Title Swap - April 12, 2022
By Leah Franqui
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
A widow from India travels to California to learn the truth about what happened to the son who was declared dead shortly after he revealed his sexual orientation to their traditional family.
By Ruta Sepetys
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
In 1941, Lina and her family are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia.
An impoverished Irish immigrant in the industrial 1860s takes a job as a lady's maid in the home of prominent businessman Andrew Carnegie, with whom she falls in love before going missing, triggering Carnegie's search for answers and the establishment of his enduring legacy.
By Anne Tyler
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
Follows the Garrett family from 1959 onward as they discover that their actions advance across decades and ripple through generations, in the new novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Breathing Lessons.
By Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
A maverick therapist who lost her license due to controversial methods, Avery agrees to help golden couple Marissa and Mathew Bishop overcome Marisa’s cheating, setting all three of them on a collision course because the biggest—and most dangerous—secrets have not yet been revealed.
By Eddie Jaku
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life.
By Erik Larson
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Wednesday, June 6, 2012. 7:30 PM. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, during Hitler's rise to power, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
By Bryan Stevenson
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.
Living and working in a bombed–out Berlin, Millie Mosbach must come to terms with a past decision made in a moment of crisis with the help of a mysterious man who is surprisingly understanding of her.
By Allison Pataki
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
The epic reimagining of the extraordinary life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress who lived and loved on a grand scale, reveals the heartbreak she endured as a wife four times over in vastly different dramatic marriages.
By Alice Youngson
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
A professor in Denmark and a grandmother in England begin a correspondence, and a friendship, that develops into something extraordinary.
By Ruta Sepetys
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.
By Marie Benedict
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services
Tuesday, January 30, 2018. 1:30 PM.
A tale inspired by the extraordinary first wife of Albert Einstein follows the experiences of a solitary female physics student at an elite late–19th–century school in Zurich, where she falls in love with a charismatic fellow student who eclipses her contributions to his theory of relativity.
By Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
Hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library, Belle de Costa Greene becomes one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she keeps.
By Katarina Bivald
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
A Swedish tourist opens a bookstore in Broken Wheel, Iowa, to honor her deceased pen pal and makes some unconventional choices that threaten to bring long-hidden secrets to light as she attempts to share her love of reading with the locals.
By Jane Green
Inspired by a true story, the New York Times best-selling author reimagines the glamorous and tragic life of fashion icon and socialite Talitha Getty through the eyes of Claire, a young woman in search of adventure who is drawn into Talitha's orbit, forever changing her life.
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.
A recently divorced therapist spots a man standing on the edge of a bridge and convinces him to join her for coffee instead of jumping and the pair spend a cathartic weekend sharing secrets and angsts.
Tough as They Come
By Travis Mills
A retired paratrooper and one of the only five soldiers to have survived quadruple-amputee injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, the author describes how his faith and his mantra of “never give up—never quit” has helped him rebuild his life since Afghanistan.
By Jamie Raskin
The Maryland congressman tells the story of the forty–five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life and his family's as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide and lived through the violent insurrection in the Capitol. Congressman Raskin was later called upon to join the nine–member team of House of impeachment managers to investigate the events of January 6, 2021.
By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Forced into the witness protection program after being caught in the crosshairs of a drug–trafficking organization, Jason Bennett and his family, trapped in an unfamiliar life, start falling apart at the seams until Jason takes matters into his own hands after a shocking truth is revealed.
By Naima Coster
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Integrated into a predominantly white high school, an anxious young Black student and a half-Latina whose mother would have her pass as white join a bridge-building school play that shapes the trajectory of their adult lives.
By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Ann Competello, Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
With everything perfectly on track, Diana O’Toole finds things going off the rails when she is quarantined during her dream vacation in the Galapagos due to a virus, forcing her to reevaluate herself and her life when she makes a connection with a local.