What to read while waiting for...

The Goldfinch By Tartt, Donna 2013-10 - Little Brown and Company 9780316055437 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2014)Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (2014)National Book Critics Circle Award (2013)Pulitzer Prize (2014) "The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he …More

Are you patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for that best seller?  Here are some suggestions!

The Cat's Table By Ondaatje, Michael 2011-10 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307700117 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2012)Indies Choice Book Awards (2012)L.A. Times Book Prize (2011)Scotiabank Giller Prize (2011) From Michael Ondaatje: a stunning new novel--by turns poignant and electrifying--about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a sea voyage. …More

Life of Pi By Martel, Yann 2002-05 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780151008117 Check Our Catalog Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year Award (2003)Colorado Blue Spruce Award (2005)Green Mountain Book Award (2006)Man Booker Prize (2002)Tayshas Reading (2004) This brilliant fabulist novel combines the delight of Kipling's "Just So Stories" with the metaphysical adventure of "Jonah and the Whale," as Pi, the son of a zookeeper, is marooned aboard a lifeboat with a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan, and a tiger. …More

The Best of Youth By Dahlie, Michael 2013-01 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393081855 Check Our Catalog After inheriting 15 million dollars, a 24-year-old moves to Brooklyn to pursue his entirely delusional vision of contemporary youth culture. …More

The Museum of Innocence By Pamuk, Orhan 2010-10 - Vintage Books 9780307386243 Check Our Catalog It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. And once they violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeoisie. In his pursuit of Fusun over the …More