A Young Wife by Pam Lewis
Fifteen-year-old Minke Van Aisma goes to 1912 Amsterdam to nurse a dying woman. But instead, she ends up quickly married to a exciting but shady morphine producer while on her way to Argentina. There, her child is kid-napped, she must flee the country to New York, where her husband double-crosses her. Minke’s survival, revenge, and search for her son flesh out this twist-filled novel. ~June 2011
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Alice was 29, happily married to her sweet husband Nick, and joyfully expecting her first child. Except now she’s 39, has three children, and people are telling her she bumped her head in aerobics class and lost her memories of the past ten years. Now she finds herself a entirely different person, schedule-obsessed, high-maintenance, and going through a bitter divorce. Alice tries to fill in the gaps and make peace between the girl she used to be and the woman she’s become. ~ June 2011
Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill
Jimm Juree is a woman at the mercy of her slightly crazy family. It is because of them she finds herself no longer a crime reporter, but stuck working at a resort her mother purchased in Thailand. When an abbot at a local temple is murdered, Jimm, with the help of her eccentric family, is back to doing what she does best: solving mysteries. ~ New release!
Al Capone and His American Boys: Memoirs of a Mobster’s Wife by William J. Helmer
The nucleus of this book is a truly unique memoir, written in the 1930s by Georgette Winkler, the wife of one of Capone’s “American Boy” mobsters. She wrote it, detailing all she knew about Capone’s Chicago Syndicate, as revenge after her husband was murdered. When the mob halted its publication, it was handed it over to the FBI. They had no use for it, and it stayed in their possession until released 60 years later. Mob expert Helmer fleshes out this fascinating story. ~ New release!
The Faculty Lounges by Naomi Schaefer Riley
In this social commentary, Riley has a bone to pick with the long-honored tenure system of American colleges and universities. Promising a professor a lifetime of job security once he’s reached tenure is destructive to higher education, Riley believes. In her book, she explores tenure and how “job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails – may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching.”
