LDS Books

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• Books by LDS authors
• Light reads
• Clean reads

Icing on the Cake
By Elodia Strain
ROMANCE STRAIN
Annabelle Pleasanton, having recently been promoted at work, is also trying to deal with her best friend’s engagement and attractive Isaac Matthews. However, balancing everything turns out to be much more difficult than she anticipated.

Hourglass Door
By Lisa Mangum
YA F MANGUM
Dante, a prisoner sent from fifteenth-century Italy into the present time as punishment, meets and falls in love with Abby, a high school senior who may be the only one who can save him.

Cankered Roots
By G.G. Vanagriff
MYSTERY VANAGRI
Alexandra Campbell and Brighamina Poulson use genealogical records and stories to solve a murder mystery. Along the way, though, they discover secrets in Alex’s own family that help her understand much more about who she is.

Undercurrents
By Traci Hunter Abramson
ROMANCE ABRAMSON
Shaye Kendall is in the witness protection program and can’t reveal her secret to anyone. As much as she’d like to be able to get involved with other people, particularly Matt Whitmore, she knows it isn’t safe. However, when she realizes that whoever is after her has found her, she has to decide if she can trust Matt.

Sanctuary
By Beverly Lewis
F Lewis
A secret past forces Melissa James to flee her marriage and seek refuge with a Pennsylvania Dutch family, while her husband fears his own mistake will prevent their reunion. (This is not LDS, but it’s a clean, easy read.)

Teen Books Featuring Angels

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• Teen Books
• Angels
• Paranormal/Supernatural books

Halo
By Alexandra Adornetto
YA F ADORNETT
When three angels are sent from heaven to protect the town of Venus Cove against the gathering forces of darkness, their mission is threatened as the youngest angel, Bethany, enrolls in high school and falls in love with another student.

Crescendo
By Becca Fitzpatrick
YA F FITZPATR
In this sequel to Hush, Hush, sixteen-year-old Nora Grey struggles to face the truth while coping with having a fallen angel boyfriend named Patch and unraveling the mystery surrounding her father’s death.

Meridian
By Amber Kizer
YA F KIZER
On her sixteenth birthday, Meridian is whisked off to her great-aunt’s home in Revelation, Colorado, where she learns that she is a Fenestra, the half-human, half-angel link between the living and the dead, and must learn to help the human souls to the afterlife before the dark forces reach them.

The Prophecy
By Dawn Miller
YA F MILLER
Five gifted teenagers find themselves in the middle of a battle for mankind between the angelic forces of heaven and hell.

Eternal
By Cynthia Smith
YA F SMITH
When Miranda’s guardian angel Zachary recklessly saves her from falling into an open grave and dying, the result is that she turns into a vampire and he is left to try to reinstate his reputation by finally doing the right thing.

The Fallen
By Tom Sniegoski
YA F SNIEGOSKI
He’s been moving from foster home to foster home, and doesn’t know who he can trust. When Aaron begins to hear strange voices, he tries to resist his supernatural abilities, but must accept his newfound heritage-and quickly. For the dark powers are gaining strength, and are hell-bent on destroying him.

Teen Adventures on CD

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• Teen books
• Adventures

Ella Enchanted
By Gail Carson Levine
BCD YA LEVIN
This is a charming re-telling of the classic Cinderella story. At birth, Ella is cursed by an imprudent fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the "gift" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. But her intelligence and good nature aid her as she sets out to find Lucinda to undo the curse.

Eragon
By Christopher Paolini
BCD YA PAOLINI
A 15 year old boy called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

Life As We Knew It
By Susan Beth Pfeffer
BCD YA PFEFFER
Through journal entries, 16-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

Incarceron
By Catherine Fisher
BCD YA FISHER
Incarceron is a prison unlike any other. Finn, a 17-year-old prisoner, can’t remember his childhood and believes he came from Outside Incarceron, even though most inmates don’t believe that Outside even exists. Then Finn finds a crystal key and through it, a girl named Claudia who claims to live Outside. Her father is the Warden of Incarceron, and she is Finn’s only hope of escape. But escape will be far more difficult than they realize, because Incarceron is alive.

True Crime and Medical Thrillers

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• True crime stories or medical thrillers

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
By Richard Preston
614.57 PRE
This is a bone-chilling account of how a strain of a lethal, infectious, previously unknown virus showed up in 1989 at a Virginia laboratory and the efforts of a military biohazard SWAT team to identify and prevent the spread of the virus.

Isolation Ward
By Joshua Spanogle
F SPANOGLE
Three female residents of a group home for the mentally impaired are victims of a baffling and unstoppable virus. Dr. Nathaniel McCormick, from the Center for Disease Control, peers into their lives and habits in an attempt to discover the source of virus and what he finds chills him to the very bone.

The Alienist
By Caleb Carr
MYSTERY CARR
Carr’s work is an intricately detailed and outstanding psychological thriller set in 19th century New York City. A deadly serial killer stalks the streets of New York City and Teddy Roosevelt, police commissioner, recruits the “alienist” (an early kind of abnormal psychologist) along with a police reporter to track down a serial killer.

The Onion Field
By Joseph Wambaugh
364.1523 WAM
This classic of true crime is an in-depth analysis of a 1963 event in Los Angeles. Two cops pull over two crooks in an otherwise routine traffic stop. But the desperate crooks kidnap the cops, drive them out to an onion field in the countryside, and murder one. The other escapes death but is haunted by guilt over this partner's death and his inability to help.

Contemporary Romantic Suspense

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• Romance
• Suspense
• Contemporary time period

Face of Deception
By Iris Johansen
MYSTERY JOHANSEN
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is persuaded by billionaire magnate John Logan to reconstruct the face of an adult murder victim. It turns out to be a very dangerous job as she is left in a specially equipped lab in rural Virginia. Surveillance cameras are everywhere, the phones are tapped and Logan himself seems both charming and desperate.

Got Your Number
By Stephanie Bond
ROMANCE BOND
After Roxann is approached by the police and Angora is jilted at the alter, they decide to take a road trip to their alma mater to accomplish goals they formed while in college, and then become involved in a murder on campus.

2000 Kisses
By Christina Skye
ROMANCE SKYE
A computer glitch sends P.R whiz Tess O'Mara running for her life. Nearly dying from heatstroke, she reaches Almost, Arizona, and falls into the arms of Sheriff T.J. McCall.

Hearts in Hiding
By Betsy Brannon Green
MYSTERY GREEN
Kate Singleton is newly widowed and pregnant with her first child. The people who are responsible for his husband’s murder are out to get her as well, so Kate is enrolled in the FBI’s witness protection program, where besides being given a new home, she’s also assigned an FBI agent as her new husband.

Undercurrents
Traci Hunter Abramson
F ABRAMSON
Shaye Kendall is in the witness protection program and can’t reveal her secret to anyone. As much as she’d like to be able to get involved with other people, particularly Matt Whitmore, she knows it isn’t safe. However, when she realizes that whoever is after her has found her, she has to decide if she can trust Matt.

Nonfiction Books about Social Problems, Current Issues, and Economics

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• Nonfiction
• Books about social problems, current issues, or economics

Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us
By Daniel H. Pink
153.1534 PIN
Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does. He argues that the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

The Art of Choosing
By Sheena Iyengar
153.83 IYE
Sheena Iyengar’s award-winning research reveals how and why we choose: whether or not choice is innate or bound by culture, why we sometimes choose against our best interests, and how much control we really have over what we choose.

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By Michael Lewis
330.973 LEW
The author explains how the event we were told was impossible – the free fall of the American economy – finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
By Ken Auletta
338.761 AUL
A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media landscape, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media business – from newspapers to books, to television, to movies, to telephones, to advertising, to Microsoft.

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
By Jon Krakauer
BIO TILLMAN
The stunning, eloquent account of Pat Tillman, an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast who walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, Tillman felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later on April 22, 2004, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan under murky, heartbreaking circumstances.

Psychological or Suspenseful Fiction

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• Psychological or suspenseful fiction

Tell No One
By Harlan Coben
MYSTERY COBEN
David Beck has never fully recovered from his wife's murder eight years ago. When he receives a mysterious e-mail and wonders if Elizabeth could be alive. A powerful billionaire is determined to make sure his role in Elizabeth’s disappearance never comes to light, but David will stop at nothing to find the truth.

Alias Grace
By Margaret Atwood
F ATWOOD
The author reconstructs the true story of a Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks who was tried for murder in 1843. Marks was sentenced to life imprisonment and spent the next 30 years in various jails and asylums. Atwood introduces fictional Dr. Simon Jordan who listens to the prisoner’s tale and uncovers the truth about her.

Cut
By Patricia McCormick
YA F MCCORMIC
Callie is admitted to Sea Pines, a psychiatric hospital, after starting a course of self-destruction and refusing to speak. Slowly she emerges from her silence and begins to understand the role her dysfunctional family plays in her cutting. Callie makes small increments of progress and begins to learn how to relieve her inner frustrations in a more productive manner.

Shiver
By Maggie Stiefvater
YA F STIEFVAT
During the cold months of the year Grace, can see a yellow eyed wolf in the woods behind her house--a wolf who saved her from an attack by other wolves years ago. When a hunting party targets the wolves, Grace races through the woods and discovers a wounded boy shivering on her back porch. One look at his eyes and she knows that this is her wolf in human form.

Books with Elements of the Surreal

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• Books similar to those of Paul Auster, Thomas Pynchon, or Kurt Vonnegut
• Books with elements that are surreal or unusual

Underworld
By Don DeLillo
F DELILLO A work combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years gives readers a glimpse into the realities upon which America’s modern culture is based and explores the complex relationship between “waste analyst” Nick Shay and artist Klara Sax.

Kafka on the Shore
By Haruki Murakami
F MURAKAMI
An unlikely alliance forms between Kafka Tamura, a fifteen-year-old runaway, and the aging Nakata, a man who has never recovered from a wartime affliction, as they embark on a surreal odyssey through a strange, fantastical world.

Freddy and Fredericka
By Mark Helprin
F HELPRIN
Ridiculed by the British press, Prince of Wales Freddy and his wife, the frivolous Fredericka, are sent to colonize the barbaric land of America, during which they engage in a freight train ride, an art theft, and a wayward presidential election.

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
By Michael Chabon
F CHABON
In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy.

Spook Country
By William Gibson
F GIBSON
Multilingual Tito engages in sensitive information transfers from his single-room apartment, while journalist Hollis frets over her start-up magazine’s censure of its own promotions, and prescription drug addict Milgrim wonders about the military connections of an enigmatic benefactor.

Recently Published Historical Fiction

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• Historical fiction
• Books published in the last ten years

The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
F Stockett
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.

Sarah’s Key
By Tatiana de Rosnay
F Rosnay
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid.

Apothecary’s Daughter
By Julie Klassen
F Klassen
Yearning for more adventure in her life and longing to know the truth behind her mother's disappearance, Lillian Haswell, the daughter of the local apothecary, seizes the opportunity when a distant aunt offers to educate her as a lady in London.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer
F Shaffer
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.

The Whiskey Rebels
By David Liss
F Liss
Hired by his onetime fiancee to find her missing husband, Ethan Saunders, a former spy for Washington during the Revolution, follows a trail that leads him to Alexander Hamilton and to rebellious whiskey-makers fiercely opposed to a tax on their products.

Great Discussion Books

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• Great books for discussion

Hiding Place
By Corrie Ten Boom
940.53 TEN
Corrie ten Boom’s account of her amazing family’s experiences during the German occupation of Holland reveals her indomitable Christian faith.

John Adams
By David McCullough
BIOGRAPHY ADAMS
Chronicles the life of America’s second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the nation.

Peace like a River
By Leif Enger
F ENGER
The quiet 1960s Midwestern life of the Land family – father Jeremiah, and children, Rueben, Davy, and Swede – is upended when Davy kills two teenage boys who have come to harm the family. On the morning of his sentencing, Davy escapes from his cell and the Lands set out in search of him. Their search is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story, and a haunting medication on the possibility of magic in the everyday world.

The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
F ZUSAK
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel – a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her and her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Life of Pi
By Yann Martel
F MARTEL
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper’s son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

Mysterious Romance

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• Mystery
• Romance
• Books similar to those of Nora Roberts

Magic in the Wind
By Christine Feehan
ROMANCE FEEHAN
Seven sisters possessed of magical talents have returned to Sea Haven, as they always do when trouble is brewing. This time the trouble is Damon Wilder, whose life may be threatened by the two men stalking him and whose heart is certainly endangered after meeting Sarah, the eldest sister.

River Road
By JoAnn Ross
ROMANCE ROSS
Suspended from the FBI for his rough treatment of a serial killer, Finn Callahan comes home, only to be persuaded to act as bodyguard to an actress who has received threatening letters. Passion sparks between the two as they attempt to fend off the stalker as well as their growing attraction.

Guardian of Honor
By Robin D. Owens
SCIFI OWENS
The Marshalls of Lladrana summon a savvy though average American lawyer from Earth to their realm, in hopes that she might save them from an impending monstrous evil.

Light in Shadow
By Jayne Ann Krentz
ROMANCE KRENTZ Suspecting that a new client is hiding a dark secret, home decorator Zoe Luce enlists the help of investigator Ethan Truax, with whom she falls in love despite the dark secrets of her past that could destroy their budding romance.