By Farah Heron
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Determined to marry for love in spite of her parents’ interfering matchmaking schemes, Reena Manji pretends to be engaged to a neighbor in her father’s employ in the hopes of winning a couples’ cooking competition.

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a bestselling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer–long writing project that challenges them to write well in each others’ styles.

By Brandi Carlile
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

The critically acclaimed singer–songwriter, producer, and six–time Grammy winner opens up about a life shaped by music in this candid, heartfelt, and intimate story.

By Melanie Benjamin

Draws on oral histories of the Great Plains blizzard of 1888 to depict the experiences of two teachers, a servant, and a reporter who risk everything to protect the children of immigrant homesteaders.

By Karen M. McManus

Invited to their grandmother’s island resort for the summer, three cousins who have never previously met uncover dark family secrets about why their parents were disinherited and what they must do to regain their grandmother’s favor.

By T. J. Newman
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Thirty minutes before a flight to New York, the family of the pilot is kidnapped and in order for them to live, all 143 passengers onboard must die in the first novel by a former flight attendant.

By Beth O'Leary
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence.

By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Divorcing his hostile wife when he concludes he could find genuine happiness elsewhere, a doctor is astonished when his ex abruptly disappears, making him unable to move on without acknowledging painful truths about his marriage.

By Matthew McConaughey
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

From the Academy Award–winning actor comes an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

By John Hersey

In this new enlarged edition of his classic account of the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb, Hersey recounts his return to Japan, forty years later and his interviews with six people who were the focus of the earlier book.

By Madeline Martin
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Taking a job in a London bookshop just as the Blitz begins, Grace finds comfort in the power of words, storytelling and community as the bookshop becomes one of the only remaining properties to survive the bombings.

By Elyssa Friedland
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Perfect for fans of Dirty Dancing and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, this funny, nostalgia–filled story follows the Goldman and Weingold families as they, amid drama and scandal, try to save the Golden Hotel – their beloved getaway in the Catskills.

By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Amy B., Children's Librarian

Four famous siblings throw an epic end–of–summer party that goes dangerously out of control as secrets and loves that shaped this family's generations come to light, changing their lives forever.

By Joshua Henkin
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When the health of her husband, a brilliant Shakespeare professor, starts declining, Pru, struggling on her own and feeling isolated, meets a man with whom the possibility of new romance blooms until her estranged stepson, a wealthy biotech investor, come back into their lives.

By Miranda Cowley Heller
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

While staying at “The Paper Palace”—the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life, 50–year–old Elle must decide between the life she has built with her husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love.

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Best friends Alex and Poppy try to repair their relationship two years after a disastrous vacation together by planning another vacation together.

By Bill Clinton
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A one–time Navy SEAL and past president, Matthew Keating, after his daughter is kidnapped by a madman, embarks on a one–man special–ops mission that tests his strengths as a leader, a warrior, and a father.

A comprehensive account of the 13–hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by a Medal of Honor recipient describes the harrowing events of the October 3, 2009 attack and how the sacrifices and victories of heroic men raised questions about whether the strategically vulnerable outpost should ever have been built.

By P. Djèlí Clark

A dark–fantasy, historical novella from the award–winning author of The Black God’s Drums follows a foul–mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter as they fight a supernatural Ku Klux Klan in Macon, Georgia in the early 20th century.

By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When an aging and reclusive Hollywood icon selects an unknown magazine reporter to write her life story, the baffled journalist forges deep ties with the actress during a complicated interview process that exposes their tragic common history.

By Emma Brodie
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

In 1969, Jane Quinn, an aspiring singer, gets the chance of a lifetime when she goes on tour with Jesse Reid, a folk music superstar, and as their partnership turns into a passionate love affair, Jane discovers too late the dark secret beneath his music.

By Beth O'Leary
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Ready for an adventure in the months after her husband of 60 years departs, a woman from a picture–postcard Yorkshire village offers to swap places with her burned–out adult granddaughter to pursue romance in bustling London.

By David Yoon
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

Fired after questioning what his company does with the data they collect, and then blackballed across Silicon Valley, data whiz Max and his friend Akiko team up with a reclusive tech to get even by rebooting the internet, which has unintended — and disastrous — consequences.

By Seth Rogen

A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist.

By Sadeqa Johnson
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.