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 Tana French

In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.

By Margaret Dilloway
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Thirty-six-year-old biology teacher Gal Garner's regimented life will never be the same after her estranged sister's teenage daughter Riley arrives one afternoon unannounced.

By Carol Anshaw
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies (From the Publisher).”

By Robert Goddard

A photographer in today's Britain leaves his wife for another woman, only to have the woman disappear. He searches for her and finds her grave, the dates indicating she lived in the 19th century. A reincarnation or an imposter?

By Agatha Christie

It is Egypt in 2000 BC, at the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a ka-priest. The priest's daughter Renisenb believes that the woman's death is suspicious. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within their household

By Gillian Flynn
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

When a beautiful woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage and a mysterious illness; while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.

By Monica Pradhan

Three families of Indian-American women find themselves dealing with a whole new world that blends the traditions of the past with high-tech, fast-paced, modern American life, until the estranged daughter of one of the women returns to request that a marriage be arranged for her, forcing them all to deal with the experience of living between cultures.

By Margaret Dilloway
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected.

By Anouk Markovits

Spanning four generations - from pre-World War II Transylvania to contemporary New York - a religion-themed tale shows what happens when unwavering love and unyielding law clash, in a novel set inside the most insular Hasidic sect, the Satmar.

By Walter Mosley

When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the experience turns his life upside down, dissolving his calm, everyday existence into a thirst for revenge and a sexual odyssey in search of a new way of life, a quest in which he is joined by a mysterious woman named Sisypha, who takes him deep into the erotic heart of New York City.

By M.L. Stedman
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 27, 2013. 1:30 PM.

Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences.

By Heather Gudenkauf
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

When an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom, holding the children hostage, Officer Meg Barrett watches and waits for his demands, while Evelyn Oliver, trapped in her classroom, wonders how to save her students.

By Tova Mirvis

A story that delves into the lives of two families, each struggling with its own insecurities and difficulties within the oft neglected and misunderstood worlds of ultra–Orthodox and Modern Orthodox Judaism.

By Steven Pressfield
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“In a near-future world in which governments and corporations are forced to hire cutting-edge mercenary armies to protect their wealth, the globe's largest private military launches a campaign to take over the US (From the Publisher).”

By Chris Bohjalian
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Presents the parallel stories of a young woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier while aiding victims of the Armenian genocide in the early twentieth century, and a young woman who researches her Armenian heritage and discovers a terrible family secret.

By Emma Donoghue

Born to poverty in eighteenth-century London, Mary Saunders' love of fine clothes and a dream of a better life take her from the world of prostitution to life as a household seamstress in Monmouth to a search for true freedom.

By Junot Diaz

Nine stories that feature Yunior, a Dominican American stud who, despite his macho exterior, aches to be loved. The author takes Yunior's heart and batters it every which way to show how love - romantic, physical, or familial - can affect even the most masculine character.

By Deborah Feldman
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Susan L., Library Page, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Traces the author's upbringing in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn, describing the strict rules that governed her life, arranged marriage at the age of seventeen, and the birth of her son, which led to her plan to leave and forge her own path in life.

By Michael Allin

Zarafa was a gentle 19th-century giraffe, a simple animal whose life was dictated by the tumultuous times around her. From the African savanna where she was caught and tamed as an infant, to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and then on to France, this odd animal captivated the French people for almost two decades, as she lived out her life as a part of the royal menagerie.