Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett (Large Print) The author of Bel Canto describes her intimate 20-year friendship with the late Lucy Grealy, tracing their introduction at a writer's workshop, the integral part their friendship played in their writing careers, and her witness to Grealy's medical deterioration.

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Short Stories edited by David Sedaris (Kit) A collection of favorite contemporary and classical short fiction works, selected by the author of Barrel Fever and Me Talk Pretty One Day, includes pieces by such writers as Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (Large Print Kit) Published more than 60 years following the author's death at Auschwitz, a remarkable story of life under the Nazi occupation includes two parts - "A Storm in June," set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied provincial village rife with jealousy, resentment, resistance and collaboration.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King (Kit) In the early years of WW I, 15-year-old American Mary Russell encounters Sherlock Holmes, retired in Sussex Downs. Impressed with Mary, Holmes initiates her into the mysteries of detection. The collaboration is ignited by the kidnapping in Wales of Jessica Simpson, daughter of an American senator. The sleuthing duo find signs of the hand of a master criminal.

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