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2019-4-23 An American Marriage

By Tayari Jones
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 14, 2019. 7:30 PM.

When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned.

22 Britannia Road

By Amanda Hodgkinson

“Leaving Poland for England at the end of World War II, Silvana is accompanied by eight-year-old, near-feral Aurek, with whom she shares traumatic wartime memories that set them apart from her husband, who has remade himself as an Englishman to forget the past (From the Publisher).”

Accidentally Engaged

By Farah Heron
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Determined to marry for love in spite of her parents’ interfering matchmaking schemes, Reena Manji pretends to be engaged to a neighbor in her father’s employ in the hopes of winning a couples’ cooking competition.

Adopting Older Children: A Practical Guide to Adopting and Parenting Children Over Age Four

By Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero

Provides techniques and strategies for adoptive parents, discussing the adoption process, coping with the transition, and understanding the background, personality, and problems of an adopted child.

Adult Assembly Required

By Abbi Waxman
Series Bookish Life of Nina Hill #2

Moving to Los Angeles to escape memories of an awful accident, Laura Costello finds herself homeless in a fire, taken in by a rogue bookseller running a lovely but illegal boardinghouse, and tasked with rescuing a losing trivia team.

Adult Onset

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

A stay-at-home mom, juggling the inherent insanity of caring for small children, experiences a flare-up of a childhood illness that causes her to question her own upbringing and the way she is raising her family.

Adults

By Caroline Hulse
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

After splitting up, a couple each bring their new significant other to Happy Forest Holiday Park in an attempt to give their daughter a "normal" family Christmas which turns into a powder keg fueled by drinking too much and oversharing.

After Long Silence: A Memoir

By Helen Fremont

The author tells how she discovered that her parents were Jews who survived the Holocaust and explores the elaborate deceptions her parents concocted to preserve her and her sister.

After the End

By Clare Mackintosh
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Disagreeing for the first time when their son falls ill and they receive conflicting doctor recommendations, a devoted couple finds a unique way for both of their preferences to become possible.

All About Lulu

By Jonathan Evison

Loner William Miller tries to cope after his mother dies of cancer, his bodybuilding father remarries a grief counselor, and he falls in love with his stepsister Lulu.

All Adults Here

By Emma Straub
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

A matriarch confronts the legacy of her parenting mistakes while her adult children navigate respective challenges in high standards and immaturity, before a teen granddaughter makes a courageous decision to tell the truth.

All is Not Forgotten

By Wendy Walker
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of a violent assault, young Jenny Kramer struggles with difficult emotional memories that linger months later as her father becomes obsessed with revenge and her mother descends into denial.

All This Could Be Yours

By Jami Attenberg
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

From a critically acclaimed New York Times best –selling author of The Middlesteins comes a novel of family secrets revealed in the heat of a New Orleans summer.

Ally Hughes Has Sex Sometimes

By Jules Moulin

Ten years after single mother and college professor Ally Hughes decides against a relationship with Jake, one of her students who challenges her to open up her life to love, Jake reenters her life--as her grown daughter's new boyfriend.

Aloft

By Chang-rae Lee

A visit from his daughter and her fiancé from Oregon prompts Jerry Battle to reassess his life, his family relationships, his professional success, and his disengagement from those around him, as he reflects on his professional success and his love of flying solo, in a novel set in an upper-middle-class suburban Long Island community.

Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

By Martin Sheen

A dual memoir of the film legend and his actor/director son, shares fifty years of family history, covering their Northern Spanish heritage, careers, and individual spiritual lives.

Always The Last to Know

By Kristan Higgins
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When John Frost has a stroke, his family, including his two daughters — perfect Julie and free-spirited Sadie, and his wife of 50 years, are forced to confront the truth about their lives, in this new novel about what family really means.

Amazing Gracie: A Dog’s Tale

By Dan Dye
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk

“The co-founders of Three Dog Bakery describe how the rescue of Gracie, a deaf, partially blind, albino Great Dane pup, and her relationship with her owner, Dan Dye, led to the founding of their successful enterprise (From the Publisher).”

America For Beginners

By Leah Franqui
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

A widow from India travels to California to learn the truth about what happened to the son who was declared dead shortly after he revealed his sexual orientation to their traditional family.

American Pastoral

By Philip Roth
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

A former athletic star, devoted family man, and owner of a thriving glove factory, Seymour “Swede” Levov finds his life coming apart during the social disorder of the 1960s, when his beloved daughter turns revolutionary terrorist out to destroy her father’s world

American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith and Renewal

By Taya Kyle with Jim DeFelice

The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and family, service and patriotism, grief and sacrifice, faith and purpose.

Among the Missing

By Dan Chaon

Focusing on the condition of the modern family, a thematically linked collection of short fiction captures the lives, dreams, and fates of men, women, and children who live outside of the American Dream.

Among the Ten Thousand Things

By Julia Pierpont
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A former ballet dancer struggles to protect her children before receiving an anonymous package revealing her weak artist husband’s infidelities, a discovery that leads to a difficult breakup during a New York summer.

And the Mountains Echoed

By Khaled Hosseini

Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations.

Angela’s Ashes

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

Another Piece of My Heart

By Jane Green
Recommended By Ann Competello, Library Clerk, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Marrying a divorced father of two, Andi finds herself struggling to gain her stepdaughters' acceptance while preserving family peace in the face of daily dramas and competitions for her husband's attention (From the Publisher).”

Any Other Family

By Eleanor Brown
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Three sets of parents become intertwined after adopting four biological siblings and making a commitment to keep the children connected.

Anything is Possible

By Elizabeth Strout
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Two sisters, one who trades self–respect for a wealthy husband and one who discovers a kindred spirit in the pages of a book, struggle with intimate human dramas at the sides of their community members and a returned Lucy Barton.

Apples Never Fall

By Liane Moriarty
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa V., Library Clerk

A family of tennis stars debate whether or not to report their mother as missing because it would implicate their father.

Arcadia

By Lauren Groff
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

“In a haunting story of the American dream, Bit, born in a back-to-nature commune in 1970s New York State, must come to grips with the outside world when the commune eventually fails (From the Publisher).”

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

By Alison Bechdel

Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover, and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.

Arrangement

By Sarah Dunn
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A progressive New York couple with an autistic son move to a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb and immerse themselves in the local community only to have their bond tested by an invitation to become and open-marriage couple.

Arrogant Years: one girl's search for her lost youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

By Lucette Lagnado

An autobiography of Lagnado's early years as an immigrant from Cairo to Brooklyn, reflecting on her own mother's story as she makes her own choices.

Arsonist

By Sue Miller

A series of summer house fires exposes deep social faults in the hometown of Frankie Rowley, who makes unsettling discoveries about her aging parents while engaging in an affair with a local journalist.

Art of Growing Old: Aging with Grace

By Marie de Hennezel

Offers advice for positively living with the aging process through anecdotes and examples from the author's work with the elderly, counseling readers to face up to the real problems of aging in order to remain youthful in spirit.

As Close to Us as Breathing

By Elizabeth Poliner
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Enjoying summertime weeks of freedom at a popular Jewish beach with their children, beautiful Ada thrives when away from her strict husband, while chef Vivie develops diplomatic skills and unmarried Bec is forced to choose between family beliefs and her passion for a married man.

Astonish Me

By Maggie Shipstead
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Helping a world-famous dancer to defect from the Soviet Union to the United States, ballerina Joan watches her friend’s career soar while her own declines in the wake of her pregnancy and marriage, a situation that eventually exposes difficult secrets.

Astors, 1763-1992: Landscape with Millionaires

By Derek Wilson

The historian-author of Rothschild chronicles the fascinating history of the Astor dynasty, from John Jacob Astor I and his beginnings as a poor immigrant to his great-grandson's life as an English viscount.

Atonement

By Ian McEwan

In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.

 

Became the movie: Atonement

Audrey Hepburn Estate

By Brenda Janowitz

In a novel inspired by Audrey Hepburn's classic film Sabrina, a caterer returns to the grand Long Island estate – – now set for demolition – – where she grew up as the daughter of the house manager, and where a rekindled love triangle reveals bittersweet truths about her upbringing and a shattering secret about her family.

Baby Teeth

By Zoje Stage
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

An ailing woman fights to protect her family from her mute daughter's psychologically manipulative schemes, which are complicated by her doting husband's denial about their daughter's true nature.

Bad Daughter

By Joy Fielding
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Estranged from her family because of her complicated relationship with her stepmother, Robin returns home after her family experiences a brutal home invasion, only to uncover horrible family secrets that may have led to the attack.

Bastard of Istanbul

By Elif Shafak
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

Turkish teen Asya is coming of age under the wing of her tattoo-parlor owner mother and her three aunts, befriending a cousin from America, and discovering a secret that links her family to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.

Beach Club

By Elin Hilderbrand
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

"Mack Petersen, a hotel manager at a beach resort, knows something has to give: his boss is pressuring him, his girlfriend wants to get married, the bellman is after his girlfriend, an old rival is making deadly threats, and, on top of it all, a hurricane is headed their way (From the Publisher)."

Beach Music

By Pat Conroy
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“Living in Rome with his daughter, Jack McCall finds his grief following his wife’s suicide interrupted by the arrival of his sister-in-law and two friends seeking his help in tracking down a classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester (From the Publisher).”

Beach Town

By Mary Kay Andrews
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Given a last chance to salvage her career after being wrongly blamed for property damage, movie location scout Greer Hennessy confronts an environmentally-minded mayor in a sleepy Florida Gulf Coast community.

Beautiful Day

By Elin Hilderbrand
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Gathering on Nantucket for a wedding planned to the letter by the bride's late mother, the Carmichaels and the Grahams hide their scandal–ridden, crumbling lives from the blissfully unaware, happy couple.

Being Elizabeth

By Barbara Taylor Bradford
Series House of Deravenel

Elizabeth Deravenel rises to become the most powerful managing director in the history of the Deravenel business empire, only to find herself surrounded by corporate intrigue, takeover threats, betrayal, and scandal as she must make a choice between love and duty.

Bella Fortuna

By Rosanna Chiofalo

Preparing for her wedding in Venice to a man she has loved since childhood, bridal gown designer Valentina DeLuca is forced to re-evaluate her life in this magical city where she hopes her luck will change.

Best Boy

By Eli Gottlieb

A middle-aged autistic resident of a therapeutic community where he was sent as a young child rebels against changes in his environment by attempting to return to a family home and younger sibling he only partially remembers.