By Heather Dune Macadam
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

The acclaimed internationally best-selling author of Rena's Promise reveals the poignant stories of the 999 women on the first official transport to Auschwitz, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses and relatives of those first deportees.

By Brent Ridge
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The founders of the upstate New York-based farm company share favorite eco-conscious, vintage-modern recipes collected from generations of their family, complementing such entries as Fourth of July Fruitcake and Hot Chocolate Dumplings with nostalgic personal stories.

By James Grippando
Series Jack Swyteck Novels
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

When a corrupt President is narrowly reelected by the Electoral College but not the popular vote, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is embroiled in a political frenzy involving an opponent’s refusal to concede and a lobbyist’s fateful decision.

By Connie Schultz
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

A first novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Life Happens explores the impact of forfeited dreams, long–kept secrets and evolving gender roles on a small family throughout the latter half of the 20th century.

By Shari Lapeña
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When a woman from her husband’s past shows up and raises questions about the death of his first wife, Stephanie remains loyal to her husband until a newly opened police investigation starts eroding her trust and her marriage.

By Donna Leon
Series Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Going undercover to investigate a new Protestant sect that has begun meeting in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti is forced to put his probe aside when the body of a young gypsy girl turns up in a local canal.

By Abi Daré
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Adunni, a 14–year– old Nigerian girl who longs for an education, must find a way for her voice to be heard loud and clear in a world where she and other girls like her are taught to believe, through words and deeds, that they are nothing.

By Samantha Downing
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Forced by their wealthy grandfather’s death to reunite after an extended estrangement, three siblings and their respective partners reluctantly participate in a cross-country road trip to fulfill a final request and secure their inheritances.

By Nora Roberts
Series Three Sisters Island Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Ripley Todd is aware of her special powers but she just wants to live a quiet, peaceful life as a sheriff's deputy on Three Sisters Island. A researcher named MacAllister Booke arrives to investigate the rumors of witchcraft on the island. MacAllister is fascinated with Ripley and her amazing abilities. He becomes determined to help her accept who she is and open her heart.

By J. D. Vance
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Clare Badke, Principal Account Clerk, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, October 24, 2017. 1:30 PM.

Shares the poignant story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

By Alice Feeney
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Sacrificing everything for her hard–won BBC presenter career, Anna teams up with DCI Jack Harper to investigate a childhood friend’s murder in her sleepy hometown village.

By Jon Katz
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

The author describes how Izzy, a dog with an uncanny sensitivity toward ill and troubled humans, led him to take on the difficult but rewarding job of hospice volunteer, while his acquisition of Lenore, a Labrador puppy, helped him overcome depression.

By Julia Kelly
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Unable to confront the challenges in her own life, Cara Hargraves immerses herself in work for her antiques–dealer boss, uncovering relics from the life of World War II British "Gunner Girl" Louise Keene and her complicated relationship with a man named Paul.

By Haylen Beck
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

After a closing elevator door separates them, a single mother on vacation with her son discovers he has been abducted by another woman who claims she is his mother.

By Jerry Capeci
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

After he escaped an assassination attempt, Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the top boss of the Luchese crime family, became the highest-ranking mobster to turn government witness, which resulted in the imprisonment of more than fifty mobsters.

By Emma Donoghue
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic.

By Liane Moriarty
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A busy couple formerly on the brink of realizing their dreams reflects on a fortuitous gathering with their best friends and another couple in a tale that explores the role of guilt in relationships and the power of everyday moments in family life.

By Lynn Steger Strong
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Reaching out to a friend after years of building a family and earning a PhD culminate in bankruptcy, Elizabeth discovers that her friend is enduring violent retaliation for wanting a life on her own terms.

By Katherine Center
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When the new principal turns out to be the former, unrequited crush of her teen years, elementary school librarian Samantha Casey discovers that he is a changed man, determined to destroy everything she loves about the school, which forces her to take action.

By Aravind Adiga
Recommended By Lakshmi Kasturi, Library Clerk, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

Relocating to New Delhi when he is offered a new job, Balram Halwai is disillusioned by the city's twenty-first-century materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past.