By Vince Flynn
Series Mitch Rapp Novels
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn’s latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind the steely gaze of the nation’s ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin (From the Publisher).”

By Jeffrey Archer
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“…Some of these stories will make you laugh while others will bring you to tears but, once again, every one of them will demand that you keep turning the page until you finally discover what happens to this remarkable cast of characters (From the Publisher).”

By S.J. Watson
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.

By Catherine Coulter
Series FBI Thrillers
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Recruited by Dillon Savich for his uncanny criminal-tracking instincts, FBI Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith investigates a perplexing attack involving his music-student sister while Savich and Sherlock examine the bizarre murder of a Federal Reserve Bank chairman's grandson (From the Publisher).”

By Carla Buckley
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Wishing for a normal life after being diagnosed with a rare medical condition that makes him lethally sensitive to light, 13-year-old Tyler roams the nighttime streets to observe the neighborhood family lives he covets to become a key witness in the disappearance of a young girl (From the Publisher).”

By Deborah Harkness
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

Scholar Diana Bishop mistakenly requests a bewitched manuscript for her research. She belongs to a family of witches––but because she's avoiding using her powers in favor of scientific pursuits, she sends the manuscript back into storage. What she doesn't realize is, she's already started down a path toward a life she wants to avoid.

By Kelly Parsons
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Botching a major surgery when his ambition for a prestigious job gets the better of him, Steve Mitchell learns that a patient who died under mysterious circumstances was targeted by a sociopath who holds information capable of destroying Steve’s family and career (From the Publisher).”

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra Novels
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, John Shea, Library Page, Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Compelled to assist a beautiful woman who whispers a plea for help in his San Francisco bar, former CIA agent Sam Capra is pursued by authorities and a secret network of people who owe their wealth and power to a mysterious Faustian figure (From the Publisher).”

By Deeanne Gist
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“There is an immediate attraction when lady doctor Billy Jack Tate and a Texas Ranger Hunter Scott meet at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, but when the Fair is over, the conservative lawman and the progressive doctor face difficult choices (From the Publisher).”

By Gillian Flynn
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

When a beautiful woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage and a mysterious illness; while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.

By David Baldacci
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up (From the Publisher).”

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 12, 2016. 7:30 PM.

2016 Long Island Reads Selection

Abandoned by a grief-stricken father and accomplished-scientist mother who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, 13-year-old Jenna Metcalf approaches a disgraced psychic and a jaded detective in the hopes of finding answers.

By Lisa Jackson
Series New Orleans Romantic Suspense Stories
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“A vengeful ex-wife appears to have returned from the dead to stalk her ex-husband in this gripping thriller from bestseller Jackson (Publishers Weekly Review).”

By Catherine Bybee
Series Not Quite Series
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

Still scarred from a past tragedy, Walt may have disappeared on Dakota, but now he’s determined to win her back. For the first in years, he knows he’s ready for a new chance at love. Yet between Dakota’s doubts and two sets of meddling parents, can the once-blissful couple finally create the bright, loving future they desperately want?

By Philippa Gregory
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Nobody does the Tudors better than Gregory, so it should come as no surprise that her latest—the War of the Roses as seen through the eyes of Henry VII’s mother —is confident, colorful, convincing, and full of conflict, betrayal, and political maneuvering … (From Publishers Weekly).”

By A.S.A. Harrison
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk, Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

Told in alternating voices, this gripping novel follows the events leading up to the violent dissolution of Jodi and Todd's marriage - a union steeped in lies, infidelity, jealousy and denial.

By David Baldacci
Series Camel Club Novels
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet, a war on two fronts. Casino king Jerry Bagger is hunting Annabelle Conroy who conned him out of millions. Stone and his colleagues marshal all their resources to protect Annabelle… As bodies and institutions topple, the story rockets toward a shattering… (From the Publisher).”

By Alex Kava
Series Maggie O'Dell
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

Discovering the remains of a young woman in a highway ditch, FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell and her partner, Tully, embark on a frantic cross-country effort to capture a serial killer who is targeting truckers and travelers at rest stops.

By Sherrilyn Kenyon
Series Dark-Hunter Novels
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Traces the story of the Dark-Hunter leader’s powerful twin, who risks his life to prove his loyalty only to fall in love with a reluctant Atlantean goddess who resolves to pay back a debt at any cost (From the Publisher).”

By Ted Bell
Series Alexander Hawke Thrillers
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“As always, Bell pulls out all the stops with terrific action scenes, fiendish murders, diabolical villains, dramatic rescues and all the cool weaponry the reader could possibly hope for (Publishers Weekly).”

By Neil Abramson
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“After veterinarian Helena Colden dies of breast cancer, she is unable to move on and narrates the emotional deterioration and struggle of her attorney husband David as he becomes involved in a court case to save the life of a chimpanzee (From the Publisher).”

By Catherine Coulter
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

"Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender’s father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug, Culovort, suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug manufacturer’s disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hartwin (From the Publisher)."