By Ethan Canin

Corey Sifter is befriended by the wealthy Metarey family, a politically powerful dynasty in New York, and becomes an aide to New York senator Henry Bonwiller as he runs for the Democratic presidential nomination during the Nixon era.

By Garth Stein
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian
With Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference, Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“He Said, She Said” Book Discussion
Join us for a special evening to celebrate a year of great books and discussions.

Monday, December 19, 2011. 7:30 PM.

Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher’s soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe’s maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.

By Orhan Pamuk

A stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture. Richly atmospheric and Rabelaisian in scope, a labyrinthine novel suffused with sights, sounds, and scents of Istanbul as it plumbs the mystery of identity, fiction, and reality.

By Richard Russo

After 60 years of living in upstate NY, Louis & his wife, prepare for a trip to Italy to visit Louis' childhood friend.

By Junot Diaz
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Living with an old–world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and believes that a long–standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness.

By Steven Galloway

While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty–two friends and neighbors, a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.

By Tom Rob Smith
Series Leo Demidov
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, July 21, 2009.  7 PM.

“During the terror of Stalin's last days, a secret policeman becomes a detective stalking a serial killer in a debut novel from a shockingly talented 28-year-old Brit (Kirkus Reviews).”

By David Benioff
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard–to–find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.

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 Laura Dave

Hosting a divorce party on what would have been their thirty-fifth anniversary, amicably separated spouses Gwyn and Thomas Huntington unexpectedly toast their son's engagement to a young woman who inadvertently discovers unsettling secrets about the man she is to marry.

By Richard Russo

Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once–successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs. Whiting, who is the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy.

By Joyce Carol Oates

Follows the interconnected and secretive lives of parents and their children when they are challenged by circumstances outside their family, in a tale set against a backdrop of Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century.

By Tan Twan Eng

Set in Penang, 1939, this book presents a story of betrayal, barbaric cruelty, steadfast courage and enduring love.

By Alison Weir

A fictional portrait of Lady Jane Grey, the great-niece of Henry VIII, follows her turbulent life against the backdrop of Tudor power politics and religious upheaval, from her youth, to her nine-day reign as Queen of England, to its tragic aftermath.

By Maya Angelou
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A collection of short essays includes personal reminiscences, hard-won wisdom, and inspirational ideas.

By Nathan Englander
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, August 25, 2015. 1:30 PM.

In 1976 Buenos Aires, Kaddish Poznan, the outcast son of a whore, and his wife, Lillian, are devastated by the disappearance of their own son, Pato, which forces them into the bleak corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases in search of the truth.

By Douglas Preston

Documents the author's discovery that his new family home in Florence had been the scene of a double murder, his relationship with the investigative journalist co-author, and how they both became targets of the police investigation into the murders.

By Hillary Jordan

In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.

By Orhan Pamuk

A kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power.

By Kazuo Ishiguro
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, March 5, 2012. 7 PM

The students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them. Only, slowly, do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny.

By Elie Wiesel
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, November 15, 2016. 7:30 PM.

The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provides a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.

By Richard Yates
Recommended By Kelly Ramos, Children's Librarian

“It’s hard to think that there’s too much wrong with April and Frank Wheeler over and above what has been tagged the disenchantment syndrome of the average young married couple in the suburbs… For April’s discontent is a real emotional destitution, and this, to Yates’ great credit, is only imperceptibly apparent (Kirkus Reviews).”

Became the movie: Revolutionary Road.

By Cormac McCarthy

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.

By Thomas Harris
Series Hannibal Lecter Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

FBI Academy trainee Clarice Starling hopes that Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a criminally insane psychiatrist imprisoned in a Boston hospital, can lead her to the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill.

By Orhan Pamuk

A Turkish poet who spent 12 years as a political exile in Germany witnesses firsthand the clash between radical Islam and Western ideals.

By David Wroblewski

A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.

By John Updike

The story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American–born teenager who spurns the materialistic, hedonistic life he witnesses in the slumping New Jersey factory town he calls home.

By John Updike

A tale of what life would be like for three divorced and bored housewives, who happen to be witches, living in the fictitious Eastwick, Rhode Island in the late 1960's.

Became the movie: The Witches of Eastwick and the TV show: Eastwick.