What to read while waiting for...

Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy By Follett, Ken 2014-09 - Dutton Books 9780525953098 Check Our Catalog Ken Follett's Century Trilogy follows the fortunes of five intertwined families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they make their way through the twentieth century. It has been called "potent, engrossing" ("Publishers Weekly") and "truly epic" ("Huffington Post"). "USA Today "said, "You actually feel like you're there." "Edge of Eternity," the finale, covers one of the most …More

Are you patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for that best seller?  Here are some suggestions!

The Best Laid Plans By Sheldon, Sidney 1998-08 - Warner Books (NY) 9780446604086 Check Our Catalog HE WANTED POWER. SHE WANTED REVENGE. Dear Diary: This morning I met the man I am going to marry. That declaration sets Leslie Stewart on a destiny she could never have imagined. For she is engaged to Oliver Russell, a man fated to rise to the pinnacle of world power, the office of the President of the United States. And, in the aftermath of the shattering betrayal that follows, Leslie will amass …More

Dead Watch By Sandford, John 2006-05 - Putnam Publishing Group 9780399153549 Check Our Catalog From the author of the #1 bestselling Prey novels comes an extraordinary story of murder, passion, and deadly ambition--a political thriller like no other. HPL patron:  A slow start but keep going.  This is a good, fast moving "drama" with political overtones that embellish the plot.  Enjoy! …More

A Fall of Marigolds By Meissner, Susan 2014-02 - New American Library 9780451419910 Check Our Catalog A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away.... September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own …More

The Given Day By Lehane, Dennis 2008-09 - William Morrow & Company 9780688163181 Check Our Catalog Awards: Indies Choice Book Awards (2009) Set at the end of the Great War, "The Given Day" offers an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. …More

Only Time Will Tell By Archer, Jeffrey 2011-08 - St. Martin's Press 9780312539559 Check Our Catalog From the internationally bestselling author of "Kane and Abel" and "A Prisoner of Birth" comes "Only Time Will Tell," the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. …More