Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted by Andrew Wilson
Wilson explores Plath’s life in high school and college, providing new insight into the tragic, enigmatic writer.

Buck by Molefi K. Asante
Growing up hard and subsequently thriving in an urban setting complete with gangs and rap.

Elsewhere by Richard Russo
A Pulitzer Prize winning novelist turns to memoir focusing on his relationship with his mother and hers with the small town life.

Fantasy

Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta
In this debut novel by a promising new talent in specula<ve fiction, global warming has changed the world’s geography and politics and wars are waged over water.

Tales of the Hidden World by Simon Green
A collection of short stories by a best-selling urban fantasist.

The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco
A dark creepy ghost story with poetic prose.

Fiction

The Painter by Peter Heller
A suspenseful story of an artist struggling with violence.

Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
A Nigerian visits home after many years away.

The Round House by Louise Erdrich
A riveting tale of crime and justice on the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota.

Mystery

Unseen by Karin Slaughter
An undercover mission to infiltrate a criminal organization in Macon, Georgia.

Encounters of Sherlock Holmes
A collection of Sherlock Holmes stories wriUen by a variety of genre fic<on writers from the UK

The Gone Dead Train by Lisa Turner
A Southern gothic mystery set in Memphis.

Non-Fiction

Ping-Pong Diplomacy by Nicholas Griffin
Griffin explores how a neglected sport was used to balance world power.

Serving Victoria by Kate Hubbard
Researched from the diaries of six members of Queens Victoria's household.

Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky
An expose of hotel life that is reveling without being mean spirited.

Romance

Landry Park by Bethany Hagen
Class-crossed romance is a dystopian setting.

Belonging by Karen Ann Hopkins
A romance set in an Amish community.

Free to Fall by Lauren Miller
A romance set in the near future where personal electronic devices control us.

Science Fiction

The Passage by Justin Cronin
A breach in a government facility unleashes the product of a chilling military experiment.

The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon
In the not-so-distant future, print is dead, and hand-held devices not only keep us in constant communication but can intuit our needs and wants. Chilling!

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Teenage drama and a bug invasion.

Thriller

Act of War by Brad Thor
A military thriller, covert counterterrorist operator must carry out not one, but two of the most dangerous operations in the country’s history.

The Heiress by Sara Shepard
A family with a diamond empire is plagued by a string of mysterious deaths.

Tuesday's Gone by Nicci French
A follow-up to the well-received Blue Monday, the London psychotherapist returns to an even more twisted thriller.