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 Anne Holt
Series Hanne Wilhelmsen Novels
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

“Follows the experiences of travelers who are stranded by a blizzard in a decrepit hotel where one of their number begins killing off the rest (From the Publisher).”

By Oliver W. Sacks

“Profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident... (From the Publisher).”

By Betty White
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“The popular actress and animal welfare advocate offers personal stories of the zoo animals she has known and loved through the years... (From the Publisher).”

By Edward J. Delaney
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“A passionate, heartbreaking story of authority and revenge, alcoholism and futile redemption set in south Boston in the late 1990s (From the Publisher).”

By Jennifer Weiner
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

A politician's wife retreats with her grown daughters to a Connecticut beach house.

By Lisa Unger
Series Hollows
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“When her rebellious teenage son's girlfriend goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Maggie becomes increasingly fearful about unsettling ties between the investigation and an unsolved missing-person case from twenty years earlier … (From the Publisher).”

By Richard Paul Evans
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“Presents an inspirational tale of hope, love, and faith set during the holiday season of 1962, as portrayed in the lost innocence of a young girl running away from her abusive stepfather and a boy determined to protect her (From the Publisher).”

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 Steven Pressfield
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“In a near-future world in which governments and corporations are forced to hire cutting-edge mercenary armies to protect their wealth, the globe's largest private military launches a campaign to take over the US (From the Publisher).”

By Susan Cain
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“Demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture... (From the Publisher).”

By Arnaldur Indriðason
Series Erlendur Sveinsson Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“When a skeleton is unearthed at a Reykjavik building site, Inspector Erlendur and his colleagues set out to unravel a complex decades-old crime... (From the Publisher).”

By Torey Hayden
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Tells the story of a year within the author's classroom, when she struggled to help four students (From the Publisher).”

By Naomi Ragen
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Enjoying lives of privilege and promise while planning a wedding, Abigail and her Harvard law student daughter, Kayla, are shattered by a devastating tragedy that prompts Kayla to run away and join a desert commune (From the Publisher).”

By Thrity Umrigar
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 8, 2013. 7:30 PM.

Follows four friends who met as university students in Bombay in the late 1970s as they struggle to reconnect and reunite at the deathbed of one of their group.