By James Patterson
Series Women's Murder Club
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Four women—a police detective, an assistant D.A., a reporter, and a medical examiner who call themselves the Women’s Murder Club—develop lifelong bonds as they pursue a killer whose twisted imagination has stunned an entire city.

By David Benioff

Monty starts a seven-year prison sentence for dealing drugs and tonight is his last night of freedom. His father wants him to run. His drug-lord boss wants to know if he squealed. His girlfriend isn't sure what she wants but his two friends know that if he goes in, he will never be the same.

By Mark Twain

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

Became numerous movies: Tom Sawyer (1907, 1917, 1930, 1936, 1973. 1973-TV movie, 1984, and 2000), Huck and Tom (1918), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944 and 1985), Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990-TV movie), and Tom and Huck (1995).

By Claire Luchette
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Agatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful life. But when the parish goes broke, the sisters are forced to move. They land in Woonsocket, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. They take over the care of a halfway house, where they live alongside their charges, such as the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone to teach math at a local all-girls high school, where for the first time in years she has to reckon all on her own with what she sees and feels. Who will she be if she isn’t with her sisters? These women, the church, have been her home. Or has she just been hiding?

By Jennifer Niven

Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world.

By Fannie Flagg
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“A novel spanning decades, generations and America in the 1940s and today, centers around five women who worked in a Phillips 66 gas station during the WWII years (From the Publisher).”

By Kayla Rae Whitaker

Two women, who met in an art class in college and instantly became best friends, try to salvage their relationship after their successful animated filmmaking partnership nearly destroys their personal lives nearly a decade later.

By Jacqueline Woodson
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, November 14, 2017. 7:30 PM

Torn between the fantasies of her youth and the realities of a life marked by violence and abandonment, August reunites with a beloved old friend who challenges her to reconcile her past and come to terms with the difficulties that forced her to grow up too quickly.

By Danielle Steel
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Four friends sharing a beautiful loft apartment in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen revel in the glamour of city life before new relationships, job opportunities and surprising circumstances test the strength of their bond.

By Iris Rainer Dart

Follows thirty years of joy, sorrow, triumph, and tragedy in the changing and enduring relationship of two very different women - the conventional Bertie and Cee Cee, a flamboyant actress.

Became the movie: Beaches.

By Barbara Kingsolver

When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three–year–old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.

By Lawrence Osborne

Taking in a stranger who is suffering from exposure during a white-hot summer on the Greek island of Hydra, the daughter of a wealthy art collector and her friend, an American vacationer, discover the man's story before their act of altruism takes a dangerous turn that exposes their true loyalties.

By Sarah Pekkanen
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Four old college friends, desperate for an escape from their crazy lives, spend a week at a luxury villa in Jamaica and help each other cope with their problems.

By Jennifer Weiner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

A woman confronts the dynamics of friendship and forgiveness while visiting Cape Cod to attend an old friend's increasingly disastrous wedding.

By Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Winning a scholarship to a prestigious college where she befriends a beautiful girl of privilege, unassuming Mabel joins her friend during a lakeside summer surrounded by wealthy vacationers only to discover morally ambiguous truths about her friend's family fortune.

By Rebecca Makkai

When her favorite patron, a book-loving ten-year-old, runs away from overbearing parents who force him to attend anti-gay classes with a celebrity pastor, children's librarian Lucy Hull flees with the boy and discovers that they are being pursued by an anonymous adversary.

By E. Lockhart
Series Ruby Oliver

A Seattle fifteen–year–old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance–artist mother and her father, and more.

By Robin Kirman

The brutal murder of a Harvard senior and rumors about a charismatic instructor haunt the lives of three graduates over the course of a decade-long search for answers.

By Annie Lyons
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, a world-weary octogenarian forges an unexpected bond with an exuberant 10-year-old who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees and other social excursions

By Lauren Beukes
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Detective Gabriella Versado investigates after disturbing displays that fuse the bodies of murder victims with those of animals are uncovered in abandoned Detroit buildings.

By Lauren Oliver

Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend after becoming obsessed and delusional over a novel, but on the anniversary of their friend's death a discovery pulls them back together to find out what actually happened that night.

By Claire Messud

Lifelong friends Julia and Cassie find their relationship tested as their paths diverge during adolescence as Cassie embarks on a dangerous journey.

By Richard Russo

One beautiful September day, three 66–year–old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college, and must puzzle out a lingering mystery from the summer of 1971.

By Lauren Weisberger
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“Making a pact that they will change the things that most challenge them within a year's time, Manhattan friends Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana shed their downtrodden identities in order to pursue the high life (From the Publisher).”

By Swati Avasthi

Acting out superhero fantasies on the streets and rooftops of Chicago, best friends Corey, Holly and Savitri are shattered by a murderous act of violence that leaves two of them disillusioned and unable to move on, in a tale complemented by comic-style art sections.

By Fiona Davis

From Fiona Davis, the nationally bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Address, the bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about the twenty–year friendship that will irrevocably change two women's lives.

By Sloane Crosley

Three once-ambitious college friends compare their realities against their youthful goals before one enlists the others to help him search for a valuable necklace that went missing during the Nazi occupation of France.

By Elizabeth Wein
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director
With Pam Strudler, Librarian, Sharon Long, Teen Librarian

Tuesday, July 22, 2014. 1:30 PM.

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive.

By Amita Trasi
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Returning to her homeland in India, Tara searches for her childhood friend, Mukta, who was kidnapped from her home eleven years ago, and delves into the brutal underground world of human trafficking.

By J. Courtney Sullivan

Four college first year students at Smith form an intense bond that grows stronger throughout their college years and is put to the test after graduation.

By Ann M. Martin

The summer that Hattie Owen turns twelve, she meets the childlike Uncle Adam she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.

By Deborah Rodriguez

Sunny is an expat in Kabul who blissfully runs a coffee shop for other Americans in the country. When Yazmina, a pregnant young woman from a nearby village, is kidnapped and later abandoned near the coffee shop, Sunny instinctively comes to her aid. Candace, a wealthy American, also pitches in, while Isabel, a journalist, chronicles Yazmina's woe. Meanwhile, Halajan, a local mother, is reeling from a forbidden love affair.

By Megan Abbott
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

After a suspicious suicide, the members of a high school cheerleading squad, along with their new, perfectly cool coach, Colette French, are drawn into the investigation.

By E. Lockhart

Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all–male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.

By Rebecca Wells

When Siddi inadvertently reveals some revealing things about her Southern childhood in a newspaper interview, her mother, Vivi, virtually disowns her. Vivi’s lifelong friends, the Ya–Ya’s, set in motion a plan to bring the mother and daughter back together using a scrapbook of childhood memories that they ask Vivi to put together.

Became the movie: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

By Nora Roberts
Series Three Sisters Island Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When Sam Logan, an old flame, returns to the island, Mia Devlin struggles to ignore the passionate bond between them, even as a centuries-old curse draws them together.

By Myla Goldberg
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Twenty years after her best friend and rival Djuna disappeared under circumstances Celia has only recently remembered, Celia unconsciously sabotages a relationship and returns to her hometown to confess her role in what happened (From the Publisher).”

By Naomi Krupitsky
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Pushing against the boundaries of society’s expectations and fighting to preserve their complex but life–sustaining friendship, Sofia Colicchio and Antonia Russo, who live in the shadow of their fathers’ unspoken community until Antonia’s father disappears, find their loyalty tested on one fateful night.

By Alice Elliott Dark
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

A retiring children's book author looking to secure her legacy tries to get the beautiful Maine coast where her novels are set donated to a trust, but must first convince the shareholders, one of which is her best friend.

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

An exploration of the complicated terrain between best friends - one who chooses marriage and motherhood while the other opts for career and celebrity. 

By Sandie Jones
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Believing she has finally achieved happiness in her second marriage, children and best friendship with the most loyal woman she has ever known, Alice turns suspicious when her husband and best friend start disappearing for extended times.

By Olivia Goldsmith

Three faithful, middle-age wives, who have been abandoned for "trophy wives"--younger, blonder, and sexier models--by their successful husbands, decide to get even and seek public revenge before New York society.

Became the movie: The First Wives Club.

By Susan Henderson
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Mary Crampton works as an embalmer in a small town that went into decline after a grain elevator accident killed a young athlete, but when the athlete's brother returns, Mary forms a friendship with him and is faced with the possibility of leaving her town.

By Richard Fifield
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Returning to her tiny Montana hometown where jaded locals refuse to let her make amends, Rachel Flood, who left behind a trail of chaos, discovers herself and receives assistance from a local boy in her efforts to correct past mistakes.

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“A follow-up to the best-selling Firefly Lane returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully’s mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives (From the Publisher).”

By Jonathan Lethem

Their friendship compromised by the belief systems of the racially charged 1970s, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude share a series of misadventures based on their mutual obsession with comic book heroes.

By Robyn Carr

When BJ, a newcomer to Mill Valley, enters their close-knit circle and opens up about her dark past, Gerri, Andy and Sonja come together to help her get back on track and, in the process, make strides in their own lives, becoming stronger as individuals and unfaltering as friends.

By Kate Jacobs
Series Friday Night Knitting Club

Gathering for their weekly knitting club at a small yarn shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of friends shares such challenges as raising children, navigating the ups and downs of their careers, and pursuing uncertain relationships.

By Fannie Flagg

Mrs. Threadgoode’s tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to being to rejuvenate her own life.

By Kimberly McCreight

Five college friends meet up in the Catskills ten years after graduation, bringing their shared past, betrayals, and secrets with them