By Monica Hesse
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Documents the trial of a man charged with dozens of counts of arson in a rural Virginia county, sharing insight into his struggles with addiction, his relationship with his accomplice girlfriend, and the impact of the fires on their community.

By Allison Pataki
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Recounts how the author's healthy thirty-year-old husband suffered a life-threatening stroke that placed everything they had worked for in jeopardy, a struggle she navigated by writing daily letters to her husband that helped her make sense of the challenges they faced.

By Simone St. James

More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.

By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden files
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The only professional wizard in Chicago, Harry Dresden finds himself cast in the role of savior when black magic and necromancy threaten the city.

By Mariah Fredericks
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A highly skilled ladies' maid working among the upper echelons of 1910 New York society uses her insider knowledge of her entitled employer's family to investigate the class-driven case of her mistress' brutally murdered playboy fiancé.

By Tara Westover
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, February 26, 2019. 1:30 PM.

Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.

By Mohsin Hamid
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Two young lovers engage in a furtive affair shaped by local unrest on the eve of a civil war that erupts in a cataclysmic bombing attack, forcing them to abandon their previous home and lives.

By Mark Spragg

Mark Spragg’s first novel is the story of the lifelong friendship between two Wyoming ranchers, McEban and Bennett, and their love for the same woman—Gretchen Simpson, Bennett’s wife. When she leaves them both for a new life, the two men follow her on a journey across the American West, testing the limits of their friendship and love.

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

Presents the story of a collision course between a dangerous young man and a privileged couple who compete for their daughter's attention.

By Ariel Lawhon
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

In Germany in 1920, the unexplained appearance of a traumatized, badly scarred young woman who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest Romanov daughter, launches a half–century of questions and accusations.

By Mark Millar
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

When a former ally seeks to become the world's most notorious villain, Hit Girl trains Kick-Ass, while Red Mist gathers a team of super-villains to take them down.

By Liv Constantine
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A coolly manipulative woman worms her way into the lives of a wealthy golden couple from Connecticut as part of her plot to achieve a privileged life, unveiling dark secrets along the way.

By Julia Whelan
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Offered a fantastic job in a rising star's political campaign on condition that she will work abroad and return to Washington after spending a dream year at Oxford, Ella clashes with, and then falls for, an outspoken literature professor with a life-changing secret that forces her to rethink her ambitions.

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

Conceived to provide bone marrow for her sister, teenaged Anna decides to fight for the rights to her own body.

By James Lee Burke
Series Dave Robicheaux novel
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

While investigating a homicide, Dave Robicheaux, who is struggling with PTSD, alcoholism, and the loss of his wife, suspects he may have been the killer and endeavors to clear his name and make sense of the killing.

By Shari Lapeña
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

Responding to a call she hoped she would never get, a woman braces herself for the worst in a bad part of town and wakes up with no memory of what happened at the same time the police and her husband accuse her of misconduct.

By Alan C. Bradley
Series Flavia de Luce Mysteries
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is propelled into mystery when a man is found murdered on the grounds of her family’s decaying English mansion and Flavia’s father becomes the main suspect.

By Zinzi Clemmons
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Raised in America, the multiracial daughter of a mother from Johannesburg struggles with her mother's terminal cancer and her own need to find love and a place to belong, quests shaped by losses, changes in her sense of identity, and unexpected motherhood.

By Nora Roberts
Series Chronicles of the One Series
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

With the world in chaos and survivors heading west, those immune to the sickness that decimated half the world's population and the gifted are targeted by the authorities.

By Sherman Alexie
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Presents a literary memoir of poems, essays, and intimate family photos that reflect on the author's complicated relationship with his mother and his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation.