A visit from his daughter and her fiancé from Oregon prompts Jerry Battle to reassess his life, his family relationships, his professional success, and his disengagement from those around him, as he reflects on his professional success and his love of flying solo, in a novel set in an upper-middle-class suburban Long Island community.
By Barbara Taylor Bradford
Series House of Deravenel
Elizabeth Deravenel rises to become the most powerful managing director in the history of the Deravenel business empire, only to find herself surrounded by corporate intrigue, takeover threats, betrayal, and scandal as she must make a choice between love and duty.
By Naguib Mahfouz
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
“The novelist's camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each representing a different trend in Egypt in the 1930s (From the Publisher).”
By James Dickey
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
“A novel that will curl your toes... Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension (New York Times Book Review).”
By Richard North Patterson
The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murdering three PetroGlobal workers.
By Dennis Lehane
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference
“Lehane's first historical novel is a clear winner, displaying all the virtues the author has shown in his exceptional series of crime novels: narrative verve, sensitivity to setting, the interweaving of complicated story lines, an apt and emotionally satisfying denouement-and, above all, the author's abiding love for his characters and the human condition (Library Journal).”
“Spanning the globe, he (Friedman) presents case study after case study that shows that Green-oriented practices and technologies are the key to revitalizing our country and stabilizing an increasingly energy-starved world (Barnes and Noble Reviews).”
By Chris Cleave
A confrontation between a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan, called Little Bee, and a wealthy British couple on vacation, has life-changing consequences for everyone involved.
By Lewis Black
A biting assessment of modern religion by the "Daily Show" comic describes his haphazard Hebrew school education, witness to the link between faith and drugs throughout his 1960s college days, and perspective on the hypocrisy of faith-toting politicians.
Abandoned amid the offbeat inhabitants of the Chelsea Hotel when his English wife and son return to London following September 11th, Hans, a banker originally from the Netherlands, struggles to find himself in his adopted country.
Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend, a married man, is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to accompany him to his new post amid a raging cholera epidemic.
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Stevens, an elderly butler, hopes to rise to the top of his profession, and he remains stoic and unemotional at his father's death and neglects the opportunity to pursue a relationship with a former housekeeper.
By Richard Yates
Recommended By Kelly Ramos, Children's Librarian
“It’s hard to think that there’s too much wrong with April and Frank Wheeler over and above what has been tagged the disenchantment syndrome of the average young married couple in the suburbs… For April’s discontent is a real emotional destitution, and this, to Yates’ great credit, is only imperceptibly apparent (Kirkus Reviews).”
Became the movie: Revolutionary Road.
By Maryann McFadden
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page
"The Richest Season is a stunning debut about three very different people, each changing their lives when such transformations are usually long over. It will resonate with any woman who's ever fantasized about leaving home to find herself (From the Publisher)."
An uncannily absorbing historical mystery, a heart–piercing romance, and a moving homage to the mystical power fo books, The Shadow of the Wind is a triumph of the storyteller’s art.
By Andrea Levy
At the end of World War II the Joseph family arrives in London from Jamaica and Queenie, their white landlady, befriends them, until her racist husband, Bernard, arrives home from the front.
Set in modern-day India, it is the story of Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife and Bhima, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years.
The story of a group of Americans and English on a sojourn from Paris to Paloma, evokes in poignant detail, life among the expatriates on Paris's Left Bank, during the 1920s and conveys in brutally realistic descriptions the power and danger of bullfighting in Spain.
In a memoir of growing up with a single mother, the author describes how he received valuable life lessons and friendship from an assortment of characters at the neighborhood bar, who provided him with a kind of fatherhood by committee.
By Louise Murphy
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services
Monday, July 23, 2012. 7 PM.
A retelling of the classic fairy tale, set in Nazi-occupied Poland, follows two Jewish children, left by their father and stepmother to seek refuge in a dense forest, as they wander the woods until being taken in by Magda, an eccentric old woman called a witch by local villagers, who is determined to save them despite the arrival of a German officer.
By Anita Shreve
A photographer who has come to a small island off the coast of New Hampshire to shoot a photo-essay about a double murder that took place there over a century ago, notices parallels between her own life and the lives of the murder victims.
A novel written in letters from Bess Steer Garner spanning from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1940’s.
Became the TV mini-series: A Woman of Independent Means.
By T.C. Boyle
A story of women who invest everything, at great risk, in that mysterious "bank of feeling" named Frank Lloyd Wright.