Whiting Public Library

January 10, 2013: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Eddie awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers.
February 14, 2013: The Postmistress by Joanne Harris In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin, Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople than she will ever say, and believes her job is to deliver secrets.
March 14, 2013: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday A young Native American, Abel has come home from a foreign war to find himself caught between two worlds.
April 11, 2013: Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen Van and Linny Luong are as baffling to each other as their parents' Vietnamese legacy is to them both. A mesmerizing novel about estranged sisters and the cultural and family history that binds them.
May 9, 2013: Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the Westward experiences of American women are equally central to an accurate picture of what life was like on the frontier.
June 13, 2013: Still Alice by Lisa Genova Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.
July 11, 2013: The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi The beautiful, immature girl whom she took home to her husband was a maid only in name. Tomo's real mission had been to find him a mistress.
August 8, 2013: Carry on Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse From the moment Jeeves glides into Bertie Wooster's life and provides him with a magical hangover cure, Bertie begins to wonder how he's ever managed without him.
September 12, 2013: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson An intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart.
October 10, 2013: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.
November 14, 2013: Endurance by Alfred Lansing The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas.
December 12, 2013: Lost Horizon by James Hilton When an uprising in Baskul forces a small group of English and American residents to flee, their plane crash-lands in the legendary paradise, Shangri-La.