By Lee Goldberg
Series Eve Ronin Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detective Eve Ronin investigates the cold-case disappearance and death of a woman whose remains are found in the aftermath of a Santa Monica Mountains fire.
Recommended by: Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference
Genres: Mystery; Police Procedural; Series
By Olga Grushin
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian
Thirteen years after marrying Prince Charming and having two children, a dissatisfied Cinderella sneaks out to obtain the services of a witch known to provide love potions to disgruntled housewives, but instead of rekindled romance, she wants her husband dead.
By Sarah J. Maas
Series A Court of Thorns and Roses
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian
Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever.
By Susan Mihalic
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery struggles to reclaim her life from her abusive father, who demands strict obedience in all aspects of her life inside and outside of the riding arena.
By Katherine Heiny
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
Falling in love with Duncan, the world’s most prolific seducer of women, Jane finds herself part of an unconventional family, which includes his best friend and ex-wife, when one terrible car crash permanently intertwines her life with Duncan’s.
By Nancy Thayer
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation
Newly widowed, Eleanor Sunderland finds dreams of a family reunion in Nantucket shattered when her money-driven children suggest she sell the house and move to a retirement home, and finds a lone ally in her 22-year-old granddaughter, Ari, who moves in with her for the summer.”
By Trish Doller
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director
Hiring a sailor to navigate the boat trip she planned before her fiancé’s death, Anna begins healing from a broken heart in the wake of an unexpected romance.
By Jenny Lecoat
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
After fleeing Vienna, Hedy Bercu, a Jewish woman living on the island of Jersey, is forced to hide in plain sight during the German occupation and to survive must depend on her own courage, her community, and a German soldier she befriends.
By Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
In this bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us, Flora Mancini finds everything she thought she knew about her husband, her marriage and her relationship with her best friend upended when she makes a startling discovery.
By Ali Nujood
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions
The true story of a Yemeni child bride describes her forced marriage to an abusive husband three times her age, her pursuit of the marriage's dissolution, and the cultural factors that place girls at risk in Yemeni society.
By James Patterson
Series Alex Cross Series
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Two killers compete with each other for who can commit the most murders. One lives in Los Angeles and specializes in dismembering his victims, the other operates in the Carolinas, his specialty being college girls.
By Camilla Sten
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference
Obsessed with the vanishing residents of an old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt and her crew set up camp and are soon plagued by strange events that makes them realize they are not alone.
By Matt Haig
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
By Julia Child
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
A collection of Julia Child's quotations.
By Anthony Horowitz
Series Detective Daniel Hawthorne
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
When a celebrity divorce lawyer is found bludgeoned to death with a bottle of wine, private investigator Daniel Hawthorne is hired by the police to uncover the culprit.
By Christina Lauren
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Perfect for fans of The Rosie Project and One Plus One, this entertaining novel follows single mom and data and statistics wizard Jess Davis as she, using a revolutionary new scientific dating app, is matched with the app’s arrogant creator who is not what he seems.
By Lori Nelson Spielman
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
Visiting an octogenarian relative in Italy who declares that she will break a family curse that has prevented all second-born daughters from marrying, three second daughters embark on a journey to help their great-aunt fulfill her final wish.
By Lisa Black
Series Gardiner and Renner Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
A Cleveland Police Department forensic scientist and a vigilante willing to kill to make the world a safer place investigate the murder of an unidentified teen whose demise is linked to a monster who watches their every move.
By Indu Sundaresan
Series Twentieth Wife
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
A novel set against the exotic backdrop of the Mughal dynasty of sixteenth-century India chronicles the life and times of Mehrunnisa, an intelligent, ambitious, and beautiful young woman who became one of India's legendary heroines.
By Sadeqa Johnson
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.