Week of January 18, 2010

FIC NAH        
    Caspian Rain       Gina B. Nahai
                        Twelve-year-old Yaas, born into the troubled marriage between Bahar, a woman from the Jewish slums, and Omid, the son of wealthy Iranian Jews, becomes increasingly desperate to save her family when she is stricken by a mysterious ailment and her father begins a very public affair with a beautiful woman from a noble muslin family.  298 pages

FIC  PET        
    Out Stealing Horses   Per Petterson
                        Tron Sander, a Norwegian man nearing seventy in self-imposed exile, meets his only neighbor, who happens to be the younger brother of a friend with whom he spent a transformative summer, and remembers that season of 1948, when he learned secrets about his father's wartime activities. 387 pages

FIC GOR    
          Sammy's Hill      Kristin Gore
                          Twenty-six-year-old Sammy Joyce, health care analyst for a U.S. senator, falls for the speech writer for a rival senator she cannot stand and finds herself stumbling through love, Capital Hill politics, and the campaign for president. 387 pages

FIC PIC  
              Nineteen Minutes    Jodi Picoult
                          The people of sterling, New Hampshire, are forever changed after a shooting at the high school leaves tem people dead, and the judge presiding over the trial tries to remain unbiased, even though her daughter witnesses the events and was friends with the assailant. 455 pages

FIC HOO        
The 1990s: Families     Dorothy and Tom Hoobler
                          The Aldrich;, Vivantik, and Dixon families gather to celebrate Nell and Rocco's one hundredth birthdays as the new century dawns and the specter of the Y2K bug threatens. 160 pages

FIC HOR    
          Slam            Nick Hornby
                          At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically. 309 pages

FIC ROS          
    Every Crooked Pot   Renee Rosen
                          Nina Goldman, growing up in Akron, Ohio, in the 1970s, struggles to overcome the feelings of inferiority caused by the birthmark that covers one of her eyes, but she is helped along by her loving mom and larger-than-life father, and when a treatment is found that could remove the mark, Nina is conflicted about whether to go forward. 227 pages

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Week of January 11, 2010

FIC WIL    
  Woolvs in the Sitee      Margaret Wild and Anne Spudvilas
                  In a mostly abandoned city, Ben lives in a musty basement room, terrified of the "woolvs" that dwell in the shadows outside, with only an upstairs neighbor Mrs Radinski, to help him cope with his fears. 38 pages

FIC YOO    
  Good Enough       Paula Yoo
                  A Lorean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in a new direction. 322 pages

FIC  ZEV  
    Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac  Gabrielle Zevin
                  After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life. 271 pages

FIC MCC  
    No Country for Old Men     Cormac McCarthy
                  When Lleqelyn Moss stumbles upon a group of murdered men, a stash of heroin, and more than two million in cash, he makes a rash decision and takes the money, which soon puts him and his young wife in danger as they are hunted by a ruthless drug lord. 309 pages

FIC MCC      
Deluge   Anne McCaffrey
                  Yana Maddock, Sean Shongili, and their twins, Ronan and Murel,find their efforts to protect the planet of Petaybee threatened as the InterGal Corporation launches a bold assault that may destroy the peaceful planet's future. 225 pages

FIC BAR      
  The Boy Who Dared  Susan Cambell Bartoletti
                    In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmukt Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people. 202 pages

FIC MIE      
  Un Lun Dun   China Mieville
                    Twelve-year-old Zanna and her friend Deeba discover an entrance to a strange world where they encounter killer giraffes, animated umbrellas, ghost children, and flying double-decker buses. 474 p.