By Thomas A. Bogar
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
An account of Lincoln's assassination is told from the perspectives of dozens of Ford's Theatre workers and performers, drawing on previously unpublished sources to cite relevant misjudgments and reveal the fates of key witnesses.
By Diana Gabaldon
Series Outlander Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
In 1772, on the eve of the American Revolution, Jamie Fraser is asked by the governor to help protect the colonies for the King and Crown, but, thanks to his time-traveling twentieth-century wife, Claire, Jamie is aware of the ultimate result of the rebellion, a situation complicated by his discovery of an obituary, dated four years hence, that reports his own death.
By Roz Chast
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian
Monday, September 28, 2015. 7 PM.
2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
A graphic memoir by a long-time New Yorker cartoonist celebrates the final years of her aging parents' lives through four– color cartoons, family photos and documents that reflect the artist's struggles with caregiver challenges.
By Ian McEwan
A highly respected London judge hides her decision to separate from a husband who wants an open marriage, a loss that challenges her beliefs throughout a case involving parents whose faith forbids a life-saving transfusion for their son.
By Lisa Gardner
Series Detective D.D. Warren Novels
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
While on the trail of a twisted serial killer, Detective Dodge must track down a woman from his past who may be every bit as dangerous as the killer.
A tale inspired by a true story finds the blind Homer Collyer closeted within a once-grand Fifth Avenue mansion with his damaged brother and remembering a life marked by colorful characters, political events, and technological achievements.
By Steven Johnson
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
A history of innovation shares stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes, examines unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated fields, and reveals how important inventions have had unintended consequences.
By Nora Roberts
Series Key Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
The first in the new Key trilogy follows Malory, a woman gifted with artistic talent, as she races to find the Key of Light-a perilous mission that could either forge her destiny or shatter her life forever.
By Reed Farrel Coleman
Series Dylan Klein Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference
“Little Easter is a novel about the falls we take and the ways in which we recover…if we recover at all. Join Dylan Klein’s forays into the clandestine worlds of the Mafia, New York’s Diamond Exchange, and behind the police department’s blue wall of silence. Meet the fallen and the tall (From the Publisher).”
By Sophie Hannah
Series The New Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
A mystery featuring Agatha Christie’s legendary hero follows Hercule Poirot as he tries to solve a diabolically clever puzzle in 1920s London that will put his keen skills of detection to the test.
By Christina Baker Kline
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
Close to aging out of the foster care system, Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer takes a community service position helping an elderly woman named Vivian clean out her home and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past
By Tatiana de Rosnay
“Hoping to put a generations-old secret behind him, Nicholas Duhamel becomes a successful writer and pens a novel that makes him famous before he is forced to reexamine his family’s disturbing past (From the Publisher)."
By Erika Johansen
Series Queen of the Tearling
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Coming out of exile to ascend her rightful throne, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, with a cadre of soldiers and the magical Tearling sapphire to protect her, makes a daring decision that evokes the wrath of the evil Red Witch, forcing her to embark on a quest to save her kingdom and fulfill her destiny.
By Simon Laham
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Combines modern research and historical anecdotes to make a lighthearted case for living a sinful life.
By Lynne Griffin
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
Balancing her roles as a wife and mother with the responsibility of caring for a parent who is recovering from a stroke, Laura reads love letters exchanged by her parents during the 1950s and tumultuous Vietnam War period, a correspondence that reveals unexpected truths.
By Jamie Ford
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
Confined to Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage during the Great Depression, Chinese-American boy William Eng becomes convinced that a certain movie actress is actually the mother he has not seen since he was seven years old.
By Maeve Binchy
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
Follows the efforts of a woman who turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges.
By Gayle Forman
Series If I Stay Novels
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
By Amy Poehler
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian, Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Megan Kass, Systems Manager
Actress, Amy Poehler, reveals personal stories and offers her humorous take on such topics as love, friendship, parenthood, and her relationship with Tina Fey.