The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Released: October 2009

The Lost Symbol is the third book in Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series. Dan Brown writes pure entertainment; The Lost Symbol will definitely keep you as rapt as you were when reading The Da Vinci Code (2003).

The setting for The Lost Symbol is our country's own Washington, D.C. Robert Langdon is contacted by an old friend and mentor to attend a lecture in the capitol city, however when he arrives at the Capitol Building, Robert discovers he has been lured under false pretenses. Someone believes Langdon is the key to unlocking secrets of the Freemasons, so to urge Langdon into performing the tasks needed, precious lives are threatened and people will die if Langdon doesn't help. A noetic scientist named Katherine Solomon is the sister of Freemason Peter Solomon -- the man who has disappeared at the hands of the mysterious person luring Langdon into revealing the society's secrets. With Katherine's help and knowledge of scientific noetic breakthroughs, Langdon just may be on the verge of exposing the largest enigma known to mankind.

Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg

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Released: April 2009

Home Safe is one of many amazing novels by bestselling and prolific author Elizabeth Berg. This one is by far one of her most memorable, and I've read them all!

Here's the synopsis of Home Safe.

Helen Ames is a bestselling author and recent widow struggling with writer's block as she tries to adjust to life without her husband. Helen's late husband was in charge of managing their finances, so when Helen discovers there's very little money left for her on which to live comfortably, it comes as quite a shock. Why are thousands of dollars missing from their bank account, and what on earth did her husband spend it on?

13 1/2 by Nevada Barr

Released: October 2009

Nevada Barr is the best-selling author of the Anna Pigeon mystery series; 13 1/2 is her second stand-alone novel.

In 1971, a young boy murdered his family in "Amityville-Horror"-style and has been known forever after as "Butcher Boy". Throughout his years of imprisonment, "Butcher Boy" experienced horrible drug-induced treatments from doctors in an effort to get the young boy to remember the gristly details of the night he has forgotten.

Meanwhile in present-day New Orleans, a woman with her own troubled childhood named Polly is years into her new life with children of her own. When Polly meets and falls in love with an architect named Marshall, strange and scary things begin to happen that just may threaten Polly and her children's lives. Will Polly learn the truth before it's too late?

Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton

Released: July 2010

Andrew Morton is a former journalist and author of several celebrity biographies, releasing his first book Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words in 1992. Angelina Jolie is Morton's most recent subject.

In Angelina, Morton writes with utmost explicit detail not only about Jolie's childhood and upbringing, but also about the history of her parents Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. Using details from interviews and his own research, Morton's biography is extremely thorough and is ultimately the perfect guide for anyone wanting to know anything and everything about Angelina Jolie; from facts about her paternal and maternal grandparents to her career, her many boyfriends and husbands, addictions, and much, much more.