Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go
Kathy, now thirty-one years old, lived as a child at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside. There the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special, and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. But a dark secret is hidden behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade.

Ayres, Ian
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers Is the Best Way To Be Smart
Want to predict the future? Then watch the numbers. Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres introduces readers to the value and possibilities of numbers and how huge data sets are going to permit individuals to make previously impossible predictions. Ayres calls these folks “super crunchers” and he discusses how they are going to be making sweeping changes in medical diagnoses, travel pricing, screenwriting and even online dating services. He also shows the other side of the revolution, explaining how the corporate world manipulates consumer data and tells consumers how to fight back.

Morrison, Toni
Sula
Nobel Prize winner Morrison tells the story of two women – friends since childhood, separated in adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to be a homebody. Sula Peace leaves the town to experience college, men, and life in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the 1920s.

Selznick, Brian
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl, an automaton, and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. This award-winning story is told in text, sequential art, period photographs and film.

Bildner, Phil
Busted
Does every student at Coldwater Creek High School have some secret crime, something that they are afraid they'll get in trouble for? Be it the senior class ski trip or dealing with a bully, Busted weaves together four stories at Coldwater and shows that no one—whether you are an honors student or the best athlete in school—is safe from getting busted.

McCormick, Patricia
Sold
Lakshmi lives an ordinary life in Nepal until her gambling-addicted stepfather sells her into prostitution in India. She is told that if she works off her family’s debt, she can leave, but she soon discovers that this is virtually impossible. When a boy who runs errands for the girls and their clients begins to teach her to read, she feels a bit more alive, remembering what it feels like to be the number one girl in class again.

Smith, Dodie
I Capture the Castle
Shut up in a crumbling castle with a writer father with a severe case of writer’s block, Rose and her sister Cassandra are longing for suitors, new dresses and an end to their romantic isolation. Along comes the wealthy Cotton family with two brothers who take over a nearby estate and thoroughly change everything.

Hemphill. Stephanie
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
This is a collage of the life of the American poet, novelist, and short story writer told in a unique way: through poems. Although classified as fiction, the book draws from numerous nonfiction sources on Plath’s life and literary works. The result is an intimate, comprehensive, imaginative view of a life that also probes the relationships between poetry and creativity, mental fragility, love, marriage, and betrayal. It captures the life of a poet through poetry itself.

Resau, Laura
Red Glass
Seven Mexican migrants and their guide have died crossing the Arizona border. The lone survivor is a six-year-old boy named Pablo who had Sophie's stepfather's business card in his pocket. Pablo comes to live with Sophie and her family and becomes her Principito, or Little Prince. Sophie's summer road trip to return Pablo to his village highlights tolerance, bravery, humanity… and a lot about love.

Zarr, Sarah
Story of a Girl
Three years ago Deanna’s father caught her in the back seat of a car with her older brother's best friend. After the news spread, she was branded as promiscuous by the people in her small town, and her life changed for the worse. Now 16, Deanna tries to escape a life defined by one mistake in her past.

Wynne, Frank
I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger
Han van Meegeren was a paranoid, drug-addicted painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a superstar of the art world. During his heyday as a forger, he earned $50 million, the acclamation of the world press, and the satisfaction of swindling the Nazis. However, when the war ended, he was quickly arrested as a Nazi collaborator and was forced to admit that he had painted the remarkable “Vermeers”.

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz
The Shadow of the Wind
A boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax's other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book the man has ever written and that the book is as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget. This Spanish bestseller was translated by Lucia Graves.