Did You Know?
Many current and popular books are now available in trade paperback (larger paperbacks that are easier to read). In the Main Library, you can find these paperbacks in two special sections. Right behind the first 14-day-book shelf is a display of new trade paperbacks that have been especially selected for interest, popularity and readability. The Express Paperback section at the left of the circulation desk highlights popular in-demand books, many of which are still on reserve. You might come across hot titles like Water for Elephants or Eat, Pray, Love - or you might want to try something you've never heard of!

For a selection of recent literary trade paperbacks, see our Book Group Choices List.

Book Group Choices
If you're a member of a book group or simply enjoy literary fiction, you might discover some intriguing titles in our new booklist, Book Group Choices: Recent Titles for People Who Enjoy Literary Reads.

New and Forthcoming Books 
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June

Lewis Black. Me of Little Faith.

Lawrence Block. Hit and Run.

Dale Brown. Shadow Command.

Lee Child. Nothing to Lose.

Jackie Collins. Married Lovers.

John Connolly. The Reapers.

Patricia Cornwell. The Front.

Catherine Coulter. Tailspin.

Philip Craig. Vineyard Chill.

Clive Cussler. Plague Ship.

Jeffrey Deaver. The Broken Window.

Andre Dubus III. The Garden of Last Days.

Janet Evanovich. Fearless Fourteen.

Alan Furst. The Spies of Warsaw.

W.E.B. Griffin. Death and Honor.

David Guterson. The Other.

Jennifer Haigh. Condition.

Linda Howard. Death Angel.

Marian Keyes. This Charming Man.

Elizabeth Lowell. Blue Smoke and Murder.

Robert B. Parker. Resolution.

James Patterson. Sail.

Ruth Rendell. Not in the Flesh.

James Rollins. The Last Oracle.

Anne Rivers Siddons. Off Season.

Danielle Steel. Rogue.

Lauren Weisberger. Chasing Harry Winston.

May

Chris Bohjalian. Skeletons at the Feast.

C.J. Box. Blood Trail: A Joe Pickett Novel.

Dale Brown. Shadow Command.

Augusten Burroughs. A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father.

Jude Deveraux. Secrets.

Leif Enger. So Brave, Young, and Handsome.

Elizabeth George. Careless in Red.

Emily Giffin. Love the One You're With.

Carl Hiassen. The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport.

Kate Jacobs. Comfort Food.

Dean Koontz. Odd Hours.

Donna Leon. The Girl of His Dreams: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Story.

Phillip Margolin. Executive Privilege.

Mameve Medwed. Of Men and Their Mothers.

Katherine Hall Page. The Body in the Gallery.

John Sandford. Phantom Prey.

Lisa Unger. Black Out.

Joseph Wambaugh. Hollywood Crows.

Simon Winchester. The Man Who Loved China.

April

Isabel Allende. The Sum of Our Days.

David Baldacci. The Whole Truth.

Mary Balogh. Simply Perfect.

Nevada Barr. Winter Study.

Elizabeth Berg. The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: Stories

Carol Higgins Clark. Zapped.

Harlan Coben. Hold Tight.

Louise Erdrich. The Plague of Doves.

Karen Joy Fowler. Wit's End.

Heather Graham. The Death Dealer.

Michael Gruber. The Forgery of Venus.

Alice Hoffman. The Third Angel.

Michael Holley. Red Sox Way: A Season in the Life of a Manager.

Iris Johansen. Quicksand.

Jesse Kellerman. Genius.

Jhumpa Lahiri. Unaccustomed Earth.

Alexander McCall Smith. The Miracle at Speedy Motors.

Steve Martini. Shadow of Power.

Kate Mosse. Sepulchre.

O, the Oprah Magazine Cookbook.

James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet. Sundays at Tiffany's.

Anne Perry. Buckingham Palace Gardens.

Amanda Quick. The Third Circle.

Karen Robards. Guilty.

Elizabeth Strout. On the Coast of Maine: the Olive Stories.

Joanna Trollope. Friday Nights.

Joseph Wambaugh. Hollywood Crows.

Jennifer Weiner Certain Girls.

Stuart Woods. Santa Fe Dead.

March

Jeffrey Archer. A Prisoner of Birth.

Benjamin Black. The Silver Swan.

Mary Higgins Clark. Where Are You Now.

Pearl Cleage. Seen It All and Done the Rest.

Linda A. Fairstein. Killer Heat.

Joy Fielding. Charley's Web.

Joanne Fluke. Carrot Cake Murder.

Jonathan Kellerman. Compulsion.

Sophie Kinsella. Remember Me?

Lisa Kleypas. Blue-Eyed Devil.

Laura Lippman. Another Thing to Fall.

Lisa Lutz. Curse of the Spellmans.

Jodi Picoult. Change of Heart.

Richard Price. Lush Life.

Mary Doria Russell. Dreamers of the Day.

Stephen White. Dead Time.

Recommended by Judith Rosenbaum, McAuliffe Library Circulation Staff
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Fiction.
First published in 1948, Paton's loving tribute to his homeland is a story of two families trying to overcome hardship and sorrow, mirrored by the struggle of Africa under white rule. Stephen Kumalo, an aging country pastor, travels to Johannesburg to find his son Absalom. He arrives to find that Absalom has been arrested for the senseless murder of Arthur Jarvis, a white man who had devoted his life to helping black people. Arthur's heartbroken father, James, comes to Johannesburg to settle his son's affairs and finds his son's writings about the state of race relations in South Africa. The elder Jarvis is so deeply moved by his son's love of his country and concern for its people that he returns to his home a changed man.

As a loving tribute to his son, Jarvis, a wealthy farmer, decides to revive Kumalo's village and improve the land, so that the young people will be more likely to remain at home and not fall victim to the ways of the city.

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus. Fiction.
Through the journals of May Dodd, we learn of the "Brides for Indians" program, brought about through a secret treaty between the US government and Little Wolf, chief of the Cheyenne. In return for 1,000 horses, the US government would give the Cheyenne 1,000 brides to bear children who would eventually become assimilated into white culture. The brides-women from jails, debtors' prisons, and mental institutions-are offered full pardons or unconditional release for their participation in the program. May Dodd, child of a wealthy Chicago family, has been committed to a lunatic asylum by her father as punishment for marrying one of her father's employees. Jim Fergus, with great insight, imbues May with the gift of beautiful prose, humor and the will to succeed as she embarks on this great adventure, her last chance to live as a free woman.

For previous Staff Recommends columns, see the Staff Recommends Page.

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