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 Julia Claiborne Johnson
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A follow-up to the best-selling Be Frank with Me follows the experiences of a former Yale student whose life at a 1930s Reno divorce ranch is upended by a shy woman and a thrice-divorced pilot.

By John Rowland
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening; when he returns to work the next morning, a dead body is locked inside—a man who has been stabbed in the back. Jimmy London, a newspaper reporter, is first on the scene. He is quick on the trail for clues—and agrees to pool his knowledge with Inspector Shelley of Scotland Yard, who is holidaying in the area. Mistrustful of the plodding local policeman, Inspector Beech, the two men launch their own investigation into the most baffling locked-room mystery—a case that could reignite Jimmy's flagging career, but one that exposes him to great danger.

By Jonathan Franzen
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

As Christmas 1971 approaches, the Hildebrand family of New Prospect, Illinois deals with increasing points of crisis including a stale marriage, the draft and their son's sexual orientation in the first novel in a new trilogy.

By Kristin Harmel
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Lisa V., Library Clerk

Raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe after being kidnapped, a young German woman, in 1941, vows to teach a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror how to survive in the forest until she is betrayed as her past and present collide.

By Charles Dickens
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A young orphan, Pip, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become a gentleman.

By Joe Hill
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet.

By Sharon & David Bowers
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Offers clear, step-by-step instructions of the domestic arts that would’ve been taught once upon a time in a Home Economics course, such as cooking, hemming a pair of pants, folding a fitted sheet, writing a thank-you note and much more.

By Steven Rowley
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

A man is reminded of how it feels to love fiercely, to fight for a loved one and to work through the pain of letting go as he becomes gradually aware of his devoted bond with his aging canine companion.

By Jessica Anya Blau
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Taking a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor, straight-laced Mary Jane is introduced to a world of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll, which helps her figure out what she really wants out of life, and what kind of person she’s going to be.

By Ruta Sepetys
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.

By Selma van de Perre
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

This memoir from a 98–year–old Jewish Resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor tells the story of how she took on an assumed identity fighting Nazi occupation in the Netherlands before being sent to a women’s prison.

By Susan Meissner
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa V., Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Moving to early 20th–century San Francisco to escape New York tenement life, an Irish mail–order bride uncovers transformative secrets involving a silent child and two other women before her precarious existence is upended by the great earthquake of 1906.

By Damon Galgut
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family reflects the atmosphere of its country an atmosphere of resentment, renewal, and ultimately hope.

By Rachel Donohue
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Attending the Temple House School, Louisa, a brilliant new student, forms a fierce bond with an outlier and student provocateur, but their relationship is soon torn apart by a charismatic art teacher that leads to the unthinkable.

By Carola Lovering
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Accepting the proposal of an older, sophisticated man after a whirlwind courtship, a woman struggling with severe OCD throws herself into wedding plans before discovering her fiancé’s secret past and deceptive agenda.

By Richard Adams
Recommended By Michele Zwierski, Librarian

In a constant struggle against oppression, a group of rabbits search for peaceful co-existence. Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace. 

By Nicholas Sparks
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.

By Marina Khidekel
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

This book is a microstep bible. With chapters dedicated to sleep, nutrition, movement, focus and prioritization, communication and relationships, unplugging and recharging, creativity and inspiration, and purpose/meaning, Your Time to Thrive shares practical, usable, research-supported mini-habits that will yield huge benefits and empower people to truly thrive in all parts of their lives.

By AJ Pearce
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A young wartime advice columnist, Emmeline Lake must tackle a life-changing dilemma between doing her duty and standing by her friends when the Ministry of Information calls on her to help recruit desperately needed female workers to the war effort.