By Cristina Henriquez
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, June 23, 2015. 1:30 PM.

Moving from Mexico to the United States when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter’s difficult recovery, and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.

By Benedict Jacka
Series Alex Verus Series
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Hired to investigate the resurgence of a ritual that involves harvesting the life force of magical creatures, diviner Alex Verus must distinguish friend from foe as he goes up against those who would risk their sanity for power.

By Megan Abbott
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

After a suspicious suicide, the members of a high school cheerleading squad, along with their new, perfectly cool coach, Colette French, are drawn into the investigation.

By Ken Follett
Series Century Trilogy
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

A conclusion to the epic trilogy continues the experiences of five intertwined international families as they confront the social, political and economic turmoil of the second half on the 20th century.

By Celeste Ng
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tueday, July 28, 2015. 1 PM.

A story of the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family explores the fallout of the drowning death of Lydia Lee, the favorite daughter of a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio.

By Ellen Sussman
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

A heartbroken and pregnant woman, a neglected ex-pat housewife, and the husband of a high-profile movie star experience profound life changes while exploring Paris with their French tutors throughout the course of a single day.

By Laurie Colwin
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

Geraldine Colshares, former backup singer for Ruby Shakely and the Shakettes, muddles through marriage, motherhood, and employment while struggling to reconcile youth with maturity and expectations with real life.

By Liane Moriarty
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women.

By Andrew Sean Greer
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 20, 2015. 1:30 PM.

To alleviate her suffocating depression after the death of her twin brother and the break-up with her long-time lover, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment that has an unexpected side effect, which transports her to the lives she might have had if she had been born in a different era.

By Andrew Kane
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Explores the entanglements of three lives: Joshua Eubanks, a young black man struggling to overcome the crime, drugs, and despair of the streets; Rachel Weissman, daughter of a Hassidic rabbi; and Paul Sims, the product of a privileged Long Island Jewish family, yearning to escape his troubled past.

By Saroo Brierley
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

A full-length account of the author’s inspirational effort to find his India birthplace describes how he was accidentally separated from his family in the mid-1980s, his survival on the streets of Calcutta, his adoption by an Australian family and his headline-making Google Earth search.

By Blake Crouch
Series Wayward Pines Series
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Federal agent Ethan Burke encounters more than he bargains for during an investigation into missing agents when he awakens from a terrible accident and discovers that not only is his identification gone, but the behavior of the townspeople seems off.

By Bruce DeSilva
Series Liam Mulligan Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A tale inspired by a true story finds Mulligan, his friend Mason, and the newspaper they work for confronting an ethical dilemma involving a juvenile serial murderer’s parole and corrupt police activities.

By Wendy Wallace

Feeling her life is over in the face of disabilities that render her isolated and overprotected, Harriet leaves Victorian London with her mother and God-fearing aunt for a trip to volatile Egypt, where the trio’s sense of empowerment is threatened by Harriet’s mother’s long-hidden past.

By Mathew Klickstein
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Describes the history of the first network devoted entirely to children, which went on to change both cable television and kid’s entertainment forever.

By Anna Quindlen
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Abandoning her expensive world to move to a small country cabin, a once world-famous photographer bonds with a local man and begins to see the world around her in new, deeper dimensions while evaluating second changes at love, career and self-understanding.

By David Rowell
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

While a young black porter struggles with first-day duties on board the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train, a woman sneaks away from her disapproving husband to pay respects to the assassinated senator, and a wounded soldier awaits a reputation-restoring interview.

By Colum McCann
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A tale spanning one hundred and fifty years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell, and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women.

By E. Lockhart
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services
With Sharon Long, Teen Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian

Tuesday, August 9, 2016. 7:30 PM.

Crossover book discussion of the Young Adult Novel.

Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.