By Judith Frank
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When Daniel Rosen's twin brother and sister-in-law are killed in a bombing in Jerusalem, he and his husband Matthew are confronted with challenges that threaten their relationship as they try to adopt the couple's two children.

By Olen Steinhauer

After a failed rescue attempt of a hijacked plane in Vienna, two retired spies, former lovers, can’t help but relive the past and determine if the mission went wrong because of a compromised agent on the inside.

By Harlan Coben
Series Myron Bolitar Novels

When veteran golfer Jack Coldren, staging a comeback at the U.S. Open, is found dead in a sand trap, sports agent Myron Bolitar investigates, digging through twenty years of secrets to find a killer who is closer to him than he imagined.

By Mary Kay Andrews
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Given a last chance to salvage her career after being wrongly blamed for property damage, movie location scout Greer Hennessy confronts an environmentally-minded mayor in a sleepy Florida Gulf Coast community.

By Atul Gawande

A prominent surgeon argues against modern medical practices that extend life at the expense of quality of life.

By Rosanna Chiofalo

Preparing for her wedding in Venice to a man she has loved since childhood, bridal gown designer Valentina DeLuca is forced to re-evaluate her life in this magical city where she hopes her luck will change.

By Liane Moriarty
Recommended By Rosalia White, Library Clerk, Lisa V., Library Clerk, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

An annual school Trivia Night ends in a disastrous riot leaving one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but evidence shows it might have been premeditated.

By Greg Iles
Series Penn Cage Novels

Southern lawyer Penn Cage desperately struggles to protect his father from false charges and corrupt officers by confronting the puppet master behind the Double Eagles terrorist group.

By Cristina Henriquez
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, June 23, 2015. 1:30 PM.

Moving from Mexico to the United States when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter’s difficult recovery, and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.

By Richard Russo

After 60 years of living in upstate NY, Louis & his wife, prepare for a trip to Italy to visit Louis' childhood friend.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Love blossoms between Sookie Stackhouse, a cocktail waitress who keeps to herself because of her ability to read minds, and Bill, a vampire with ties to a crowd that may be responsible for the death of one of Sookie's coworkers.

By Erik Larson
With Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

Tuesday, December 8, 2015. 7:30 PM.

A chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as Woodrow Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat, and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.

By Elizabeth Berg

A tale based on the controversial life of mid-nineteenth-century French novelist George Sand follows her separation from her husband and vibrant life in Paris, where she wore men's clothing and shared love affairs and friendships with famous intimates.

By Thomas Hardy

Gabriel Oaks observes Bathsheba Everdene, the young mistress of Weatherbury Farm, fall victim to bad decisions and romantic impulses, unaware of the stroke of fate that will finally bring about their union.

Became numerous movies: Far From the Madding Crowd (2015), Far From the Madding Crowd (1967), and Tamara Drew (2010)

Became the TV Movie: Far From the Madding Crowd

By Paula Hawkins
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Meghan Fangmann, Librarian, Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian

Friday, Mau 5, 2017. 2 PM.

Obsessively watching a couple every day to escape the pain of her losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that entangles her in the lives of strangers.

By Jennifer Cody Epstein

A young woman’s journey through the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo, and the stories of three Americans who shape her fate.

By T.C. Boyle

Boyle, T.C. – The Harder They Come* A Vietnam veteran, his schizophrenic son, and the son's older lover endure an anti-authoritarian confrontation marked by the son's violent breakdown and flight through California.

By Brit Morin

From “Silicon Valley’s Martha Stewart” comes a new manifesto for the modern homemaker in the digital age.

By Eliza Kennedy

Enjoying a dream job, close friendships, a loving family, and a gorgeous fiancée, Lily Wilder evaluates her history of partying and dating lots of men to consider whether getting married is the right choice for her.

By Betty Halbreich

A personal account by the legendary Bergdorf Goodman personal shopper traces her rise from a cosseted young girl to an influential fashion authority.

By Joseph Kanon

Targeted by McCarthyism for his prewar politics, a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to America makes a desperate bargain with a fledgling CIA to work as a spy in a decimated Berlin.

By Marie Kondo

Presents a guide to cleaning and organizing a living space, discussing best methods for decluttering and the impact that an organized home can have on mood and physical and mental health.

By Ishmael Beah
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Ishmael Beah described his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a solider for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

By Greer Macallister

When a notorious female illusionist uses a fire ax to saw a man in half in front of policeman Virgil Holt, the subsequent discovery of a dead body leads to an interrogation and an unbelievable, spellbinding story.

By Donna Foley Mabry
The author writes the story of her paternal grandmother's life, beginning on the day of her birth in 1892.

By Greg Iles
Series Penn Cage Novels

Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Rosalia White, Library Clerk, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways.

By Graeme Cameron

A seemingly mild-mannered, neighborly man who kidnaps young women and holds them in a cage in his basement meets a grocery store checkout girl who becomes his ultimate target before he intends to cease his violent activities.

By Christina Baker Kline
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Close to aging out of the foster care system, Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer takes a community service position helping an elderly woman named Vivian clean out her home and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past

By Kent Haruf
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 23, 2016. 1:30 PM.

A senior-aged widow and widower forge a loving bond over shared loneliness and respective histories, provoking local gossip and the disapproval of their grown children in ways that are further complicated by an extended visit by a sad young grandchild.

By Diana Gabaldon
Series Outlander Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.

By Kent Haruf

From the unsettled lives of a small-town teacher struggling to raise two boys alone in the face of their mother's retreat from life, a pregnant teenage girl with nowhere to go, and two elderly bachelor farmers emerges a new vision of life and family as their diverse destinies intertwine.

By Nelson Demille
Series John Corey

When Tom and Judy Gordon are found murdered in their Long Island home, NYPD detective John Corey uncovers a chilling link between the couple’s deaths and the theft and illegal sale of genetically altered viruses, and races against time to stop the possible release of a deadly plague.

By Ishmael Beah
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, October 13, 2015. 7:30 PM.

In a parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone, two long-time friends return to their ruined home village and struggle to rebuild in the face of violence, scarcity, and a corrupt foreign mining company.

By Nelson Demille
Series John Corey

When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down.

By Emily St. John Mandel
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, June 9, 2015. 7:30 PM.

The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of "King Lear" marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates.

By David Nicholls
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A mild-mannered scientist with a hidden sense of humor struggles to repair his marriage and his relationship with his teen son during a month-long European tour.

By Nelson Demille

A corporate executive, decorated army officer, and family man is charged with having overseen a massacre of innocent civilians in Vietnam, in a highly publicized case.

By Daviid McCullough
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

July 11th 2017 Chronicles the story-behind-the-story about the Wright brothers, sharing insights into the disadvantages that challenged their lives and their mechanical ingenuity.