By Agatha Christie
Series Miss Marple Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Mrs. McGillicuddy has trouble convincing anyone that she has seen a man strangle a woman on a passing train and turns to Miss Jane Marple for help in proving her story.

By Michel Bussi

In the aftermath of a tragic plane crash in the Swiss Alps in which a baby is the only survivor, two families-one poor, one wealthy and dangerous – step forward to claim her.

By Melanie Benjamin
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Octogenarian Alice, who as a child inspired Lewis Carroll’s famous Wonderland character, looks back on a life marked by an implacable mother, her halcyon days in Oxford and the sons who went off to war.

By Camille Perri
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When a technical error at a multinational media conglomerate gives a financially strapped veteran employee a chance to pay off her student loans in ways the company will never notice, she embarks on a downward spiral involving other employees with crushing debts and fewer scruples. 

By Andrea Kleine

Presents a fictionalized version of real events in which John Hinckley Jr. becomes obsessed with a young actress before his assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan and a young girl deals with the murder of her best friend, who is killed in her sleep by her socialite mother.

By Donald Margulies

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Dinner With Friends examines the lives of two couples and the repercussions of divorce on their friendships. With wit, compassion and consummate skill, playwright Donald Margulies weighs the cost of breaking up and of staying together.

By Ray Bradbury
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit, in a chilling novel of a frightening near-future world.

Became the movie: Fahrenheit 451.

By Fern Michaels
Series Men of the Sisterhood
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

The BOLO Consultants are called in by Bert Navarro, head of security for Countess Anna de Silva, to find out who is stealthily and skillfully robbing her Babylon casino by hacking into its security system.

By Emma Cline
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle, only to find herself drawn into a cult and seduced by its charismatic leader.

By Joyce Maynard
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

The lives and fortunes of two New Hampshire families, the Planks and the Dickersons, are entwined through the youngest daughters of each family, who were born on the same day in the same hospital.

By Dave Eggers
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

A respected magazine editor and founder, a onetime spokesman for Generation X, offers a satiric, eloquent, and thoroughly tradition shattering memoir that discusses deaths of his parents from cancers, his raising of his younger brother, and more.

By Adam Haslett
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 21, 2017. 7:30 PM.

Electing to marry her fiancé after he is hospitalized for depression, Margaret commits to decades of love and faith involving their brilliant eldest son, their responsible daughter, and a tightly controlled younger son who help care for her increasingly troubled husband.

By Timothy Egan
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Places the improbable life of revolutionary hero Thomas Francis Meagher against a backdrop of Irish-American history, detailing his leadership during Irish uprisings, service with the Irish Brigade in the Civil War, and achievements as the territorial governor of Montana.

By Ishmael Beah
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Ishmael Beah described his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a solider for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

By Stephen King
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Novelist Paul Sheldon wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding that he bring his heroine back to life.

By Susie Steiner
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Assigned to the high-profile case of a missing graduate student, brilliant detective and lonelyheart Manon Bradshaw uncovers the abductee’s erratic behavior, a close friend’s secrets and the role of a sex offender while struggling to maintain a professional distance.

By Jennifer Close
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Weezy and her husband become increasingly perplexed by life challenges that compel their first daughter to move back into her childhood room, their second daughter to cancel her wedding, and their son to become enmeshed in a relationship disaster.

By Jon Cryer
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his work in Two and a Half Men and the classic 80s teen comedy, Pretty in Pink describes his three-decade journey through Hollywood, discussing his friendships, mentors and insights.

By Leah Remini

The former King of Queens star recounts her life, her success in Hollywood, and her time with the Church of Scientology.

By Peter L. Bergen

In the wake of the attacks at the Boston marathon, in Paris and in San Bernadino, the author presents a riveting, panoramic look at “homegrown” Islamist terrorism, from 9/11 to the present.