Domestic Affairs
Fifteen-year-old Abigail, daughter of the housekeeper for the wealthy Merrriweather family, has been treated as part of the family all her life – with Lila Merriweather her best friend and Lila’s twin brother Vaughn her first love. But these relationships are severed when Abigail’s mother is abruptly dismissed. A twist of fate years later gives Abigail, now a successful cookbook author, the opportunity to help out her once wealthy friend Lila , and settle an old score. Lila becomes Abigail’s housekeeper. But revenge doesn’t taste so sweet and when outside forces threaten, Abigail discovers that a house divided against itself cannot stand. Enjoy this deeply involved, family saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Woman In Red, 2007.
Nothing to Lose
The enigmatic Jake Reacher, last seen in Bad Luck and Trouble, 2007 is a loner, always on the move from place to place, that is until someone tells him to move on. Stopping for a cup of coffee in a Colorado town named Despair, Reacher is quickly strong-armed out of town. It seems strangers aren’t allowed in Despair. Making his way to the neighboring town of Hope, the former military policeman joins forces with an attractive deputy sheriff to investigate a series of murders and a religious zealot with possible Pentagon ties who has taken over the town of Despair, keeping secret the industrial work within its fortress-like walls.
The Other
David Guterson’s most recent novel following Our Lady of the Forest, 2003 is a provocative study of a lifelong friendship between two men who first meet as boys at a track event in the 1970’s. John William Barry, the very wealthy son of old Seattle money, and Neil Countryman, son of working class parents, find a lasting bond in their profound love for nature particularly the majesty of the Pacific Northwest, the setting of Guterson's 1995 novel Snow Falling on Cedars. Except for the love of the outdoors, Barry and Countryman lead very different lives with Barry eventually withdrawing from society to become a hermit, his friend the only link to the world. As his friend falls ever closer to what may be madness, Countryman must make a choice.
Resolution
Mystery writer Robert B. Parker (Stranger in Paradise, 2008) departed from his successful Spenser and Jesse Stone private-eye novels in 2005 with the equally successful western Appaloosa in which he introduced Marshal Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch. The two gunslingers meet up again in the sheriff-less town of Resolution where various unsavory parties are waging a war for control of the land. The body count at the end of the day is worthy of the classic western, but not too gruesome, as Cole and Hitch try to honorably settle the bloody dispute.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris, the proclaimed “king of the poignantly absurd”, shocks and delights with his sixth collection of essays after 2004’s Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. Essays range from hilarious episodes involving the Sedaris family as in “The Understudy” where the siblings band together against the dreadful babysitter Mrs. Peacock, to experiences abroad such as “In the Waiting Room” where we find our hero seated in the waiting room of a Parisian doctor’s office - in his underwear. Older, wiser, and more introspective, Sedaris contemplates some mistakes in his life in “Buddy Can You spare a Tie” but never sacrifices wit, spontaneity or originality in his approach to the banalities of our everyday existence.
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