Reader's Choice: Fiction: Albom - Dugoni

After a ship explodes, nine people struggling to survive pull a man who claims to be the Lord out of the sea.

This sequel to The Handmaid's Tale picks up the story fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.

A devastating event forces a mother who questions her child’s behavior and her own sanity to confront the truth.

Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.

A grumpy yet lovable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.

It is springtime, and two outcasts -- a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life -- find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection.

A Black woman who becomes one of the most powerful people in the art and book world is forced to hide her true identity.

It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die.

The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret.

The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine.

The Guest Book by Sarah Blake, chronicles three generations of the Milton family as they weather love and loss, tragedy and triumph, and the winds of social and political change. Set largely on Crockett's Island off the Maine coast, the story is both family saga and American epic as it spans the 1930s to the present in its examination of the Miltons and their legacy.

In 1662 Boston, a young Puritan woman seeks to escape from a cruel husband and rumors that might mean her death.

Dr. Toby Fleishman wakes up each morning surrounded by independent women know what they want--and, against all odds, what they want is Toby. Who knew what kind of life awaited him once he extracted himself from his nightmare of a marriage? Who knew that there were women who would look at him with softness and desire? His optimisim is quickly extinguished when his ex-wife suddenly disappears.

Bridget Jones's Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place.

Set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929, this book chronicles an ordinary woman's struggle for dignity and her rights in a textile mill.

In 1982, David and Sarah, two freshmen at a highly competitive performing arts high school, thrive alongside their school peers. It is here in these halls that David and Sarah fall innocently and powerfully into first love. And also where, as this class of students rises through the ranks of high school, the outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and the future, does not affect them--until it does.

A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.

A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.

On the eve of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's life is completely devastated when a shocking disaster takes the lives of her daughter, her daughter's fiancé, her ex-husband, and her boyfriend, Luke--her entire family, all gone in a moment.

A young man who was gifted with a mysterious power becomes part of a war between slavers and the enslaved.

A 14-year-old Nigerian girl, who is sold as a wife then as a servant, resolves to speak for herself and others.

An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future.

Born with ocular albinism, small-town eye doctor Sam Hill must finally face a past tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown, and the life he'd always known--a journey that makes him realize what truly matters.