Top 10 Los Gatos Library Books on Display

1.  Strangers at the Feast, Jennifer Vanderbes

On Thanksgiving Day 2007, as the country teeters on the brink of a recession, three generations of the Olson family gather. Eleanor and Gavin worry about their daughter, a single academic, and her newly adopted Indian child, and about their son, who has been caught in the imploding real-estate bubble.

2. Healer, Carol Wiley Cassella

One doctor’s struggle to hold her family together through a storm of broken trust and questioned ethics.

3. The Legacy, Kirsten Tranter

A modern reworking of Henry James's Portrait of a Lady set in the Manhattan art world, with plenty of jealousy and intrigue.

4. Some Sing, Some Cry, Ntozake Shange

Spanning history from Reconstruction to the Hip Hop Era, sisters Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza's new novel "Some Sing, Some Cry" is a sprawling recreation.

5. Chalcot Crescent, Fay Weldon

A wickedly sharp, history-bending, cosmos-colliding novel that tells the story of Frances, Fay's never-born younger sister. 

6. Life Would be Perfect if I lived in that House, Meghan Daum

The true story of one woman’s “imperfect life lived among imperfect houses” and her quest for the four perfect walls to call home.

7. Click, Ori Brafman

A book about the hidden components behind human connections.

8. Bolt From the Blue, Diane Stuckart

Third in the intriguing Leonardo da Vinci mystery series known for "capturing the essence of 15th-century Milan." 

9. The Dead Lie Down, Sophie Hannah

A psychological thriller by Sophie Hannah set in the fringes of the British art world.

10.  The Masuda Affair, I.J. Parker

Eleventh-century Japan: Government official Sugawara Akitada is on his way home to the capital of Heian-Kyo when he finds a small mute boy on a deserted road. Akitada, still grieving for his own small son, opens his arms to the child. The search for the boy’s parents uncovers a harrowing story of love, murder and abandonment, distracting Akitada from his own troubles, but putting his career and reputation at risk.

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