1. Mrs. Bernet
February, 2013

2. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
March, the journey of a rare illuminated
manuscript through centuries of exile and
war
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book
expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis
and conservation of the famed Sarajevo
Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb
shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and
beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish
volumes ever to be illuminated with images.
When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for
her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its
ancient binding - an insect wing fragment, wine
stains, salt crystals, a white hair - she begins to
unlock the book's mysteries. The reader is
ushered into an exquisitely detailed and
atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from
its salvation back to its creation.
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at
once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and

3. Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt.
Grace Coddington’s extraordinary
talent and fierce dedication to her
work as creative director of Vogue
have made her an international
icon. Known through much of her
career only to those behind the
scenes, she might have remained
fashion’s best-kept secret were it
not for The September Issue, the
acclaimed 2009 documentary that
turned publicity-averse Grace into
a sudden, reluctant celebrity

4. A richly inventive novel about a
centuries-old vampire, a spellbound
witch, and the mysterious manuscript
that draws them together.
Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian
Library, young scholar Diana Bishop
unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical
manuscript in the course of her research.
Descended from an old and distinguished
line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do
with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a
few notes, she banishes the book to the
stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical
underworld stirring, and a horde of
daemons, witches, and vampires soon
descends upon the library. Diana has
stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for
centuries-and she is the only creature who
can break its spell.

5. "The body you are wearing used to be mine."
So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding
when she awakes in a London park surrounded
by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no
recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow
the instructions her former self left behind to
discover her identity and track down the agents
who want to destroy her.
She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-
ranking member of a secret organization called
the Chequy that battles the many supernatural
forces at work in Britain. She also discovers that
she possesses a rare, potentially deadly
supernatural ability of her own.
In her quest to uncover which member of the
Chequy betrayed her and why, Myfanwy
encounters a person with four bodies, an
aristocratic woman who can enter her dreams, a
secret training facility where children are
transformed into deadly fighters, and a
conspiracy more vast than she ever could have
imagined.
Filled with characters both fascinating and
fantastical, THE ROOK is a richly inventive,
suspenseful, and often wry thriller that marks an

6. Anthony Spencer is an egotistical, self-made,
businessman at the peak of his game until a cerebral
hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU.
He 'awakens' to find himself in a surreal world, a 'living'
landscape that mirrors dimensions of his earthly life, from
the beautiful to the corrupt. It is here that he has vivid
interactions with others he assumes are projections of his
own subconscious, but whose directions he follows
nonetheless with the possibility that they might lead to
authenticity and perhaps, redemption.
The adventure draws Tony into deep relational
entanglements where he is able to 'see' through the literal
eyes and experiences of others, but is "blind" to the
consequences of hiding his personal agenda and losses.
Will this unexpected coalescing of events cause Tony to
examine his life and realize he built a house of cards on
the poisoned grounds of a broken heart? Will he also have
the courage to make a critical choice that can undo a
major injustice he set in motion before falling into a coma

7. On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus
Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish
immigrant, was shot to death on the doorstep
of the Chicago chief of police and cast as a
would-be anarchist assassin.
A century later, a young Eastern European
writer in Chicago named Brik becomes
obsessed with Lazarus's story. Brik enlists his
friend Rora -- a war photographer from
Sarajevo -- to join him in retracing Averbuch's
path.
Through a history of pogroms and poverty,
and a prism of a present-day landscape of
cheap mafiosi and even cheaper prostitutes,
the stories of Averbuch and Brik become
inextricably intertwined, creating a truly
original, provocative, and entertaining novel
that confirms Aleksandar Hemon as one of
the most dynamic and essential literary
voices of our time

8. “It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for
one world to die, another to be born.”
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a
secret U.S. government facility unleashes
the monstrous product of a chilling military
experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night
of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise
on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever
altered. All that remains for the stunned
survivors is the long fight ahead and a
future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death,
of a fate far worse.
As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal
landscape of predators and prey, two
people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI
agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted
by what he’s done in the line of duty. Six-
year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a
refugee from the doomed scientific project
that has triggered apocalypse. He is
determined to protect her from the horror
set loose by her captors. But for Amy,
escaping the bloody fallout is only the
beginning of a much longer odyssey—
spanning miles and decades—towards the
time and place where she must finish what

9. Of the widest scope – from the air over Sicily
to the heat-and-color-saturated Sacramento
Valley; the Bay of Biscay to the sea off
Maine; the steel mills of Gary, Indiana to the
beaches of Amagansett; London in the blitz;
the invasion of Normandy; and a single shell
gliding across an American lake in August;
from the luminous houses of the wealthy to
the pounding of the boards beneath a
Broadway chorus line – this is yet, first, and
foremost a love story, but also a hymn to
New York of the period when one great age
elided into the other that we call our own.
Rich in language and classical allusion, it is
true to the mottoes at its outset: the Dantean
―Amor mi mosse, che me fa parlare,‖ ―Love
moved me, and made me speak,‖ and to the
lines of Lucretius that describe Catherine’s
extraordinary representation of the
powers, beauties, and graces of womanhood
– ―Nothing comes forth into the shores of
light, or is glad or lovely without you.‖

11. ―A young hacker-for-hire who goes by the handle Alif becomes
an enemy of the state (an unspecified Middle Eastern emirate)
after his computer program, designed to suss out the identity
of a user solely through keystroke patterns and language
tendencies, catches the eye of the iron-clad security presence
known as the Hand.
Alif has also come into possession of the fabled Alf Yeom, a
book that supposedly compiles the entire knowledge of the
jinn (which, surprise, are real, and, in the case of the saucy
and dangerous Vikram the Vampire, a bit too real). Both Alif
and the Hand see in this book the inspiration for a quantum
leap in computing sophistication, but will it be a tool for
revolution or a means to obliterate dissent?
Wilson has a lot on her mind with this ambitious and layered
novel, which swirls about ideas of theology, technology,
activism, class conflict, and cultural inquiry without getting
bogged down in any of them. As timely and thoughtful as it is
edgy and exciting, this dervish of a novel wraps modern
tendrils around ancient roots, spanning the gulf between ones
and zeros, haves and have-nots, and seen and unseen

12. When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car
crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll
never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing
a girl.
But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to
move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-
intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned
grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her
life will forever be different. Survival in Miles
City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well
enough alone (as her grandmother might say), and
Cam becomes an expert at both.
Then Coley Taylor moves to town. Beautiful, pickup-
driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect
boyfriend to match. She and Cam forge an
unexpected and intense friendship--one that seems
to leave room for something more to emerge. But just
as that starts to seem like a real
possibility, ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes drastic
action to "fix" her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face
with the cost of denying her true self--even if she's
not exactly sure who that is.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and
unforgettable literary debut about discovering who

13. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia
and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a
better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring
her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly
as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few
pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to
nine more children whom she raises with grit and
mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they
crave. She vows to prepare them for the calamitous
difficulty they are sure to face in their later lives, to
meet a world that will not love them, a world that will
not be kind. Captured here in twelve luminous narrative
threads, their lives tell the story of a mother’s
monumental courage and the journey of a nation.
Beautiful and devastating, Ayana Mathis’s The Twelve
Tribes of Hattie is wondrous from first to last—glorious,
harrowing, unexpectedly uplifting, and blazing with life.
An emotionally transfixing page-turner, a searing
portrait of striving in the face of insurmountable
adversity, an indelible encounter with the resilience of
the human spirit and the driving force of the American
dream, Mathis’s first novel heralds the arrival of a major
new voice in contemporary fiction.

15. R, a zombie with no identity and no pulse, experiences a
teenage boy's memories while consuming the young man's
brain which leads him to initiate a relationship with the victim's
human girlfriend Julie--a decision that transforms not only R's
existence but that of his walking dead comrades.

16. “Do you know what it took for Socrates’
enemies to make him stop pursuing the
truth?”
“Hemlock.”
Storied, fiercely competitive Mariana
Academy was founded with a serious
honor code; its reputation has been
unsullied for decades. Now a long-
dormant secret society, Prisom's Party,
threatens its placid halls with vigilante
justice, exposing students and teachers
alike for even the most minor infraction.
The Year of the Gadfly is an exhilarating
journey of double-crosses, deeply buried
secrets, and the lifelong reverberations of
losing someone you love.

17. Addy Hanlon has always been Beth
Cassidy's best friend and trusted
lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and
Addy carries them out, a long-
established order of things that has
brought them to the pinnacle of their
high-school careers. Now they're
seniors who rule the intensely
competitive cheer squad, feared and
followed by the other girls -- until the
young new coach arrives.
Cool and commanding, an emissary
from the adult world just beyond their
reach, Coach Colette French draws
Addy and the other cheerleaders into
her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the
new regime, remains outside Coach's
golden circle, waging a subtle but
vicious campaign to regain her
position as "top girl" -- both with the
team and with Addy herself.

18. A gripping memoir and medical
suspense story about a young New
York Post reporter’s struggle with a
rare and terrifying disease, opening a
new window into the fascinating world
of brain science.
One day, Susannah Cahalan woke up
in a strange hospital room, strapped
to her bed, under guard, and unable
to move or speak. Her medical
records—from a month-long hospital
stay of which she had no memory—
showed psychosis, violence, and
dangerous instability. Yet, only weeks
earlier she had been a healthy,
ambitious twenty-four year old, six
months into her first serious
relationship and a sparkling career as
a cub reporter. (GoodReads)

19. Mrs. Bernet
February, 2013