By Tayari Jones
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 14, 2019. 7:30 PM.

When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned.

By Chad Harbach
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, February 26, 2013.  1:30 PM.

A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate, and the president's daughter.

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 Fredrik Backman
Series Beartown Series
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 28, 2018. 1:30 PM.

In the tiny forest community of Beartown, the possibility that the amateur hockey team might win a junior championship, bringing the hope of revitalization to the fading town, is shattered by the aftermath of a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized.

By Jess Walter
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 28, 2013.  1:30 PM.

A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.

By Imbolo Mbue
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, November 28, 2017. 1:30 PM

An immigrant working class couple from Cameroon and the upper class American family for whom they work find their lives and marriages shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets, and the 2008 recession.

By Cristina Henriquez
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, June 23, 2015. 1:30 PM.

Moving from Mexico to the United States when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter’s difficult recovery, and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.

By Daniel James Brown
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 8, 2016. 7:30 PM.

Traces the story of an American rowing team from the University of Washington that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower.

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 Kaui Hart Hemmings
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 24, 2012.  1 PM & 7:30 PM.

“A descendant of royalty and one of the largest landowners in Hawaii, Matthew King struggles to deal with his out-of-control daughters, ten-year-old Scottie and seventeen-year-old Alex, as well as his comatose wife, whom they are about to remove from life-support (From the Publisher).”

By Elizabeth Graver
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 5, 2014. 7:30 PM.

“Returning to Ashuant Point to escape from the chaos of rapidly changing times, Helen Porter and her son Charlie soon discover that the Point has not remained unscathed from events unfolding beyond its borders (From the Publisher).”

By Akhil Sharma
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, January 19, 2016. 1:30 PM.

Finally joining their father in America, Ajay and Birju enjoy their new, extraordinary life until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother incapacitated and the other practically orphaned.

By Tara Conklin
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, April 22, 2014. 1:30 PM.

A novel of love, family, and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the "perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.

By Katherine Center
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, June 25, 2019. 1:30 PM.

When an accident on what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life lands her in the hospital with a very uncertain future, Margaret struggles to come to terms with family secrets, heartbreak, and starting over before discovering love in an unexpected place.

By Adam Haslett
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 21, 2017. 7:30 PM.

Electing to marry her fiancé after he is hospitalized for depression, Margaret commits to decades of love and faith involving their brilliant eldest son, their responsible daughter, and a tightly controlled younger son who help care for her increasingly troubled husband.

By Isabel Allende
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 25, 2016. 1:30 PM.

In 1939 San Francisco, Alma falls in love with Ichimei, the gardener's son, who is sent to an internment camp, but although they reunite, they must hide their love, until in old age her caregiver and her grandson learn about their secret passion.

By Susan Orlean
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the crucial role that libraries play in modern American culture.

By Tatjana Soli
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 6, 2013. 7:30 PM.

"A novel that follows an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men (From the Publisher)."

By Alice Hoffman
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 26, 2016. 1:30 PM

Dreaming of an exotic life in Paris while coming of age in a St. Thomas refugee community, young Rachel is forced to marry a widower before falling scandalously in love and becoming the mother of Impressionist master Camille Pissarro.

By William Kent Krueger
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 1PM.

Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.

By Paula McLain
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A fictional account of a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.

By Graeme Simsion
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 15, 2017. 7:30 PM.

A socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father.

By Alice Hoffman
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, February 12, 2019. 7:30 PM.

Traces the story of Susanna Owens' children, who have powerful magical abilities, as they uncover secrets about a family curse while visiting their Aunt Isabelle and struggle to escape it before tragedy strikes.

By Nickolas Butler
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, April 14, 2015. 7:30 PM.

Sharing a childhood in small-town Wisconsin before going their separate ways with careers and families, Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny are reunited during a visit marked by culture clashes, respective pursuits of meaning and a woman who inspires passion in each of them.

By Jesmyn Ward
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, November 27, 2018. 1:30 PM

2017 National Book Award for Fiction Winner: SING UNBURIED SING by Jesmyn Ward

Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.

By Gabrielle Zevin
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, January 20, 2015. 1:30 PM.

When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life.

By Tommy Orange
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 12th 2019 7:30pm

A novel that grapples with the complex history and identity of Native Americans follows twelve characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.

By Laurie Frankel
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 22, 2018. 1:30 PM.

A family reshapes their ideas about family, love, and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent.

By Joshua Ferris
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, September 8, 2015. 7:30 PM.

After noticing his identity has been stolen and used to create various social media accounts, a man with a troubled past, Paul O'Rourke, begins to wonder if his virtual alter ego is actually a better version of himself.

By Cheryl Strayed
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, November 13. 7:30 PM.

A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again.

By Daviid McCullough
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

July 11th 2017 Chronicles the story-behind-the-story about the Wright brothers, sharing insights into the disadvantages that challenged their lives and their mechanical ingenuity.