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First published as Painfully Rich, John Pearson’s "All The Money In The World" is the story of J. Paul Getty, now a major motion picture for which Christopher Plummer was nominated for best supporting actor. Love movies? Don't miss our movie program, Talking Movies, May 2 at the Chandler Downtown Library. Read more

A patient with recurrent rotator-cuff tendinitis visits three doctors who dismiss his increased swelling and fever as nothing more than inflammation and flu - until a fourth diagnoses cancer. What makes the difference? According to Ronald Epstein, a practicing family physician and some-time student of Zen, it’s mindfulness. Read more

Lisa Genova's books need to come with a thick stack of tissues because you know you're going to cry! In Every Note Played, Richard is a classical concert pianist who seems to think very well of himself. He's divorced his wife and hasn't spoken with his daughter in year. And then he gets ALS. Read more

I had been in reading slump for a month or so, not finding a book that would grab me and keep me interested. All the Beautiful Lies is the one that yanked me out of my slump and gave me whiplash with all of its twist and turns, intensifying with each chapter. Read more

I loved the setting of As Bright As Heaven: during WWI and the Spanish Flu epidemic in the U.S. at the same time. I was not at all familiar with this era, having read more WWII historical fiction. However, this book dealt with family relationships and boy, do I know about those! Are we predestined in our familial relationships or do we have any control over them? Read more

Don’t bother thinking that you have The Wife Between Us all figured out as you read it, because you won’t figure it out. The ending has a surprising plot twist and you have to connect the dots to get there. Read more

The place is China. The time is the near future. Decades of the government's one- child policy and the social preference for boys have created a drastic shortage of marriageable women. New laws allow each woman to have up to three husbands. Autistic men and gay men are forbidden to marry or have children, and they face arrest, relocation and "reeducation" if they do. Meanwhile, the vast population of single men takes part in war games, an activity that is grudgingly permitted by the government - until something goes terribly wrong. Read more

What would you do if you knew you had a genetic predisposition for a horrible, painful disease that would lead to death in a short amount of time? In recent years, there have been several advances in the genomics field that allow people to find out this information. If you find out, then what do you do with it? Read more

Imagine you are giving birth at the same time the world as we know it is ending. The unnamed narrator of the short, poetic novel The End We Start From faces just this trial as she enters the hospital to have her first child, while an epic flood is submerging London beneath a wall of water. Read more

Visit the dark days of WWII in Lucy Ribchester’s novel The Amber Shadows. Honey Deschamps is a typist at top-secret Bletchley Park, working in a hut on the park grounds and living in a billet in town with a not very welcoming couple. One evening she receives a package from a well-dressed, handsome young man who tells her the package was delivered to his work area by mistake. When she opens it... Read more