By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces, and Reacher will risk his own to save her from a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

By Kami Garcia
Series Beautiful Creatures

Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

By Ruta Sepetys
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

In 1941, Lina and her family are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia.

By Edward Conlon

A richly textured, anecdotal portrait of life as a police officer in the NYPD chronicles one man's life as a cop, from growing up with a police officer father and his education at Harvard, to his first day on the beat in the South Bronx and to his rise to detective, capturing the complex life on the street of the city.

By Tina Fey
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Amy B., Children's Librarian

Actress Tina Fey recounts her life, sharing how she managed to fulfill her dream of one day becoming a comedian on television and discussing her childhood, marriage, career, and views on beauty, politics, motherhood, and relationships.

By Elizabeth Wein
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director
With Pam Strudler, Librarian, Sharon Long, Teen Librarian

Tuesday, July 22, 2014. 1:30 PM.

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive.

By Jeff Lindsay
Series Dexter
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Hiding a secret life as an assassin while working as a murder analyst for the Miami police, Dexter Morgan is intrigued by the work of a new serial killer whose style mimics his own (From the Publisher).”

Became the TV show: Dexter.

By W. Bruce Cameron

Searching for his purpose over the course of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death as a stray.

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 Kate Morton
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she is an adult that she is not their child, leading Nell to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter.

By Tal Ben-Shahar

Provides a complete crash course on what happiness is and how to strive for it, based on the principles of positive psychology.

By Justin Halpern

Presents a humorous collection of stories about the author's relationships with the opposite sex told chronologically, from his first kiss to getting engaged.

By Laura Schroff
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

This inspirational true story of a friendship that has spanned three decades recounts how the author, a harried sales executive, befriended an eleven-year-old panhandler, changing both of their lives forever.

By Brenda Janowitz

When Manhattan lawyer Brooke Miller lands her first big case, she discovers that the opposing attorney is her fiancé.

By Jussi Adler-Olsen
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Chief detective Carl Mørck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.

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 Nora Roberts
Series Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The historic hotel in Boonsboro, Maryland is getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers. As the architect of the family, Beckett's social life consists mostly of talking shop over pizza and beer. But there's another project he's got his eye on: the girl he's been waiting to kiss since he was fifteen.

By Deborah Ellis

After learning that her family adopted her, Valli runs away from home to live on the streets of Kolkata, India.

By Adam Carolla

Carolla collects his favorite rants about things that drive him crazy, sharing stories from his underdog youth that offer insight into his views and career.

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An anonymous narrator tells of his refusal to become a worker in the "ant-hill" of society.

By Ruta Sepetys

Josie, the teenage daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.

By Charles Duhigg
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Explains how self-control and success are largely driven by habits, and shares scientifically-based guidelines for achieving personal goals and overall well-being by adjusting specific habits.

By Brian K.Vaughan
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to raise their child in a dangerous world.

By Brenda Janowitz

Brooke concocts an outrageous plan to survive her ex-boyfriend's wedding to a Hollywood bimbo.

By Rachel Hartman

In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals.

By Chip Heath

Offers insight into the difficult nature of lasting change.

By Carol Rifka Brunt
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, April 21, 2014. 7 PM.

Her world upended by the death of a beloved artist uncle who was the only person who understood her, fourteen–year–old June is mailed a teapot by her uncle's grieving friend, with whom June forges a poignant relationship.

By Eric Kester
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A Harvard graduate recounts his hilarious college adventures and experiences.

By Daniel Kahneman
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A Nobel Prize-winning psychological draws on years of research to introduce his “machinery of the mind” model on human decision making to reveal the faults and capabilities of intuitive versus logical thinking, providing insights into such topics as optimism, the unpredictability of happiness and the psychological pitfalls of risk-taking.

By Andy Andrews

At a low point in his life, David Ponder finds himself traveling back in time to meet with some of the wisest people in history in this modern day parable of choice, success, and the true meaning of life.

By Lauren Hillenbrand
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 16.  7:30 PM.

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashes into the Pacific and Lt. Louis Zamperini survives. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, he would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.

By Shirley Jackson

Details confessions of Miss Merricat Blackwood, a cunning adolescent who has gone to quite unusual lengths to preserve her ideal of family happiness.

By Maria Semple
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, March 20, 2020. 2 PM.

2013 Alex Award Winner

When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.

By Barbara Pease

Barbara and Allan Pease present their research on the differences between the way men and women think and communicate.