MAY 2013
Bring Up the Bodies
Book Two of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy
By Hilary Mantel
* BOOKER PRIZE
LITERARY - Mantel continues with Thomas Cromwell's tale, after 2009's Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall. (**** SELECTION July/Aug 2012)
One Last Thing Before I Go
By Jonathan Tropper
LITERARY - Divorced, middle-aged Drew Silver is depressed, but only makes an effort to turn his life around when a stroke reveals a threatening heart condition. (**** Nov/Dec 2012)
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The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
By Jonathan Evison
LITERARY - When a middleaged man who lost his family signs up for a night class called "The Fundamentals of Caregiving," it changes his life. (**** Nov/Dec 2012)
Live by Night
By Dennis Lehane
CRIME - Lehane's 10th novel is an old-fashioned Prohibition-era gangster book. (**** SELECTION Jan/Feb 2013)
Eisenhower in War and Peace
By Jean Edward Smith
BIOGRAPHY - This biography offers a contemporary look at Eisenhower's formative years, his meteoric military career, and, in general, the unsung tenure of America's 34th president. (**** July/Aug 2012)
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The Passage of Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
By Robert Caro
BIOGRAPHY-The fourth book in Caro's critically acclaimed, five-part series, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, describes the extraordinary events surrounding Johnson's rise to the presidency. (**** July/Aug 2012)
Double Cross
The True Story of the D-Day Spies
By Ben Macintyre HISTORY - The British author and historian concludes his trilogy on World War II espionage. (**** SELEC-TION Nov/Dec 2012)
JUNE 2013
The Middlesteins
By Jami Attenberg
LITERARY - Edie Middlestein, 60 years old and 350 pounds, is literally eating herself to death. (**** SELECTION Mar/Apr 2013)
Flight Behavior
By Barbara Kingsolver
LITERARY - Kingsolver examines environment and identity in an Appalachian farming community. (**** Jan/Feb 2013)
And When She Was Good
By Laura Lippman CRIME - Heloise Lewis lives a seemingly quiet, model suburban Baltimore life. But all is not what it seems...
