By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

“Picoult's most raw, honest, and important novel yet. Told with the straightforward style for which she has become known, it asks simple questions that have no easy answers: Can your own child become a mystery to you? What does it mean to be different in our society? Is it ever okay for a victim to strike back? And who -- if anyone -- has the right to judge someone else (From the Publisher)?”

By Jacquelyn Mitchard
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“The Cappadora family is once again in peril after adult son Vincent's acclaimed film about the families of abductees leads to Beth Cappadora leading her family in search of the truth that can save a life (From the Publisher).”

By Kevin Wilson
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Agreeing to help her former college roommate care for two stepchildren who possess the ability to spontaneously combust when agitated, Lillian endeavors to keep her young charges cool in the face of an astonishing revelation.

By Steve Martin
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallels the soaring heights––and, at times, the dark lows––of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.

By Elizabeth Strout
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

A collection of thirteen linked short stories recounting the experiences of Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who witnesses the changes in her town and the world at large.

By David Nicholls

An episodic story which takes place during a single day each year for two decades in the lives of Dex and Em, who met the day they graduated from university in 1988.

Became the movie: One Day.

By Susan Wilson

The very definition of a hard-nosed businessman, Adam March has no room in his life for anything but the cold drive to succeed. Not for his social-climbing wife or for his rebellious teenage daughter. then, in an instant, he loses everything, and Adam finds himself alone, unemployed, and reduced to bussing tables in a homeless shelter. Then he meets a dog.

By Kate Atkinson
Series Jackson Brodie Mysteries

Millionaire ex-detective Jackson Brodie follows his girlfriend to Edinburgh for the famous arts festival, but when he witnesses a brutal attack on a man, he becomes caught up in a string of events that draws him into a deadly conspiracy.

By JoJo Moyes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A single mom trying to raise a bullied stepson and a mathlete daughter finds an unexpected rescue in the form of an obnoxious tech millionaire named Geeky Ed.

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 Elizabeth Berg

When her husband leaves, Samantha Morrow has to put life back together for herself and her son. Her mother fixes her up on dates, and a new friend suggests a job. In order to make the mortgage payments, and give herself time to remember who she was before she became half a couple, she takes in boarders.

By Diana Abu-Jaber
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Life is grim for Lena Dawson, a fingerprint examiner for the Syracuse police. Uncertain about her own origins, or her sanity, the delicately pretty technician has carved out a spare existence for herself since her philandering husband, Charlie, left, and has also lived down the brief flare of fame that followed her uncovering of crucial evidence in the murder of a child (Kirkus Reviews).”

By Sidney Sheldon
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

“In Paris... Washington... and a fabulous villa in Greece, an innocent American girl becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal (From the Publisher).”

By Scarlett Thomas
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

“… Smart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas’s trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, how we can rewrite our futures (if not our histories), and how stories just might save our lives (From the Publisher).”

By Susan Wiggs

Forced by scandal and tragedy to return to her Pacific coast childhood home, Caroline assumes guardianship over two orphans and bonds with a circle of fellow seamstresses before an unexpected challenge tests her courage and heart.

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

“The budding romance between two teenaged children of two families who have been lifelong friends and neighbors culminates tragically in an abortive suicide pact, leading to a gripping courtroom drama (From the Publisher).”

By Abby Jimenez
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

ER doctor Alexis Montgomery’s world is turned upside down by a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s 10 years younger, and as their short-term flings turns into a relationship, she must choose between her ultra-wealthy parents and true love.

By Anne Tyler

Relates the story of Baltimore’s Barnaby Gaitlin, a furniture mover with a history of misdemeanors and a fair-weather girlfriend.

By Nick Trout
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

"Returning home to Eden Falls, Vermont, to revive his late father’s veterinary practice and then quickly sell it, Cyrus Mills finds his plans changing when he beings feeling invested in the community and the relationships he forms (From the Publisher)."

By John Grisham
Recommended By Rosemary Moran, Senior Library Clerk

Cut from the Cleveland Browns after the worst performance in the history of the NFL, Rick Dockery, desperate to play football, is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy, and finds himself confronted by the confusing diversity of Italian culture, language,and romance.

By Kyong-sook Shin

Follows the efforts of a family to find the mother who went missing from Seoul Station and their sobering realizations when they recall memories that suggest she may not have been happy.

By Stephen Frey
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

" ...With The Power Broker, bestselling author Stephen Frey unleashes an ever-accelerating thriller that breaks the suspense barrier - and never stops (From the Publisher)."

By Erica James
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Three very different people, Maggie, who is married to a man who doesn’t appreciate her; Ethan, who is trapped in a loveless marriage; and Ella, who is determined to never let her heart rule over her head struggle to keep the promises they have made to themselves.

By Giolito Persson
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Maja Norberg, a wealthy Swedish prep school student, describes her trial for her involvement in a mass murder that killed her boyfriend and her best friend, detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding the event.

By Katarina Bivald
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A Swedish tourist opens a bookstore in Broken Wheel, Iowa, to honor her deceased pen pal and makes some unconventional choices that threaten to bring long-hidden secrets to light as she attempts to share her love of reading with the locals.

By Lou Jane Temple
Series Heaven Lee Mysteries

While visiting New Orleans to help the Sisters of the Holy trinity hold their annual benefit dinner, Chef Heaven Lee of Kansas City becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her old friend's husband.

By Mohsin Hamid

In the aftermath of 9/11 a young Pakistani man tells his life story to a mysterious American stranger.

Became the movie: The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

By Patrick Ness

The best friend of a kid with superhuman qualities endeavors to have a life of his own that is both normal and extraordinary in the face of constant world-shaking challenges, threats against his school, and an elusive pretty girl.

By Jude Deveraux
Series Summerhouse

Three women--Amy, Faith, and Zo?e--come to a special Maine refuge to confront the pain and heartbreak of the past, as the mysterious Madame Zoya and her sister Primrose send them on a trip back through time that could alter their futures.

By Rumaan Alam

Forging a deep bond throughout their shared childhood, college years, first jobs, and first loves, Sarah and Lauren experience secret envy and horror over aspects of each other's lives, challenging them to retain their bond from increasingly distant perspectives.

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 Graeme Simsion
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 15, 2017. 7:30 PM.

A socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father.

By Jill Shalvis
Series Animal Magnetism Novels

Back in Sunshine, Idaho, Special Ops soldier Griffin Reid finds comfort in the last person he'd expect—small town school teacher Kate Evans.

By Ann Patchett
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider their priorities.

By Jesmyn Ward
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, November 13, 2018.  7:30 PM.

2011 National Book Award for Fiction Winner: SALVAGE THE BONES by Jesmyn Ward

Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

By Thomas H. Cook
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Sharing a seemingly tranquil relationship with his brilliant bohemian wife only to find himself on trial for her murder, liberal arts college professor Samuel Madison struggles with a hostile town and media as well as his daughter’s distrust while reevaluating his marriage and falling in love with his dead wife all over again (From the Publisher).”

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 Amy Tan

On an ill-fated art expedition, eleven Americans find themselves deep in the Burmese jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting a leader and the mystical book of wisdom that will protect them from the Myanmar military regime.

By Brenda Janowitz

Brooke concocts an outrageous plan to survive her ex-boyfriend's wedding to a Hollywood bimbo.

By Joanna Trollope

Distraught when her youngest son, twenty-two-year-old Ben, plans to leave home, Edie, an actress, and her theatrical agent husband, Russell, are faced with an empty nest for the first time, until their older son Matthew, upset about earning less than his successful girlfriend, and daughter Rosa, wrestling with debt and a failed love affair, plan to move back in.

By Barbara Delinsky
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page

“Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident… Once again, Delinsky has delivered a riveting, superbly crafted family story (From the Publisher).”

By Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Recommended By Kalpana Mehta, Reference Librarian

“Interweaving the stories of Kavita, Somer, and the child that binds both of their destinies, Secret Daughter poignantly explores the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity, and love, as witnessed through the lives of two families one Indian, one American and the child that indelibly connects them (From the Publisher).”

By Lola Shoneyin

“Baba Segi's fourth wife, the young, college-educated Bolanle, sends his household into turmoil, causing his other three wives to become jealous and resentful and to plot her downfall (From the Publisher).”

By Nicci French
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“Although French’s thrillers are all stand-alones, they all have one element in common: delicious, constantly building suspense… this one focuses on a London-dwelling protagonist who must prove a point to disbelieving family, friends, and police (Booklist).”

By Robert Crais
Series Joe Pike Mysteries

When Joe Pike witnesses Dru Rayne's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he becomes a target, and discovers Dru and her uncle are not who they seem.

By John Dunning
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Entreated by partner Erin D'Angelo to help in the case of a friend, who has been accused of murdering her husband, avid book collector Cliff Janeway investigates and discovers that the victim possessed a valuable collection of books (From the Publisher).”

By Dani Shapiro

When the Shenkmans arrive on Division Street, their brilliant, lonely son Waldo, who has a native ability to find connections in everything, befriends Dr. Wilf, who is harboring a dark secret, setting in motion a chain of events that cause the past to come back with a vengeance.

By Matthew Quick
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Embracing a philosophy that life is a movie produced by God, neural health patient Pat Peoples endeavors to win back his estranged wife by making strategic sacrifices and coordinating their communications through a depressed widow (From the Publisher).”

By Rosamund Lupton
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Refusing to believe that her pregnant mercurial artist sister committed suicide, Beatrice begins an obsessive search for the truth and is dismissed by her family and authorities until she closes in on murderous predator (From the Publisher).”

By Curtis Sittenfeld
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

“When the strongest earthquake in U.S. history occurs just north of their St. Louis home, Kate and Jeremy find the disaster further complicated by Kate’s twin sister’s prediction about a more powerful earthquake (From the Publisher).”