By Carly Simon
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The successful singer-songwriter describes her life growing up amidst the glamour of literary New York with her father who co-founded Simon & Schuster, her path to art and music, her marriage to James Taylor and her famously cryptic song lyrics.

By Kazuo Ishiguro
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

A tale of lost memories, vengeance and war by the award-winning author of The Remains of the Day follows the experiences of a couple who journeys across a troubled land of mist and rain with the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.

By Dan Lyons
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming

A memoir of life inside the tech bubble by a writer and co-producer for Silicon Valley describes how, after losing his magazine writing job, he took a position with a tech company rife with cultish millennials, absent bosses, and venture-capital amenities.

By Alafair Burke
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

After agreeing to defend her ex-fiance when he is arrested for a triple homicide, top criminal lawyer, Olivia Randall begins to have doubts as the evidence mounts against him.

By Halran Coben
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Horrified when she spots her husband, who was reported dead weeks earlier, playing with their toddler on her nanny cam, former special ops pilot Maya confronts deep secrets and deceit in her own past in order to discern the truth.

By Jerry Amernic

Follows the coming-of-age of a young man who makes a special connection with his grandfather at the end of the latter’s life, a period marked by the grandfather’s hero-worship of Babe Ruth and memories about one of the athlete’s early home runs.

By Gwen Cooper
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A pet rescue volunteer and literacy outreach coordinator describes her relationship with a three-pound blind cat whose daredevil character and affectionate personality saw the author through six moves, a burglary, and the healing of her broken heart.

By Julie Cantrell
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds escapes her abusive parents by running off with a gypsy caravan, where she uncovers generations of shocking family secrets and finds the tools she needs to confront them.

By Asher Kravitz
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

The Jewish Dog is the story of Caleb, a unique dog born in Germany in 1935. When events separate him from his Jewish owners, he is adopted by a Nazi family, employed by the SS as a military dog, and witnesses first-hand the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. It is a story of heroism, survival, and brave friendship, told from the perspective of an intelligent creature who views the world from only 20 inches above the ground, yet who sees more clearly than many humans. Deeply ironic and even humorous, The Jewish Dog wonders what, if anything, distinguishes man from dog.

By Diana Gabaldon
Series Outlander Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.

By Erica James
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Three very different people, Maggie, who is married to a man who doesn’t appreciate her; Ethan, who is trapped in a loveless marriage; and Ella, who is determined to never let her heart rule over her head struggle to keep the promises they have made to themselves.

By Danielle Steel
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

The discovery of a cache of letters, photos, and jewels in an abandoned safe deposit box brings together several unlikely people who investigate the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful young countess seventy-five years earlier.

By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Jack Reacher searches for an elusive killer responsible for the deaths of a number of women, who have nothing in common but the fact that they once worked for the military and had known Jack, and races against time to find a murderer who leaves no trace evidence at the scene of the crime.

By Neil Kagan
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A sumptuously photographed coffee-table book in honor of the conflict’s 150th anniversary showcases 550 hand-picked representative artifacts from the Smithsonian’s collections and is complemented by a panoramic narrative chronicling the prewar period through the Reconstruction.

By Julie Myerson
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

Seeking a new life in the countryside, Mary and her husband move into a long abandoned house, but when unusual sights and sounds begin to occur Mary starts questioning if her grief has turned into madness.

By Viet Thanh Nguyen
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.

By Ellen Feldman

A fictional portrait of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century follows the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, who sacrificed two husbands, three children, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom.

By Ellen Marie Wiseman
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Izzy Stone struggles to solve the mysteries surrounding her mentally ill mother and discover a place to truly call home.

By Helen Klein Ross

When Mia discovers the shocking truth of her origins, she refuses to speak to the mother who raised her and reaches out to her birth mother, while her adoptive mother, Lucy is forced to flee to China to avoid prosecution, in a powerful story of motherhood, loss, grief and hope-and the life-changing effects of a single, irrevocable moment.

By Joan Didion
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

The author chronicles the year following the death of her husband, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne, from a massive heart attack on December 30, 2003, while the couple's only daughter, Quintana, lay unconscious in a nearby hospital suffering from pneumonia and septic shock. Dunne and Didion had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years, and Dunne's death propelled Didion into a state she calls "magical thinking." "We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss," she writes. "We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return and need his shoes."