By Amy Bloom
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Siberia to find the missing girl.

By Stephanie Kallos
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Clare Badke, Principal Account Clerk, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

When elderly Margaret Hughes discovers that she has a malignant brain tumor, she refuses treatment and decides to take a nice young tenant into her huge, lonely Seattle mansion for company.

By Angie Thomas
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

A gang leader’s son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one’s brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set 17 years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give.

By Alka Joshi
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A talented henna artist for wealthy confidantes finds her efforts to control her own destiny in 1950s Jaipur threatened by the abusive husband she fled as a teenage girl.

By Lisa Jewell
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

When their picture-perfect Cotswold village family life with a perpetually young father and hippy mother is shattered by a tragic Easter weekend, four siblings pursue separate adult lives before a reunion reveals astonishing truths.

By Jane Mendelsohn
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

"In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937 (From the Publisher)."

By Julia Kelly
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Unable to confront the challenges in her own life, Cara Hargraves immerses herself in work for her antiques–dealer boss, uncovering relics from the life of World War II British "Gunner Girl" Louise Keene and her complicated relationship with a man named Paul.

By Art Speigelman
Series Maus
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying past, and history itself.

By Kent Haruf
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 23, 2016. 1:30 PM.

A senior-aged widow and widower forge a loving bond over shared loneliness and respective histories, provoking local gossip and the disapproval of their grown children in ways that are further complicated by an extended visit by a sad young grandchild.

By Jessmyn Ward
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Living with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.

By Uzodinma Iweala
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

An athlete from a private school in Washington, D.C., and his friend, the daughter of government insiders, struggle with the responses to the young man's sexual orientation before finding themselves speeding toward a violent future.

By Jean Grainger
Series Star and the Shamrock Series
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

When her husband doesn't come home one day, Ariella realizes that the only way she can ensure her Jewish children's safety is to avail of the Kindertransport, but can she bear to let them go? A thousand miles away, Elizabeth Klein has closed herself off from the world. Losing her husband on the last day of the Great War, and her child months later, she cannot, will not, love again. It hurts too much. But she is all Liesl and Erich Bannon have. Thrown together in the wild countryside of Northern Ireland, Elizabeth and the Bannon children discover that life in the country is anything but tranquil. Danger and intrigue lurk everywhere, and some people are not what they seem.

By Katherine Center
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When her estranged, ailing mother asks her to move to Boston, firefighter Cassie Hanwell becomes the only woman in her new firehouse, where she faces discrimination, low funding, and her unwanted attraction to a fellow firefighter.

By Harper Lee
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, June 28, 2011. 1 PM & 7:30 PM.

The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

Became the movie: To Kill a Mockingbird.

By Anne Tyler
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, February 14, 2017. 7:30 PM.

A modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew follows the experiences of a preschool teacher who alienates others by speaking her mind, and who manages her family's home before she is expected by her eccentric father to marry his assistant to prevent the young man's deportation.