GREAT READS

In a snowed covered woods, a newborn is discovered wrapped in a bloody sleeping bag. The baby is found by a father and daughter who have "escaped" New York City and moved to a small obscure New Hampshire town to get away - they are not prepared for t...

Through the Heart is one of those treasures I always hope to find as I browse the stacks. This absorbing page turner is a love story/mystery about Nora, a waitress in Kansas, and Timothy, a financial wizard from Wall Street. And along with their l...

I loved this story and was hooked by the very first sentence: "Two days after my father had a massive stroke my mother shot herself in the head."

Called home to bury her mother, a bitter and angry Alexandria ‘Cat' Rucker staggers back to her h...

This fictional historical novel begins in 1913 with a 4-year-old girl hiding on a ship bound for Australia - alone. The story weaves back and forth through 100 years of the Mountrachet dynasty, from England to Australia and back again, as it unravels...

Singing Bird is a touching fictional story which delves into the complex subject of closed adoptions.  Lena Malloy, after receiving a mysterious phone call from the nun in Ireland who arranged the adoption of her daughter 26 years prior, is driv...

Lake Conemaugh was a scenic man-made mountain lake retained by an aging 72-foot earthen dam.  The lake and acreage around it was owned, maintained and enjoyed by the wealthy members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.  On May 31, 18...

Reading this book is reminiscent of sitting across from a friend in a cozy teahouse, sipping sweet tea, and listening to an intriguing story.  A pleasant read, the storytelling is humorous, with some romance, some mystery and some evil thrown in...

In The 19^th Wife by David Ebershorff, you will find two intertwined stories, one historical fiction, the other a modern day murder-mystery, which by a common thread come together at the end of the book. The first story is about the beginnings of the ...