Dani's Pick   A professor of German history begins a long journey back into a past she has pushed aside, returning to Germany to reopen the wounds of her own life--as well as that of her mother--as a child living in Nazi Germany.

Dani's Pick   Eighteen-year-old Anna Frith tells the story of her remote English village, Eyam, which was infected by the plague in 1666 and where, persuaded by their vicar, the townspeople decided to quarantine themselves.

Dani's Pick   Uncomfortable with the prudery of New York society, Lucy Carleton, daughter of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in 1880's New York City and married to the ambitious, nouveau riche William Carlton, yearns to unleash her bohemian soul.

Dani's Pick   Set against the turbulent events of the Dark Ages, a fictional account of the controversial figure of historical record profiles a spirited woman who, disguised as a man, rose to rule Christianity as the only woman ever to become pope.

Margaret's  Pick   A celebration of the role of people in operating and sustaining the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents interviews with fifty-two people, from its security guards and cleaners to its philanthropist supporters and famous patrons.

Margaret's  Pick   When Cliff Janeway investigates the provenance of a signed first edition of a memoir by nineteenth-century explorer Sir Richard Burton, he becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a lost library of rare Burton material.

Margaret's  Pick   When the host of a long-awaited archaeological exhibit is murdered on the exhibit's opening night at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, Bill Donovan must scour the museum's famous Hall of the Dinosaurs to find the killer.

Margaret's  Pick   Astonished to learn that her impeccable mother led a secret life marked by her passionate love for a Las Vegas man and a private commitment to pleasure, Barbara elects to end destructive patterns in her own life while honoring her mother's final wishes.

Margaret's  Pick   A writer for the local newspaper for tiny Haines, Alaska, provides a series of colorful portraits of the inhabitants, festivals, and activities of this close-knit but remote village, offering reflections on the life and death of local eccentric Speedy Joe who never took off his hat, the Chilkat Bald Eagle Festival, and neighbors, both human and animal.

Margaret's  Pick   Chronicles the life and times of dashing hero Rhett Butler and the people who shaped his world--his unyielding father Langston, best friend and onetime slave Tunis Bonneau, former love Belle Watling, and the passionate Scarlett O'Hara.

Dani's Pick   While residing in Bellevue Place Sanitarium, Mary Todd Lincoln shares her life story, from her childhood in Kentucky to her marriage to Abraham Lincoln and beyond.

Margaret's  Pick   Considers incidences of disappearance--hikers, explorers, and others--along with the losses of the culture of the native peoples and natural resources of Alaska.

Dani's Pick   Having spent six decades creating a series of alternate lives designed to bring her fame and fortune while hiding the truth about her tragic past, reclusive and enigmatic Vida Winter finds herself torn by young Margaret Lea's simple request for the truth about her own birth.

Dani's Pick   At a literary festival in Toronto, Linda Fallon is reunited with famous poet Thomas Janes, with whom she had an affair at age seventeen and then again at age twenty-seven, but her life is drastically different this time around.

Dani's Pick   Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families -- the Trasks and the Hamiltons -- whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

Margaret's  Pick   An eccentric cast of characters populates the autobiography of a young girl who roots for the Brooklyn Dodgers with her father, while her mother suffers from a debilitating illness.

Margaret's  Pick   Revisiting a recurring American obsession with the French city, the New Yorker writer takes a fresh look at modern Paris and what it means to Americans as he describes his own relationship with Paris.

Dani's Pick    Follows the stories of the Turners and the DeVreys in a city where slaves were burned alive on Wall Street, where James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams walked the Broad Way arguing America's destiny, and where one of the greatest hospitals in the world would be born in a former shipwright's workshops by the East River. Set against the panorama of a young country's struggle for freedom, rich in history and medical detail, it is an enthralling tale told by a master storyteller.

Dani's Pick   The lives of three generations of two African-American families intertwine in the tumultuous and bloody aftermath of the Civil War as newly freed slaves fight for their individual liberties as they struggle to build new lives in The Bottom, a poor settlement just down Red River from Colfax, Louisiana.

Dani's Pick   Stella Newland, an elderly woman dying in an English nursing home, confides the story of her entanglement in an adulterous affair and its horrifying ramifications to a younger woman caught in a loveless marriage and recently indulging in her own love affair.

Margaret's  Pick   Presents a review of airline security in the events leading up to September 11th and details the current weaknesses and oversights that plague the airline security systems in place today.