By Elif Shafak
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

Turkish teen Asya is coming of age under the wing of her tattoo-parlor owner mother and her three aunts, befriending a cousin from America, and discovering a secret that links her family to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.

By Jamie Brenner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Returning with her mother to her parents’ North Fork Long Island winery, college-age Sadie discovers that her Grandma Vivian once ran a “trashy” book club and decides to reinstate it as a way to reconnect the family.

By Susan Wilson
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

A wounded war veteran and Rosie, a woman wrongly imprisoned for murdering her husband, bond over training a service dog and vow to get Rosie out of jail.

By Beth Macy
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia, to the current national crisis.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A single father and head of a successful Philadelphia psychiatric care unit sees his life begin to crumble when a teen patient is implicated in a murder and the doctor himself is wrongly accused of sexual harassment.

By Jill Santopolo
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Helping troubled students navigate personal losses, a university psychologist is forced to reckon with her own painful past when a tragic event compels her to reevaluate her goals, passions and sense of identity.

By Sanjena Sathian
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A satirical coming–of–age story follows the experiences of an Indian–American teen in the Bush–era Atlanta suburbs, who joins his crush’s plot to use an ancient alchemical potion to meet high parental expectations, triggering devastating consequences.

By Pearl S. Buck
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A slave bride of a Chinese laborer devotes herself to her husband's family, but when civil war in China brings wealth to the family, her happiness is endangered as her husband brings home a second wife.

By Sally Hepworth
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Twin sisters who are polar opposites but who are harboring a deep, dark secret about their sociopathic mother must face the consequences of both her actions and their own when one tries to start a family.

By Jillian Cantor
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real–world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices.

By Emilya Naymark
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Fleeing the city when her cover is blown during a racketeering case, New York undercover cop Laney Bird finds the limits of her skills tested by her son’s disappearance and an encounter with a confidential informant from her past.

By Patricia Engel
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogatá.

By Nancy Johnson
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Needing to reconnect with the baby she gave up for adoption years earlier, an Ivy League–educated Black engineer uncovers devastating family secrets before her bond with a young white misfit scandalizes her racially torn community.

By Rhett McLaughlin
Recommended By Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

It’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina—a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to the Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a history of putting unruly youths back on the straight and narrow—a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the suspicious deaths that have occurred there over the past decade.

By Mary Kubica
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Unnerved by her husband’s inheritance of a decrepit coastal property and the presence of a disturbed relative, community newcomer Sadie uncovers harrowing facts about her family’s possible role in a neighbor’s murder.

By Justine Cowan
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Documents the author's investigation into her late mother's tragic experiences as an illegitimate orphan who endured an early life of discrimination, physical abuse and harsh labor serving England's ruling class at London's infamous Foundling Hospital.

By Kate Saunders
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Archdeacon's widow and private investigator Laetitia Rodd goes undercover as a governess in order to assist her barrister brother during a case involving the illicit affairs of a nobleman's son.

By Kirsty Manning
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

Returning to Australia to attend her grandfather's deathbed, a heartbroken woman learns the remarkable story of her grandmother, a Jewish refugee who forged a fateful friendship with a local in World War II Shanghai.

By Grady Hendrix
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A supernatural thriller set in South Carolina in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious stranger who turns out to be a real monster.

By Paula McLain
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Retreating to her childhood foster home in the wake of a tragedy, a veteran missing-persons detective becomes entwined in the search for a local teen whose disappearance eerily resembles an unsolved case from the detective's past.