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The Stanly County Public Library is pleased to provide new fiction books, as well as recommendations & reviews for old books, to our patrons in the community....
Adult Fiction
| Author | Title | Call# |
| Chris Bohjalian | The Double Bind | FIC Bohjalian |
| Carol Higgins Clark | Laced | FIC Clark |
| Harlan Coben | The Woods | FIC Coben |
| Margaret Drabble | The Sea Lady | FIC Drabble |
| Loren Estleman | American Detective | FIC Estleman |
| Andrew Gross | The Blue Zone | FIC Gross |
| Joan Hess | Damsels in Distress | FIC Hess |
| Cassandra King | Queen of Broken Hearts | FIC King |
| Fern Michaels | The Marriage Game | FIC Michaels |
| James Patterson | Step on a Crack | FIC Patterson |
| Dana Stabenow | A Deeper Sleep | FIC Stabenow |
Staff Recommendations
| "At Home in Covington" by Joan Medlicott... A nice visit with the three ladies of Covington, NC, their friends and family. This is the latest book in the series. | Melanie |
| "Good Grief" by Lolly Winston... Don’t let the furry pink bunny slippers on the front lead you into believing that this is chick lit. This is a serious book that follows Sophie’s life after her young husband dies.… | Melanie |
| "Brother and Sister" by Joanna Trollope... Trollope is the queen of family fiction. In this novel, a brother and sister search for their respective birth mothers, and how the search affects them and all the members of their family. | Melanie |
| "Better Homes & Husbands" by Valerie Ann Leff... This is a group of short stories connected through an apartment building in New York. A new author to keep an eye on. | Melanie |
| "Bet Your Bottom Dollar" by Karin Gillespie... Set in a small town in South Carolina. A cross between Fannie Flagg and Billie Letts. | Melanie |
| "Clay’s Quilt and Parchment of Leaves" by Silas House... Two stories about different sides of the same extended family. Set in the mountain and hollers of Kentucky. His next book, out soon, moves back in the history of these two families. | Melanie |
| "Ibid: A Life: A Novel in Footnotes" by Mark Dunn... Not your normal novel. This is the story of Jonathan Blashette, a three-legged man. The only copy of the manuscript is accidentally destroyed. This book is the footnotes to that biography. Interesting style with well developed characters. | Melanie |
| "Something Rotten" by Jasper Fforde (The 4th in the Thursday Next series)... Thursday leaves the world of fiction where she has been hiding out to save her husband who was eradicated by the goliath corporation that rules the world. This series is an alternative history, time traveling, literary novel with lots of puns. | Melanie |
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Book Clubs:
| Reading With Ripa!"... Regis and Kelly | USA Today Book Club... from the newspaper of the same name |
| Today's Book Club... from the Today Show | Read This!... from Good Morning America |
Book Reviews:
| Chicago Tribune | Washington Post |
| Booklist | Salon.com |
Best Sellers and Award Winners:
| Publishers Weekly... bestsellers | New York Times... bestsellers |
| The Edgar Allen Poe Awards... from the Mystery Writers of America | Book Sense... indy bestsellers |
The Newberry Award... for distinguished contribution to children's literature |
The Pulitzer Prize |
| Amazon.com's Movers & Shakers... the bestsellers of the moment | The Hugo Award... for achievement in Science Fiction |
Other Great Books:
| Great Books Lists... a variety of resources and opinions on the literary canons of Western, Eastern, and Contemporary civilization... compiled by Robert Teeter |
Spotlight On...
Melanie's Best Books of 2004....
| Author | Title |
| Audrey Niffenegger | Time Traveler's Wife |
| Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso |
| Sue Monk Kidd | Secret Life of Bees |
| Salley Vickers | Mr. Golightly's Holiday |
| Silas House | Clay's Quilt and Parchment of Leaves |
Available Books for Book Clubs (2006).... Quantities may change and other titles may become available, so please check. Popular titles may not always be available....
| Title | Author | Qty |
| Southern Exposure | Alice Adams | 6 |
| Bastard our of Carolina | Dorothy Allison | 7 |
| Vinegar Hill | A. Manette Ansay | 5 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 8 |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt | 6 |
| Souls Raised from the Dead | Doris Betts | 7 |
| Quentins | Maeve Binchy | 8 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 10 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 6 |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | 15 |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | 10 |
| Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann Burns | 9 |
| My Antonio | Willa Cather | 9 |
| The Girl with the Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | 11 |
| Beach Music | Pat Conroy | 6 |
| Balzac and the Little chinese Seamstress | Sijie Dai | 10 |
| Corelli's Mandolin | Louis DeBernieres | 9 |
| The Red Tent | Anita Diamant | 10 |
| House of Sand and Fog | Andre Dubus III | 10 |
| Plant Life | Pamela Duncan | 10 |
| Where Trouble Sleeps | Clyde Edgerton | 9 |
| Walking Across Egypt | Clyde Edgerton | 10 |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot | 5 |
| Carousel | Richard Paul Evans | 6 |
| Perfect Day | Richard Paul Evans | 9 |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 9 |
| Reivers | William Faulkner | 9 |
| Grand Avenue | Joy Fielding | 8 |
| Whispers and Lies | Joy Fielding | 6 |
| White Oleander | Janet Fitch | 6 |
| Standing in the Rainbow | Fannie Flagg | 9 |
| Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fannie Flagg | 8 |
| Howard's End | E.M. Forster | 8 |
| The Jane Austen Book Club | Karen Joy Fowler | 9 |
| Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | 12 |
| On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon | Kaye Gibbons | 6 |
| A Virtuous Woman | Kaye Gibbons | 9 |
| A Southern Family | Gail Godwin | 5 |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | 11 |
| Painted House | John Grisham | 10 |
| Skipping Christmas | John Grisham | 6 |
| Snow Falling on Cedars | David Guterson | 9 |
| Between Sisters | Kristin Hannah | 9 |
| Chocolat | Joanne Harris | 8 |
| Stones From the River | Ursula Hegi | 7 |
| Friendship Cake | Lynne Hinton | 6 |
| Here on Earth | Alice Hoffman | 10 |
| Clay's Quilt | Silas House | 10 |
| Nowhere Else on Earth | Josephine Humphries | 11 |
| Rich in Love | Josephine Humphries | 8 |
| Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | 5 |
| The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | 11 |
| Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 7 |
| Prodigal Summer | Barbara Kingsolver | 7 |
| The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | 8 |
| I Know This Much is True | Wally Lamb | 9 |
| She's Come Undone | Wally Lamb | 9 |
| Crow Lake | Mary Lawson | 11 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 8 |
| Left Behind | Tim LaHaye | 9 |
| Call of the Wild | Jack London | 10 |
| Fall on Your Knees | Ann-Marie MacDonald | 6 |
| The Bridge | Doug Marlette | 12 |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 10 |
| Carolina Moon | Jill McCorkle | 8 |
| Rosewood Casket | Sharyn McCrumb | 8 |
| Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt | 6 |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Caron McCullers | 9 |
| Deep End of the Ocean | Jacquelyn Mitchard | 8 |
| Truest Pleasure | Robert Morgan | 8 |
| Gap Creek | Robert Morgan | 6 |
| Paradise | Toni Morrison | 9 |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 6 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 5 |
| The Time Traverlers Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | 12 |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 7 |
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | 10 |
| Cry the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | 11 |
| Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas | James Patterson | 9 |
| Cry me a River | T.R. Pearson | 7 |
| The Moviegoer | Walker Percy | 7 |
| Roxanna Slade | Reynolds Price | 9 |
| Kate Vaiden | Reynolds Price | 6 |
| Blessings | Anna Quindlen | 10 |
| One True Thing | Anna Quindlen | 14 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone | J.K. Rowling | 13 |
| God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 8 |
| Holes | Louis Sachar | 8 |
| Her Own Place | Dori Sanders | 7 |
| Drowning Ruth | Christina Schwarz | 6 |
| Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 10 |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | 6 |
| Weight of Water | Anita Shreve | 8 |
| Pilot Wife | Anita Shreve | 9 |
| Nora, Nora | Ann Rivers Siddons | 7 |
| I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith | 10 |
| Last Girls | Lee Smith | 9 |
| Fair and Tender Ladies | Lee Smith | 8 |
| Rescue | Nicholas Sparks | 9 |
| A Bend in the Road | Nicholas Sparks | 11 |
| Nights in Rodanth | Nicholas Sparks | 14 |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 8 |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 6 |
| Sophie's Choice | William Styron | 8 |
| Hundred Secret Senses | Amy Tan | 9 |
| Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry | Mildred Taylor | 9 |
| A Summons to Memphis | Peter Taylor | 10 |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackery | 11 |
| Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | 9 |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | 6 |
| Patchwork Planet | Ann Tyler | 8 |
| Breathing lessons | Ann Tyler | 6 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 10 |
| Optimists Daughter | Eudora Welty | 10 |
| American Pie | Michael Lee West | 9 |
| Look Homeward Angel | Thomas Wolf | 8 |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 8 |
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