1959. Claire Bishop sits for a portrait—a gift from her husband—only to discover that what the artist has actually depicted Claire’s suicide. Haunted by the painting, Claire is forced to redefine herself within a failing marriage and a family history of madness. Shifting ahead to 2004, we meet West, a young man with schizophrenia obsessed with a painting he encounters in a gallery: a mysterious image of a woman’s suicide. Convinced it was painted by his ex-girlfriend, West constructs an elaborate delusion involving time-travel, Hasidism, art-theft, and the terrifying power of representation. When the two characters finally meet, in the present, delusions are shattered and lives are forever changed.
Call Number: F BANASKY, CARMIEL
|
|
|
The yellow birds : a novel
by Kevin Powers
Two friends, both U.S. soldiers in Iraq, cling to life and each other as a bloody fight to take control of the city of Al Tafar rages around them and they stave off fatigue, mental stress and insurgents.
Call Number: F POWERS, KEVIN
|
|
|
If you are having trouble unsubscribing to this newsletter, please contact The Urbandale Public Library at 515-331-4488, 3520 86th St., Urbandale, IA 50322 |
|
|