By Charmaine Wilkerson
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Two estranged siblings try to reclaim the closeness they once shared while trying to piece together their late mother’s life story and fulfill her last request of sharing a traditional Caribbean black cake “when the time is right.

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 Anne Mette Hancock
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is drawn into a nightmare when she begins receiving letters from a woman police believe is a killer, forcing her to revisit the darkest parts of her own past to confront someone she swore she’d never see again.

By Elaine Hsieh Chou
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

While finishing her PhD dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou, graduate student Ingrid Yang discovers a curious note in the archives and upends her entire life trying to unravel the note’s message, ultimately making an explosive discovery.

By Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

A maverick therapist who lost her license due to controversial methods, Avery agrees to help golden couple Marissa and Mathew Bishop overcome Marisa’s cheating, setting all three of them on a collision course because the biggest—and most dangerous—secrets have not yet been revealed.

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 Rebecca Franke
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The inspiring story of a Polish family who narrowly escaped the Holocaust by fleeing to the Bialowieza Forest, surviving two years of brutal winters, disease and Nazi raids until their 1944 rescue by the Red Army.

By Brenda Janowitz
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When their late mother's long–lost eleven–carat ring, which looks just like the diamond Richard Burton gifted Liz Taylor, unexpectedly resurfaces decades later, three siblings discover a secret that challenges everything they thought they knew about their parents' epic love.

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 Brandon Sanderson
Series Mistborn
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Experiencing an epiphany within the most daunting prison of the monstrous Lord Ruler who has enslaved his people for a thousand years, half-Skaa Kelsier finds himself taking on the powers of a Mistborn and teams up with ragged orphan Vin in a desperate plot to save their world.

By Samantha Silva
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

After poor reviews about his latest book, writer Charles Dickens is given a one-month ultimatum by his publisher to write a successful, nostalgic Christmas book, a challenge that is complicated by self-doubt and the hardships of an impoverished young woman and her son.

By Quentin Tarantino
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Expanding on the story told in the Academy Award-winning film, this long-awaited work of fiction tracks the four principal characters--Rick Dalton, Cliff Booth, Sharon Tate and Charles Manson--both before and after the events of the film.

By Lucy Foley
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Arriving in Paris to stay with her brother Ben, Jess learns that he has gone missing, and to find him, starts digging into his life, realizing even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape her past, it's his future hanging in the balance.

By Amanda Elliot
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Landing a coveted spot on her favorite TV show, chef Sadie, a rising star in the trendy Seattle restaurant scene, arrives in NYC and has a spontaneous one-night fling, or she thought was a one night, until she arrives on set and gets the surprise of her life.

By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When an aging and reclusive Hollywood icon selects an unknown magazine reporter to write her life story, the baffled journalist forges deep ties with the actress during a complicated interview process that exposes their tragic common history.

By Frank Tallis
Recommended By Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

While managing a controversial project - a pioneering therapy in which extremely disturbed patients are kept asleep for months, psychiatrist James Richardson, sensing something uncanny about the subjects, is forced to question everything he knows about the human mind.

By Anthony Ray Hinton
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 9, 2019. 7:30 PM.

A man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration.

By Louise Shaffer
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Three women named Margaret--Miss Peggy, Dr. Maggie, and Miss Li'l Bit--all icons in Charles Valley Georgia, are bound together by a thirty-year-old secret and their clandestine, illegal efforts to right a terrible wrong.

By Maureen Johnson
Series Truly Devious Series
Recommended By Jody Ruggiero, Head of Teen Services

When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Forced into the witness protection program after being caught in the crosshairs of a drug–trafficking organization, Jason Bennett and his family, trapped in an unfamiliar life, start falling apart at the seams until Jason takes matters into his own hands after a shocking truth is revealed.