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VERANDA: Entertaining

by Clinton Smith

Ease into Spring with this inspirational guide for home and lifestyle entertaining, indoors and out, from the design experts at Veranda.

-Staff

VINEGAR GIRL

by Anne Tyler

(paperback due March 28, 2017)

Tyler's delightful novel is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Kate Battista is an intelligent, but socially awkward young woman. She has found herself stuck living at home, running the lives of her eccentric scientist father and her boy crazy, pretty younger sister. Her father has a proposition; marry his brilliant lab assistant, Pyotr, so he can get his green card and avoid deportation. Will Kate succumb to her father's will and this arranged marriage or will she finally exercise control over her own life and strike out as an independent, modern woman? Dear Hollywood, this would make a great movie!

-Laura Skinner

QUICKSAND

By Malin Persson Giolito

Alternating between courtroom and jailhouse scenes, this legal thriller explores the motivation and guilt of Maja Norberg who admits being involved in a school shooting in a rich suburb of Sweden. The question is not so much what happened at the scene, but why it happened. Exploring current issues of immigration, poverty and cultural values, this is a fascinating read.

-Lisa Dietrich

THE WOMEN IN THE CASTLE

by Jessica Shattuck

(due April 4, 2017)

A compelling look at WWII from a fresh perspective. Three German women set out to rebuild their lives after the war, each woman comes from a very different background and holds onto their own memories and secrets from the past as they try to create a new future. This novel explores the concept of right and wrong and how average citizens chose to look away, or fight back.

-Maxwell Gregory

RABBIT CAKE

by Annie Hartnett

A wonderful coming of age story narrated by a 10-year-old girl, Elvis.  Elvis' mother has just passed away and Elvis is trying to make sense of her grief.  Her father is walking around in her mom's robe and slippers and is of little help to Elvis.  Her older sister is plagued by sleepwalking and has her own issues, so Elvis is on her own.  Elvis is a wonderful, original voice. A beautifully written novel that will make you laugh out loud and break your heart at the same time. For fans of Where'd You Go Bernadette.

-Laura Skinner

A SIMPLE FAVOR

by Darcey Bell

Emily asked her best friend Stephanie for a simple favor...pick up my son from school and keep him until I get home from work. Of course Stephanie complies but then does not see or hear from her friend. Stephanie turns to Emily's husband for help and proceeds to get a little too close. Lies upon lies begin to unravel and culminate with a big twist. Can you really trust your best friend?

-Laura Capstick

THE HOLLYWOOD DAUGHTER

by Kate Alcott

Caught in a 1940's mix of glamour, celebrity gossip, and McCarthyism, Kate is pulled between her mother's strict Catholicism, her father's liveliness and connections to Hollywood, and her hero, Ingrid Bergman. Kate's best friend helps her navigate through all of these ups and downs both in high school and again 10 years later. Engaging read!

-Beth Mynhier

EXIT WEST

by Mohsin Hamid

In an unnamed country and city (but perhaps Aleppo, Syria) two young people meet and fall in love. Unrest in the city leads to whispers about doors that can whisk people away. A story about migration and nationalism, this book is timely and fascinating. I enjoyed reading it. It would be a great book club choice.

-Kathy Petray