General Recommendations...

Drinking Midnight Wine
Simon R. Green

Toby Dexter is a slave to his own daily grind-nine-to-five at the local bookstore. But one evening he gets a reprieve in the form of a beautiful woman riding the same train...
A woman who opens a door that wasn't there a moment before...
The door to Mysterie..

Nine Levels Down
William R. Dantz

Dr. Anna Kane has invented a tiny computer device that, once implanted in the brain of a psychopath, monitors his violent impulses and renders him unconscious before he can act.

The device is first implanted in John Chester Marlon, the infamous, charismatic Subway Killer. Convicted of murdering four young women in the tunnels of New York City's subway system, Marlon is so dangerous that even hardened prison guards will not be alone with him. If Dr. Kane's little computer can control Marlon, she'll become rich and famous.

But John Chester Marlon is not a psychopath, not subject to murderous rages. His every act is cold, calculated, and drawn from a superior understanding of human behavior.

The implant won't put Marlon to sleep. It won't even slow him down. Dr. Anna Kane is about to learn what really lurks in the mind of a killer.

And a list of book suggestions from Nick,
the Library's Assistant Director for many years:

Bad Land
Jonathan Raban

Banquet Years; the Arts in France, 1885 - 1918
Roger Shattuck

Blue Highways: a Journey into America
William Least Heat Moon

Charles Kuralt's America
Charles Kuralt

Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier

Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac

Dixon Cornbelt League, and Other Baseball Stories
W. P. Kinsella

Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell

Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien

Growing Up
Russell Baker