Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Remember little Danny Torrance from The Shining?  Think the book…not the movie…. Dan is now an adult with many demons still, but he needs to pull it together to stop a sinister group called the True Knot who are killing children that shine.  There’s plenty of “redrum” and suspense to go around.

Margarettown, by Gabrielle Zevin.

(This is an “oldie,” (c. 2005) so check in the fiction stacks not in the new book area but definitely do check.  What a charmer.) Margaret Towne comes from Margarettown.  Is she named for the town or is the town named for her?  The man who loves her and writes her (this) story never quite finds out.

Havisham, by Ronald Frame.

I’ve never read Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations but I am amazed at what this author did– taking one main character from Dickens’ tale and several supporting– and lifting (and creating) this wonderful current story out of it.  Miss Havisham (for those of us who know Dickens only in trivia-bits) is the one who wears only…

The Partner Track, by Helen Wan.

Ingrid has given 110% of herself by taking on extra-curricular responsibilities that will look good on her resume and by reaching a nearly impossible (early) deadline for a merger, now she expects, after 8 years of hard work, to become the first female partner at her firm.

Ade, by Rebecca Walker.

In the middle of her college career, 19 year-old Farida and her friend travel exotically to Africa.   When Farida meets Ade and falls in love with him, she agrees to marry and live in an idyllic paradise on an island off the coast of Kenya– but then reality intrudes when Ade’s family insists that tribal rituals…