By Danielle Jackson
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

When she finds herself in front of the camera for once, modeling her best friend’s new lingerie line, photographer—and proud plus-size Black woman—Cassie Harris is forced to work with her long-time competitor who wants their professional relationship to develop into something more personal.

By Farah Heron
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Determined to marry for love in spite of her parents’ interfering matchmaking schemes, Reena Manji pretends to be engaged to a neighbor in her father’s employ in the hopes of winning a couples’ cooking competition.

By Toni Jordan

Carefully controlling her world through obsessive counting practices, OCD sufferer and former teacher Grace finds herself increasingly unable to relate to others. Estranged from her family, her life is disrupted by potential romance when a kind stranger invites her to share a café table.

By Susannah Nix
Series Chemistry Lessons
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

After four lousy boyfriends in a row, chemical engineer Penny Popplestone swears off men until she can figure out why they keep cheating on her. But her no-men resolution hits a snag when the mysterious and superhumanly hot barista at her favorite coffee shop strikes up a friendship with her. Penny strives to keep things platonic, but when Caleb gives her the kiss of her life, she realizes he wants to be more than just friends. Tired of always being "good little Penny," she throws caution to the wind and pursues a no-strings fling with the hottie barista. It's not like they have anything in common beyond scorching physical chemistry, so what does she have to lose? Only her heart. Now, this fanfic-reading, plus-size heroine faces an unsolvable problem. What do you do when being apart is unbearable...but being together is impossible?

By Jules Moulin

Ten years after single mother and college professor Ally Hughes decides against a relationship with Jake, one of her students who challenges her to open up her life to love, Jake reenters her life--as her grown daughter's new boyfriend.

By Hilma Wolitzer
With Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference, Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

The Afternoon and Evening Book Clubs unite for a special evening to celebrate a year of great books and discussions.

Tuesday, December 18. 7:30 PM.

“Inadvertently attracting several single women while mourning the death of his adored wife, Edward Schuyler is profiled in a singles ad by his stepchildren... (From the Publisher).”

By Elin Hilderbrand
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

"Mack Petersen, a hotel manager at a beach resort, knows something has to give: his boss is pressuring him, his girlfriend wants to get married, the bellman is after his girlfriend, an old rival is making deadly threats, and, on top of it all, a hurricane is headed their way (From the Publisher)."

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a bestselling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer–long writing project that challenges them to write well in each others’ styles.

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 Sophie Cousens

On the eve of her wedding, Audrey begins questioning whether or not Josh really is “the one,” especially after his sister shows up at the rehearsal dinner with one of her exes and everything that could go wrong, does.

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 Crusie
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Agreeing not to pursue a relationship after one date, unlikely lovers Min Dobbs and Cal Morrisey are thrown together again in the wake of such factors as a jealous ex-boyfriend, a determined psychologist, and a bizarrely intelligent cat.

By Elin Hilderbrand

Having worked for six years in the hotels of exotic resort towns, Adrienne Dealey relocates to Nantucket in the hopes of recouping her finances and gets a crash course in restaurant management at a popular locale that is preparing to close.

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Agreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn’t, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.

By Meg Cabot

“Cabot relies entirely on highly amusing e-mails to tell a fetching meet-cute story…. Full of clever e-mail banter and tongue-in-cheek humor, this cheeky novel should be enjoyed in one sitting (Publishers Weekly).”

By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk

“The familiar tricks of the trade are refreshingly revamped in this lively contemporary romance set in Tuscany… Phillips has created a very modern and textured tale: witty, moving, passionate and tender (Publishers Weekly).”

By Fern Michaels
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Writing biographies to support her family’s struggling Christmas shop, Lauren is assigned to pen the life story of a handsome and surprisingly intelligent online retailer mogul who has put hundreds of small companies out of business.

By Lyssa Kay Adams
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

To win back his wife, who wants a divorce, desperate Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source—a secret romance–reading club of Nashville’s top alpha men.

By Jodi Della Femina

“Nobody knows the Hamptons like Jodi Della Femina, who captures the inside world of love, society, and scandal in this delicious summer page-turner (From the Publisher).”

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 Nora Roberts
Series Chesapeake Bay Saga
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Returning as a successful artist to the home of the family that adopted him, Seth Quinn is intrigued by independent newcomer Dru Whitcomb Banks, who is hesitant to trust Seth, while dark secrets from the past threaten the entire Quinn family.

By Danielle Steel
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Struggling to achieve an independent life when her stale marriage abruptly ends, Stephanie Adams embarks on an impulsive road trip and discovers herself in the course of a whirlwind relationship with a famous country music star.

By Ka Hancock

Deciding to marry in spite of respective health challenges, Mickey, a man with bipolar disorder, and Lucy, a woman with a ravaging family history of breast cancer, struggle through difficult challenges for 11 years before receiving a surprise that forces them to redefine everything they believe about love.

By Laura Dave

Hosting a divorce party on what would have been their thirty-fifth anniversary, amicably separated spouses Gwyn and Thomas Huntington unexpectedly toast their son's engagement to a young woman who inadvertently discovers unsettling secrets about the man she is to marry.

By Laura Dave
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When her wedding is cancelled after her fiancé reveals a shocking secret, Georgia Ford returns to her family's Sonoma vineyard, where she expects the comfort of her family but discovers that her fiancé wasn't the only one keeping secrets.

By Carley Fortune
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Persephone, a magazine writer, returns to her lake hometown for a funeral and lands straight in to the orbit of her ex- best friend and lover, Sam, and must reconcile the choices she made since their breakup.

By Linda Holmes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Young widow Evvie Drake and major league pitcher Dean Tenney, who has lost his game and needs a chance to reset his life, form an unlikely relationship when Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house.

By Jane Green
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Seeking independence and happiness away from her upper-crust British life, Emma moves first to Manhattan and then to Connecticut, where she renovates a cottage at the side of a handyman single father with whom she plans a future before a twist of fate redefines her beliefs about home.

By Debbie Macomber

Keeping a low profile after a painful divorce, Lacey Lancaster spurns the advances of her handsome neighbor, Jack Walker, in spite of their cats' mutual attraction.

By Beth O'Leary
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence.

By Trish Doller
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

Hiring a sailor to navigate the boat trip she planned before her fiancé’s death, Anna begins healing from a broken heart in the wake of an unexpected romance.

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

Planning her best friend's wedding is bittersweet for Kristen Peterson as she faces a medical procedure that will make her unable to have children, especially as she finds herself connecting with the best man.

By Alex Brunkhorst

Collecting quotes for the obituary of a legendary film producer, young journalist Thomas Cleary is invited by the man's eccentric daughter to tour the exclusive upper echelons of Hollywood society, where he pursues a romance with an enigmatic young woman.

By Dana Bate
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Seizing the chance to do what she loves after her relationship ends, Hannah Sugarman, poised for an academic career like her famous parents, instead starts an underground supper club, but her own fears and doubts threaten her dreams.

By Elin Hilderbrand
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three "nudges" to alter the outcome of events.

By Abby Jimenez
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Adopting a rescue puppy to help her get her life back on track two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan clashes with the mischievous pup’s original owner, Jason, a rising musician who challenges Sloan to make difficult choices.

By Mary Kay Andrews

When the dream job she has pursued all her adult life suddenly disappears, an ambitious journalist returns to her family's small– town newspaper before witnessing a car accident that ends the life of a local war hero.

By Jennifer Gracen
Series McKinnon Brothers
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

They didn’t believe in holiday magic… until it happens to them. Anna McKinnon is a free spirit. As a bartender in New York City, she answers to no one, keeps what she calls “vampire hours”—and likes it that way. She secretly wishes to find real love, the forever kind her brothers have all found. But love has not only eluded her, it’s burned her badly. Keeping things light is how Anna copes. David Beren is a high-powered, intense investment banker in the heart of Manhattan. His 80-hour work weeks took over his life long ago, but now, at 35, he’s ready for something more. But what? And then he meets Anna. She’s unexpected—full of light, color, and laughter. Anna knocks him off his game and his feet, and he’s never been happier. Can total opposites—a feisty, bold girl from Ireland and a quiet, straight-laced Jewish guy from New Jersey—find love at the holidays? With the double whammy of a Hanukkah miracle and some Christmas magic, they just might.

By Ava Wilder
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

When her long–running teen soap opera wraps, Grey Brooks enters into her publicist’s scheme to begin a fake a love affair with a disgraced Hollywood heartthrob who also could use the publicity, but is shocked when real feelings emerge.

By Emily Belden
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Hiding the fact that she is a widow from those around her, 29–year–old Charlotte Rosen searches for answers and forgiveness when her late husband’s ashes land on her doorstep five years after his death.

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 Robinne Lee
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A middle–aged art gallery owner begins a passionate fling with a member of her daughter’s favorite boy band, who is 19 years her junior, and must fend off rabid fans and insatiable media after their affair becomes a viral sensation.

By Sarah Lotz
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

When two strangers start an accidental correspondence that leads to love, they discover, after numerous failed attempts to finally meet in person, discover they’re living in parallel worlds and must beat impossible odds and make impossible choices to be together.

By Nora Roberts
Series Chesapeake Bay Saga
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Advertising executive Phillip Quinn joins forces with the beautiful Sybill to protect a young boy from his opportunistic mother.

By Brenda Janowitz

When Manhattan lawyer Brooke Miller lands her first big case, she discovers that the opposing attorney is her fiancé.

By Susan Wiggs

Upon learning of her husband’s affair, Sarah Moon resettles in her California hometown only to learn she is pregnant.

By Falon Ballard

A serial dater and relationship columnist for a trendy L.A. website decides to learn how to stay single, but has her resolve tested by her high school ex, who has accepted an assignment for the website.

By Helen Hoang
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When mathematician Stella Lane decides to improve her love life, she hires Michael Phan, an escort, to help her gain knowledge and experience in dating.

By Rainbow Rowell
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Recognizing that her marriage is in deep trouble in spite of her abiding and mutual love for her husband, television writer Georgie excludes herself from a Christmas family visit before discovering a way to reconnect with the man her husband used to be.

By Louise Miller
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Nora, the owner of the local diner, and her sister Kit inherit a house and land targeted for development, leading to conflict in the community and a dilemma for Nora, who is confused over her growing feelings for the developer's representative.