Beach Reads Evening Title Swap - July 5, 2017
By Camille Perri
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
When a technical error at a multinational media conglomerate gives a financially strapped veteran employee a chance to pay off her student loans in ways the company will never notice, she embarks on a downward spiral involving other employees with crushing debts and fewer scruples.
Settling in the swamps of early 19th-century northwest Ohio, the Goodenough family works relentlessly to establish an apple orchard that reflects respective dreams before their youngest child heads to Gold Rush California to collect seeds for a naturalist.
By Noah Hawley
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
The stories of ten wealthy victims of a plane crash intertwine with those of a down–on–his luck painter and a four-year-old boy, the tragedy's only survivors, as odd coincidences surrounding the crash point to a possible conspiracy.
By Imbolo Mbue
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, November 28, 2017. 1:30 PM
An immigrant working class couple from Cameroon and the upper class American family for whom they work find their lives and marriages shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets, and the 2008 recession.
By Meg Wolitzer
Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
By Fiona Barton
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
Investigating the discovery of a baby's skeleton in a redeveloped section of London, journalist Kate Waters discovers links to the kidnapping of a baby from a hospital decades earlier before she is targeted by someone who wants to keep their secrets hidden.
By Shari Lapena
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
When a terrible crime committed on the night of a dinner party casts suspicion on a young couple who seemed to have it all, Detective Rasbach discovers that the panicked duo had been hiding dangerous secrets from each other for years.
By David Baldacci
Series Amos Decker
A latest thriller featuring football player-turned-detective Amos Decker finds him using his eidetic memory to solve a high–stakes case.
When the bachelor party her husband is hosting goes wrong, Kristin finds her life spiraling into a nightmare of accusations and betrayal while a girl hired to provide entertainment at the party flees for her life from gangsters.
By Angie Thomas
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday 24, 2019. 1PM.
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter.
Became the TV show: Game of Thrones.
By Fiona Barton
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian
After Jean’s husband dies, the community wants to know the real truth about the crime he was suspected of – but Jean has secrets of her own.
By Daviid McCullough
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
July 11th 2017 Chronicles the story-behind-the-story about the Wright brothers, sharing insights into the disadvantages that challenged their lives and their mechanical ingenuity.
By Diane Ackerman
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services
Tuesday, October 10. 7:30 PM.
When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants and refusing to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, even as Europe crumbled around her.