Beach Reads Evening Title Swap - June 27, 2018
By Sally Koslow
Reimagines the affair between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his longtime lover, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, detailing how she helped revitalize Fitzgerald's career in the years before his tragic death.
Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers—John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard—who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world.
Genre Biography/Memoir
By James S. Murray
The star of truTV's Impractical Jokers shares the story of a new state– of–the–art subway that is found empty and drenched in blood, signaling the release of an ancient horror and civilization–destroying dark forces.
By Fredrik Backman
Series Beartown Series
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, August 28, 2018. 1:30 PM.
In the tiny forest community of Beartown, the possibility that the amateur hockey team might win a junior championship, bringing the hope of revitalization to the fading town, is shattered by the aftermath of a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized.
Genre Series, Cultural Fiction, European Fiction, Scandinavian Fiction, Sports Stories, Sports Fiction
Teen Genre Adult Books for Teens
By A. F. Brady
As accomplished Manhattan psychologist Sam James gets pulled into the twisted past of a patient no other therapist is willing to treat, she analyzes her life and confronts her own mental turmoil.
By Dorothea Benton Frank
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation
A young woman from Chicago falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina, and trades the bustle of cosmopolitan city life for the vagaries of a small Southern community.
A dual memoir and guide to healing by a psychologist and Holocaust survivor counsels patients on how to escape the prisons of their own minds, describing her harrowing experiences in Auschwitz and how it gave her particular insights into the challenges of PTSD.
By George R.R. Martin
Series Song of Ice and Fire
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Martin, George R.R. – A Clash of Kings* Six separate factions vie for control of the Seven Kingdoms, while an ancient form of magic, an everlasting winter, and an unearthly army threaten to return.
By Brad Parks
Enduring a brutal foster– care upbringing, Melanie embarks on an adult life that she hopes will allow her to leave the past behind, only to be framed for drug charges that threaten her ability to keep her baby, a situation that is aided by an attorney who wants to solve the cold case of a serial rapist.
By Mark Kurlansky
A history of the fish that has led to wars, stirred revolutions, sustained economies and diets, and helped in the settlement of North America features photographs, drawings, and recipes, as well as the natural history of this much sought after fish.
By Dan Egan
Traces the scientific, historical, and ecological factors endangering the Great Lakes, discussing late–nineteenth century efforts to connect the lakes to the Atlantic, which unexpectedly introduced invasive species from the natural world.
Genre Science & Nature
By Ruth Ware
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian
After erroneously receiving a mysterious letter about a large inheritance, Hal attends the deceased’s funeral and realizes that something is very, very wrong.
By Ali Land
Milly, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a serial killer, is given a fresh start with a new identity and placement in an affluent foster family, but wrestles with the decision not to follow in her mother's violent footsteps.
By Erin Kelly
Traveling to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse, an eclipse chaser and his girlfriend intervene in a crime that they cannot prove until a dangerous enemy's activities during a subsequent eclipse forces them to confront the past.
A tale inspired by a true story finds the blind Homer Collyer closeted within a once-grand Fifth Avenue mansion with his damaged brother and remembering a life marked by colorful characters, political events, and technological achievements.
By Colm Tóibín
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, May 8, 2018. 7:30 PM.
A retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children in the legendary Greek city of Mycenae, describes how at the side of her lover she plots to murder her long-absent husband for his betrayals and infidelities.
By Rebecca Fleet
Caroline and Francis's hopes for a revitalizing week–long house swap are challenged by underlying marital tensions, a neighbor's suspicious interest, and disturbing clues throughout the house that reveal that the residents know Caroline, and her secrets.
By David Grann
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, June 12, 2018. 7:30 PM.
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
By Helen Hoang
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
When mathematician Stella Lane decides to improve her love life, she hires Michael Phan, an escort, to help her gain knowledge and experience in dating.
By David Grann
Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author's own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett's final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle.
By Jenna Blum
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, August 27, 2019. 1:30 PM.
In 1965 Manhattan, chef and Auschwitz survivor Peter Rashkin is resigned to solitude and devotes himself to running his restaurant until he meets and marries June, but the horrors of his past soon overshadow him and his new family.
By Christina Lauren
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Macy Sorensen has decided to settle for marriage to an older man until she bumps into Elliot Petropoulos—her first and most intense love, who eventually broke her heart—sending her reeling into reminiscence and doubt.
By Ruth Ware
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
In the wake of a woman's discovery of human remains, the members of a once-inseparable clique from a boarding school reflect on their participation in a dangerous game of deception that contributed to the death of a teacher.
Years after accompanying her father to a meeting with Dexter Styles, nineteen–year–old Anna, who now works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, encounters Dexter and begins to understand her father's complex life and why he disappeared.
By Andy Weir
Recommended By Cliff Hong, Library Page
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, May 10, 2016. 7:30 PM.
Stranded on Mars by a dust storm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Mark Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and harsh environmental challenges that test his ingenuity in unique ways.
By Mark Kurlansky
A history of milk shares how it has played a crucial role in cultural evolution, religion, nutrition, politics, and economics around the world.
Genre Food & Drink
By Jon Krakauer
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Chronicles the experiences of several women in Missoula, Montana, who claimed to be raped by University of Montana football players, highlighting the inequities of the law in regard to rape allegations and the treatment of rape victims and perpetrators.
By Charles Martin
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Stranded in a frigid mountain wilderness after a plane crash, a gifted surgeon and a young magazine writer are forced to rely on each other for survival while confronting painful truths about their personal lives.
By Araminta Hall
A less–than–reliable male narrator describes his emergence from a brutal childhood and devotion to the happiness of a woman who he believes is not returning his calls because she is playing games with him and only pretending to be getting married to someone else.
By Stephen King
When a young boy's body is found in the town park, Detective Ralph Anderson finds the evidence and the witnesses all pointing to one of the city's most popular citizens.
By Brad Parks
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page
When their children are abducted by a man who blackmails them to follow instructions at the risk of the children's lives, a judge and his wife endure a terrorizing ordeal of no–holds–barred deceit and bond–breaking suspicions.
By Jeff Hobbs
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, September 13, 2016. 7:30 PM.
Traces a young man's effort to escape the dangers of the streets and his own nature after graduating from Yale, describing his youth in violent 1980s Newark, efforts to navigate two fiercely insular worlds and life-ending drug deals.
By Michelle Gable
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
A tale inspired by the affair between JFK and Alicia Corning Clark relates how a young Polish maid is forced to end her relationship with a rising political star before her Hollywood successes, and a chance encounter a decade later.
By Wendy Francis
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
A twentieth wedding anniversary brings three college roommates together for a cruise to Bermuda, where tensions simmer and jealousies flare, leading to a vacation none of them will forget.
By Anthony Ray Hinton
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services
Tuesday, April 9, 2019. 7:30 PM.
A man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration.
By Amy Bloom
After meeting the future first lady while covering Franklin Roosevelt's campaign, Lorena Hickock and Eleanor discover a powerful passion between them.
By Ruth Ware
Assigned to review an exclusive North Sea luxury cruise, travel journalist Lo Blacklock witnesses a woman being thrown overboard and is baffled when all passengers remain unruffled and accounted for, a nightmare that unravels as Lo struggles to convince everyone that what she saw was real.
By A. J. Finn
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
After the Russells move in next door, Anna Fox, a recluse, finds her world crumbling when she witnesses something she shouldn't.