The Goldfinch

Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, r...

The goldfinch —Tartt, Donna, author.

Dear Edward : a novel —Napolitano, Ann, author.

A twelve-year-old boy struggles with the worst kind of fame--as the sole survivor of a notorious plane crash.

Don't look for me —Walker, Wendy, 1967- author.

"One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. She doesn't want to be found. Or at least, that's the story. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family that couldn't be ...

A thousand splendid suns —Hosseini, Khaled.

Chronicles the lives of two Afghan women who struggle to survive, raise a family, and find happiness in war-torn Afghanistan.

One summer —Baldacci, David.

Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanf...

Watch me disappear : a novel —Brown, Janelle, author.

"Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environmental activists wanted by the FBI, lived dangerously, but when she meets Jonathan, a...

Case histories : a novel —Atkinson, Kate.

Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making...

Tell the wolves I'm home : a novel —Brunt, Carol Rifka.

It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's co...

The goldfinch —Tartt, Donna.

The Joy Luck Club —Tan, Amy.

In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relat...

The heart and the bottle —Jeffers, Oliver, author.

After safeguarding her heart in a bottle hung around her neck, a girl finds the bottle growing heavier and her interest in things around her becoming smaller.

A step of faith : the fourth journal of the walk series —Evans, Richard Paul.

The year of magical thinking —Didion, Joan, author.

Coming up for air —Leipciger, Sarah, author.

"L'Inconnue is a young woman lost in turbulent Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century. Amund is a Norwegian toymaker and father to two young children in the 1950s. Anouk is a contemporary Canadian suffering from cys...

A man called Ove En man som heter Ove

Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that mo...

In an instant —Redfearn, Suzanne, author.

A deeply moving story of carrying on even when it seems impossible. Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Susp...

Twenty wishes —Macomber, Debbie.

Thirty-eight-year-old widow Anne Marie Roche, the owner of a successful Seattle bookstore, creates a list of twenty wishes, and, while acting upon her wishes, encounters an eight-year-old girl named Ellen who helps her c...

To the lighthouse —Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, author.

At their holiday home in Cornwall, a distant lighthouse holds a haunting attraction for the members of an Edwardian family as disillusionment, turmoil, and a world on the brink of war plague the family's relationships.

Blue nights —Didion, Joan.