By Anne Tyler

A travel writer who hates to travel, and to whom "things just happen," becomes involved with an unusual woman following the desertion of his wife.

By Khaled Hosseini

Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations.

By Colm Toibin
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 25, 2010.  1 PM & 7:30 PM.

A diligent young woman with few opportunities in nineteen–fifties Ireland is packed off by her family to Brooklyn, where she encounters new and bewildering experiences before a family crisis presents her with a stark choice between her new life and her old one.

By Kate Kerrigan

After her husband, a soldier for the Irish Republican Army, is injured and can no longer work, Ellie Hogan immigrates to New York City where she, working as a maid for a wealthy socialite, becomes tempted by this glittering new world -- and by a charming suitor who can give her all she ever wanted.

By Orson Scott Card
Series Ender Wiggin
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth’s complete destruction.

Became the movie: Ender's Game.

By Mary Beth Keane
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, April 8, 2014. 7:30 PM.

A fictionalized telling of the life of Typhoid Mary, an Irish immigrant who moved to New York at the turn of the century.

By Jojo Moyes
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

Unwillingly rendered an object of obsession by the Kommandant occupying her small French town in World War I, Sophie risks everything to reunite with her husband a century before a widowed Liv tests her resolve to claim ownership of Sophie's portrait.

By Stewart O'Nan

When her husband is incarcerated for his involvement in a tragic home invasion, Patty Dickerson must raise their newborn child in a community that is sometimes hostile to her, all the while struggling to maintain her dignity.

By Lisa Ko
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When his undocumented immigrant mother disappears, eleven-year-old Deming Guo is adopted by a family that attempts to make him over as an American teen while he struggles to reconcile his new life with memories of the family he left behind.

By Mary McGarry Morris
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“Morris's plot, with its twists and reversals, feels tragic in its inevitability. And yet, to the reader's amazement, its message is ultimately redemptive and affirming. This may be the saddest story ever to have a happy ending (Washington Post).”

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Rosalia White, Library Clerk, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways.

By Richard Paul Evans
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“Laid off from his sales rep job, Robert Paul decides to pursue his dream of becoming a writer and unexpectedly pens a best seller, but when his new world compromises his marriage, he receives unexpected guidance from a stranger who has an uncanny knowledge about his life and future (From the Publisher).”

By Amy Jo Burns
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Growing up in a cloistered mountain cabin cut off from everyone in the outside world except her mother's best friend, a fanatical snake handler's daughter risks everything to defy her father and pursue a different future.