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November 07, 2009

Book cover ofTwenties Girl: A Novel by Sophie Kinsella

Twenties Girl: A Novel
by Sophie Kinsella

Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Ghosts don't visit normal professional twenty-something young women. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie mysteriously appears, she has one last request. Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years

Bookcover for Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson

Alex Cross's Trial
by James Patterson

This is the 15th book in Patterson's Alex Cross series. The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington, D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin.

Bookcover of The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In the turbulent and mysterious Barcelona of the 1920s, David Martin, a young novelist obsessed with a forbidden love, receives an offer from an enigmatic publisher to write a book like no other before, a book for which people will live and die. In return, he is promised a fortune and, perhaps, much more.