By Penny Vincenzi
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“When the seemingly elated Cressida Forrest disappears without a trace the night before her lavish wedding, a frantic search for answers reveals a fragile web of sexual and financial secrets involving two families (From the Publisher).”

By Melanie Benjamin
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, November 26, 2013. 1:30 PM.

A story inspired by the marriage between Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh traces the romance between a handsome young aviator and a shy ambassador's daughter whose relationship is marked by wild international acclaim.

By Hilary Mantel
Series Wolf Hall Trilogy
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“Depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell as Anne and her powerful family fight back while she is on trial for adultery and treason (From the Publisher).”

By Julie Kibler
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, November 25, 2014. 1:30 PM.

“Follows the experiences of hairdresser and African-American single mom Dorrie, who while struggling with difficult family dynamics reluctantly agrees to drive an octogenarian client to a funeral several states away (From the Publisher).”

By Margaret Dilloway
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Thirty-six-year-old biology teacher Gal Garner's regimented life will never be the same after her estranged sister's teenage daughter Riley arrives one afternoon unannounced.

By Bob Greene
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“Examines the quintessentially American way of life, from the heroics of a small-town policeman to the wisdom of Frank Sinatra on his last tour to Minnesota’s Mall of America (From the Publisher).”

By Randy Susan Meyers
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

“Traces the intersections of three women five years after a fateful love affair, including a searching woman who gave up her baby for adoption, an adoptive mom who questions her suitability as a parent and a married woman who views her husband’s affair differently upon learning about the baby (From the Publisher).”

By C. Robert Cargill
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

“Long ago, friends Ewan and Colby pierced the veil between their world and a supernatural realm, and while trying to lead normal lives, soon discover that fate can never be outrun as they are called back to the Limestone Kingdom (From the Publisher).”

By Orson Scott Card
Series Ender Wiggin
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth’s complete destruction.

Became the movie: Ender's Game.

By Barbara Kingsolver

Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra

“Ex-CIA agent Sam Capra is contacted by kidnappers to find and murder the one man that can expose them in exchange for his son’s freedom (From the Publisher).”

By Lisa Genova

Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Examines the Roosevelt’s working partnership during the war years (From the Publisher).”

By Stephen Hawking

“Presents classic works in physics and astronomy by such figures as Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton, along with commentary on how these works changed the course of science (From the Publisher).”

By Jackie Collins
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“On a luxury yacht off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Aleksandr Kasianenko, a billionaire Russian oligarch, his supermodel girlfriend, and their guests-five famous couples-are all held hostage by a pirate who is working for a Russian mobster with a grudge (From the Publisher).”

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who's particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs--and to wonder if his request would be murder or justice. 

By Robert Crais
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner eight months earlier, LAPD cop Scott James is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Scott in an effort to track down his late partner’s killer (From the Publisher).”

By Eric Kester
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A Harvard graduate recounts his hilarious college adventures and experiences.

By Theresa Rebeck
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Reluctantly moving into her impoverished late mother’s inherited multi-million-dollar apartment while legally battling her stepbrothers for its ownership, Tina meets eccentric wealthy neighbors before gaining a new sense of self and family (From the Publisher).”