Making Rounds with Oscar
by David Dosa

An otherwise ordinary cat, Oscar has the uncanny ability to predict when people in the Steere House nursing home are about to die. Dr. Dosa tells the stories of several patients and examines end-of-life care as it exists today. Read More... | Request a copy

The Essential New York Times Cookbook
by Amanda Hesser

All the best recipes from 150 years of distinguished food journalism--a volume to take its place in America's kitchens alongside Mastering the Art of French Cooking and How to Cook Everything. Read More... | Request a copy

Deep Dish
by Mary Kay Andrews

Chef extraordinaire Gina Foxton doesn't expect anything to be handed to her on a platter. After years of hard work, the former runner-up Miss Teen Vidalia Onion is now the host of her own local Georgia public television show called Fresh Start, and she's dating the show's producer. Read More... | Request a copy

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas Kristof

Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. Read More... | Request a copy

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe

Written by an author completing a Ph.D. in New England Studies, and whose ancestors had been accused witches in Salem, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the trials in the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery and discovery. Read More... | Request a copy

Still Life
by Louise Penny

As the early morning mist clears on Thanksgiving Sunday, the homes of Three Pines come to life--all except one... Read More... | Request a copy

The Magicians
by Lev Grossman

Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he's still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery. Read More... | Request a copy

The Blessings of the Animals
by Katrina Kittle

From the critically acclaimed author of The Kindness of Strangers comes a wry, engrossing, and moving story of a veterinarian's journey through the aftermath of divorce--amidst a motley crew of animals. Read More... | Request a copy