By Stephen King
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture.

By Tayari Jones
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 14, 2019. 7:30 PM.

When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned.

By Jean Hanff Korelitz
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Admission is at once a fascinating look at the complex college admissions process and an emotional examination of what happens when the secrets of the past return and shake a woman's life to its core (From the Publisher).”

Became the movie: Admission.

By Susannah Nix
Series Chemistry Lessons
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

After four lousy boyfriends in a row, chemical engineer Penny Popplestone swears off men until she can figure out why they keep cheating on her. But her no-men resolution hits a snag when the mysterious and superhumanly hot barista at her favorite coffee shop strikes up a friendship with her. Penny strives to keep things platonic, but when Caleb gives her the kiss of her life, she realizes he wants to be more than just friends. Tired of always being "good little Penny," she throws caution to the wind and pursues a no-strings fling with the hottie barista. It's not like they have anything in common beyond scorching physical chemistry, so what does she have to lose? Only her heart. Now, this fanfic-reading, plus-size heroine faces an unsolvable problem. What do you do when being apart is unbearable...but being together is impossible?

By Jojo Moyes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

In the wake of an accident that leaves her back at home and in a support group, Louisa meets paramedic Sam Fielding, a man who might finally understand her, but she is forced to change her plans when someone from her past reappears.

By Karen Thompson Walker
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A painstakingly researched debut imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life.

By Judith Frank
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When Daniel Rosen's twin brother and sister-in-law are killed in a bombing in Jerusalem, he and his husband Matthew are confronted with challenges that threaten their relationship as they try to adopt the couple's two children.

By Kristan Higgins
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When John Frost has a stroke, his family, including his two daughters — perfect Julie and free-spirited Sadie, and his wife of 50 years, are forced to confront the truth about their lives, in this new novel about what family really means.

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Separated by respective ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America while exploring new concepts of race, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London until the pair is reunited in their homeland 15 years later, where they face the toughest decisions of their lives.

By Julia Pierpont
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A former ballet dancer struggles to protect her children before receiving an anonymous package revealing her weak artist husband’s infidelities, a discovery that leads to a difficult breakup during a New York summer.

By Hilary Thayer Hamann
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

"Hamann's debut traces the sensual, passionate, and lonely interior of a young woman artist growing up in windswept East Hampton at the end of the 1970’s (From the Publisher)."

By Sarah Dunn
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A progressive New York couple with an autistic son move to a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb and immerse themselves in the local community only to have their bond tested by an invitation to become and open-marriage couple.

By Chad Harbach
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, February 26, 2013.  1:30 PM.

A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate, and the president's daughter.

By Elizabeth Poliner
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Enjoying summertime weeks of freedom at a popular Jewish beach with their children, beautiful Ada thrives when away from her strict husband, while chef Vivie develops diplomatic skills and unmarried Bec is forced to choose between family beliefs and her passion for a married man.

By Camille Perri
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When a technical error at a multinational media conglomerate gives a financially strapped veteran employee a chance to pay off her student loans in ways the company will never notice, she embarks on a downward spiral involving other employees with crushing debts and fewer scruples. 

By Melanie Benjamin
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, November 26, 2013. 1:30 PM.

A story inspired by the marriage between Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh traces the romance between a handsome young aviator and a shy ambassador's daughter whose relationship is marked by wild international acclaim.

By Zoje Stage
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

An ailing woman fights to protect her family from her mute daughter's psychologically manipulative schemes, which are complicated by her doting husband's denial about their daughter's true nature.

By Elle Kennedy
Series Avalon Bay #2
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Returning home to attend her mother’s funeral, former bad girl Genevieve West vows to avoid her ex-boyfriend, Evan, who has other ideas, in the second novel of the series following Good Girl Complex.

By Cristina Alger
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When her husband disappears after a plane crash in the stormy Swiss Alps, Annabel Lerner determines that his death was no accident, and that she is now in the crosshairs of his powerful enemies.

By Josh Bazell
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

In this debut thriller, an intern at a run-down Manhattan hospital who's atoning for his former life as a mob hit man encounters in the course of a single day a patient with a mystery illness, a 21-year-old girl about to have a leg amputated, and a former mob associate.

By Jess Walter
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 28, 2013.  1:30 PM.

A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.

By Allison Pataki
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Recounts how the author's healthy thirty-year-old husband suffered a life-threatening stroke that placed everything they had worked for in jeopardy, a struggle she navigated by writing daily letters to her husband that helped her make sense of the challenges they faced.

By Michelle Obama
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

An intimate and uplifting memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.

By Noah Hawley
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

The stories of ten wealthy victims of a plane crash intertwine with those of a down–on–his luck painter and a four-year-old boy, the tragedy's only survivors, as odd coincidences surrounding the crash point to a possible conspiracy.

By Imbolo Mbue
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, November 28, 2017. 1:30 PM

An immigrant working class couple from Cameroon and the upper class American family for whom they work find their lives and marriages shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets, and the 2008 recession.

By Julia Claiborne Johnson
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A follow-up to the best-selling Be Frank with Me follows the experiences of a former Yale student whose life at a 1930s Reno divorce ranch is upended by a shy woman and a thrice-divorced pilot.

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Big Cherry Holler, the extraordinary sequel to Big Stone Gap, takes us back to the mountain life that enchanted us in Adriana Trigiani’s best selling debut novel (From the Publisher).”

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Ave Maria's life in Big Stone Gap, VA, is essentially the same as it's been for all 35 years of her life, but after her mother's will reveals that the man Ave thought was her father isn't, she begins to lose hold of her routine… In between panic attacks and shouting matches, Ave tries to figure out what all these changes mean in her life (Library Journal).”

By Katherine Center
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Hired as superstar actor Jack Stapleton’s bodyguard, Hannah Brooks must pose as his girlfriend while visiting his family’s ranch in Texas where she finds it easy to protect him, but hard to protect her own, long-neglected heart.

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Agreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn’t, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.

By Alice Hoffman
Series Practical Magic #4
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosanne Crudo, Head of Circulation

In this conclusion of the spellbinding Practical Magic series, a frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they discover secrets hidden from them in matters of both magic and love

By Anita Diamant
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Recounting the story of her life to her granddaughter, octogenarian Addie describes how she was raised in early-twentieth-century America by Jewish immigrant parents in a teeming multicultural neighborhood.

By Carly Simon
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The successful singer-songwriter describes her life growing up amidst the glamour of literary New York with her father who co-founded Simon & Schuster, her path to art and music, her marriage to James Taylor and her famously cryptic song lyrics.

By Dorothea Benton Frank
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

A young woman from Chicago falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina, and trades the bustle of cosmopolitan city life for the vagaries of a small Southern community.

By Sarah Haywood
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Avoiding messy emotions in a perfectly ordered life, Susan tackles the unexpected double challenge of losing her mother and becoming pregnant and is challenged to ask for help while discovering herself in unlikely ways.

By André Aciman
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.

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 Alison Fairbrother
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A young woman searches for the truth about her father—and the secrets of her family—in this electric debut novel.

By Peter Heller
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A missing-persons tracker who specializes in reuniting families to make amends for a loss in her own past, Celine searches for a presumed-dead photographer in Yellowstone, only to be targeted by a shadowy figure who wants to keep the case unsolved.

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

A young girl tries to make sense of an unruly world spinning around her. Growing up with a single mother who is chronically out of work and dating a married man, 10-year old Evelyn Bucknow learns early how to fend for herself.

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

Accompanying a future famous actress from her Wichita home to New York, chaperone Cora Carlisle shares a life-changing five-week period with her ambitious teenage charge during which she discovers the promise of the twentieth century and her own purpose in life.

By Ann Packer
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When their troubled youngest sibling returns, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, find their lives disrupted in ways they could have never imagined as they each tell their story that is interwoven with portraits of their family at crucial points in their history.

By Kevin Kwan
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Feeling incomplete because her unknown birth father cannot walk her down the aisle, Rachel Chu, on the brink of marrying one of Asia's richest bachelors, is brought into the elite circles of Shanghai by a shocking revelation.

By Jean M. Auel
Series Earth's Children
Recommended By Lakshmi Kasturi, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory.

Became the movie: Clan of the Cave Bear.

By Allison Winn Scotch
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Cleo McDougal is a born politician. From congresswoman to senator, the magnetic, ambitious single mother now has her eye on the White House—always looking forward, never back. Until an estranged childhood friend shreds her in an op-ed hit piece gone viral. With seven words—'Cleo McDougal is not a good person'—the presidential hopeful has gone from in control to damage control, and not just in Washington but in life.

By Christina Haag
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Traces the Juilliard-trained actress author's longtime friendship and eventual love affair with John F. Kennedy, Jr., describing their prep-school antics and shared stage productions before entering into a love affair that heartbreakingly ended when Kennedy decided he was not ready to settle down (From the Publisher).”

By Jonathan Franzen
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old–fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands–off parenting, do– it–yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.

By Joyce Maynard
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The New York Times bestselling author tells the story of Eleanor and Cam as their marriage is shattered by tragedy and infidelity and how, during the decades that follow, they make surprising discoveries and decisions that bring them together, and tear them apart.

By Kevin Kwan
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Envisioning a quality-time summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that viciously competes against other wealthy families and strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.

By Mary Lawson
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families – the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers – are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy.