May 21, 2008
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See
An evocative story of friendship set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century China in which women suffered from foot binding, isolation, and illiteracy follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.

June 18, 2008
The Undomestic Goddess
by Sophie Kinsella
After making a mistake that will ruin any chance of a partnership, workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting suffers a breakdown, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere, where she is mistaken for someone looking for a job and is hired as a housekeeper, but her new employers are unaware that she is an attorney with no housekeeping skills at all.

July 16, 2008
The Girl in the Green Glass Mirror
by Elizabeth McGregor
Devastated by her husband's abandonment, Catherine Sergeant seeks refuge in her career evaluating fine art and her growing friendship with architect John Brigham, a man with his own tragic secrets, who shares her passion for the work of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, and painted most of his finest work while incarcerated in an insane asylum.

August 20, 2008
The Children's Blizzard
by David Laskin
An account of the deadly 1888 snowstorm in the Great Plains that killed more than five hundred people including numerous schoolchildren which describes how the storm devastated immigrant families and dramatically affected poineer advancement..