Compiled by the UA Library Adult Services staff

Brooklyn
By Colm Tóibín
This warm and simply-written novel tells the story of a young Irish immigrant to Brooklyn in the early 1950s. The plot’s unexpected twists leave the reader pondering the unstated motives and torn emotions of the characters.

A Christmas Promise
By Anne Perry
The seventh in Perry’s popular Victorian Christmas books, this story is set in London’s East End. It centers on a murdered rag and bone man called Uncle Alf and the two children who set out to find his missing cart and donkey.

Girl in a Blue Dress
By Gaynor Arnold
Alfred Gibson, known as the “One and Only,” is a literary superstar in this brilliant Victorian novel, and Dorothea “Dodo” Gibson narrates the story of their marriage. Based on letters left by Charles Dickens’ widow Catherine, this superb novel reveals lives of torment, unfaithfulness and callous neglect.

Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire
By Margot Berwin
Lila Nova finds herself drawn to a Laundromat by a red fern hanging in the window. There she meets the owner, Armand. The shop is also a tropical plant paradise that includes the nine plants of desire, which are eventually stolen. The journey to Mexico to replace the stolen plants is exciting, steamy and full of self-discovery.

Late Edition: A Love Story
By Bob Greene
Greene recalls his days working for the Columbus Citizen-Journal newspaper with great affection. Filled with anecdotes of Columbus in the 1960s, it will bring back memories for those who remember when Woody Hayes and Mayor Sensenbrenner were local celebrities.

The Lost Symbol
By Dan Brown
If you liked The Da Vinci Code, you’ll find a lot of familiar characterizations in Brown’s long-awaited sequel. The tourism industry in Washington, D.C. should get a huge boost from readers eager to see for themselves the images and symbolism contained in the art and buildings our founding fathers commissioned.

Rules of Vengeance
By Christopher Reich
Dr. Jonathan Ransom, a surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, travels from his work in Africa to London to deliver an address at a prestigious conference. But his heart’s true motive is a secret meeting with his fugitive wife Emma, a former agent of Pentagon intelligence. Both Ransom and his wife soon become suspects in a car bombing. This book has non-stop, pulse-pounding action from a master of suspense.


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