By Elin Hilderbrand
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A tale inspired by the film Same Time Next Year follows a man's discovery of his mother's long-term relationship with the husband of a Presidential frontrunner.

By Megan Miranda
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

In a story told in reverse over the course of fifteen days, Nicolette Farrell, returning to her rural hometown ten years after the disappearance of her best friend, attempts to unravel the truth about the disappearance of another young woman.

By Leo Tolstoy
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A translation of the classic Russian novel tells the tale of rebellious Anna and her ill-fated, adulterous romance with Count Vronsky amid the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia.

By Olga Grushin
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Thirteen years after marrying Prince Charming and having two children, a dissatisfied Cinderella sneaks out to obtain the services of a witch known to provide love potions to disgruntled housewives, but instead of rekindled romance, she wants her husband dead.

By Bethany C. Morrow
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Being faced with her home’s foreclosure, one of only two black girls in a wealthy gated community manipulates her way into her friends’ household where she starts noticing strange things happening and her suspicion of the seemingly–perfect family grows.

By K. J. Dell’Antonia
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A more than three-decade feud between two Kansas families implodes when a daughter who left one of the families to marry into the other brings the story of their fried-chicken competition to the attention of a popular reality show.

By Ellery Lloyd
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

From the author of People Like Her, a smart and sinister murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs, where the A-list members and the staff who serve them all have something to hide.

By Kirstin Chen
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Ava Wong, a strait–laced Chinese American lawyer, and Winnie Fang, her former college roommate from mainland China, who dropped out under mysterious circumstances, join forces in an ingenious counterfeit operation selling replica luxury handbags.

By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

When singer Daisy Jones meets Billy Dunne of the band The Six, the two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.

By A. J. Pearce
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

An adventurous young woman takes a typist job to assist the war effort and lands in the employ of a renowned advice columnist before she begins secretly replying to heart – wrenching letters rejected as unsuitable.

By Rainbow Rowell
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Feeling cast off when her best friend outgrows their shared love for a favorite celebrity, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words and worrying about her fragile father.

By Jim Butcher
Series The Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

You’d think there’d be a little more action for the only professional wizard listed in the Chicago phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden hasn’t been able to dredge up any kind of work: magical, mundane, or menial. Just when it looks like he can’t afford his next meal, a murder comes along that requires his particular brand of supernatural expertise. There’s a brutally mutilated corpse, and monstrous animal markings at the scene. Not to mention that the killing took place on the night of a full moon. Harry knows exactly where this case is headed. Take three guesses—and the first two don’t count...

By Lexie Elliott
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Sharing an idyllic week in a French farmhouse, six university students find their deep bond tested by the arrival of a beautiful woman who undermines their loyalties and ignites tensions before an explosive event that places one of the students under suspicion for the woman's death a decade later.

By Eliza Jane Brazier
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A wealthy couple who invite successful entrepreneurs to live in their guesthouse and then conspire to ruin their life for sport meet their match when Demi, a woman who took over another person’s identity, moves in.

By Jack Thorne
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.

By Chelsea Cain
Series Archie and Gretchen Thrillers
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Addicted to painkillers and still bound to Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is caught in another deadly duel with a murderer targeting teenage girls.

By Justin Timberlake
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

The popular entertainer presents a collection of anecdotes, reflections, and observations on his life and work, from his early love of music to his collaborations with other artists, and includes hundreds of candid images from his personal archives.

By Thrity Umrigar
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

An Indian American journalist returns home to cover the story of a Hindi woman attacked by her own family for marrying a Muslim and deals with a society that places more weight on tradition than one’s heart.

By Christina Lauren
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Finding herself caught in a time loop that has her repeating the same disastrous family Christmas in a snowy Utah cabin, Mae endures one hilarious setback after another to break the cycle and find true love under the mistletoe.

By Patricia Engel
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogatá.

By Jesse James Decker
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

The talented musician, style entrepreneur, television personality and wife of an NFL player shares stories from her life and offers practical advice on a variety of topics.

By Megan Miranda
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

When her longtime best friend is found murdered, Avery Greer combs through her idyllic Maine tourist community to uncover local secrets and clear her name of suspicion.

By Liv Constantine
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A coolly manipulative woman worms her way into the lives of a wealthy golden couple from Connecticut as part of her plot to achieve a privileged life, unveiling dark secrets along the way.

By Chelsea Cain
Series Archie and Gretchen
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Attending a masked Halloween party as part of his investigation into Jack Reynolds's drug enterprise, Detective Archie Sheridan recognizes the handiwork of killer Gretchen Lowell when one of the guests is murdered, a situation that forces Archie to risk everything and reevaluate the people he most trusts.

By Susan Orlean
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the crucial role that libraries play in modern American culture.

By Jessica Knoll
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Grooming herself for an ideal life involving a successful career and a happy marriage, a rising young journalist confronts a violent episode from her past that threatens to unravel everything she has worked to achieve.

By Nita Prose
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

When she discovers the dead body of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black in his suite, hotel maid Molly Gray finds her orderly life upended as she becomes the prime suspect in the case and is caught in a web of deception that she has no idea how to unravel.

By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Amy B., Children's Librarian

Four famous siblings throw an epic end–of–summer party that goes dangerously out of control as secrets and loves that shaped this family's generations come to light, changing their lives forever.

By Cathy Lamb
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Trapped in a coma but aware of everything around her, Natalie reflects on the happy marriage she shared with her husband, who she realizes is hiding a dangerous secret.

By Chanel Cleeton
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A freelance writer returns to her grandmother’s homeland to fulfill her last wish to have her ashes scattered in Havana and discovers her family history amidst Cuba’s tropical beauty and dangerous political environment.

By Yangsze Choo
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A vivacious dance-hall girl in 1930s colonial Malaysia is drawn into unexpected danger by the discovery of a severed finger that is being sought by a young houseboy in order to protect his late master's soul.

By Ernest Hemingway
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

The story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal - a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

By Anna North
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Forced to flee from a community that hangs barren women as witches, 17-year-old Ada joins a gang of outlaws under a charismatic former preacher who hatches a treacherous plan that risks all of their lives.

By Bill Clinton
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

As enemies plan an unprecedented attack on American soil, Washington is gripped by uncertainty and fear as rumors spread of a traitor in the cabinet and the president himself comes under suspicion, before he goes missing.

By Bill Clinton
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A one–time Navy SEAL and past president, Matthew Keating, after his daughter is kidnapped by a madman, embarks on a one–man special–ops mission that tests his strengths as a leader, a warrior, and a father.

By Tiffani Thiessen
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Presents a collection of family recipes from the television star with her take on classic American dishes, including roasted chicken potpie, whole grilled trout, arugula, grape, & ricotta pizza, and vanilla bean bread pudding with bourbon-caramel sauce.

By Graham Greene
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

This novel is a study of New World hope and innocence set in an Old World of violence. The scene is Saigon in the violent years when the French were desperately trying to hold their footing in the Far East. The principal characters are a skeptical British journalist, his attractive Vietnamese mistress, and an eager young American sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission.

By Alice Hoffman
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, February 12, 2019. 7:30 PM.

Traces the story of Susanna Owens' children, who have powerful magical abilities, as they uncover secrets about a family curse while visiting their Aunt Isabelle and struggle to escape it before tragedy strikes.

By Lesley Kara
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Hearing rumors that a dangerous ex-con has moved into town under an assumed name, an obsessed single mother goes to reckless lengths to determine the facts, subjecting her loved ones to dangerous retaliation.

By Jonathan De Shalit
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

After being tasked to set up a secret unit, answerable only to the Prime Minister, Ya'ara Stein and her team face the descendants of the Red Army Faction.

By Chelsea Cain
Series Archie & Gretchen Thrillers
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Portland detective Archie Sheridan's investigation into the murder of a young woman is compromised by his continuing obsession with serial murderer Gretchen Lowell, the so-called Beauty Killer, who has escaped from prison.

By Margaret Atwood
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A long–anticipated sequel to the best–selling The Handmaid’s Tale is set 15 years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate and interweaves the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead.

By Leah Kaminsky
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Dina, a physician haunted by the past of her Holocaust survivor parents, uses a dark sense of humor to maintain her sanity amid the constant challenges of motherhood and medicine.

By S. J. Bennett
Series Queen Elizabeth II Novels
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

The award-winning author of Love Song presents a crime series debut that finds 90-year-old Elizabeth II turning detective when MI5 bungles the murder case of a young Russian pianist at Windsor Castle.

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Ann Competello, Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

With everything perfectly on track, Diana O’Toole finds things going off the rails when she is quarantined during her dream vacation in the Galapagos due to a virus, forcing her to reevaluate herself and her life when she makes a connection with a local.

By Greer Hendricks
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

A lonely misfit with a dead– end job quietly envies a circle of popular sisters who hide dangerous vengeful truths beneath a veneer of friendship, glamour and accomplishments.

By AJ Pearce
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A young wartime advice columnist, Emmeline Lake must tackle a life-changing dilemma between doing her duty and standing by her friends when the Ministry of Information calls on her to help recruit desperately needed female workers to the war effort.