Check out these titles featured by our collection manager, Kelly Strom, in the News-Gazette. You'll find her column there every other Sunday.

Maine By Sullivan, J. Courtney 2011-06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307595126 Check Our Catalog Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction from the author of the bestselling debut novel "Commencement." …More

The Art of Mending By Berg, Elizabeth 2004-04 - Random House 1400061598 Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title In renowned author Elizabeth Berg's moving novel, now in paperback, unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine their disparate lives and to ask themselves: Is it too late to mend the hurts of the past? …More

Blind Sight By Howrey, Meg 2011-03 - Pantheon Books 9780307379160 Check Our Catalog In this spellbinding debut, Howrey gives readers a smart, funny, and deeply moving story about truth versus belief, about what we do and don't tell ourselves--with the result that we don't always know what we know. …More

Pumpkins: Over 75 Farm Fresh Recipes By Hatherleigh Press 2010-11 - Hatherleigh Press 9781578263578 Check Our Catalog …More

Haunted Houses: Guide to Spooky, Creepy, and Strange Places Across the USA By Diehl, Daniel Author Donnelly, Mark 2010-03 - Stackpole Books 9780811705998 Check Our Catalog Ghosts are said to inhabit many of the nations most historic houses. This guidebook spans the country, featuring the best and most active haunted houses, most of which can be toured. Vital information on visiting the locations is provided. …More

The Illinois Road Guide to Haunted Locations By Lewis, Chad Author Fisk, Terry 2007-01 - Unexplained Research Publishing Company 9780976209959 Check Our Catalog Your road guide for finding haunted bridges, caves, cemeteries, elevators, gyms, historic homes, hotels, inns, mansions, monuments, museums, railroad tracks, restaurants, and much, much more. …More

Haunted Love: Tales of Ghostly Soulmates, Spooky Suitors, and Eternal Love By Gonsalves, Chris 2009-12 - Globe Pequot Press 9780762752768 Check Our Catalog Love makes the world go 'round . . . even from underground. Romance is undeniably otherworldly. Heart racing, breath quickening, senses ablaze--it's all part of what makes love so frighteningly grand. As the French writer Francois de La Rochefoucauld said four centuries ago, "It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it." And yet, there are those who have seen both. Welcome to "Haunted Love." With settings ranging from South Florida to South Korea, this is a rich collection of seventeen tales that touch the heart and tingle the spine. Read about: Lady with the Lantern: A widowed innkeeper in St. Augustine, Florida, keeps watch for the man she loved, long after he drowned in the stormy Atlantic. Emily's Bridge: A world away, in a sleepy Vermont town, a jilted teenage lover continues to torment anyone who ventures near the bridge where she took her own life. The Lovesick Nurse: A spooky rooming house in Virginia was once the scene of forbidden love between a Confederate nurse and a Union soldier. …More

Eyes Wide Open By Gross, Andrew 2011-07 - William Morrow & Company 9780061655968 Check Our Catalog A family's long-buried past resurfaces with deadly consequences in this electrifying new thriller from the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Reckless." …More

Among the Missing By Joss, Morag 2011-06 - Delacorte Press 9780385342742 Check Our Catalog After a bridge collapses in the Highlands of Scotland, dozens of commuters vanish into the freezing river below. A female tourist, whose car was filmed pulling onto the bridge seconds before it fell, is assumed to be among the missing. But in desperate need of money, she had sold the car only hours before. Now she can begin life over. …More

The End of Everything By Abbott, Megan 2011-07 - Reagan Arthur Books 9780316097796 Check Our Catalog Thirteen-year old Lizzie Hood and her next-door-neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable. And then, one afternoon, Evie disappears. Haunted by dreams of her lost friend, Lizzie uncovers secrets and lies that make her wonder if she knew her best friend at all. …More

What the Dead Know By Lippman, Laura 2007-03 - William Morrow & Company 9780061128851 Check Our Catalog 2008 Anthony Award Winner for Best Novel Bestselling author Lippman returns to the compelling terrain of "Every Secret Thing" and "To the Power of Three" with this indelible story of crime and vengeance in which the past becomes all too present. …More

Open Season By Howard, Linda 2002-05 - Pocket Books 9780671027582 Check Our Catalog Tired of her boring life as a small-town librarian, Daisy Minor decides to give herself a "life makeover" for her 34th birthday. Transforming herself into a party girl, she's declared open season for manhunting. But her free-spirited fun is shattered when she witnesses something she shouldn't--and becomes the target of a killer. …More

Into the Storm By Brockmann, Suzanne 2007-07 - Ballantine Books 9780345480156 Check Our Catalog Navy SEAL officer Mark Jenkins and Troubleshooters special-ops agent Lindsey Fontaine hunt a serial killer in the backwoods of New Hampshire and confront their mutual feelings in this "New York Times" bestseller. …More

A Kiss in Winter By Crandall, Susan 2007-01 - Warner Forever 9780446616409 Check Our Catalog The award-winning author of "Back Roads" delivers a moving tale of a woman who's always dreamed of leaving her small town, and the man who gives her one last reason to stay. Original. …More

Take Me for a Ride By Kendall, Karen 2009-11 - Signet Book 9780451228468 Check Our Catalog Art restorer Natalie Rosen had never expected a legendary family heirloom, rumored to have been owned by Catherine the Great, to suddenly turn up in her office. Then, just as quickly, it vanishes--along with the impulsive Natalie. Eric McDougal is the recovery agent. He lives to chase women--and stolen art. Now he gets to do both. Original. …More

Turn of Mind By LaPlante, Alice 2011-07 - Atlantic Monthly Press 9780802119773 Check Our Catalog This is a fantastic debut novel about a brilliant surgeon who finds she is slowly succumbing to dementia.  We follow her passage through journal entries.  There's a murder mystery thrown in for good measure as well! …More

South of Superior By Airgood, Ellen 2011-06 - Riverhead Books 9781594487934 Check Our Catalog A heartwarming debut novel, "South of Superior" explores the deep reward in caring for others, and shows how one who is poor in pocket can be rich in so many other ways, and how little it often takes to make someone happy. …More

The Watery Part of the World By Parker, Michael 2011-04 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 9781565126824 Check Our Catalog Set along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the 1800's and the 1970s, the novel follows Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, who by many accounts was captured by pirates and lived out the rest of her life on a remote island, and the island's descendants hundreds of years later. …More

Great House By Krauss, Nicole 2010-10 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393079982 Check Our Catalog Krauss pens a powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through. …More

The History of Love By Krauss, Nicole 2006-05 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393328622 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Inspired by her four grandparents (from four different countries), Krauss tells the story of a man who, 60 years ago in the Polish village where he was born, fell in love and wrote a book. And though he doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love. …More

Feather Crowns By Mason, Bobbie Ann 1994-06 - Harper Perennial 9780060925499 Check Our Catalog Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of the turn of this century, this engaging novel by the author of In Country tells the story of a young farm wife, living in rural Kentucky, who unintentionally creates a national sensation when she gives birth to the first recorded set of quintuplets in North America. …More

Charms for the Easy Life By Gibbons, Kaye 2005-07 - Harper Perennial 0060760257 Check Our Catalog A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts. Sophia, Margaret, and Charlie Kate find strength in a time when women almost always depended on men, and their bond deepens as each one experiences love and loss during World War II. Charms for the Easy Life is a passionate, luminous, and exhilarating story about embracing what life has to offer ... even if it means finding it in unconventional ways.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. …More