By Charles Mann
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. … (From the Publisher).”

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“When his pregnant wife and child are kidnapped and he discovers that he has been set up as a traitor, brilliant CIA agent Sam Capra begins a desperate hunt for the unknown enemy who he believes has targeted the wrong man (From the Publisher).”

By Camille Noe Pagán
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Marissa Rogers is forced to reevaluate her choices when her once-domineering best friend loses her memory in an accident, causing Marissa to confront painful shared memories (From the Publisher).”

By Julie Otsuka
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 28, 2012.  1 PM & 7:30 PM.

Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

By Joseph Heller
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, September 29, 2015. 1:30 PM.

Depicts the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base.

Became the movie: Catch 22.

By Diane Mott Davidson
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“This delightfully wicked mystery features food expert Goldy Bear, 31, the divorced mother of a 12-year-old son and the owner of Goldilocks Catering in Aspen Meadow, Colorado (From Publishers Weekly).”

By Graham Greene
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“Three men who meet on a ship bound for Haiti are ruined by their own apathy as they attempt to destroy the tyranny of the corrupt regime of "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his sinister Haitian secret police, the Tontons Macoute (From the Publisher).”

By Lauren Grodstein
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romance (From the Publisher).”

By Sarah Glidden
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“A graphic memoir chronicles the author's Israeli government sponsored trip through Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and Masada and a non-chaperoned trip into the West Bank (From the Publisher).”

By Rhys Bowen
Series Molly Murphy Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“Private investigator Molly Murphy goes undercover within the household of a senator and his wife, the latter of whom frequently solicits the infamous Sorensen sister spiritualists for information about her presumed-dead son (From the Publisher).”

By Dorothy Koomson
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Searching for the simple life and a fresh start, Kendra Tamale rents a room from Kyle Gadsborough, only to become drawn into the lives of her new landlord's household… (From the Publisher).”

By Gary Small

“A renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist reveals the most mysterious, intriguing and bizarre cases of his extensive medical career and offers a look into the peculiarities of the human mind (From the Publisher).”

By Amor Towles
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults witty Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well and a single-minded widow.

By Ann Patchett
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, June 26, 2012.  1 PM & 7:30 PM.

A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years -- a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.

By Chang-rae Lee

“Thirty years after vying for the attentions of a beautiful but damaged missionary wife at a Korean orphanage, Korean orphan June Han and former GI Hector Brennan are reunited by a plot that forces them to come to terms with mysterious secrets from their past (From the Publisher).”

By Spencer Quinn
Series Chet and Bernie Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“A follow-up to Dog On It finds the human-and-canine investigative team endeavoring to rescue an abducted show dog, a case that is complicated by reporter Susie Sanchez's disappearance and Chet's separation from Bernie (From the Publisher).”

By Neil Abramson
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“After veterinarian Helena Colden dies of breast cancer, she is unable to move on and narrates the emotional deterioration and struggle of her attorney husband David as he becomes involved in a court case to save the life of a chimpanzee (From the Publisher).”

By Sara Douglass
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

The first volume in an exciting new fantasy series follows Faraday, a brave young woman, as she flees Gorgrael, the ice-lord, in the company of Axis, the leader of the Axe-Wielders and the hated half-brother of her betrothed, Borneheld.