Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert (Kit) Elizabeth Gilbert was a 30-year-old successful journalist with a perfect life when she realized she was miserable. After surviving an acrimonious divorce, Gilbert sold her remaining possessions to spend a year abroad in three countries with nothing in common except starting with the letter "I." She eats (in Italy), prays (in India), and finds love (in Indonesia).

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Kit) When 23-year-old Jankowski learns that his parents have been killed in a car crash he drops out of veterinary school and parlays his expertise with animals into a job with the circus, where he falls in love with star performer Marlena, a romance complicated by Marlena's husband, the circus boss who beats both his wife and the animals Jankowski cares for.

Fiction

The beekeeper's apprentice : on the segregation of the queen by Laurie King

A bucket of ashes by P. B. Ryan

Children playing before a statue of Hercules : an anthology of outstanding short stories by edited by David Sedaris

A Step From Heaven by An Na (Kit)

Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle (Kit)

The Bean Trees: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (Kit)

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Kit)

The Boy on the Bus by Deborah Schupack (Kit, Large Print Kit)

The Da Vinci Code: A Novel by Dan Brown (Kit, Large Print Kit)

The Good Wife Strikes Back by Elizabeth Buchan

The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler (Kit, Large Print Kit)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Kit)

The Giant's House: A Romance by Elizabeth McCracken (Kit)

Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry: Stories by Elizabeth McCracken