By Fredrik Backman
Series Beartown Series
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 28, 2018. 1:30 PM.

In the tiny forest community of Beartown, the possibility that the amateur hockey team might win a junior championship, bringing the hope of revitalization to the fading town, is shattered by the aftermath of a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized.

By Chuck Klosterman
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Explores the idea that today's mainstream beliefs about the world are fundamentally incorrect, drawing on original interviews with intellectuals and experts to consider how music, sports, literature, and other present–day conventions may be perceived in future centuries.

By Peter Heller
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A missing-persons tracker who specializes in reuniting families to make amends for a loss in her own past, Celine searches for a presumed-dead photographer in Yellowstone, only to be targeted by a shadowy figure who wants to keep the case unsolved.

By Clancy, Tara
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Describes the author's unconventional upbringing as a fifth–generation New Yorker in three wildly divergent homes, including a Queens boat shed, an Italian geriatric commune, and a sprawling Hamptons estate.

By Wallace Stegner
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Two young couples, Sid and Charity and Larry and Sally, from different backgrounds – East and West, rich and poor – befriend each other in 1937 Madison, Wisconsin.

By Jane Harper
Recommended By Clare Badke, Principal Account Clerk

Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a 20-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century.

By Samanta Schweblin

A first English translation by an award-winning Spanish author follows the nightmarish experiences of a dying woman and a boy beside her hospital bed, who explore the dynamics of broken souls, toxic relationships and the power and desperation of family.

By Benjamin Ludwig
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Desperately wishing to be reunited with her abusive, drug-addicted birth mother at any cost in spite of finding herself in a wonderful foster home, an autistic 14-year-old struggles to make sense of her world by engaging in strict routines and avoiding the people who would love her.

By Jeannette Walls
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The second child of a scholarly, alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing from the Arizona desert, to Las Vegas, to an Appalachian mining town, during which her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.

By Angie Thomas
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday 24, 2019. 1PM.

After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

By Erle Stanley Gardner
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gardner was the best-selling American author of the 20th century, creator of crusading attorney Perry Mason and the hardboiled detective team of Cool and Lam, stars of 29 novels, and one that’s never been published until now. Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped is a glorious return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious plot twists.

By Graham Moore
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.

By Alexander McCall Smith
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

Arriving in the Italian town of Montalcino to finish an overdue cookbook, author Paul Stewart finds things quickly take a turn for the worse.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Midnight, Texas Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

When weapons obtained from Midnight's local pawn shop are used in a series of dramatic suicides at the main crossroads in town, the vampire Lemuel makes astonishing discoveries about why the community has attracted so many paranormal residents.

By Ariel Levy
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A New Yorker staff writer shares a hopeful memoir of her own experiences with devastating loss to council fellow survivors about the healing aspects of accepting difficult life challenges that are beyond one's control.

By Dorothea Benton Frank
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Reconnecting on one of Charleston's most beautiful barrier islands, a pair of former sweethearts rediscover their feelings for one another while their jealous spouses pursue an unexpected attraction of their own over more than twenty years.

By Dennis Lehane
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Retreating from the world in the aftermath of a traumatizing reporting assignment, Rachel finds happiness with a businessman before witnessing activities surrounding a conspiracy that tests the limits of her fragile psyche.

By Michael Finkel
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 24, 2018. 1:30 PM.

Documents the true story of a man who endured an isolated existence in a tent in the Maine woods, never speaking with others and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins, for twenty–seven years, and illuminates the reasons behind his solitary life.

By Lydia Millet

Fleeing her cold and unfaithful husband, who has just launched his first campaign for political office, Lydia, accompanied by her six-year-old daughter, races from Alaska to Maine and hides in a dingy motel as her husband's pursuit escalates from threatening to criminal.

By Jessi Klein
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

Uproarious and poignant stories from the Inside Amy Schumer head writer's awkward youth include entries on her tomboy pursuits of femininity, her emulation of Oprah and the dangers of wedding websites.