The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman - A magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men. (April 2008)

The Cure for Modern Life by Lisa Tucker - A riveting tales about work and love, family and responsibility -- and how we live now. (March 2008)

His Illegal Self by Peter Carey - the story of Che—raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbor, who predicts, They will come for you, man. They’ll break you out of here. (February 2008)

Captivity by Debbie Lee Wesselmann - When someone releases the chimpanzees at the South Carolina Primate Project, its director, Dana Armstrong, is forced to confront the complexity of both her past and the present as she struggles to preserve the chimps' sanctuary. (February 2008)

The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt - A wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker where Tesla lives out his last days.(February 2008)

Black Olives by Martha Tod Dudman - Upon a chance sighting of her ex-boyfriend, Virginia does something most of us have only dreamed of. Unseen, she jumps into the back of his Jeep, and remains hidden all day, observing the man she once loved. I knew him by heart for ten years and he me, Virginia reflects. And now, only nine months later, I know nothing at all. (February 2008)

New York Echoes by Warren Adler - Short stories (February 2008)

Beautiful Children by Charles Bock - In this masterly debut novel, Bock mixes incandescent prose with devious humor to capture Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance and to provide a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America. Beautiful Children is an odyssey of heartache and redemption–heralding the arrival of a major new writer. (January 2008)

Kyra by Carol Gilligan - Passionate and revolutionary, Kyra is an exquisitely written love story. When Kyra and Andreas love affair leads to a shocking betrayal, Kyra’s fierce determination to see under the surface, to know what was true and real, brings her to Greta, a remarkable therapist. As the therapy itself repeats the themes of love and loss, Kyra challenges its structure, and the struggle that ensues between the two women opens the way to a larger understanding. (January 2008)

Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky - Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled the valley as antislavery emigrants. (January 2008)

Traveler by Ron McLarty - Jono Riley is an aging part-time actor and bartender trying to make ends meet in Manhattan when he receives a letter from a childhood friend telling him that Marie, the first girl Jono ever loved, had just died in her sleep. As Jono makes the trip back home to the working-class neighborhood of East Providence, Rhode Island, McLarty deftly travels between Jono’s adolescence in the early 1960s and the present story of his return. (January 2008)

A Person of Interest by Susan Choi - When a mail bomb explodes in the campus office next door, Lee, an Asian American math professor at a second-tier university in the Midwest, comes under suspicion. The authorities believe he may be the infamous “brain bomber,” an elusive terrorist whose primary targets are prominent scientists and mathematicians. (January 2008)

My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru - Chris Carver is living a lie. His wife, their teenage daughter, and everyone in their circle know him as Michael Frame, suburban dad. They have no idea that as a radical student in the sixties he briefly became a terrorist —protesting the Vietnam War by setting bombs around London. And then one day a ghost from his past turns up on his doorstep, forcing Chris on the run. (January 2008)

The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller - Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton—wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton—is Meri’s new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Delia’s husband’s chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. (January 2008)

The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinksy - Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter. (January 2008)

The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta - Ruth Ramsey is the human sexuality teacher at the local high school. She believes that “pleasure is good, shame is bad, and knowledge is power.”  Soccer Coach, Tim belongs to an evangelical Christian church that doesn’t approve of Ruth’s style of teaching.  Adversaries in a small-town culture war, Ruth and Tim instinctively mistrust each other. But when a controversy on the soccer field pushes the two of them to actually talk to each other, they are forced to take each other at something other than face value.

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell - In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend’s attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital—where she has been locked away for over sixty years. (October 2007)

The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold - "When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily..." new fast-paced novel from the author of The Lovely Bones. (October 2007)

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth -The last ordeal of Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth’s nine Zuckerman books, returns to his hometown to find that all has changed. (October 2007)

In the Meantime by Robin Lippincott - Kathryn, Luke and Starling live in the same neighborhood in a small Midwestern town, in the 1930s, ages five and/or six, each alone yet in and among their disparate families -- meet and become somehow bigger, an inseperable threesome. One chance meeting in that innocent summer changes their lives. (October 2007)

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson - This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years. (September 2007)

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo - Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.
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Trespass by Valerie Martin - From the author of Property, winner of Canada's Orange Prize. Chloe Dales' life is in good order yet, she is disturbed—by the aggression of her government’s foreign policy, by the poacher who roams the land behind her studio, punctuating her solitude with rifle fire, and finally, by Toby’s new girlfriend, a Croatian refugee named Salome Drago. (September 2007)

The Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke - "Delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the 'accidental arsonist and murderer' narrator who leads readers through a multilayered, flame-filled adventure about literature, lies, love and life....Sam is equal parts fall guy and tour guide in this bighearted and wily jolt to the American literary legacy." (September 2007)

Consumption by Kevin Patterson - Beautifully epic novel of the Canadian Arctic, infused with stark beauty, fierce truths, and the clash between Inuit tradition and modernity. (August 2007)

Lottery by Patricia Wood - Perry's IQ is only 76, but he's not stupid. His grandmother taught him everything he needs to know to survive: She taught him to write things down so he won't forget them. She taught him to play the lottery every week. And, most important, she taught him whom to trust. When Gram dies, Perry is left orphaned and bereft at the age of thirty-one. Then his weekly Washington State Lottery ticket wins him 12 million dollars, and he finds he has more family than he knows what to do with. (August 2007)

Songs Without Words by Ann Packer - A richly layered portrait of a family torn apart by grief and and a friendship tested by crisis -- of two woman forced to confront the limits, and the power, of their lifelong bond. (August 2007)

Letter from Point Clear by Dennis McFarland - An absorbing, resonant domestic drama set in Point Clear, Alabama triggered by the youngest sibling intends to marry an evangelical preacher. (August 2007)

Mr. Sebastian and The Negro Magician by Daniel Wallace - From the author of Big Fish comes this haunting, tender story that weaves a tragic secret, a mysterious meeting with the Devil, and a family of charming circus freaks recounting the extraordinary adventures of their friend Henry Walker, the Negro Magician. 
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A Thousand Voices by Lisa Wingate - Adopted at thirteen, Dell Jordan was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. Now, at twenty, after a year abroad with a traveling symphony, a scholarship to Julliard is within reach. But underneath Dell's smoothly polished surface lurk mysteries from the past. (July 2007)

Forgive Me by Amanda Eyre - A gorgeous new novel about love, memory, and motherhood. Gripping, darkly humorous, and luminous, Forgive Me is an unforgettable story of dreams and longing, betrayal and redemption. (June 2007)

Pilgrims Upon the Earth by Brad Land - At fifteen, Terry Webber hovers uneasily between child and man. His father, the second-shift foreman at the textile plant in their South Carolina town, is too tired to pay Terry much mind. Their relationship lies stagnant and silent; neither is willing to acknowledge the hole Terry’s mother left in their lives when she killed herself only months after Terry’s birth. A mesmerizing odyssey through heartbreak and isolation–a luminously written examination of fathers and sons, displacement and brutality, loss and young love. (June 2007)

What You Have Left by Will Allison - In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie tells her he just needs a little time to clear his head, but thirty years pass before Holly sees her father again -- "time I spent wondering what I'd done to make him leave," she says, "and what I could do to make him come back." (June 2007)

Jesus Out to Sea: Stories by James Lee Burke - The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience -- from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship. (June 2007)

The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris - For all those who loved Chocolat — Vianne is back! (June 2007)

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan - It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. (June 2007)

Das Kapital: a novel of love and money markets by Viken Berberian - Wall Street meets The Bourne identity in this lyrically written novel about love, capitalism and terrorism in the post industrial age. (June 2007)

Family Secrets by Judith Henry Wall - After their father's death, sisters Vanessa, Ellie, and Georgiana are stunned to learn a well-kept family secret. The woman who gave birth to their late father had not died when he was born, as they had always believed. Their paternal grandmother gave up her son shortly after his birth. Seizing upon the idea of finding their long-lost grandmother, the women set out on a trip to Montana, where they hope not only to find their father's birth mother but also to rekindle their bonds of sisterhood and possibly even find their true selves. (June 2006)