Calibre library

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons [February 24, 2012]
Lorna Landvik
From Publishers WeeklyFive friends live through three decades of marriages, child raising, neighborhood parties, bad husbands and good brownies-and Landvik (Patty Jane's House of Curl) doesn't miss a single cliche as she chronicles their lives in thi...

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea [February 24, 2012]
Chelsea Handler
In My Horizontal Life, actress and stand-up comedian Chelsea Handler boldly recounted her one-night stands-the good, the bad, and the disastrous. In this wickedly honest new work, she casts the net wider with even funnier results, recalling the most ...

The Kitchen House [February 24, 2012]
Kathleen Grissom
Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia bec...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks [February 24, 2012]
Rebecca Skloot
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The f...

The Giver [February 24, 2012]
Lois Lowry
The Giver [1]: Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world.When Jonas turns 12 he is singled ou...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society [February 24, 2012]
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
" I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is l...

The Forgotten Garden [February 24, 2012]
Kate Morton
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton, a novel that takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through generations and across continents as two women try to uncover their family’s secret past A tiny girl is abandon...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [February 24, 2012]
Betty Smith and Anna Quindlen
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people ...

A Visit From the Goon Squad [February 24, 2012]
Jennifer Egan
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect w...

A Dog's Purpose [February 24, 2012]
W. Bruce Cameron
This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog’s search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dog’s Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why ar...

A Christmas Carol, the Chimes & the Cricket on the Hearth [February 24, 2012]
Charles Dickens and Katharine Kroeber Wiley
A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, ...

11/22/63 [February 24, 2012]
Stephen King
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assas...

The Fault in Our Stars [February 24, 2012]
John Green
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: In The Fault in Our Stars, John Green has created a soulful novel that tackles big subjects--life, death, love--with the perfect blend of levity and heart-swelling emotion. Hazel is sixte...

Steve Jobs [February 24, 2012]
Walter Isaacson
From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive, New York Times bestselling biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years...

The Way of Kings [November 6, 2011]
Brandon Sanderson
The Stormlight Archive [1]: Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny te...

The Two Towers [November 6, 2011]
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings [2]: For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own ge...

The Silmarillion [November 6, 2011]
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings [4]: Amazon.com ReviewThe Silmarillion is J.R.R. Tolkien's tragic, operatic history of the First Age of Middle-Earth, essential background material for serious readers of the classic Lord of the Rings saga. Tolkien's work sets t...

The Return of the King [November 6, 2011]
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings [3]: For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own ge...

The Lord of the Rings [November 6, 2011]
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings [1]: One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring,...

The Hobbit [November 6, 2011]
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit [1]: Amazon.com Review"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbi...

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil [November 6, 2011]
J. R. R. Tolkien and Roger Garland
The Hobbit [1.50]: Describes Tom's encounters with Goldberry, the River-woman's beautiful daughter; with Old Man Willow, who tries to trap Tom inside his trunk; with the Badger-folk; and with the ghostly Barrow-wight, who dwells in the ancient mound ...

Naamah's Kiss [November 6, 2011]
Jacqueline Carey
Moirin Trilogy [1]: From Publishers WeeklyThe seventh installment in Carey's bestselling Kushiel series (after 2008's Kushiel's Mercy) follows its youthful protagonist, Moirim, from bed to bed as she worships sexuality goddess Naamah. Following a tra...

Naamah's Blessing [November 6, 2011]
Jacqueline Carey
Moirin Trilogy [3]: Returning to Terre d'Ange, Moirin finds the royal family broken. Wracked by unrelenting grief at the loss of his wife, Queen Jehanne, King Daniel is unable to rule. Prince Thierry, leading an expedition to explore the deadly jungl...

Naamah's Curse [November 6, 2011]
Jacqueline Carey
Moirin Trilogy [2]: Moirin is alone, and far from the land of her birth, with nothing but a few resources of her own to draw upon, and few friends she can call upon, in what is about to become a nation of enemies.She has her natural ability with a bo...

Kushiel's Justice [November 6, 2011]
Jacqueline Carey
Imriel Trilogy [2]: From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Carey's fifth book in her Kushiel's Legacy series, volume two of her Imriel fantasy trilogy (after 2006's Kushiel's Scion), is a moody tale of violence and divided loyalties. Phèdre nó Delaunay, th...