Staff Picks - March 2017
By Jess Walter
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, May 28, 2013. 1:30 PM.
A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.
By Beatriz Williams
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
Falling in love with her paramour but unable to divorce because of societal conventions, married Jazz Age socialite Theresa Marshall tries to make the best of the situation but reconsiders her values when her lover falls for her soon-to-be sister-in-law.
By Mary Lawson
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families – the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers – are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy.
By Jonathan Scott
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
The celebrity designers from Property Brothers and other hit HGTV series share comprehensive guidelines to buying, selling, and renovating a house in a reference that includes strategic tips on hidden costs and finding good deals on home products.
By Jane Green
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation
Seeking independence and happiness away from her upper-crust British life, Emma moves first to Manhattan and then to Connecticut, where she renovates a cottage at the side of a handyman single father with whom she plans a future before a twist of fate redefines her beliefs about home.
By Bernard Cornwell
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
When Waterloo veteran Rider Sandman returns home to England from the war, he finds his country rife with corruption and injustice, and takes a job investigating the case of a painter sentenced to hang for a murder he did not commit.
By John Brooks
In an important wake-up call for parents, teens and mental health professionals, the author searches for the truth about his adoptive daughter’s suicide, spending months trying to understand what made the 17-year-old take her life and sharing what he learned to help others.
By Brenda Novak
Series Evelyn Talbot Chronicles
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
While running a psychiatric prison in Alaska, Dr. Evelyn Talbot, who survived an attack by a psychopath when she was a teenager, wonders if her past has come back to haunt her when a serial killer targets the small Alaskan town.
By Charles Belfoure
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
When his son racks up an impossible gambling debt to a notorious gang in nineteenth–century New York, John Cross uses his inside knowledge of high-society mansions and museums to craft a perfect heist.
By James Patterson
Series Alex Cross
Determined to capture the psychopath responsible for murdering his niece, Alex Cross discovers that the young woman was among a dangerous group of people and was not the only one to have disappeared.
By Julian Fellowes
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
Two families living in 1840s London must guard a secret that originated at the Duchess of Richmond’s legendary ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo.
By Karen Robards
Series Charlotte Stone Novels
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation
Realizing the extent of her feelings for ghost Michael after an attack by a hostile specter, Charlotte Stone struggles to stay out of trouble while assisting her FBI friends in solving a gruesome murder case tied to a string of killings.
By Maya Angelou
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
A collection of short essays includes personal reminiscences, hard-won wisdom, and inspirational ideas.
By Delia Ephron
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
Escaping from their personal lives and taking refuge in a nightclub, a runaway bride, a recovering alcoholic, and a downtrodden minister’s wife adopt a retired circus lion and spend their days waitressing until the past catches up with them.
By Ross King
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference
A portrait of the master artist and his most famous series reveals the dramas behind their creation, describing Monet’s struggles with World War I, family losses, harsh criticism, and competition from a younger generation of artists in the final years of his life.
By Alice Hoffman
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, July 26, 2016. 1:30 PM
Dreaming of an exotic life in Paris while coming of age in a St. Thomas refugee community, young Rachel is forced to marry a widower before falling scandalously in love and becoming the mother of Impressionist master Camille Pissarro.
By Gaston Leroux
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian
Sightings of a ghostly figure in the Paris opera house lead to a discovery of a disfigured genius who secretly lives among its passageways.
By Lynda Cohen Loigman
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
A book set in a two-family brownstone in 1950s Brooklyn unravels a multigenerational story woven around a deeply buried family secret.
By Julie Lawson Timmer
When her husband dies unexpectedly, Michigan college professor Char Hawthorne is left questioning everything she believed about her cozy small-town life and her relationship with her once-spirited 15-year-old stepdaughter, who is suddenly not bound to Char in measurable ways.
By Bonnie Rose Ward
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions
Leaving behind friends, family, and life as they know it, the Wards embark on a journey into the Alaskan wilderness that will change them forever.