By Pamela Redmond Satran

Featuring essays from celebrities and prominent women, a guide drawn from a list that "Glamour" published fifteen years ago presents the must-haves and must-knows for women who have reached the milestone of turning thirty.

By Neil Gaiman
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Wednesday, April 25. 7:30 PM

“On the plane home to attend the funerals of his wife and best friend, Shadow, just released from prison, encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world, where the soul of America is at stake (From the Publisher).”

By Peter Callahan

In his debut cookbook, Callahan welcomes readers to share in the fun and beauty of his creations, providing inspiration for parties.

By Thomas Pynchon

When Oedipa Maas is named as the executor of her late lover's will, she discovers that his estate is mysteriously connected with an underground organization.

By Erik Larson
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, the book intertwines the true tale of two men - the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America’s place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death.

By James B. Stewart

Documents the fierce executive battle for control of the Walt Disney Company.

By Bill Willingham
Series Fables
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

This elaborate fantasy series begins as a whodunit, but quickly unfurls into a much larger story about Fabletown, a place where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers.

By Matty Simmons

A tribute to the popular comedic film by National Lampoon draws on interviews with contributors to describe its low-budget compilation of mostly unknown actors, the antics that shaped its creation, and its unexpected success.

By E.L. James
Series Fifty Shades Trilogy

When Anastasia Steele, a young literature student, interviews wealthy young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, their initial meeting introduces Anastasia to an exciting new world that will change them both forever.

By Jay Asher

Receiving her 1st computer and AOL account in 1996, Emma and Josh, discover themselves on Facebook, 15 years in the future.

By Kerriann Flanagan Brosky

Through extensive research and interviews Brosky tells of ghostly encounters, legends and tales of the inexplicable.

By Kerriann Flanagan Brosky

This is the sequel to "Ghosts of Long Island: Stories of the Paranormal" by author/photographer and local historian Kerriann Flanagan Brosky.

By Patrick O'Leary

A boy and a king must confront the Usher of the Night and the evil rook Tomen to rid their land of an old, nearly forgotten magic that has gone awry.

By Shirley Jackson

This is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a haunting; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena, but Hill House is gathering its powers and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

By Audrey Niffenegger
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, November 22, 2010. 7 PM.

"Like its predecessor, The Time Traveler's Wife, Her Fearful Symmetry has a plot both vividly original and yet evocative of time–etched genres; in this case, the neo–gothic. The story involves Julia and Valentina, seemingly typical American teens who have inherited their aunt's London flat. The apartment, as it happens, sits beside Highgate Cemetery, a shadowy burial place that possesses a presence of its own. To this strange mix, Niffenegger adds a medley of neighbors with whole battalions of obsessions and other disorders. The plot is engulfing, the characters unforgettable (From the Publisher)."

By Elizabeth Kostova

Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.

By Frank Peretti

Two stranded couples find shelter in an inn but find themselves trapped in a game with rules setting up a life-or-death situation.

By Suzanne Collins
Series The Hunger Games Trilogy
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

By Suzanne Collins
Series The Hunger Games Trilogy
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

By Dan Wells
Series I Am Not a Serial Killer

John Wayne Cheever keeps his obsession with serial killers in check by a set of rigid rules that he lives by, hoping to the prevent himself from committing murder.

By Erik Larson
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Wednesday, June 6, 2012.  7:30 PM. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, during Hitler's rise to power, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

By David Finch

Finch sets out to understand Asperger syndrome and learn to be a better husband. He devotes himself to improving his marriage with an endearing yet hilarious zeal that involves excessive note-taking, performance reviews, and most of all, this book: a collection of hundreds of maxims and hard-won epiphanies that result from self-reflection both comic and painful. Filled with humor and surprising wisdom, this book is a candid story of ruthless self-improvement, a unique window into living with an autism-spectrum condition, and proof that a true heart can conquer all.

By Jenny Lawson
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

In an illustrated memoir, the creator of the Bloggess blog shares humorous stories from her life.

By Félix J. Palma

A skeptical H. G. Wells investigates time-travel.

By Jack Kerouac

Follows the escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.

Became the movie: On the Road.

By David Nicholls

An episodic story which takes place during a single day each year for two decades in the lives of Dex and Em, who met the day they graduated from university in 1988.

Became the movie: One Day.

By Ernest Cline
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, June 9, 2014. 7 PM.

Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.

By Augusten Burroughs
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Burroughs describes an alcoholic father and an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapist's eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription meds and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a pedophile who lives in a shed out back.

Became the movie: Running With Scissors.

By Kurt Vonnegut

America's wealthiest man succumbs to the irresistible charms of a lunar siren.

By Mary Kay Andrews

Annajane realizes that she is not over her ex-husband when his wedding to another woman is abruptly cancelled.

By John Le Carré
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

"Le Carré combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously experienced, which transports anyone who reads it back to the shadowy years in the early 1960s, when the Berlin Wall went up and the Cold War came to life (From the Publisher)."

By Audrey Niffenegger

Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

By Robert Kirkman
Series The Walking Dead
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family isstill alive and endures many horrors along the way.

Became the TV show: The Walking Dead.