If you like strong female characters with a sense of adventure such as the women featured in Amy Tan's stories, may we suggest...

The Golden Calf by Helene Tursten ; Translation by Laura A. Wideburg

Good as gone by Douglas Corleone

Her brother's keeper: a Joan Spencer mystery by Sara Hoskinson Frommer

The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis

Illegally iced by Jessica Beck

We're not just reading, we're listening to audiobooks and watching videos.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society [sound recording] by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

The lost art of mixing by Erica Bauermeister

Peyton Place [videodisc] by Twentieth Century Fox presents a CinemaScope picture ; Jerry Wald's production

A wrinkle in time: the graphic novel by [Madeleine L'Engle] ; adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson ; [colored by Jenn Manley Lee]

Putumayo presents Jazz around the world [sound recording]

Antiques disposal by Barbara Allan

A killer in the wind by Andrew Klavan

Least of evils: a Percy Peach mystery by J.M. Gregson

Looking for yesterday by Marcia Muller

The old gray wolf by James D. Doss

Unnatural habits: a Phryne Fisher mystery by Kerry Greenwood

Don't let your book group miss these.

The three Weissmanns of Westport [kit] by Cathleen Schine

Annie's ghosts [kit]: a journey into a family secret by Steve Luxenberg

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks [kit] by Rebecca Skloot

The reading group by Elizabeth Noble

The pilot's wife: a novel by Anita Shreve

Battle hymn of the tiger mother by Amy Chua

Amy Chua presents the disparate parenting styles between the Western and Chinese-American cultures in her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. The direct result of her diligent demands of perfection from her children? Her eldest daughter Sophia's acceptance into Harvard this week. Now that is "winning!"