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The Deep Blue Sea (2012), directed by Terence Davies, is a slow, atmospheric study of the self-destructive nature of betrayal and selfishne...

David Baldacci. The Target . New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2014. 420 pages. ISBN 9781455521203. Author of nearly 30 previous novels,...

Piper Kerman. Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison . New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2011. 327 pages. ISBN 9780385523394. ...

Michael Chabon. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay . New York: Random House, 2012. 684 pages. ISBN 9780812983586. Friends and rel...

The Invisible Woman is about an affair that Charles Dickens had late in his life with a young actress named Ellen Ternan. Many years younge...

Jon Fasman. The Geographer's Library . New York: Penguin Books, 2005. 374 pages. ISBN 0143036629. The Geographer's Library is abou...

Dick Francis. Come to Grief . London: Michael Joseph, 1995. 278 pages. ISBN 0718137531. In Come to Grief , ex-jockey turned private invest...

Jeannette Walls. The Silver Star . New York: Scribner, 2013. 269 pages. ISBN 9781451661545. In The Silver Star , two young girls are aband...

J.R. Moehringer. Sutton . New York: Hyperion, 2012. 334 pages. ISBN 9781401323141. Willie Sutton was one of the most famous bank robbers o...

Erika Johansen. The Queen of the Tearling . New York: HarperCollins, 2014. 434 pages. ISBN 9780062290366. Kelsea Raleigh has been raised i...

Eugene Izzi. The Criminalist . New York: Avon Books, 1998. 341 pages. ISBN 0380975408. Published two years after Eugene Izzi's untimel...

Kathy Reichs. Bones Never Lie . New York: Bantam Books, 2014. 334 pages. ISBN 9780345544018. Kathy Reichs has published dozens of books...

E. Lockhart. We Were Liars . New York: Delacorte Press, 2014. 225 pages. ISBN 9780385741262. In this short novel author E. Lockhart presen...

Wendy Corsi Staub. The Good Sister . New York: Harper, 2013. 418 pages. ISBN 9780062222374. In The Good Sister author Wendy Corsi Staub te...

Wendy Corsi Staub. Nightwatcher . New York: Harper, 2012. 371 pages. ISBN 9780062213181. While at a conference in Las Vegas over the weeke...

Tatia Lief. The Money Kill . New York: Harper, 2013. 338 pages. ISBN 9780062096975. When I have a lot on my plate I like to read fast-pace...

Robert M. Edsel. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History . New York: Bay Back Books/Littl...

Joel Dicker. The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair . New York: Penguin Books, 2014. 643 pages. ISBN 9780143126683. Marcus Goldman is an...

Micah Nathan. Gods of Aberdeen . New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005. 369 pages. ISBN 0743250826. In Gods of Aberdeen, author Micah Nathan ...

Michael Koryta. Those Who Wish Me Dead . New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2014. 390 pages. ISBN 9780316122559. In Michael Koryta'...

Michael Koryta. The Prophet . New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2012. 405 pages. ISBN 9780316122610. Brothers Adam and Kent lost their...

E.L. Doctorow. Andrew's Brain . New York: Random House, 2014. 200 pages. ISBN 9781400068814. In Doctorow's latest, Andrew is engag...

Muriel Barbery. The Elegance of the Hedgehog . New York: Europa Editions, 2008. 325 pages. ISBN 9780933372600. The Elegance of the Hedgeho...

BookExpo America (BEA) took place May 28-31, 2014, and included hundreds of authors, dozens of events, and thousands of new book titles that...

Ayana Mathis. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie . New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 2013. 303 pages. ISBN 9780307949707. Hatt...

The AAUW (American Association of University Women) State College Branch holds an annual used book sale on the Pennsylvania State Universit...

Elaine St. James. Simplify Your Work Life: Ways to Change the Way You Work So You Have More Time to Live . New York: Hyperion, 2001. 296 pag...

Meg Wolitzer. The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman . New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2011. 297 pages. ISBN 9780525423041. Duncan Dorfma...

Minette Walters. The Echo . New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. 338 pages. ISBN 0399142517. Minette Walters is a British author of mys...

S.J. Watson. Before I Go to Sleep . New York: HarperCollins, 2011. 360 pages. ISBN 9780062060556. Before I Go to Sleep tells the story of ...