By George Orwell
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 14, 2015. 7:30 PM.

A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.

Became the movie: Animal Farm.

By Robert Goldsborough
Series Nero Wolfe Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

"Archie Goodwin heads to New York City looking for excitement and after a series of unsuccessful jobs teams up with Nero Wolfe to solve the kidnapping of Tommie Williamson, the son of a New York hotel magnate (From the Publisher)."

By Alisa Kwitney
Series New Avengers
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

"When Clint Barton accompanies the Russian spy known as the Black Widow to the super-villain prison known as the Raft, a breakout occurs within the prison, and the pair, along with Spider-Woman and Luke Cage, must stop the breakout (From the Publisher)."

By Herman Koch
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Meeting at an Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons' act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love.

By David Baldacci
Series John Puller Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

"After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy (From the Publisher)."

By Tara Conklin
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, April 22, 2014. 1:30 PM.

A novel of love, family, and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the "perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.

By Reed Farrel Coleman
Series Dylan Klein Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

"Dylan Klein, an insurance investigator, teams up with ex-New York City Police detective Johnny MacClough, as life in post-Cold War Brooklyn begins to get complicated, clients begin dying, and simple survival becomes the ultimate goal (From the Publisher)."

By Adam Johnson
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, December 13, 2016. 7:30 PM.

"The son of an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il (From the Publisher)."

By Nick Trout
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

"Returning home to Eden Falls, Vermont, to revive his late father’s veterinary practice and then quickly sell it, Cyrus Mills finds his plans changing when he beings feeling invested in the community and the relationships he forms (From the Publisher)."

By Priscille Sibley

After an accident leaves his wife Elle brain dead, Matt Beaulieu, resolving to take her off life support, changes his mind when the doctors discover that she is pregnant, a decision that results in a controversial legal battle with Elle's family.

By Ellis Peters
Series Brother Cadfael Medieval Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

"Twelfth-century monastic sleuth Brother Cadfael tracks down criminals in three tales of his life before he entered a Benedictine monastery (From the Publisher)."

By Deborah Crombie
Series Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mysteries
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

"While investigating the murder of a well-respected barrister who was found dead at a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Detective Sergeant Melody Talbot, begin to question everything they think they know about their world and those they trust most (From the Publisher)."

By Richard Paul Evans
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

"After her fiance calls off their marriage a week before the wedding, heartbroken Christine Hollister reluctantly agrees to accompany her friend Jessica to Peru to do volunteer work in an orphanage, where she meets American doctor Paul Cook (From the Publisher)."

By Mitch Albom
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

A sportswriter conveys the wisdom of his late mentor, professor Morrie Schwartz, recounting their weekly conversations as Schwartz lay dying.

Became the movie: Tuesdays With Morrie.

By Kevin Powers

"Two friends, both U.S. soldiers in Iraq, cling to life and each other as a bloody fight to take control of the city of Al Tafar rages around them and they stave off fatigue, mental stress and insurgents (From the Publisher)."

By Heather Sellers
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

"A woman who is face blind-meaning she cannot reliably recognize peoples’ faces-offers an unusual family memoir, giving her unique perspective on hindsight, insight, and forgiveness (From the Publisher)."