The Second Floor Librarians

Thanks to RuthRose Hennessey, one of our fabulous children’s librarians for the following fiction recommendations.

Here is a list of escapist reading that keeps your intellect engaged alongside the smart women & men who save the day …

Archaeologist Mick Gabriel is the only person in the world who has the secret knowledge necessary to stop the 2012 apocalypse. Unfortunately, Mick is currently a patient in an insane asylum. Intern Dominique Vazquez has just been assigned to his case. Can Mick convince her that he isn’t insane in time to save the world?

Molecular biologist Kaye Lang has a theory on human retroviruses and it has just been verified with the discovery of SHEVA, a virus that has slept in our DNA for millions of years and is now waking up. Kaye and her colleagues must race against a genetic time bomb in this international adventure.

The discovery of a mysterious object in the U.S. Capitol building and a subsequent kidnapping lead the Harvard symbologist into a web of mysterious codes, secret locations, and hidden knowledge.

Antiquarian bookseller and former CIA operative Cotton Malone son’s been kidnapped. The ransom demand is the source that leads to the ancient library thought to have been destroyed centuries ago. Contemporary issues, history & page-turning thriller elements combine in shocking ways.

Dr. Jeff Duran finds his life spiraling out of control when he teams up with Adrienne Cope, a suicide victim’s sister, as they are both targeted by unknown assassins & must work together to find out why they have been marked for death.

When the opening gala of a Vatican exhibit attended by archaeologist Tess Chaykin is stormed by four horsemen dressed as Templar Knights who steal an artifact, FBI anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly & Tess team up for an investigation.

A young novice during the French Revolution risks her life to keep a jeweled chess belonging to Charlemagne, and in the 20th century, a computer expert and a chess master try to solve its mystery.

Plagued by unsettling visions after leaving her U.S. Defense Department job where she participated in psychic espionage experiments, Jennifer Narody learns unsettling truths about the subject of her visions.

As cinematic as they come, a shiny adventure powered by a superior high concept: a group of young physicists travel back from our time to medieval southern France to rescue their mentor, who’s trapped there.