The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel

 by Deborah Ellis

This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of the Breadwinner animated film tells the sotry of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afgjanistan.

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Watchdog

 by Will McIntosh

Thirteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara have built an incredible machine-a loyal robotic watchdog named Daisy.  When local crime boss Ms. Alba schemes to add Daisy to her robot army, Vick and Tara must go to great lengths to protect their prized pet.

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Death of an Honest Man

By M.C. Beaton

Paul English speaks his mind. He tells the minister his sermons are tedious, Mrs. Wellington that she’s too fat, Angela Brody that her detective stories are pablum, and Jessie Currie that she should see a psychiatrist. So when the man is murdered, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth has no end of likely suspects.

 

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The Woman in the Water

By Charles Finch

Charles Finch takes readers back to Charles Lenox’s very first case and the ruthless serial killer who would set him on the course to become one of London’s most brilliant detectives.

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The Future of Humanity

By Michio Kaku

The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man’s future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies.

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Down The River Into The Sea

By Walter Mosley

From trailbalzing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not commit must solve two cases: that of a man wrongly condemned to die; and his own.

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Night Moves

By Jonathan Kellerman

An affluent family returns home from Sunday dinner only to find the murdered and brutalized corpse of a total stranger in their house.  This baffling, twisted tale tests Alex and Milo to their intellectual and emotional limits.

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Surprise Me

By Sophie Kinsella

A witty and emotionally charged novel that delves into the heart of marriage, and how those we love and know best can sometimes surprise us the most.

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