By Rainbow Rowell
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, March 14, 2016. 7 PM.

Gossiping and sharing their personal secrets on e-mail in spite of their company's online monitoring practices, Beth and Jennifer unwittingly amuse Internet security officer Lincoln, who unexpectedly falls for Beth.

By Stacy Schiff
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, February 11, 2014. 7:30 PM.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.

By J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith
Series Cormoran Strike Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, June 13, 2016. 7:30 PM.

Working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a legendary supermodel’s suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, desperate designers and hedonist pursuits.

By Joanna Trollope
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“After her youngest son, and last one to marry, brings home his wife, Rachel, feels her role of family matriarch slipping away and must deal with the loss that comes with it, while maintaining the relationships she holds dear (From the Publisher).”

By Linda Francis Lee
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Losing her beloved husband in a tragic accident only to be informed that she must leave her comfortable Upper West Side home, Emily learns disturbing truths about her late husband’s true character and embarks on a journey for answers in the company of a scruffy little dog (From the Publisher).”

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 Barbara Hambly
Series Benjamin January Mysteries

“In New Orleans in the 1830s, Benjamin January, a Creole musician and a free Black man, struggles to clear his name when he becomes a suspect in the murder of an octoroon woman (From the Publisher).”

By Nelson DeMille
Series John Sutter Novels
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“Along the wealthy North Shore of New York’s Long Island, the once-affluent Wall Street attorney John Sutter meets Mafia kingpin Frank Bellarosa and finds himself drawn into a seductive world of money and violence (From the Publisher).”

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamache Mysteries
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

“Struggling to maintain the Homicide group during the holiday season in the wake of interdepartmental estrangements, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache quietly investigates the disappearance of a once-famous mad poet while seeking a safe haven for his loyal colleagues in an increasingly hostile town (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 Susan Fales-Hill
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“Throwing herself into earning her Ph.D after an acrimonious divorce, Elizabeth, the second of four mixed-race sisters named after Windsor royals by their ambitious mother, is drawn into the romantic dramas of her sister, a television reality show bachelorette (From the Publisher).”

By Anita Hughes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

After walking in on her fiancée cheating on her with her boss, Hallie Elliot escapes to Lake Como in Italy where she becomes involved with a mysterious estate caretaker with a dark and secretive past.

By Ernest J. Gaines
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, September 24, 2013. 1:30 PM.

A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.

By Saira Shah

A moving and thought-provoking story about how the best parts of life are often the most complicated.

By Pat Conroy
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

Interweaves the events of Tom Wingo's summer in New York and his relationship to Susan Lowenstein, his sister Savannah's beautiful psychiatrist and the complex history of the South Carolinian Wingo family, from World War II, through Vietnam.

By Kimberly McCreight
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

“When her high-achieving 15-year-old daughter Amelia supposedly commits suicide after she is caught cheating, litigation lawyer and single mother Kate Baron, leveled by grief, must reconstruct the pieces of Amelia’s life to find the truth and vindicate the memory of the daughter whose life she could not save (From the Publisher).”

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 Sherrilyn Kenyon
Series Dark-Hunter Novels
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Traces the story of the Dark-Hunter leader’s powerful twin, who risks his life to prove his loyalty only to fall in love with a reluctant Atlantean goddess who resolves to pay back a debt at any cost (From the Publisher).”

By Andrew M. Greeley
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“As the cardinals of the Church gather in Rome for the election of a new pope, Bishop John Blackwood Ryan, reporter Dennis Mulloy, and CNN correspondent and Mulloy’s ex-wife Patricia investigate a Vatican banking scandal and an assassin out to destroy the next pope (From the Publisher).”