Staff Picks - January 2015
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.
By Nora Roberts
Series In the Garden Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Centering around three courageous women, who meet for the first time at a crossroads in their lives, this first installment in a brand new trilogy from the best-selling author follows Stella as she casts aside her fears and finds a special love that she will do anything to protect.
By Hilary Rodham Clinton
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk
The former secretary of state, senator and first lady shades candid reflections about the key moments of her services in the Obama Administration as well as her thoughts about how to navigate the challenges of the 21st century
By Gayle Forman
Series If I Stay
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
Became the movie: If I Stay.
By The Countess of Carnarvon
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
Examines the life of Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon, and the events in Highclere Castle during the First World War.
By Rainbow Rowell
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist
Recognizing that her marriage is in deep trouble in spite of her abiding and mutual love for her husband, television writer Georgie excludes herself from a Christmas family visit before discovering a way to reconnect with the man her husband used to be.
By David Levithan
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
“This cute novel by YA author Levithan consists of a series of words and their definitions, each evoking a phase or theme about a fledgling romance (From Publishers Weekly).”
By Sherry Thomas
Series London
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
Louisa Cantwell, who must marry a wealthy man in order to support her sisters, is drawn to Felix Rivendale, the mysterious Marquess of Wrenworth, but resists because she knows that he cannot be trusted
By J.A. Jance
Series Joanna Brady Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
When the body of an elderly widow turns up in the desert, Sheriff Joanna Brady searches for a killer among the victim’s greedy offspring, her mysterious much younger live-in handyman turned lover, and corrupt local politicians
By Jo Nesbo
Series Harry Hole Series
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
Determined to prove the innocence of a young man he helped raise, disgraced former cop Harry Hole embarks on an increasingly dangerous investigation linked to Oslo’s most virulent street drug.
By Robert Goolrick
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
“Robert Goolrick's intoxicating debut novel delivers a classic tale of suspenseful seduction, set in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis (From the Publisher).”
By Chuck Klosterman
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Explores modern cultural phenomenons, including tribute bands, baseball rivalries, and reality television.
By Thomas Harris
Series Hannibal Lecter Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager
FBI Academy trainee Clarice Starling hopes that Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a criminally insane psychiatrist imprisoned in a Boston hospital, can lead her to the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill.
By Peggy Hesketh
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference
An 80 year-old, third-generation beekeeper who relates better to the constant companions in his hives than most people must come to terms with the loss of his long-time friend, Claire, who was killed during a burglary gone awry .
By Chevy Stevens
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Returning home after serving time for the wrongful conviction of her sister's murder, Toni struggles to reacclimate and avoid parole violations while her boyfriend, who was also wrongly convicted, resolves to clear their names.
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.
By Chelsea Handler
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian
In her latest hilarious book of essays, Chelsea Handler recounts her travel hijinks.
By Emma Straub
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.
By Nancy Pickard
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
“Seventeen years after the discovery of a female murder victim near Small Plains, Kansas, the girl’s grave has become the source of strange miracles and legends, until the return of prodigal son Mitch Newquist threatens to bring old secrets to light (From the Publisher).”
An emotionally charged tale told in the collective voices of the wives of the team who created the atom bomb traces their struggles to adapt and raise children in a rugged military town where everything their husbands are doing is an intense secret.