1." The Last Lecture"
By Randy Pausch
When Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch gave his traditional “last lecture” to hundreds of faculty and students in September 2007, he already knew that he had metastatic pancreatic cancer with a very grim prognosis. Despite all that he was facing, Dr. Pausch delivered an urgent, upbeat call for his listeners to achieve their childhood dreams. Before his death in July 25, 2008, Randy Pausch gained worldwide acclaim and shared his inspiring message with readers of all ages. This memoir recounts the story of his courageous encounter with his own mortality.
2. "The Shack"
By William P. Young
Four years after Mack Philips’s youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, Mack receives a note, apparently from God, inviting him back to a shack in the Oregon wilderness where he believes Missy may have been brutally murdered. Against his better judgment, Mack accepts the invitation and walks back into his worst nightmare, but what he finds there will change him forever.
3. "Eat This Not That! For Kids!"
By David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding
It’s no secret that children are getting fatter, as many of America’s youth are overweight or obese, and the number of children with diabetes had nearly quadrupled in the past 30 years. To help combat these problems, David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding have created this must-have guide for concerned parents that contains detailed analysis and nutritional tips on thousands of popular food choices for kids.
4. "Nights in Rodanthe"
By Nicholas Sparks
When Adrienne Willis’s husband leaves her for a younger woman, she is thrust into a devastating midlife crisis. Suddenly abandoned at 45, she reels without purpose. Lacking any clear plan, she accepts a friend’s invitation and flees for a weekend to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina. A brutal storm destroys any sense of sanctuary and leaves Adrienne stranded, a situation that is both complicated and relieved by the presence of Paul Flanner, a 45-year-old physician with his own shattered past.
5. "The Gypsy Morph"
By Terry Brooks
This third book of the "Genesis of Shannara" series is set eighty years in the future, and the United States is a no-man’s land. Its landscape is blighted by chemical warfare, pollution, and plague; its government has collapsed; and its citizens are adrift, desperate and fighting for their lives. "The Gypsy Morph" is an epic saga of a world in a flux as a moral realm yields to a magical one; as the champions of the Word and the Void clash for the last time to decide what will be and what must cease.
6. "Off Season"
By Anne Rivers Siddons
For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly -- happily married, totally in love, parents of a beautiful family, and partners for life. After decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does … in loss. After Cam’s death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam’s favorite spot on the coast of Maine, where they fell in love, and where their ghosts still dance. She looks hard to her past to try to figure out her future. Lilly’s journey begins with tender memories and culminates in a revelation that will make her re-evaluate everything she thought was true about her husband and her marriage.
7. 'Devil Bones"
By Kathy Reich
Bestelling author Kathy Reich returns to Charlotte, North Caroline, where Temperance Brennan encounters a deadly mix of voodoo, Santeria, and devil worship in her quest to identify two young victims. In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about and makes a rather grisly discovery -- a decapitated chicken, animal bones and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, a man walking his dog finds the headless body of a teenage boy. Led by a preacher turned politician, citizen vigilantes blame devil worshippers and Wiccans and begin a witch hunt, intent on seeking revenge.
8. "The Burnt House"
By Faye Kellerman
When a small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills, California, shock waves ripple through Los Angeles as L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime to calm rampant fears of a 9/11-type terror attack, but a grisly mystery lives inside the plane’s charred and twisted wreckage. As the jagged pieces slowly fall into place, a frightening picture begins to form: a mind-searing portrait of unimaginable evil that will challenge Decker’s and Rina’s own beliefs about guilt, innocence, and justice.
9. "8 Sandpiper Way"
By Debbie Macomber
Emily Flemming thinks her husband Dave might be having an affair. She found an earring in his pocket, and it does not belong to her. What makes her even more concerned is that some jewelry was recently stolen from an old woman that Dave used to visit a lot. Dave is a pastor, a good man, and Emily can’t believe he’s guilty of anything, but he won’t tell her where he’s been when comes home late at night. Join Emily on her journey and find out what’s new with her friends in Cedar Cove.
10. "Protect and Defend"
By Vince Flynn
By the time Mitch Rapp arrives in this exciting thriller, one ticking time bomb has already gone off. The bomb arrives in the form of a covert Israeli attack that turns Iran’s second-largest city into a radioactive ecological disaster. With that damage done, the U.S. counterterrorism operative must cobble together a strategy to prevent a bloody retaliation designed to ensnare America as well. When part of his plan misfires, matters escalate dangerously, locking Rapp and a Hezbollah terror chief in a mass life or death struggle.