By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“When his pregnant wife and child are kidnapped and he discovers that he has been set up as a traitor, brilliant CIA agent Sam Capra begins a desperate hunt for the unknown enemy who he believes has targeted the wrong man (From the Publisher).”

By Steve Berry
Series Cotton Malone Novels

When his son is kidnapped, Cotton Malone discovers a link to a conspiracy involving the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria.

By Steve Berry

When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler finds everything she loves threatened by the rival quests of two art collectors who seek one of the world's greatest treasures, lost after the Second World War.

By Temple Grandin

Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals and explains how to fulfill them.

By Hannah Rothschild

A biography of the author's great-aunt, jazz patroness Nica de Koenigswarter, draws on family records to examine the traditions that shaped her youth.

By Sarah Pekkanen
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Four old college friends, desperate for an escape from their crazy lives, spend a week at a luxury villa in Jamaica and help each other cope with their problems.

By Ellen Ullman

Taking a downtown office to plot his comeback in tumultuous 1970s San Francisco, a disgraced professor eavesdrops on a woman's therapy sessions.

By Laura Moriarty
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Accompanying a future famous actress from her Wichita home to New York, chaperone Cora Carlisle shares a life-changing five-week period with her ambitious teenage charge during which she discovers the promise of the twentieth century and her own purpose in life.

By Karen Houppert

A veteran journalist investigates the way justice is delivered to the poor and discovers a crisis in our nation's courts.

By Jean Plaidy

Preeminent historical fiction author detailing Great Britain’s Tudor Era royalty.

By Kevin Kwan
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Envisioning a quality-time summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that viciously competes against other wealthy families and strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.

By J. Courtney Sullivan
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

The story of four couples linked over several decades by one diamond ring, and the woman who launched the most famous diamond campaign in the world.

By Elizabeth L. Silver

Death-row inmate Noa is slowly persuaded to share the events surrounding a murder in spite of her reluctance to reveal the whole story.

By Mary Beth Keane
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, April 8, 2014. 7:30 PM.

A fictionalized telling of the life of Typhoid Mary, an Irish immigrant who moved to New York at the turn of the century.

By Mark Mustian

Seen by those around him as a virtually senile nonagenarian, Emmet Conn is haunted by vivid memories of a past he and others deliberately worked to forget, a situation that compels him to seek out the love of his life to beg her forgiveness.

By Beatriz Williams
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Returning to RI oceanfront community for the summer of 1938, NY socialite Lily Dane is devastated by the appearance of her newly married ex-fiance and her former best friend.

By Kelly Cutrone

Advises readers to discover who they are and what they want and how to go out there and get it.

By Rosie Thomas

In 1941, newlywed Nerys Watkins accompanies her husband to a missionary posting in the exotic lakeside city of Srinagar.

By Bernard Cornwell
Series Saxon Stories
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Captured and raised by Danes in the ninth century, dispossessed nobleman Uhtred witnesses the unexpected defeat of his adoptive Viking clan by Alfred of Wessex and longs to recover his father's land. 1st book in the Saxon Tales series.

By Clare O'Donohue
Series Kate Conway Mysteries

After one of the guests featured on a reality show is murdered, Kate must rely on the minds of the death row killers she is currently working with to help her.

By J. Courtney Sullivan
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction (From the Publisher).”

By Art Speigelman
Series Maus
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying past, and history itself.

By Jojo Moyes
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian, Lisa C., Library Clerk, Lisa V., Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

Tuesday, November 12, 2013. 7:30 PM.

Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living.

By Clare O'Donohue
Series Kate Conway Mysteries

Chicago television producer Kate Conway becomes a suspect after her soon-to-be ex-husband is found dead.

By Saira Shah

A moving and thought-provoking story about how the best parts of life are often the most complicated.

By Sonia Sotomayor

The first Hispanic American on the U.S. Supreme Court shares the story of her life before becoming a judge.

By Cheryl Jarvis

The true story of thirteen women who took a risk on an expensive diamond necklace and, in the process, changed not only themselves but a community.

By Christina Baker Kline
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Close to aging out of the foster care system, Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer takes a community service position helping an elderly woman named Vivian clean out her home and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past

By Chris Bohjalian
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Presents the parallel stories of a young woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier while aiding victims of the Armenian genocide in the early twentieth century, and a young woman who researches her Armenian heritage and discovers a terrible family secret.

By James Patterson
Series Honeymoon Novels

FBI agent John O'Hara and Special Agent Sarah Brubaker hunt an ingenious pair of serial killers whose victims all seem to be newlyweds.

By Lauren Beukes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The sole survivor of a time-traveling serial killer who began his murder spree in Depression-era Chicago tries to hunt him down in 1989 along with help from an ex-homicide reporter.

By Jeannette Walls

Abandoned by their artist mother at the age of twelve, Bean and her older sister, Liz, are sent to live in the decaying antebellum mansion of their widowed uncle.

By Lauren Graham
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

A struggling actress in 1990s NYC searches for work and the perfect hair product.

By Emily Giffin
Recommended By Ann Competello, Library Clerk

“Her carefully constructed life thrown into turmoil by the appearance of an 18-year-old girl with ties to her past, New York City television producer Marian Caldwell is swept up in a maelstrom of personal discovery that changes both of their perceptions about family (From the Publisher).”

By Therese Anne Fowler
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her scandalous transformation.