The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns by Margaret Diloway
Copyright 2012
ISBN 978-0-399-15775-2

The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns is a tender, moving story that shows how family not only has the capacity to wound, but offers us the possibility to bloom again.

Thirty-six-year olf Gal Garner

Letter from A Stranger by Barbara Taylor Bradford Copyright 2012
ISBN 978-0-312-63168-0

Letter from a Stranger

Justine Nolan is a documentary filmmaker who lost her beloved grandmother a decade ago – the person who was the only source of love and comfort in her life. Her own mother, Deborah, had always been distant and uninvolved, following her own agenda in pursuit of her career as an interior designer. But when Justine inadvertently opens a letter addressed to her mother, she discovers that not only is her grandmother, Gabrielle alive, but that Deborah has deliberately estranged the family from her for all these years. Justine’s search for her grandmother takes her to Istanbul, where she begins to uncover the family’s secrets, which stretch all the way back to World War II. As the layers of deception peel away, Justine begins to understand a woman she never really knew… and she begins to ask questions about the true desires of her own heart.

Death Du Jour by Kathy Reichs

Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan Novels)

In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Tempe Brennan is digging for a corpse buried more than a century ago. Although Tempe thrives on such enigmas from the past, it’s a chain of contemporary deaths and disappearances that has seized her attention – and she alone is ideally placed to make a chilling connection among the seemingly unrelated events. At the crime scene, at the morgue, and in the lab, Tempe probes a mystery that sweeps from a deadly Quebec fire to startling discoveries in the Carolinas, and culminates in Montreal with a terrifying showdown – a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic expertise and her skills for survival.

Copyright 1999 ISBN 0-671-01137-5

The Walk by Richard Paul Evans
The Walk: A Novel (Pocket Readers Guide)

What would you do if you lost everything? When Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen loses his job, his home, and the love of his life – all at the same time – he’s tempted by his darkest thoughts. Then as he sits with a bottle of pills in his hand, he hears a voice telling him to live. That’s when he decides to go on a walk, but no ordinary walk. Taking with him only the barest of essentials, Alan leaves behind all that he’s known and heads for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life – and inspire yours.

The first of an unforgettable series of books about one man’s search for hope! Watch for Miles to Go.

ISBN 978-1-4516-2533-2

The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks

The Wedding

From Nicholas Sparks, American’s favorite chronicler of love stories, comes the long-awaited follow-up to The Notebook – a story of an ordinary man who goes to extraordinary lengths to win back the love of his life.

After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth. His wife, Jane has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault.

Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun and their fifty year love affair, Wilson is unable to express his true feelings. He has spent too little time at home and too much time at the office. Now his daughter is about to marry, and his wife is thinking about leaving him. But if Wilson is sure of anything, it’s this: his love for Jane has grown over the years, and he will do anything he can to save their marriage. With the memories of Noah and Allie’s inspiring life together as his guide, he vows to find a way to make his wife fall in love with him…. all over again.

Taken from the back cover

ISBN 0-446-69333-2