By William Landay

When the remains of their mother's body are discovered twenty years after she went missing, three siblings must decide whether or not to believe their criminal defense attorney father is guilty of the murder or stand by him.

By Catherine Grace Katz

Reveals the story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin, and the fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II.

By William Landay
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

His happy life and long-time respectability as a suburban Massachusetts assistant district attorney shattered when his 14-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, Andy Barber faces a wrenching decision about family loyalty when the facts increasingly suggest that the boy is guilty.

By Kate Quinn

Known as Lady Death– –a lethal hunter of Nazis– – Mila Pavlichenko, sent to America on a goodwill tour, forms an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a connection with a silent fellow sniper, offering her a chance at happiness until her past returns with a vengeance.

By Kitty Zeldis

In 1919 Brooklyn, dress shop owner Beatrice forms a close friendship with a neighbor, leaving Alice, the teenaged orphan she brought to the north, feeling left out, setting off a series of events that force all three women to confront the past to envision a better future.

By Heather Fawcet

A Cambridge professor, scholar and researcher on the study of faeries visits the hardscrabble village of Hransvik where she gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones and resists her insufferably handsome academic rival.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

An aspiring writer, an athlete from a professional cyclist family and a mathematics prodigy find their bond tested by a love triangle and the spread of anti-Semitism and fascism in 1937 Italy.

By Tana French
Series Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox Mysteries
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“Detective Frank Mackey finds himself straight back in the dark tangle of relationships he left behind twenty-two years ago when the suitcase belonging to his first love, Rosie Daly, shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place (From the Publisher).”

By R. C. Sherriff
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

This wonderfully nostalgic and soothing novel about ordinary people enjoying life's simple pleasures follows the Stevens family as they go on their annual seaside vacation during which they savor every moment of their holiday, knowing that things may not be the same next year.

By Claire Keegan

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care.

By Tamsyn Muir
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Raised in a hostile undead world where she would escape servitude and a zombie afterlife, a lesbian necromancer becomes a bodyguard to an emperor to secure her freedom in a solar system of swordplay and cutthroat politics.

By Maggie O'Farrell
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The award–winning author of I Am, I Am, I Am presents the evocative story of a young Shakespeare’s marriage to a talented herbalist before the ravaging death of their 11– year–old son shapes the production of his greatest play.

By TJ Klune

Given a curious classified assignment to evaluate the potential risks posed by six supernatural orphans, a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth bonds with an enigmatic caregiver who hides dangerous secrets.

By Falon Ballard

A serial dater and relationship columnist for a trendy L.A. website decides to learn how to stay single, but has her resolve tested by her high school ex, who has accepted an assignment for the website.

By King Arthur Baking Company

In its first full–color cookbook, the renowned Baking School at King Arthur shares more than 100 recipes and essential techniques.

By Charlotte Chandler

An intimate portrait of the Hollywood icon draws on interviews conducted by the author during the 1970s and 1980s with Hepburn and her famous costars, covering such topics as the icon's marriage, her affair with Spencer Tracy and her brother's suicide.

By Wendell Steavenson

Portrays a young woman’s struggle to break free from her upper–class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution.

By Maggie O'Farrell

In Florence during the 1550s, captivating young duchess Lucrezia de’ Medici, having barely left girlhood behind, marries the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, and now, in an unfamiliar court where she has one duty—to provide an heir—fights for her very survival.

By Ariana Franklin
Series Mistress in the Art of Death/Adelia Aguilar
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“…In her second historical novel, Franklin presents a fascinating character in Adelia, who is odd for her era and profession yet familiar in her flaws and complexity. This novel will surely please mystery fans as well as lovers of historical fiction (From Library Journal).”

By Jonathan Carroll

Stuck in neutral, Graham Patterson finds his decision to get tattooed by a brilliant tattoo artist in North Carolina setting off a series of extraordinary events that changes his life forever in ways he never could have imagined, including the opportunity to choose from three different lives.

By Susan Meissner
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa V., Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Moving to early 20th–century San Francisco to escape New York tenement life, an Irish mail–order bride uncovers transformative secrets involving a silent child and two other women before her precarious existence is upended by the great earthquake of 1906.

By Kitty Zeldis

Forced to hide her Jewish identity from her employer's post–World War II Park Avenue community, a Vassar–educated tutor forges unexpected bonds before a crossed line leads to life–changing decisions.

By Sarah Horowitz

An unforgettable true account of sex, scandal, and murder, The Red Widow is the story of a woman determined to rise—at any cost.

By Russell Banks

Losing her father to a heart attack on the same night she meets a politically liberal artist, scandal–marked heiress Vanessa Cole hides a dark family secret that takes her from the Adirondacks to war–torn Europe and threatens everyone she encounters.

By Curtis Sittenfeld

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a hilarious, observant, and deeply tender novel.

By Claire Keegan
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

In a small Irish town in 1985, coal merchant and family man, Bill Furlong, while delivering an order to the local convent, makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.

By John Aldridge and Anthony Sosinski

Two veteran sailors who co–own and operate a Montauk lobster boat recount the 2013 search–and–rescue mission for co–author John Aldridge, describing how his partner, their families, the local fishing community and the U.S. Coast Guard in three states mobilized an unprecedented and ultimately successful operation.

By Natalie Haynes

Attacked by Poseidon in Athene's temple, Medusa, the most beautiful of the Gorgon sisters, is punished for his actions and transformed into a monster whose gaze will turn any living creature to stone, forcing her into a life of solitude until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest.

By Ellen Meister
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

After her unemployed husband survives a serious car accident, Laurel Appelbaum, remembering the large life insurance policy they are carrying in his name, imagines a life without him and realizes she is finally ready to leave the marriage—she just has to figure out how to do it.

By Carola Lovering
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Hoping for a fresh start when college takes her far from the mother she will never forgive, Lucy is seduced by the devastatingly complicated Stephen and embarks on a destructively addictive relationship of unimaginable consequences.

By Natalie Haynes
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of its women follows the stories of a vigil–keeping Penelope, an Amazon princess rival of Achilles, and three goddesses whose feud sparks a tragic conflict.

By Carola Lovering
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Accepting the proposal of an older, sophisticated man after a whirlwind courtship, a woman struggling with severe OCD throws herself into wedding plans before discovering her fiancé’s secret past and deceptive agenda.

By Tom Hanks

The two–time Oscar winner presents a first collection of short fiction that includes the stories of a bowling champion who fears his celebrity has ruined his love of the game and an eccentric billionaire and faithful assistant who, while searching for acquisitions, discover romance and real life in a down–and–out motel.