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Title: The Lake of Dreams Author: Kim Edwards http://www.kimedwardsbooks.com/ Publisher: VIKING: Penguin Group Date of Publication: 2011 ISBN: 978-0-670-02217-5 Pages: 384 pages Format:  Hardcover (from Library) Setting: Fictional town of Lake of Dreams, New York About the Book: (from Goodreads.com) With revelations that prove as captivating as the deceptions at the heart of her bestselling…

Title: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Author: Helen Simonson Publisher: Random House Web: www.helensimonson.com Date of Publication: March 2010 ISBN-10: Pages: 400 Pages Format: Audio Book from Library About the Book: (from Goodreads.com) The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly…

Title: Kitchen House Author: Kathleen Grissom Publisher: Touchstone Web: www.kathleengrissom.com Date of Publication: February, 2010 ISBN-10: 1439153663 Pages: 384 pages Format: Kindle Edition   Synopsis from Goodreads.com: When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to…

Title:  Men and Dogs Author:  Katie Crouch Publisher: Back Bay Books Date of Publication:  (April 7, 2011) ISBN 10: 9780316002141 Pages: 304 pages Synopsis:  It was the spring of 1985.  Dr. Buzz Legare went on a fishing trip in the Charleston, South Carolina harbor, taking the family dog with him. They found the dog later,…

Title: Days of Grace Author: Catherine Hall Publisher: Viking Adult; 1 edition Date of Publication:(May 27, 2010) ISBN-10: 0670021768 Pages: 304 Synopsis: (from Booklist) Nora Lynch is at the end of her life, and she intends to die alone. When she takes in a young, unwed mother, however, her plan is interrupted, and she begins…

Title: Mothers & Other Liars Author: Amy Bourret Publisher: St Martin’s Griffin Web: www.stmartins.com Date of Publication: August 2010 ISBN-13: Pages: 288 Synopsis: (Publishers Weekly) Ruby Leander and young daughter Lark, the abandoned baby she took as her own at a truck stop years ago, when she was a runaway, are living happily in New…

Title: Secrets of Eden Author: Chris Bohjalian Publisher:  Broadway; Web: Date of Publication:  February 1, 2011 ISBN – 13: 978-0307394989 Pages:  400 pages Synopsis: (From Publishers Weekly)  Bohjalian (Law of Similars) has built a reputation on his rich characters and immersing readers in diverse subjects—homeopathy, animal rights activism, midwifery—and his latest surely won’t disappoint. The…

Title:  I Am Not A Serial Killer Author:  Dan Wells Publisher:  Tor Books Date of Publication: First Edition edition (March 30, 2010) ISBN-10: 0765327821   Pages: 272 Category:  Young Adult Synopsis: I Am Not a Serial Killer is the story of John Cleaver, a 15-year-old sociopath who works in a mortuary, dreams about death, and thinks…

Title: The Glass Castle Author: Jeannette Walls Publisher: Scribner; Date of Publication: 1 edition (January 9, 2006) ISBN-13: 978-0743247542 Pages: 288 pages Synopsis: (From Publishers Weekly) Freelance writer Walls doesn’t pull her punches. She opens her memoir by describing looking out the window of her taxi, wondering if she’s "overdressed for the evening" and spotting…

Title:  In The Woods Author:  Tana French Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Date of Publication:  Reprint edition (May 27, 2008) ISBN-13: 978-0143113492 Pages: 464 pages Category: Synopsis: (From Publishers Weekly) Irish author French expertly walks the line between police procedural and psychological thriller in her debut. When Katy Devlin, a 12-year-old girl from Knocknaree, a Dublin suburb,…