By Lori Ostlund

After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring his relationships with fellow misfits in his youth.

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 Scott Snyder
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Includes King’s western tale about a sun-powered vampire with rattlesnake fangs + Snyder’s story about a female vampire who is seeking revenge against the European bloodsuckers who tortured and abused her.

By Melissa Rivers
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

The daughter of Joan Rivers presents a tribute to the iconic comedienne that shares insights into her life out of the spotlight, detailing their complicated but loving relationship and the lessons the author learned from her mother throughout their years together.

By Andrea Kleine

Presents a fictionalized version of real events in which John Hinckley Jr. becomes obsessed with a young actress before his assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan and a young girl deals with the murder of her best friend, who is killed in her sleep by her socialite mother.

By P.D. James
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Pemberly is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett’s disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband has been murdered.

By Bill Clegg

Surviving a disaster that kills everyone else in her family, June relocates West and settles into a directionless existence while other people impacted by the tragedy struggle with new circumstances.

By Adam Johnson
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

A collection of stories includes two previously unpublished pieces and explores themes of love, loss, and the consequences of decisions made in the face of tragedy.

By Erik Fassnacht
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

An estranged husband and father facing a sudden decline in health attempts to return to his family, but his wife and two sons, once completely dependent on him, have begun to find their way forward without him.

By Neil Gaiman
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.

By Ruth Ware

Reluctantly accepting an old friend’s invitation to spend a weekend in the English countryside, reclusive writer Leonora awakens in a hospital badly injured, unable to recall what happened and confronting a growing certainty that someone involved has died.

By Peter Robinson
Series Inspector Alan Banks Novels
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A scorched van and a peculiar bloodstain in an abandoned airport hangar challenge Inspector Alan Banks and his team in the aftermath of two disappearances and a string of murders.

By Rhoda Janzen
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A poet describes how, after her husband left her for a relationship with a man and she subsequently was seriously injured in a car crash, she returned home to her close-knit Mennonite family and came to terms with her failed marriage and her choices in life.

By Jon Krakauer
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Chronicles the experiences of several women in Missoula, Montana, who claimed to be raped by University of Montana football players, highlighting the inequities of the law in regard to rape allegations and the treatment of rape victims and perpetrators.

By Nevada Barr
Series Anna Pigeon Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

The story of Anna Pigeon’s past traces her 1995 relocation from New York City and first days as a Glen Canyon park ranger, a new start that is shattered by her abduction and imprisonment in the bottom of a dry well without supplies.

By Susanna Kearsley
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

In 1921, an infamous Italian poet wrote his last play, inspired by his mistress, Celia, but she vanished and the play was never performed, now, sixty years later, his grandson is staging the play with a young actress named Celia set to star.

By Catherine Goldhammer
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

In a poignant, often humorous memoir, the author recounts a year of transition in her life, as she starts over after her divorce by moving from an affluent New England suburb to a rustic house near the sea, and raises both her twelve-year-old daughter and six baby chicks.

By Corban Addison
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami decimates their coastal India town, teenage sisters Ahalya and Sita Ghai are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner before they are helped by an American attorney fighting human trafficking.

By Louise Doughty
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

When the hit-and-run incident that claimed her daughter’s life is ruled an accident, Laura decides to take matters into her own hands and track down the man responsible, which has disastrous consequences and drives her to a dangerous breaking point.