By Adriana Trigiani
Series Valentine Trilogy
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

When Valentine Roncalli discovers a long-lost shoe design, a family secret unravels that helps her take control of the company from a conniving relative, but first she seeks the counsel of her ex-fiancé, Bret Fitzpatrick, to help re-boot the business.

By Jonathan Vatner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Urged by her overprotective parents to call off her wedding at the same time she discovers suspicious texts, an aimless woman in her early 30s turns for advice to her neighbors, who reveal their own marital crises.

By Nora Roberts
Series Three Sisters Island Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

After a year on the run, Nell Channing feels that she can make a home for herself on Three Sisters Island and, aided by Mia, the proprietor of the island's small book store and Ripley, the town's assistant sheriff, she finally dares to envision a brighter future.

By Linda Holmes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Young widow Evvie Drake and major league pitcher Dean Tenney, who has lost his game and needs a chance to reset his life, form an unlikely relationship when Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house.

By Tembi Locke
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

An actress and TEDx speaker describes how her professional chef husband's Sicilian family didn't initially approve of him marrying a black American woman and the three summers she spent with them after he succumbed to cancer.

By Annalee Newitz
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

A geologist desperate to change the past and a teen rebel who has witnessed a history–changing murder are swept up in a secret historical war in a parallel–world America where time travel is possible.

By Louise Penny
Series Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Receiving a mysterious old map that has been found stuffed in the walls of a bistro, former Quebec homicide investigator Armand Gamache follows clues to the site of a dead Sûreté academy professor and an unlikely cadet with whom he is implicated in a murder case.

By Jonathan French
Series Lot Lands
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Jackal, a proud member of a group of half-orcs tasked with protecting human civilization from their full-blooded brethren discovers a dark secret that threatens to dissolve the tenuous peace between species.

By Demi Moore
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Inside Out is a story of survival, success, and surrender—a wrenchingly honest portrayal of one woman's at once ordinary and iconic life. Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.

By Jennifer McMahon
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

When an inspired effort to build her dream home is overshadowed by discoveries about her rural property's violent past, a former history teacher becomes obsessed with the stories of three generations of local women who died under suspicious circumstances.

By Anthony Bourdain
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, December 10, 2018. 7:30 PM.

A New York City chef who is also a novelist recounts his experiences in the restaurant business, and exposes abuses of power, sexual promiscuity, drug use, and other secrets of life behind kitchen doors.

By Twinkle Khanna
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

A gangly young girl transforms her village with a revolutionary idea. Sixty-eight-year-old Noni Appa finds herself drawn to a married man-- 'Why do people have to define relationships, underline each word till the paper gives way beneath?', she wonders. Bablu Tripathi becomes obsessed with sanitary napkins much to his family's horror, and a young woman keeps checking the weather forecast as she meticulously plans each of her five weddings. Funny, observant and wise, this is storytelling at its most irresistible.

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 Nicola Harrison
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Distancing herself from her unfaithful spouse and her fellow society wives at seaside Montauk Manor, Bea Bordeaux is drawn by the village's natural beauty and community spirit before falling for a man who is nothing like her husband.

By Gretchen Rubin
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Offers manageable steps for creating a more serene, orderly environment, which contributes to maintaining inner calm.

By Susan Isaacs
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

A retired FBI agent-turned-Long Island housewife taps into her investigative past when she begins to suspect that her neighbor is harboring criminal secrets.

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 Mary Glickman
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Abe, a Jewish immigrant, Dark Water, the daughter of a powerful Cherokee chief, and Jacob, a black slave in Georgia, find themselves surrounded by the escalating horrors of President Jacksons Indian Removal Act.

By Jayne Ann Krentz
Series Cuttler, Sutter, & Salingas
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Teaming up with struggling private investigator Max to track down her missing stepsister, Charlotte falls in love with Max and survives a near-fatal attack before making a chilling discovery about her sister's past.

By Kristin Harmel
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

A story set amid the champagne vineyards of northern France during the darkest days of World War II follows two women who risk everything when the Germans invade.