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Most Requested BooksMay 2016
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The nest
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Gathering to confront an older sibling who has been recently released from rehab after a drunk driving accident, the Plum siblings watch as the trust fund left by their father rises and falls according to self-inflicted problems. A first novel.
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The summer before the war : a novel
by Helen Simonson
Arriving in the 1914 village of Rye, England, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, becomes a first female teacher of Latin at the local school and falls in love with her sponsor's nephew. By the best-selling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.
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When breath becomes air
by Paul Kalanithi
A Ivy League-trained, award-winning young neurosurgeon describes how after receiving a terminal diagnosis with lung cancer he explored the dynamics of his roles as a patient and care provider, the philosophical conundrums about a meaningful life and how he wanted to spend his final days.
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Miller's Valley
by Anna Quindlen
Coming of age in a dwindling 1960s farming community in eastern Pennsylvania, Mimi struggles with profound family secrets and the pain of falling in love with the wrong person against a backdrop of dynamic historical periods. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Object Lessons.
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Fool me once
by Harlan Coben
Horrified when she spots the husband who was reported dead weeks earlier playing with their toddler on her nanny cam, former special ops pilot Maya confronts deep secrets and deceit in her own past in order to discern the truth. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Stranger.
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Journey to Munich
by Jacqueline Winspear
Hired by the British Secret Service to go undercover in Hitler's Germany to secure the release of a British prisoner, Maisie Dobbs is challenged by interference by the man she holds responsible for her husband's death. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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The little red chairs : a novel
by Edna O'Brien
Disgraced when her village's mysterious healer, who she loved and begged to help her have a child, is arrested as a war criminal, Fidelma flees to England to take migrant work. only to confront her nemesis at a tribunal in The Hague. Reading-group guide available. By the award-winning author of Country Girl.
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Seven brief lessons on physics
by Carlo Rovelli
A introduction to modern physics by a founder of the loop quantum gravity theory shares seven succinct lessons on topics ranging from general relativity and quantum mechanics to elementary particles and black holes. An international best-seller.
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Eligible : a novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Returning with her sister, Jane, to their Ohio hometown when their father falls ill, New York magazine editor Lizzy Bennett confronts challenges in the form of her younger sisters' football fangirl antics, a creepy cousin's unwanted attentions and the infuriating standoffish manners of a handsome neurosurgeon.
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