When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family’s ambitious plots as the king’s interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. Then Mary knows that she must defy her family and her king, and take her fate into her own hands.  Place a hold on this kit here.

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When ten-year-old Daniel Sempere enters the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and chooses one to call his own, a lifelong adventure begins.  As Daniel learns more about the mysterious book, he realizes how much he and the author have in common.  Place a hold on this kit here.

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There has been a wave of suicides by religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves.  An exiled poet returns to Turkey to learn more about the suicides, but he has other reasons for returning as well.  A beautifully written novel.  Place a hold on this kit here. 

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Peony is a 17th century Chinese girl who is engaged to a man she has never met.  While attending an opera that she is allowed to view only from behind a screen, she catches sight of a handsome man and begins a journey of love and sorrow.  This novel is based on a true story.  Place a hold on the kit here.

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Thirteen-year-old Anna was genetically engineered to be a donor for her older sister, Kate.  She has given platelets, bone marrow and more.  Now she has hired a lawyer and is suing her parents for the rights to her own body.  This novel is narrated by several compelling characters, and has been made into a feature film.  Place a hold on this kit here.

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This story is told by Christopher, an autistic fifteen-year-old.  He is mathematically gifted, and numbers his chapters only with prime numbers.  After being accused of murdering a neighbor’s dog, he decides to clear his name by discovering the dog’s real cause of death.  It is a challenge for Christopher to interact with people, but he perseveres, and even discovers secret information about his family.  This kit is a great choice for adult or teen groups.  Place a hold here.

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This is the compelling drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization.  At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in 1959 in the Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters.  Place a hold on the kit here.

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London, January 1946, emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject.  She finds it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb.  As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends.  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.  Place a hold on this best seller here.

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Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well.  He’s also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father’s death in the World Trade Center attacks.  As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.  Place a hold on this kit here.

This memoir relates how Nafisi, a university professor, leaves her job and invites some of her female students to read and discuss Western literature in her home.  This compelling best seller relates the oppression suffered by women in Iran and the ideas shared in the their secret meetings.  Place a hold on this kit here.

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