By Fiona Davis
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Interior designer Bailey Camdenis leaps at a chance to renovate her heiress cousin's lavish apartment at The Dakota, and learns the scandalous history of a distant ancestor's connection to the murder of the building's architect a century earlier.

By Anthony Everitt
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

A reconstruction of the life of the ancient Greek conqueror highlights his contradictory depictions throughout history, placing his achievements against a backdrop of his own historical time to discuss his growing empire, respect for regional traditions and mysterious death.

By Jami Attenberg
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

From a critically acclaimed New York Times best –selling author of The Middlesteins comes a novel of family secrets revealed in the heat of a New Orleans summer.

By Abbi Waxman

A confirmed introvert finds her simple life upended when the father she never knew passes away, revealing an enormous extended family that overwhelms her budding relationship with a fellow trivia buff.

By Adrian McKinty

A parent receives a panicked phone call from a stranger who reveals that both of their children have been kidnapped by someone who demands that they abduct another child to prevent the murders of their own.

By Mona Golabek

A renowned concert pianist presents an account of her mother's escape from pre– World War II Vienna to an orphanage in London, where she formed friendships, found love, and won a scholarship to study piano at the Royal Academy of London.

By Andrew Roberts

Draws on extensive new materials, from private letters to transcripts of war cabinet meetings, to present a portrait of the iconic war leader that discusses Churchill's motivations and unwavering faith in the British Empire.

By Robin Cook

A third–year medical student at a Boston teaching hospital uncovers a medical black market dealing in human organs when she investigates why two young patients have lapsed into comas.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Love blossoms between Sookie Stackhouse, a cocktail waitress who keeps to herself because of her ability to read minds, and Bill, a vampire with ties to a crowd that may be responsible for the death of one of Sookie's coworkers.

By Jason Allen

A Hamptons poolside accident that ends the life of a billionaire CEO's illicit lover is complicated by a lavish weekend vacation and a thrill–seeking hired boy who breaks in and witnesses everything in secret.

By Robert Dugoni
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

Born with ocular albinism, small-town eye doctor Sam Hill, who was called “Devil Boy” in his youth, must finally face a past tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown and the life he’d always known—a journey that makes him realize what truly matters.

By Joanne Ramos

Ensconced within a Hudson Valley retreat where expectant birth mothers are given luxurious accommodations and lucrative rewards to produce perfect babies, a Filipino immigrant is forced to choose between a life–changing payment and the outside world.

By Robin Cook

Investigating the suspicious death of a social worker, Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery makes the controversial decision to use genealogic DNA databases to identify a mysterious killer.

By Caroline Kepnes

Still mourning the loss of his girlfriend, bookstore employee Joe Goldberg falls for a co-worker who mysteriously vanishes, prompting a cross–country move to Los Angeles to search for her.

By Fabio Geda
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

In a fictional retelling of a true story, ten–year–old Enaiat leaves his small Afghanistan village after the Taliban takes over in 2000, and when his mother is forced to leave him in Pakistan, he endures a five–year ordeal to make his way to Italy.

By Dani Shapiro
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

 

The author describes her staggering discovery that her father was not her biological father, tracing her efforts to uncover the truth from a half–century of family secrets to reestablish her sense of identity.

By Anthony Bourdain
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, December 10, 2018. 7:30 PM.

A New York City chef who is also a novelist recounts his experiences in the restaurant business, and exposes abuses of power, sexual promiscuity, drug use, and other secrets of life behind kitchen doors.

By Riley Sager
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

When Emma Davis, a rising star in the New York art scene, returns to teach painting at the summer camp she attended, she uses the opportunity to look into the disappearance of her friends fifteen years earlier.

By Ernest J. Gaines
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, September 24, 2013. 1:30 PM.

A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.

By Nancy Thayer

Scrambling through the last–minute holiday rush at her Nantucket toy shop, Christina bonds with the family of her miserly landlord, forging unexpected ties along the way.

By Lydia Fitzpatrick

With the help of his American host family's daughter, Sadie, who has secrets of her own, Russian exchange student Ilya embarks on a mission to prove his brother Vladimir’s innocence in the murders of three girls back in Russia.

By Riley Sager

Jules takes a job as an apartment sitter at a posh Manhattan building to escape heartbreak and earn some cash, but when a fellow apartment sitter disappears, Jules digs into the building's past and what she finds sends her racing to unmask a killer.

By Jami Attenberg
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

"Two siblings with very different personalities attempt to take control of their mother’s food obsession and massive weight gain to save her life after their father walks out and leaves her reeling in the Chicago suburbs (From the Publisher)."

By Jennifer Weiner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Tuesday, February 25, 2020. 1 PM.

Two sisters struggle to find their place, be true to themselves and adapt to rapid changes happening throughout the latter half of 20th–century America.

By Andrew Roberts

Draws on the recent publication of Napoleon's thousands of letters to share new insights into his character, motivations, and relationships.

By Chanel Cleeton
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A freelance writer returns to her grandmother’s homeland to fulfill her last wish to have her ashes scattered in Havana and discovers her family history amidst Cuba’s tropical beauty and dangerous political environment.

By Kitty Zeldis

Forced to hide her Jewish identity from her employer's post–World War II Park Avenue community, a Vassar–educated tutor forges unexpected bonds before a crossed line leads to life–changing decisions.

By Kevin Wilson
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Agreeing to help her former college roommate care for two stepchildren who possess the ability to spontaneously combust when agitated, Lillian endeavors to keep her young charges cool in the face of an astonishing revelation.

By Elizabeth Strout
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

A collection of thirteen linked short stories recounting the experiences of Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who witnesses the changes in her town and the world at large.

By Elizabeth Strout
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

A sequel to Olive Kitteridge finds Olive struggling to understand herself while bonding with a teen suffering from loss, a woman who gives birth unexpectedly, a nurse harboring a longtime crush and a lawyer who resists an unwanted inheritance.

By Heather Morris
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, January 28, 2020. 1 PM.

A novel based on the true story of an Auschwitz–Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration–camp tattooist to secure food for his fellow prisoners.

By Matthew Dicks
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

The best– selling author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend presents a novel written entirely in lists that convey the struggles of a man whose limits are tested by the risks he must take to save his family and failing bookstore.

By Chris Cander

Two women – an immigrant from the Soviet Union and an orphaned mechanic – find their lives fatefully linked across half a century of history by a German Blèuthner piano.

By Chanel Cleeton

A freelance writer returns to her grandmother’s homeland to fulfill her last wish to have her ashes scattered in Havana and discovers her family history amidst Cuba’s tropical beauty and dangerous political environment.

By Etah Rum
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
With Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 12, 2020. 7:30 PM.

Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.

By Caroline Kepnes

Meeting at an East Village bookstore, aspiring writer Guinevere Beck and store employee Joe embark on an intimate relationship, only to suffer deadly consequences when their passion spirals out of control.