Books open the doors to possibilities

Whether you’re looking to improve your life, ponder our current political climate, leave for a dangerous, vicarious sleuthing adventure, or have a mysterious romantic escape, we have a little something for everyone.

Check these out! by Suzy Welch, shows how you can replace chaos with consistency, guilt with joy, and confusion with clarity. Her new approach to decision making, 10-10-10, is a tool for reclaiming your life at home, in love and at work. The process is clear, straightforward, and transparent. All it takes to begin are three questions: What are the consequences of my decision in 10 minutes? In 10 months? And in 10 years? Sharing moving stories from her own life and the lives of many other dedicated 10-10-10 users, Welch shows how considering decision outcomes 10 years out reveals unconscious agendas, fears, needs, and desires, helping us to identify and live according to our deepest goals and values.

Liberty and Tyranny, by Mark R. Levin, states “…his own opinions and conclusions of fundamental truths, based on decades of observation, exploration, and experience, about conservatism and conversely, non-conservatism – that is liberty and tyranny in modern America.” Looking back to look to the future, Levin writes "conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles ‘are’ our founding principles." And in a series of strongly-worded essays, Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming, immigration, and more.

Loitering with Intent, by Stuart Woods, is the newest addition to the bestselling Stone Barrington series. Dumped by his glamorous Russian girlfriend during dinner at Elaine’s, and running low on cash, Stone Barrington is having a bad week. So his luck seems to be improving when he’s hired to locate the missing son of a very wealthy man, he’s lucky because the job pays well and because the son is hiding in the tropical paradise of Key West. But when Stone and his sometime running buddy Dino Bacchetti arrive in the sunny Keys, it appears that someone has been lying in wait. When Stone very nearly loses his life after being blindsided at a local bar, he realizes that the young man he’s been hired to track may have good reason for not wanting to be found.

Lavender Morning, by Jude Deveraux, introduces a new series. Jocelyn Minton is a woman torn between two worlds. Her mother was a Williamsburg, Va., debutante who married the local handyman. After her mother died when Jocelyn was only five years old, her father remarried into his own class and Jocelyn became an outsider. She is befriended and watched over by Edilean Harcourt, who, though some sixty years older than she, proved to be her true kindred spirit. When Miss Edi passes away, she leaves Jocelyn all her worldly possessions, including an 18th-century house and a letter with clues to a mystery that began in 1941. In the letter, Miss Edi also mentions that she has found the perfect man for Jocelyn – a handsome young lawyer. All these are to be found in a village she has never heard of. Hurt that the woman who meant so much to her kept so many secrets, Jocelyn moves to Edilean, Virginia, in an attempt to understand the legacy that has been left to her. As she begins to dig into Miss Edi's mystery, she soon discovers some shocking surprises about her family's history and her own future.