Staff Picks - October 2013
By Paulo Coelho
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, September 10, 2013. 7:30 PM.
A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being.
By Helen Fielding
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager
The daily chronicle of a 30-something single English woman who is convinced her life would be perfect if she could lose weight, stop smoking and develop "Inner Poise."
By Laura Moriarty
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
A young girl tries to make sense of an unruly world spinning around her. Growing up with a single mother who is chronically out of work and dating a married man, 10-year old Evelyn Bucknow learns early how to fend for herself.
By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
“The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation (From the Publisher).”
By Fern Michaels
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation
“When he inherits the estate of his estranged brother, Ricky Lam decides to develop the resort his brother had planned to build on an island off the coast of South Carolina, where Ricky finds new love with his former sister-in-law (From the Publisher).”
“When one of his trusted employees, with whom he had been working on a secret government project, becomes the prime suspect in a double homicide, Irish billionaire Roarke enlists the assistance of Lieutenant Eve Dallas to uncover the truth (From the Publisher).”
By Denise Mina
Series Alex Morrow Novels
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
“In the aftermath of an elderly man’s murder during a holiday season bank robbery, DS Alex Morrow discovers that the bank’s alarm system had been disabled before the robbery and uncovers a sinister political network that places the entire city at risk (From the Publisher).”
After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death". But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a son, husband, father, best friend, and caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history.
By Gabriel García Márquez
“This collection of fiction includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Erendira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother (From the Publisher).”
By Sidney Lumet
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services
“The award-winning director journeys inside the world of film to illuminate the arduous process of creating movies, discussing the art and craft of directing, writers and actors, the camera, art direction, editing, sound tracks, distribution and marketing, and the studio role (From the Publisher).”
Genre Arts & Entertainment
In 1987, an encounter between Julian Wainwright, the scion of a New York City old money family and an aspiring writer, and Mia Mendelsohn, a beautiful Jewish girl, ignites a love affair, spurred on by family tragedy, that spans twenty years.
The first Hispanic American on the U.S. Supreme Court shares the story of her life before becoming a judge.
By Ann Hood
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
An obituary writer searching for her missing lover at the turn of the twentieth century is linked to a woman considering leaving her loveless marriage in 1963.
By Robert Kanigel
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
“Presents a tribute to Ireland’s Great Blasket Island and the people it has influenced, examining how its seaside culture was nearly untouched by time throughout the first half of the twentieth century (From the Publisher).”
By Margaret Atwood
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
Three fascinating woman living in Toronto allow Atwood to explore the paradox of woman as villain.
By Daniel O'Malley
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist
A high-ranking member of a secret organization that battles supernatural forces wakes up in a London park with no memory, no idea who she is, and with a letter that provides instructions to help her uncover a far-reaching conspiracy.
By Brian Kimberling
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
Working as a birdwatching guide to scrape together enough money to survive, Nathan Lochmueller performs nature research in backwater Indiana, where he falls in love with a heartbreaking free spirit named Lola and confronts the accidental turns of his life.
By Linda Howard
Series Blair Mallory
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
The owner of successful, upscale fitness center, Blair Mallory is stunned when a troubled member of the club, who had developed a bizarre obsession with Blair that included an imitation of her style and dress, falls victim to murder and matches wits with homicide investigator Wyatt Bloodsworth, who begins to wonder if Blair had been the intended target all along.
By Elinor Lipman
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
Two newly-single sisters, one a divorceé, the other a widow, become roommates with a handsome, gay cupcake-baker as they try to return to the dating world of lower Manhattan.
By Laura Brodie
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
“Spotting her husband at a grocery store three months after his death, grieving young widow Sarah McConnell is reassured by friends that her experience is just a natural psychological response to her grief but wonders if her husband, whose body was never found, may still be alive (From the Publisher).”