By Ruta Sepetys
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
In 1941, Lina and her family are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia.
By Kelley Armstrong
Series Women of the Otherworld Series
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager
On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also.
By Samantha Shannon
Series Bone Season
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist
A first entry in a planned seven-part series is set in the mid-21st century where major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force and where clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a part of their supernatural army.
By Phillipa Bornikova
Series Linnet Ellery Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
“When exquisitely beautiful elves start getting all of the roles in Hollywood, a furious lawsuit by human actors compels the Screen Actors Guild to force the two sides into arbitration, prompting human lawyer, Linnet Ellery to uncover sinister forces that are working to shatter the fragile peace between human and supernatural races (From the Publisher).”
By Jennifer DuBois
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
American student Lily Hayes is implicated in the brutal murder of her roommate while spending a semester studying in Buenos Aires, leading to a case that reveals deceptions, secrets, and suspicious DNA.
By Dave Eggers
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian
“Hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful Internet company, Mae Holland begins to question her luck as life beyond her job grows distant, a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, and her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public (From the Publisher).”
By Anthony Marra
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, March 11, 2014. 7:30 PM.
“In December 2004 in a rural village in Chechnya, failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized eight-year-old daughter of a man abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.” (From the Publisher)
By K.M. Walton
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
When Bull Mastrick and Victor Konig wind up in the same psychiatric ward at age sixteen, each recalls and relates in group therapy the bullying relationship they have had since kindergarten.
By Jojo Moyes
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian
Unwillingly rendered an object of obsession by the Kommandant occupying her small French town in World War I, Sophie risks everything to reunite with her husband a century before a widowed Liv tests her resolve to claim ownership of Sophie's portrait.
By Eishes Chayil
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
“After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory’s suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent (From the Publisher).”
By Meg Wolitzer
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Forging a powerful bond in the mid-1970s that lasts throughout subsequent decades, six individuals pursue respective challenges into their midlife years, including an aspiring actress who harbors jealousy toward friends who achieve successful creative careers.
By Douglas Kennedy
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
“Jane finds herself involved in the search for a young girl in Calgary despite suffering through doomed relationships, the loss of her savings and personal tragedies and setbacks (From the Publisher).”
By Pat Conroy
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page
“Dramatically interweaves the themes of brotherhood and betrayal as senior cadet Will McLean courageously struggles to forge his own honor code and manhood in a regimented, venerable, but corrupt Southern military academy (From the Publisher).”
Genre Coming of Age Fiction
By Jillian Cantor
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian
In a reimagining of the life of Anne Frank's sister Margot, Margie Franklin, working as a secretary at a Jewish law firm in Philadelphia, finds her carefully constructed life falling apart when her sister becomes a global icon.
By Eve Harris
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
“19 year-old Chani lives in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of North West London. She has never had physical contact with a man, but is bound to marry a stranger (From the Publisher).”
By Mira Grant
Series Parasitology
“Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone’s immune system, and even secret designer drugs begin to change and want out of the human bodies they occupy (From the Publisher).”
By Ayelet Waldman
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
“Two families living on the Maine coast find their way through grief together after a tragic accident takes the lives of a young, newly-married couple, which results in a broken marriage, a bonding between bereaved siblings, and healing in the form of an adopted girl’s prodigious violin talent (From the Publisher).”
By Edna Ferber
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
“The Hawks-Ravenal family in the 1870s is linked to the Cotton Blossom, a floating palace theater on the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Pennsylvania (From the Publisher).”
By Gerbrand Bakker
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
“A young woman flees Amsterdam and rents a farm in rural Wales where ten geese on the farm slowly disappear and speculation arises about her identity and her marital situation (From the Publisher).”
By Amy Tan
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
“Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her (From the Publisher).”