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Bone Season

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.

Breaking Night

By Liz Murray
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, September 9, 2013.  7 PM.

"The author offers an emotional account of her amazing journey from a 15-year-old living on the streets and eating garbage to her acceptance into Harvard, a feat that prompted a Lifetime movie and a successful motivational-speaking career (From the Publisher)."

 

*A 2011 Alex Award Winner

Chance Developments: Stories

By Alexander McCall Smith

A collection of thematically linked short stories on the subjects of love and art, each inspired by an evocative old photo, includes the stories of a nun who leaves the sisterhood to discover big-city life and a romance between a circus ventriloquist and animal handler.

Clancy's of Queens: A Memoir

By Tara Clancy

A debut book by an accomplished writer and frequent radio guest describes her unconventional upbringing as a fifth-generation New Yorker in three wildly divergent homes, including a Queens boat shed, an Italian geriatric commune and a sprawling Hamptons estate, where she interacted with poignantly human family members and locals.

Death Instinct

By Jed Rubenfeld
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A tale inspired by the September 1920 bombing in New York's financial district finds a Harvard-trained physician and a New York Police Department captain teaming up after witnessing the explosion and encountering a beautiful French scientist with a troubled brother.

Deep Dish

By Mary Kay Andrews
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Her efforts to secure a job on a national cooking channel challenged by her unfaithful boyfriend, irresponsible sister, and interfering mother, television chef Gina Foxton finds her endeavor further complicated by her unexpected attraction to a rival chef with an off-putting redneck personality.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

By Neil Gaiman

A collection of more than twenty-five short fictional works follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light.

Game of Thrones

By George R.R. Martin
Series Song of Ice and Fire
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, and the arrival of barbarian hordes (From the Publisher).” 

Golden Son

By Pierce Brown
Series Red Rising Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Darrow, a tragedy-forged rebel hero, continues his work infiltrating the Golds to free his people from the brutal elitist future.

Graveminder

By Melissa Marr

Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place – and the man – she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected.

Hatching

By Ezekiel Boone
Series Hatching

A series of bizarre manifestations around the world, from a human-eating black mass in the Peru jungle and a baffling plane crash in America to unusual seismic patterns in Kanpur and a nuclear accident in China, lead to the discovery of the emergence of an ancient dormant species. Series: The Hatching

Interpretation of Murder

By Jed Rubenfeld
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

In 1909, as a sadistic killer stalks Manhattan’s wealthiest heiresses, Sigmund Freud is called in by American analyst Dr. Stratham Younger to assist him in interviewing Nora Acton, a hysterical survivor of the killer who can recall nothing about the attack.

Just Kids

By Patti Smith
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of her youth among the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe - the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.

Last Adventure of Constance Verity: Book One

By A. Lee Martinez
Series Constance Verity

Resolving to live an uneventful life after years spent saving others using her godmother-bequeathed martial arts and detective skills, Constance Verity finds her efforts to settle down in an office job and a healthy relationship stymied by forces that keep her in the role of the world’s defender.

Mime Order

By Samantha Shannon
Series Bone Season

Fugitive Paige Mahoney flees Scion while Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare for a rare assembly of the clairvoyant community that is clouded by dark secrets, the emergence of the Rephaim, and an elusive Warden.

Morning Star

By Pierce Brown
Series Red Rising Trilogy

Darrow emerges from years of hiding among the Golds and declares an open revolution against the overlords who oppress his people and caused the loss of his wife.

Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One

By Patrick Rothfuss
Series Kingkiller Chronicles

A hero named Kvothe, now living under an assumed name as the humble proprietor of an inn, recounts his transformation from a magically gifted young man into the most notorious wizard, musician, thief, and assassin in his world.

Not My Father's Son: A Memoir

By Alan Cumming
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

The acclaimed actor profiles his turbulent relationship with his father, tracing his 2010 appearance in a celebrity genealogy show to solve the disappearance of a WWII hero grandparent and his discovery of astounding family secrets.

Red Dragon

By Thomas Harris
Series Hannibal Lecter Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Will Graham's unusual, fearful ability to project himself into the minds of psychopaths puts him on the trail of Francis Dolorhyde, whose bizarre and bloody murders of two suburban families have been triggered by his viewing of a William Blake watercolor.

 

Became the movie: Red Dragon and the TV show: Hannibal.

Red Rising

By Pierce Brown
Series Red Rising Saga
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife’s execution by an oppressive government joins a revolutionary cell.

Secret Loves of Geek Girls

By Hope Nicholson

A non-fiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories on the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female creators, features work by Margaret Atwood, Marguerite Bennett, Noelle Stevenson, and Sarah Winifred Searle.

Siracusa

By Delia Ephron
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Secrets and relationships unravel for two couples vacationing on coastal Sicily in a tale told from alternating points of view that gradually reveals an affair and a precocious ten–year–old's role in the group's psychological undoing.

Slow Regard of Silent Things

By Patrick Rothfuss
Series The Kingkiller Chronicles

Living in the abandoned tunnel system beneath the University, the enigmatic Auri reflects on her bittersweet life while making unique observations about the broken world she seeks to survive.

Weaver

By Emmi Itäranta

Hiding her forbidden ability to dream behind the persona of a model citizen and weaver in her island home’s prestigious House of Webs, Eliana is linked to the young survivor of an attack before the revelation of her secrets prompts her to join a rebel band that would expose the island’s dark undercurrents.

Why Not Me?

By Mindy Kaling
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

The star of The Mindy Project presents a collection of personal essays, observations, fears, and advice on everything from prisoner fan mail to celebrity interactions.

You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures

By Alan Cumming
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The award-winning actor, writer and activist presents a collection of outrageous and poignant stories from his personal life, from his awkward entertainment of Elizabeth Taylor at Carrie Fisher’s birthday party to chasing down Oprah at a glitzy gala to secure a photo for a friend.