By Emma Donoghue

A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana. 

By Rosemary Gibson

Drawing on decades of experience in health care policy reform and economics, the authors provide a non-partisan analysis of President Obama's health care reform.

By Jess Walter
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 28, 2013.  1:30 PM.

A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.

By Katherine Boo
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, April 9, 2013.  7:30 PM.

Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
“Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions (From the Publisher).”

By Tina Fey
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Amy B., Children's Librarian

Actress Tina Fey recounts her life, sharing how she managed to fulfill her dream of one day becoming a comedian on television and discussing her childhood, marriage, career, and views on beauty, politics, motherhood, and relationships.

By Margaret Dilloway
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Thirty-six-year-old biology teacher Gal Garner's regimented life will never be the same after her estranged sister's teenage daughter Riley arrives one afternoon unannounced.

By Melody Carlson

It is 1937, and Lucy knows better than to wish for a pony this Christmas. Her mother has assured her in no uncertain terms that asking for a pony is the same as asking for the moon. Then an interesting pair of strangers comes to town, and Lucy's world changes forever. 

By Catherine Chung
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, November 27.  1:30 PM.

Learning on the night of her sister's birth that a daughter has been lost in every generation of her Korean family, Janie assumes a protective role over her sister while learning more cautionary stories from her optimistic father and mythology-minded mother until her sister's abrupt defection years later reveals painful family secrets.

By Gretchen Rubin
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Recounts the author's efforts to render her home a place of greater simplicity, comfort, and love, discussing how she experimented with a range of concrete resolutions and came to redefine her views about family, time, and material comforts.

By Mark Helprin

Returning home after serving in World War II to run his family business in New York, paratrooper Harry Copeland falls in love with young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, who risks everything to break off her engagement to another man.

By Ross Perlin

Presents insights into the use of interns in a variety of firms and organizations, discussing the economic impact of internships and their effect on business practices.

By Patricia Wood

Having learned essential life skills from his dedicated grandmother that helped him overcome his low IQ, Perry finds himself without a caregiver at the age of thirty-one and wins a fortune by playing the lottery, a lucrative windfall that brings him more family than he ever wanted.

By Ron McLarty
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

"Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until a tragic event prompts him to set off on an epic cross-country bicycle journey (From the Publisher)."

By Penny Marshall

“A Hollywood icon discusses her life, from her starring role on the classic sitcom "Laverne and Shirley" to her trailblazing moment as the first woman to direct a movie grossing more than $100 million at the box office (From the Publisher).”

By Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder

Presents rules for integrating job planning with a college education, including advice on pursuing a good degree, resumes, personal branding, turning college contacts into job contacts, and creating personalized jobs.

By Peter D. Schiff

Predicts a worse crash if key economic changes cannot be made, arguing that American consumer habits are at the heart of today's problems and recommends that the nation declare bankruptcy and rebuild broken systems from scratch.

By Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Recommended By Kalpana Mehta, Reference Librarian

“Interweaving the stories of Kavita, Somer, and the child that binds both of their destinies, Secret Daughter poignantly explores the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity, and love, as witnessed through the lives of two families one Indian, one American and the child that indelibly connects them (From the Publisher).”

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning the Civil War.

By Mitch Albom
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Given one last chance at redemption, Father Time, the inventor of the world’s first clock, must teach two earthly people the true meaning of time - a journey that leads him to a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy businessman who wants to live forever.”

By Dominick Dunne

Writing the story of Iris Grenville's life, Brady Campion is introduced to a beautiful woman, uncultured but determined to become a member of society's elite, who killed her husband and whose lawyers convinced a jury that she mistook him for a prowler. 

By Rachel Joyce
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Lisa Caputo, Assistant Library Director

Tuesday, March 19, 2013. 1:30 PM.

Harold Fry is convinced that he must deliver a letter to an old love in order to save her, meeting various characters along the way and reminiscing about the events of his past and people he has known, as he tries to find peace and acceptance.

By Tammy Strobel

Offers advice on how to achieve happiness by reducing the love and need for material things and focusing instead on personal relationships. Offers advice on how to achieve happiness by reducing the love and need for material things and focusing instead on personal relationships.