By Ali Smith
Series Seasonal
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A debut installment in a series about aging, time, love and the nature of stories examines the dynamics of pop culture, meditation and harvests in a world growing more bordered and exclusive.

By André Aciman
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.

By Robin Cook
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

New chief resident Dr. Noah Rothauser investigates a series of deadly anesthesia errors during routine procedures and begins to have suspicions about a resident who has created multiple Internet personas for herself.

By Nora Roberts
Series Chesapeake Bay Saga
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Returning as a successful artist to the home of the family that adopted him, Seth Quinn is intrigued by independent newcomer Dru Whitcomb Banks, who is hesitant to trust Seth, while dark secrets from the past threaten the entire Quinn family.

By Alice Waters
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

The owner and executive chef of Chez Panisse presents the story of her culinary journey, describing her efforts to promote distinctive flavors in a time of uniform convenience foods and reflecting on the evolution of one of the world's most influential restaurants.

By Nicci French
Series Frieda Klein novels

Reluctantly agreeing to assess a woman who was incarcerated in a secure psychiatric hospital a decade earlier for murder, psychotherapist Frieda Klein begins to suspect that the girl is innocent, only to find herself targeted by someone who would keep the truth hidden.

By John Gunther
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

The father of a seventeen-year-old who died of a brain tumor describes his son's courage in the face of certain death.

By J. R. R. Tolkien
Series Lord of the Rings
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Frodo the hobbit and his companions set out to deliver the One Ring of Power to the dark land of Mordor in order to destroy the ring in the forge of its creation.

By Claire Kells
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

After their plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies, nineteen-year-old competitive college swimmer Avery Delacorte, one of only five survivors, must rely on her teammate Colin Shea to survive sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies, and the dangerous wilderness.

By Susan Jane Gilman
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Russian immigrant Malka arrives in 1913 Manhattan, where she struggles to survive and learns trade secrets from an Italian ices peddler before setting off across America in an ice cream truck with a handsome, illiterate radical to seek their fortunes.

By Augusten Burroughs
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

The author continues the story that began in Dry to examine the rise and fall of his relationships while living in New York and his beliefs about being in love, in lust, and in a state of figuring things out.

By Chip Gaines

The husband-and-wife stars of the popular Fixer Upper television program share the story of their life together, from how they met in Waco, Texas to their success as entrepreneurs and television personalities.

By Philip K. Dick
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, September 12, 2017. 7:30 PM.

Philip K. Dick’s alternate history classic, the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the east and the Japanese in the west.

By Claire McMillan
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Inheriting a stunning Indian necklace, Nell Quincy is targeted by her worldly relatives before turning for support to an ambitious estate lawyer who uncovers the necklace's story in a family love triangle as it unfolded in the early twentieth century.

By Neil Gaiman
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Presents a rendering of major Norse pantheon that traces the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and the exploits of its characters, illuminating the characters and natures of iconic figures Odin, Thor, and Loki.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

When her son is recruited by a Division I school, a struggling single mom's efforts are complicated by her son's teammate who is luring him down a dark path and a new teacher with a mysterious agenda.

By Mike Massimino
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 13, 2018. 7:30 PM.

A memoir by an unlikely astronaut who helped save the Hubble telescope describes his early attempts to gain admission into NASA, his first spacewalks, the loss of his fellow astronauts in the Columbia disaster, and his ongoing support of future space travel ventures.

By Ayobami Adebayo
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Secure in the love of her husband in spite of cultural pressures for him to have a polygamous marriage, Yejide is overwhelmed by shock and pain when her initial ability to become pregnant compels her husband to take a second wife, a situation that leads to her own desperate and fateful quest to conceive a child.

By M. L. Brennan
Series Generation V novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

When the leader of a powerful faction of shifters is murdered, former film student Fortitude Scott, tracking down a killer while navigating dangerous rivalries, longtime grudges and hidden agendas, becomes trapped in the middle of a massive power shift within his sociopathic vampire family.

By Antoine Leiris
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

A man whose wife was killed in the November 13, 2015 Bataclan Theater attack in Paris, and whose open letter to the killers went viral on Facebook, provides a memoir of how he and his baby son endured after losing the most important woman in their lives.