By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

When her daughter Anna is murdered and her new husband Noah is accused of the crime, Maggie searches for the truth, where she uncovers something darker than she could have ever imagined.

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 Alice Hoffman
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

The revelation of a dark secret about Ethan Ford’s true identity and his past threatens to turn a small Massachusetts town upside down as the truth shatters Monroe’s small-town peace and tests the bonds between family and friends.

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 Stephanie Kallos
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Clare Badke, Principal Account Clerk, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

When elderly Margaret Hughes discovers that she has a malignant brain tumor, she refuses treatment and decides to take a nice young tenant into her huge, lonely Seattle mansion for company.

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

“The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation (From the Publisher).”

By Mark Haddon
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor’s dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

By Ann Napolitano
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Amy B., Children's Librarian

12–year–old lone survivor of a plane crash investigates the stories of his less-fortunate fellow passengers before making a profound discovery about his life purpose in the face of transcendent losses.

By Ronald H. Balson
Series Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart #6
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

A husband and wife team of lawyers take on opposing sides in a defamation case against a local Danish American war hero and a protestor in the latest addition to the series following The Girl from Berlin.

By William Landay
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

His happy life and long-time respectability as a suburban Massachusetts assistant district attorney shattered when his 14-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, Andy Barber faces a wrenching decision about family loyalty when the facts increasingly suggest that the boy is guilty.

By Ronald H. Balson
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

The National Jewish Book Award-winning author of The Girl From Berlin explores the human cost of war and the consequences of survival in the story of a Polish business owner who seeks justice for a wartime betrayal.

By Susan Meissner
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Two women living 100 years apart experience similar tragic losses of love, Clara's in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, and Taryn's in the collapse of the Twin Towers, are connected through time by a scarf.

By John Green
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

By Emily Giffin
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

While Meredith becomes increasingly unsure about the strength of her bond with her seemingly perfect husband and daughter, her once–happily single sister, Josie, frantically dates and considers her options in her desperation to have a baby.

By Natalie D. Richards
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Desperate to reach her grieving mother, Mira joins a group of college students driving home after their flight is stranded, but the road conditions are not the only mortal danger they face.

By Ronald H. Balson
Series Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart novels, 4
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart investigate a German violin prodigy's handwritten records from Berlin's interwar period to resolve a land dispute between a powerful corporation and a woman facing the loss of her Tuscan hills home.

By Paula Hawkins
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Meghan Fangmann, Librarian, Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian

Friday, Mau 5, 2017. 2 PM.

Obsessively watching a couple every day to escape the pain of her losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that entangles her in the lives of strangers.

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 Mary Kubica
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The daughter of a prominent Chicago judge and his socialite wife, inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett is taken hostage by her one-night stand, Colin Thatcher, who, instead of delivering her to his employers, hides her in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota to keep her safe from harm.

By Nicole Krauss
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Sixty years after a book’s publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book’s characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother’s loneliness.

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Struggling with a marital estrangement that is further complicated when one of them is deployed, military couple Michael and Joleen Zarkades are forced to confront their problems while protecting the security of their family.

By Tara Conklin
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

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

A novel of love, family, and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the "perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome.  He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and Jacob has special focus on one subject - forensic analysis.

By Barbara Mutch
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

“After traveling to South Africa for a loveless marriage in 1919, a young Irish woman befriends Ada, the daughter of the housemaid, and must decide what to do when the girl goes missing after being scorned by the community (From the Publisher).”

By Suzanne Collins
Series The Hunger Games Trilogy
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

By Suzanne Collins
Series The Hunger Games Trilogy
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

By Liane Moriarty
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women.

By Gayle Forman
Series If I Stay
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

Became the movie: If I Stay.

By Judy Blume
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

A novel inspired by a series of passenger airplane crashes that occurred in 1951 and 1952. New Jersey reimagines the impact of the tragedies on three generations of families, friends and strangers.

By Nicola Yoon
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Experiencing visions of heartbreak and trying to understand why this is happening, Evie signs up for lessons at a dance studio, where she falls for her dance partner, forcing her to question all she thought she knew about life and love

By Sue Monk Kidd
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 26, 2015. 1:30 PM.

Traces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self.

By Julie Orringer
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Orringer’s first novel is a grand love story and an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are torn apart by war in 1937 Paris.

By Ronald Balson
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Holocaust survivor Lena Woodward enlists the help of lawyer Catherine Lockhart and private investigator Liam Taggart to help her resolve a secret from her past in Nazi-occupied Poland.

By Liane Moriarty
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Inheriting a home on Scribbly Gum Island from the recently deceased aunt of her former boyfriend, Thomas Gordon, Sophie Honeywell finds her life turned upside down, caught in the middle of upheaval that helps uncover a mystery, bring a family back together, create new friendships, and build true love.

By Malinda Lo
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.

By Susan Meissner
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

A German-American teen finds her life and identity turned upside-down when her father is accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, triggering her family's forced relocation into a Texas internment camp.

By Ellen Marie Wiseman
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

After being sold to a circus sideshow in 1931, Lilly Blackwood carves out a life for herself as best she can—until tragedy and cruelty collide—and, two decades later, it is up to Julia Blackwood to discover the truth about this older sister that she never knew she had.

By Martha Hall Kelly
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

The lives of three women converge at the Ravensbruck concentration camp as Caroline Ferriday resolves to help from her post at the French consulate, Kasia Kuzmerick becomes a courier in the Polish resistance, and Herta Oberheuser takes a German government medical position.

By Ishmael Beah
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Ishmael Beah described his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a solider for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

By John Green
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Sharon Long, Teen Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian

Tuesday, August 4, 2015. 7:30 PM.

Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

By Kirsty Manning
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

An American jewelry historian discovers her unexpected ties to a fortune in jewels discovered under the floor of a London tenement house where an impoverished Irish immigrant once attempted to change her family's fortune.

By Alyson Richman
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, January 24, 2012.  1PM & 7:30 PM.

“From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the Occupation, to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit- and the strength of memory (From the Publisher).”

By Alice Hoffman
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 26, 2016. 1:30 PM

Dreaming of an exotic life in Paris while coming of age in a St. Thomas refugee community, young Rachel is forced to marry a widower before falling scandalously in love and becoming the mother of Impressionist master Camille Pissarro.

By Jean Meltzer.
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When her publisher insists that she write a Hanukkah romance, Rachel Rubenstein–Goldblatt, a Jewish woman with a secret career as a Christmas romance novelist, unexpectedly finds inspiration when she encounters a childhood acquaintance at the Matzah Ball, a Jewish music celebration on the last night of Hanukkah.

By Alan Brennert
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Tracks the poignant struggle of a Hawaiian woman who contracts leprosy as a child in Honolulu during the 1890s and is deported to the island of Moloka'i, where she grows to adulthood at the quarantined settlement of Kalaupapa.

By Susan Meissner
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa V., Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Moving to early 20th–century San Francisco to escape New York tenement life, an Irish mail–order bride uncovers transformative secrets involving a silent child and two other women before her precarious existence is upended by the great earthquake of 1906.

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 Marie Benedict
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

A beautiful woman escapes her Austrian arms-dealer husband to become Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr while hiding a secret double life as a Jewish scientist and sharing vital information about the Third Reich.

By Kim Alkemade
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 18, 2016. 7:30 PM.

When hospice nurse Rachel realizes that her new patient is the doctor that spent years subjecting her to tortuous medical experiments at a Jewish orphanage, she is forced to confront her memories of the time and their lasting effect.

By Christina Baker Kline
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Close to aging out of the foster care system, Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer takes a community service position helping an elderly woman named Vivian clean out her home and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past