By Emily X. R Pan
With Meghan Fangmann, Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian

Tuesday, August 6, 2019. 7:30 PM.

A teen grieving the loss of her mother travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time and search for her mother's spirit while uncovering tragic family secrets and struggling to reconcile the truth about how her mother's life really ended.

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 Taylor Jenkins Reid
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

When singer Daisy Jones meets Billy Dunne of the band The Six, the two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.

By Thomas Mullen
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Hired by the Atlanta Police Department in 1948, Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith confront deep hostility from their white peers before confronting a corrupt officer who complicates their investigation into the murder of a black woman.

By Cal Newport
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Argues that the world urgently needs a reduction of personal online time as part of a healthy lifestyle choice and offers a thirty-day digital declutter process that helps people feel less overwhelmed and more in control.

By Susan Jane Gilman
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Leaving behind her family and her suburban home when her world implodes, forty-five-year-old Donna Koczynski sets off on a road trip to rebuild her life.

By James R. Hansen
With Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

Friday, July 19, 2019. 2:00 PM.

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Read the book, then see how it is interpreted and adapted for screen. A short discussion will follow the film, starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy and Jason Clarke. This film is rated PG-13.

By Jane Green
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Reconciling thirty years after college, three friends reunite at their college reunion and have a second chance at happiness, until a dark secret changes everything.

By Jules Verne
With Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

Tuesday, July 9, 2019. 7:30 PM.

Lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club decide to build a gun big enough to shoot a manned rocket to the moon.

By Kiese Laymon
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, June 11, 2019. 7:30 PM.

An essayist and novelist explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies and deception does to a black body, a black family and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.

By Katherine Center
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, June 25, 2019. 1:30 PM.

When an accident on what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life lands her in the hospital with a very uncertain future, Margaret struggles to come to terms with family secrets, heartbreak, and starting over before discovering love in an unexpected place.

By Susan Jane Gilman
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Russian immigrant Malka arrives in 1913 Manhattan, where she struggles to survive and learns trade secrets from an Italian ices peddler before setting off across America in an ice cream truck with a handsome, illiterate radical to seek their fortunes.

By Jenna Blum
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 27, 2019. 1:30 PM.

In 1965 Manhattan, chef and Auschwitz survivor Peter Rashkin is resigned to solitude and devotes himself to running his restaurant until he meets and marries June, but the horrors of his past soon overshadow him and his new family.

By Stephanie Land
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.

By Virginia Woolf
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

During one day of arranging for her party Mrs. Dalloway remembers her youth, considers the crushing effects of the Great War, and reexamines her marriage.

By Jennifer Weiner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Tuesday, February 25, 2020. 1 PM.

Two sisters struggle to find their place, be true to themselves and adapt to rapid changes happening throughout the latter half of 20th–century America.

By Christina Lauren
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

When a university event turns into a black tie gala, Millie and her four best guy friends make a pact to join an online dating service, but while the guys are getting potential dates, Millie's profile attracts less than desirable matches.

By Anna Pitoniak
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A novel of psychological suspense follows Stella and Violet, best friends in college who compete for success and recognition at a cable news network, changing their friendship to a destructive rivalry.

By Yangsze Choo
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A vivacious dance-hall girl in 1930s colonial Malaysia is drawn into unexpected danger by the discovery of a severed finger that is being sought by a young houseboy in order to protect his late master's soul.

By Rhiannon Navin
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy.

By Nadia Hashimi
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 23, 2017. 1:30 PM.

Adopting the custom of bacha posh in 2007 Kabul, which allows her to dress and be treated as a boy, attend school and chaperone her sisters until she is of marriageable age, Rahima, the daughter of a drug– addicted father, discovers that she is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom.

By Jill Shalvis
Series Wildstone Series
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Discovering that her late husband had been living a double life, Lanie struggles to trust again when she falls for an Air Force veteran and member of the boisterous Capriotti winery family.

By Alyson Richman
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 15, 2019. 1:30 PM.

An English teacher with haunting childhood memories gains perspective and inspiration while tutoring a young Ukrainian immigrant whose serious health issues prevent him from taking any day for granted.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Haunted by her role in a covered-up prank gone wrong twenty years earlier, Allie returns to her hometown for a friend's funeral and resolves to uncover the truth.

By Kate Atkinson
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

BBC radio producer Juliet Armstrong finds herself targeted by dangerous individuals from her past as a World War II espionage monitor for MI5.

By Christina Lauren

When her twin sister and new brother-in-law get food poisoning at their wedding, maid of honor Olive, accompanied by her nemesis, the best man Ethan, assumes the role of a newlywed on a Hawaii honeymoon before unexpectedly falling for her companion.

By Nadia Hashimi
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

When her happy middle–class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.

By Tana French
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

After being beaten and left for dead by burglars, a happy-go-lucky charmer returns to his ancestral home where he stumbles on a family secret.

By Etah Rum
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
With Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 12, 2020. 7:30 PM.

Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.

By Michelle Sacks

Visiting her childhood best friend's home in Sweden, where she is warmly welcomed and begins to appreciate the community's simple routines, Frank begins to notice treacherous undercurrents beneath her friend's social appearance of domestic tranquility.