Hi Tristy -- welcome back!
You can look up games by the year they were published
here at the Pagoda Adventure Game Database. You'll find plenty of entertaining games that have been released in, for instance, 2007 through 2009.
You could print up these lists, and then compare the games to the ones that got the most votes in
the GameBoomers' Adventure Game List, 2008 just for starters. (Since this vote was taken in June 2008, games that released late in 2008 or 2009 will not have made the list.)
You could also look at
The Latest Adventure Game Releases page and visit the games' websites and try any trailers or demos that are across from the game's title on the "Latest" page. You could also eyeball the Latest Additions to our
Reviews page to see if anything there looks interesting.
You have a lot of good gaming to catch up on!

If you want to list your preferences in games (for instance, do you like horror, detective, comedy, inventory challenges, mechanical challenges, first person or third person perspective,) it might help narrow down the possibilities so that others can make suggestions for you.