Title Swap - March 1, 2016
By Lisa Scottoline
Series Rosato & Associates Novels
Judy Carrier struggles with torn feelings about her friend Mary DiNunzio’s happiness, as well as racing to the side of her cancer-striken aunt, whose close friend, an undocumented worker at a local farm, has died under suspicious circumstances.
By Gretchen Craft Rubin
Presents the information about habit formation, along with strategies for breaking habits that are counterproductive and for forming good habits that enhance the quality of life and help in the attainment of life goals.
By Elizabeth Gilbert
Shares the author’s wisdom and thoughts on creativity, offering insight into inspiration and discussing the attitudes, approaches, and habits needed to live a creative life.
By Daniel James Brown
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, March 8, 2016. 7:30 PM.
Traces the story of an American rowing team from the University of Washington that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower.
By Carly Simon
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
The successful singer-songwriter describes her life growing up amidst the glamour of literary New York with her father who co-founded Simon & Schuster, her path to art and music, her marriage to James Taylor and her famously cryptic song lyrics.
By Kazuo Ishiguro
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, February 9, 2016. 7:30 PM.
A tale of lost memories, vengeance and war by the award-winning author of The Remains of the Day follows the experiences of a couple who journeys across a troubled land of mist and rain with the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.
Forging a deep friendship with a Wampanoag chieftain's son on the Great Harbor settlement where her minister father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent ivy league education and efforts to bridge cultures among the colonial elite.
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 Candice Millard
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian
Tuesday, March 25, 2014. 1:30 PM.
A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
By Erik Larson
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, the book intertwines the true tale of two men - the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America’s place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death.
Scottoline, Lisa and Francesca Serritella – Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat? The mother and daughter writing team present another collection of witty, poignant, and humorous stories and essays that offer entertaining observations, insights, and relatable wisdom.
By Jason Gurley
Years after an accident claims her twin’s life and triggers her father’s abandonment and mother’s ascent into alcoholism, Eleanor begins to experience supernatural dissociations that reveal her parent’s unhappy pasts and her role in helping them heal.
By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
A single father and head of a successful Philadelphia psychiatric care unit sees his life begin to crumble when a teen patient is implicated in a murder and the doctor himself is wrongly accused of sexual harassment.
By Alafair Burke
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
After agreeing to defend her ex-fiance when he is arrested for a triple homicide, top criminal lawyer, Olivia Randall begins to have doubts as the evidence mounts against him.
By John Brooks
In an important wake-up call for parents, teens and mental health professionals, the author searches for the truth about his adoptive daughter’s suicide, spending months trying to understand what made the 17-year-old take her life and sharing what he learned to help others.
By Harper Lee
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
By Pierce Brown
Series Red Rising Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Darrow, a tragedy-forged rebel hero, continues his work infiltrating the Golds to free his people from the brutal elitist future.
By John Grisham
Losing her job at New York City's largest law firm in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Samantha becomes an unpaid intern in a small Appalachian community, where she stumbles upon dangerous secrets.
When the bachelor party her husband is hosting goes wrong, Kristin finds her life spiraling into a nightmare of accusations and betrayal while a girl hired to provide entertainment at the party flees for her life from gangsters.
By Gretchen Craft Rubin
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
"Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project (From the Publisher)."
By Malala Yousafzai
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Kalpana Mehta, Reference Librarian
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, March 22, 2016. 1:30 PM.
Documents the educational pursuits of the Nobel Peace Prize nominee who became an international symbol of hope and inspiration when she challenged the traditions of her Pakistan community, offering insight into the influential role of her courageous father.
By Erik Larson
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Wednesday, June 6, 2012. 7:30 PM. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, during Hitler's rise to power, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
By Andrea Wulf
A portrait of the German naturalist reveals his ongoing influence on humanity’s relationship with the natural world today, discussing such topics as his views on climate change, conservation, and nature as a resource for all life.
By Erik Larson
An account of the September 8, 1900 hurricane in Galveston, Texas, which killed more than six thousand people and is noted as the worst natural disaster in American history, is presented from the records of U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist Isaac Cline.
By Arlene Alda
This collection of memories from children who grew up in the Bronx includes the experiences of Yankees’ broadcaster Michael Kay, J. Crew’s Millard (Mickey) Drexler, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and hip hop’s Grandmaster Melle Mel.
Gilbert, Elizabeth – The Last American Man A cultural examination of the modern American male explores the meaning of manhood in all of its contradictions and challenges.
By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services
Tuesday, April 12, 2016. 7:30 PM.
2016 Long Island Reads Selection
Abandoned by a grief-stricken father and accomplished-scientist mother who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, 13-year-old Jenna Metcalf approaches a disgraced psychic and a jaded detective in the hopes of finding answers.
By M.L. Stedman
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, August 27, 2013. 1:30 PM.
Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences.
By Heather Gudenkauf
When her life unexpectedly collides with ten-year-old Jenny Briard, a homeless girl struggling to survive on her own, veteran social worker and mother Ellen Moore discovers that one small mistake can have life-altering consequences.
In a story inspired by the father character in "Little Women" and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his beliefs challenged by his experiences.
By Andy Weir
Recommended By Cliff Hong, Library Page
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, May 10, 2016. 7:30 PM.
Stranded on Mars by a dust storm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Mark Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and harsh environmental challenges that test his ingenuity in unique ways.
By Henry Wiencek
A controversial reassessment of the third president draws on new archaeological studies and previously disregarded personal records, assessing his contradictory views on slavery while examining what is revealed by his monetary records.
By Chris Bohjalian
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian
In the pastoral community of Reddington, Vermont, during the harsh winter of 1981, Sibyl Danforth makes a life-or-death decision based on fifteen years of experience as a respected midwife - a decision intended to save a child, a decision that will change her life forever.
By Jon Krakauer
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Chronicles the experiences of several women in Missoula, Montana, who claimed to be raped by University of Montana football players, highlighting the inequities of the law in regard to rape allegations and the treatment of rape victims and perpetrators.
By Pierce Brown
Series Red Rising Trilogy
Darrow emerges from years of hiding among the Golds and declares an open revolution against the overlords who oppress his people and caused the loss of his wife.
By Krista Bremer
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
Describes the author’s experiences as the journalist wife of a Libyan-born Muslim with whom she lives in the American South, a relationship that has endured prejudices and different views about family and parenting.
By Kazuo Ishiguro
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services
Monday, March 5, 2012. 7 PM
The students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them. Only, slowly, do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny.
By Ronald H. Balson
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services
Tuesday, April 25, 2017. 1:30 PM.
Elliot Rosenzweig, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist, is attending opening night at the opera. Ben Solomon, a retired Polish immigrant, makes his way through the crowd and shoves a gun in Rosenzweig's face, denouncing him as former SS officer. Rosenzweig uses his enormous influence to get Solomon released from jail, but Solomon commences a relentless pursuit to bring Rosenzweig before the courts to answer for war crimes.
By Bill Bryson
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
Recounts the story of a pivotal cultural year in the United States when mainstream pursuits and historical events were marked by contributions by such figures as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and Al Capone.
By Pierce Brown
Series Red Rising Saga
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
A tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife’s execution by an oppressive government joins a revolutionary cell.
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 Emma Donoghue
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Susan L., Library Page, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, May 22. 1 PM & 7:30 PM
Five–year–old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven–by–eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.
By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
Jack Reacher searches for an elusive killer responsible for the deaths of a number of women, who have nothing in common but the fact that they once worked for the military and had known Jack, and races against time to find a murderer who leaves no trace evidence at the scene of the crime.
By Chris Bohjalian
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
Presents the parallel stories of a young woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier while aiding victims of the Armenian genocide in the early twentieth century, and a young woman who researches her Armenian heritage and discovers a terrible family secret.
By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
“Volunteering at her daughter's school so that she can keep an eye on a bully, Susan faces a difficult choice when her daughter is tormented at the same time an explosion occurs in the cafeteria, a situation that causes Susan to be blamed for the bully's injuries (From the Publisher).”
By Geraldine Brooks
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, March 28, 2017. 1:30 PM.
Based on the story of King David, traces his journey from an obscure shepherd to a hero and king before his fall.
By Ron Rash
Traveling to the mountains of 1929 North Carolina to forge a timber business with her new husband, Serena Pemberton champions her mastery of harsh natural working conditions but turns murderous when she learns she cannot bear children.
Became the movie: Serena
By John Cheever
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
Collects Cheever’s short fiction, including “The Swimmer,” “The Enormous Radio,” “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill,” and fifty-eight other stories that explore many dark issues of America following World War II.
By Jane Green
Struggling with a fatalistic view about aging and friends who desperately cling to youth, Gabby recklessly forges a long-distance friendship with a younger man in spite of her happy family life and finds the relationship threatening everyone she loves.
By Heather Gudenkauf
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
When her sister Allison, convicted of a heinous crime, is released from prison and is desperate to speak with her, Brynn, unable to forget the past that haunts her, must keep the truth from being revealed due to unimaginable consequences.