2006: #79 – The Mermaid Chair (Sue Monk Kidd)

Title: The Mermaid Chair Author: Sue Monk Kidd Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 2006 Pages: 335 Sue Monk Kidd’s phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Times bestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill

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2006: #78 – Voyager (Diana Gabaldon)

Title: Voyager Series: Outlander #03 Author: Diana Gabaldon Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Release Date: 1994 Pages: 1072 In this rich, vibrant tale, Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber. Sweeping us from the battlefields of eighteenth-century Scotland to the exotic West Indies, Diana Gabaldon weaves

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2006: #77 – Indigo Slam (Robert Crais)

Title: Indigo Slam Series: Elvis Cole #07 Author: Robert Crais Genre: Detective Fiction Publisher: Fawcett Books Release Date: January 1, 2003 Pages: 307 Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole–until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes. Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by

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2006: #76 – Dragonfly in Amber (Diana Gabaldon)

Title: Dragonfly in Amber Series: Outlander #02 Author: Diana Gabaldon Genre: Historical Romance Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Release Date: 1993 Pages: 960 For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland’s majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of

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