By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces, and Reacher will risk his own to save her from a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

By Tim Manley
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Favorite fairy tale characters are depicted as living in the 21st century and find themselves braving creeps on dating sites, gluten allergies, and Facebook stalkers.

By Kiersten White
Series Conquerors Saga

WEver since Lada Dragwlya and her brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival, and when she meets Mehmed, the heir to the very empire that Lada has sworn to fight against, complications arise as Lada, Radu and Mehmed form a toxic triangle that strains the bonds of love and loyalty to the breaking point.

By Frank McCourt
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“The McCourts began their family in poverty in Brooklyn, yet when Angela slipped into depression after the death of her only daughter, the family reversed the tide of emigration and returned to Ireland, living on public assistance in Limerick. McCourts’ story is laced with the pain of extreme poverty, aggravated by an alcoholic father who abandoned the family during World War II. Given the burdens of grief and starvation, it's a tribute to his skill that he can serve the reader a tale of love, some sadness, but at least as much laughter as the McCourts' "Yankee" children knew growing up in the streets of Limerick (Library Journal).”

Became the movie: Angela’s Ashes

By Jan-Philipp Sendker
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 28, 2015. 1:30 PM.

"When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter has any idea where he might be—until they find a love letter he wrote many years before, to a Burmese woman who is unknown to them (From the Publisher)."

By Rainbow Rowell
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, March 14, 2016. 7 PM.

Gossiping and sharing their personal secrets on e-mail in spite of their company's online monitoring practices, Beth and Jennifer unwittingly amuse Internet security officer Lincoln, who unexpectedly falls for Beth.

By Kelley Armstrong
Series Women of the Otherworld Series
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also.

By Glen Cook
Series Chronicle of the Black Company
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, January 11, 2016. 7 PM.

The tough mercenaries of the Black Company risk their lives and their souls as they set out to find the White Rose.

By Samantha Shannon
Series Bone Season
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

A first entry in a planned seven-part series is set in the mid-21st century where major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force and where clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a part of their supernatural army.

By Marcus Zuzak
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Wednesday, January 27, 2010.  7 PM.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel - a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

By Tina Fey
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Amy B., Children's Librarian

Actress Tina Fey recounts her life, sharing how she managed to fulfill her dream of one day becoming a comedian on television and discussing her childhood, marriage, career, and views on beauty, politics, motherhood, and relationships.

By Jennifer DuBois
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

American student Lily Hayes is implicated in the brutal murder of her roommate while spending a semester studying in Buenos Aires, leading to a case that reveals deceptions, secrets, and suspicious DNA.

By Jim Butcher

In the land of Alera, where people bond with the furies - elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal - young Tavi struggles to cope with his lack of magical talent, until his homeland erupts into conflict between rebels and loyalists and Tavi discovers that he holds the key to his realm's survival.

By K.M. Walton
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When Bull Mastrick and Victor Konig wind up in the same psychiatric ward at age sixteen, each recalls and relates in group therapy the bullying relationship they have had since kindergarten.

By Stephen King

Gunslinger Roland Deschain fights otherworldly forces on his quest across a bleak and frightening landscape to find the Dark Tower.

By Erik Larson
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, the book intertwines the true tale of two men - the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America’s place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death.

By Terry Pratchett

A slightly disorganized and somewhat naive interplanetary tourist named Twoflower joins up with a bumbling wizard and embarks on a chaotic voyage through a world filled with monsters and dragons, heroes and knaves.

By Veronica Roth
Series Divergent
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

In a dystopian future–era Chicago, 16-year–old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she uncovers powerful secrets and truths about her identity, her family and the order of her society.

By Jim Butcher

A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival.

Became the TV show: The Dresden Files.

By Rainbow Rowell
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits - smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

By Betty Friedan

Views the distorted image of women that prevailed from the end of the Second World War through the early sixties and reflects upon changes.

By Stieg Larsson
Series Millennium Trilogy
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.

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 Joe Hill
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet.

By Ransom Riggs
Series Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies.

By Joe Hill
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.

By Laura Resnick
Series Firebringer Trilogy

When innocent villagers are forced into the mines by the evil Valdani, five people of Sileria are brought together by fate and prophecy to begin work on a plan that will set them and all their people free from the grasp of the foreign conquerors.

By Dean Koontz

A young woman staying as a guest in a Napa Valley farmhouse becomes trapped in a fight for survival with a self-proclaimed "homicidal adventurer", and races to warn his next intended victim.

By Anish Majumdar
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

Neil Kapoor, 23, is desperate to create a life beyond the shadow of his mother’s schizophrenia.

By Harlow G. Unger

Unger, Harlow G. – John Quincy Adams nation, from negotiating the end of the War of 1812 to winning the Supreme Court case that freed the Amistad’s African captives.

By Susann Cokal
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

The wedding festivities of Scandinavian Princess Sophia are thrown into turmoil by an illness plaguing the royal family and a courtier's plot that places a seamstress and a royal nursemaid at the center of an epic power struggle.

By Joe Hill
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The story of the Keyhouse, a New England mansion, with doors that transform all who walk through them...and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it opens the most terrible door of all.

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 Ransom Riggs
Series Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage.

By Terry Prachett
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.

By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

Jack Reacher arrives in Virginia hoping to contact the woman he spoke with on the phone in 61 Hours, only to be drafted back into the Army, where he confronts life-changing elements from his past.

By Erin Morgenstern
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.

By Stephen King

The author shares his insights into the craft of writing and offers a humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer.

By B.J. Novak

A debut collection by a writer for the television series "The Office" includes the title story, in which a boy's lucrative sweepstakes win proves more harm than good for his family.

By Ishmael Beah
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, October 13, 2015. 7:30 PM.

In a parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone, two long-time friends return to their ruined home village and struggle to rebuild in the face of violence, scarcity, and a corrupt foreign mining company.

By Graeme Simsion
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 15, 2017. 7:30 PM.

A socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father.

By Ben Schott
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Presents a lighthearted German dictionary for the human condition designed for appeal to wordsmiths and Deutschophiles.

By Karen Russell

The Bigtree children struggle to protect their Florida Everglades alligator-wrestling theme park from a sophisticated competitor after losing their parents.

By Emily Croy Barker
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Wandering through a portal into a different world where she is transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty, Nora pursues a romance with the masterful Raclin only to see her elegant fantasy world shattering in ways that force Nora to learn magical skills in order to survive.

Series The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A collection of tiny stories and illustrations gathered online via the Hitrecord creative collective's web site.

Series Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

By Hitrecord and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Showcases illustrated short stories that were created through a collaborative effort helmed by the actor and his production company, hitRECord, bringing together art and voices from around the world to unite and tell stories that defy size. 

By Sharon E. McKay
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, November 17, 2014. 7 PM.

Jacob is a 14-year-old Ugandan who is sent away to a boys' school. Once there, he assures his friend Tony that they need not be afraid -- they will be safe. But not long after, in the shadow of the night, the boys are abducted. Marched into the jungle, they are brought to an encampment of the feared rebel soldiers. They are told they must kill or be killed, and their world turns into a terrifying struggle to endure and survive.

By Kelley Armstrong

On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also.