By David Miller
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

“In 2003, David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is Miller’s account of this thru-hike along the entire 2,172 miles from Georgia to Maine (From the Publisher).”

By Meg Howrey
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Kate is conflicted after she is offered her sister Gwen’s starring role in a ballet, especially because her jealousy prevented her from seeing the signs of mental breakdown that made Gwen lose the role (From the Publisher).”

By Tom Piccirilli

“Homeless and despondent after losing both his job and wife, the narrator begins a cross-country trip with his bulldog and faces the burden of failure and witnesses various tragedies along the way (From the Publisher).”

By Bill Willingham
Series Fables
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

This elaborate fantasy series begins as a whodunit, but quickly unfurls into a much larger story about Fabletown, a place where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers.

By Andrew Solomon

Explores the consequences of extreme personal differences between parents and children, describing his own experiences as a gay child of straight parents while evaluating the circumstances of people affected by physical, developmental, or cultural factors that divide families. 

By Philip Roth
Series Zuckerman Novels
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, October 22, 2013. 1:30 PM.

“A young writer in search of a spiritual father, Nathan Zuckerman views E. I. Lonoff, who lives with his wife and his student-mistress in rural Massachusetts, as an embodiment of the ideal of artistic integrity and independence (From the Publisher).”

By Catherynne Valente
Series Orphan's Tales

“A collection of interconnected fairy tales for adults journeys into a fantastical world populated by living stars, wild horsewomen, snake-gods, and beast-princesses, in the first of a two-volume set by the author of The Labyrinth (From the Publisher).”

By Reed Farrel Coleman
Series Moe Prager Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager’s family apart and it’s been six years since Moe’s brushed the dust off his PI license. But when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse, Moe takes a deep breath and plunges back into the icy, opaque waters of secrets and lies (From the Publisher).”

By Karolyn Smardz Frost
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

The heroic story of former slaves Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, who launched a daring and successful daylight escape from their slave masters in 1831, became the subjects of a first serious legal dispute between Canada and the United States regarding the Underground Railroad, sparked the Blackburn Riot of 1833, and worked with prominent abolitionists to provide shelter for runaways.

By Tracy Chevalier
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1950 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom (From the Publisher).”

By Agatha Christie
Series Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A widow's sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first husband, was being blackmailed, and was carrying on a secret affair with the wealthy Roger Ackroyd. The following evening, Ackroyd is murdered in his locked study, but not before receiving a letter identifying the widow's blackmailer. Kings Abbot is crawling with suspects and it's up to famous detective, Hercule Poirot, to solve the case.

By Jonathan Tropper
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Struggling with his ex-wife’s imminent marriage to a nice guy and his Princeton-bound daughter’s unplanned pregnancy, a bewildered Drew Silver tackles difficult family dynamics and refuses to undergo a life-saving operation (From the Publisher).”

By Richard Paul Evans
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“Laid off from his sales rep job, Robert Paul decides to pursue his dream of becoming a writer and unexpectedly pens a best seller, but when his new world compromises his marriage, he receives unexpected guidance from a stranger who has an uncanny knowledge about his life and future (From the Publisher).”

By Anita Shreve
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“In World War II, an American flier is shot down over Belgium. He is rescued by a farmer and his wife who are in the resistance. The wife cares for the airman’s wounds and while the husband is away they have a doomed affair which ends in betrayal (From the Publisher).”

By Anthony Everitt
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Traces the rise of Rome as an unlikely evolution from a market village to the world’s most powerful empire, offering insight into its political clashes, military strategies, leading figures, and internal corruptions (From the Publisher).”

By Carla Neggers
Series Sharpe & Donovan
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“While investigating the murder of a nun in an isolated Maine town, FBI agent Colin Donovan goes undercover as an Irish fisherman and must decide if he wants to work alone or with Emma Sharpe, an art detective, to stop a killer’s plot for eternal glory (From the Publisher).”

By Deborah Levy
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“A mysterious woman who suffers from mental illness suddenly appears at a vacation villa where two families are staying and her interactions with them reveal secret details about their past and tensions within their relationships with each other (From the Publisher).”

By Nichole Bernier
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Inheriting her best friend’s diaries after a tragic accident, Kate learns unknown aspects of her late friend’s life, from her deeply troubled childhood to her feelings of powerlessness as a wife and parent (From the Publisher).”

By Debbie Macomber
Series Angelic Intervention
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“Three angels with a penchant for trouble bring some much-needed Christmas magic into the lives of three people-an elderly man searching for peace of mind, a young woman afraid of commitment, and a little boy with a special holiday wish (From the Publisher).”

By Ken Follett
Series Century Trilogy
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian, John Shea, Library Page

Continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II.