MARCH 2013
The Orchardist
By Amanda Coplin
LITERARY - A middle-aged farmer finds two starving teenage girls stealing fruit, and he takes them in. (**** SELECTION Nov/Dec 2012)
Force of Nature
A Joe Pickett Novel
By C. J. Box
CRIME - In Force of Nature, the 12th installment in the series, Box gives up some of Nate Romanowski's secrets. (**** July/Aug 2012)
Prague Fatale
A Bernie Gunther Novel
By Philip Kerr
CRIME - Kerr is best known for his novels, set in pre- and postwar Germany, starring cynical Berlin detective Bernie Gunther. Here, Gunther returns to Berlin from the Eastern Front in 1941. (**** July/Aug 2012)
Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail
By Cheryl Strayed
BIOGRAPHY - In 1995, 26-year-old Cheryl Strayed's life was falling apart, so she set off on a 2,600 mile hike along the Pacific Coast. (**** SELECTION July/Aug 2012)
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
Escape from Camp 14
One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
By Blaine Harden
BIOGRAPHY - Shin Dong-hyuk is the only known person to have escaped from North Korea's notorious gulags to the West. Harden covers Shin's harrowing tale. (**** July/Aug 2012)
APRIL 2013
Beautiful Ruins
By Jess Walter
LITERARY - In 1962, a beautiful American actress with secrets arrives in a remote Italian coastal town. (**** SELECTION Sept/Oct 2012)
The Yellow Birds
By Kevin Powers
* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
LITERARY - This debut novel by an Iraq war veteran, about two young, naive men trying to stay alive, opens with the line, "The war tried to kill us in the spring." (**** SELECTION Nov/Dec 2012)
The Coldest Night
A Novel of Love & War
By Robert Olmstead
LITERARY - A young man from West Virginia comes of age as a Marine fighting in the Korean War. (**** Sept/Oct 2012)
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
By Maria Semple
LITERARY - A precocious eighth-grade girl's mother disappears, and Bee must piece together the evidence to reunite her family. (**** Nov/Dec 2012)
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
The World Without You
By Joshua Henkin
LITERARY - On July 4, 2005, the Frankel family gathers at their Berkshires vacation home to memorialize their son and brother, a journalist murdered in Iraq. (**** Sept/Oct 2012)
Afterwa...
