The Stone Boy

Author	Larry Watson
ISBN	0671507036

The events of that small-town summer forever alter David Hayden's view of his family: his self-effacing father, a sheriff who never wears his badge; his clear sighted mother; his uncle, a charming war hero and respected doctor; and the Hayden's lively, statuesque Sioux housekeeper, Marie Little...

Author	Kathi Appelt
ISBN	1416950583

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend...

Author	Margaret Millar
ISBN	0749002239

When I decided to go on a bender with female mystery writers from the mid-twentieth century, this book caught my eye for a couple reasons. I read that Ross MacDonald (the Lew Archer mysteries) and Millar were married, and because Millar had already made a reputation for herself as a mystery writer, Ross...

Author	Sigrid Nunez
ISBN	0312425945

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year

Sigrid Núñez's The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate,...

Author	Louise Doughty
ISBN	0571321941

Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic - he's as far away from the night staff as he can...

Author

Kate Weinberg

‘Where do I find Crime?’

‘Crime doesn’t have its own section,’ said the librarian without looking up, ‘it’s all under fiction.’

In this seductive coming-of-age debut, Jess Walker, a young and uninitiated first year student, falls in love with two great story-tellers....