By Anthony Doerr
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services, Rosalia White, Library Clerk

A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast.

By George Orwell
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 14, 2015. 7:30 PM.

A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.

Became the movie: Animal Farm.

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.

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.

By Elin Hilderbrand

Having worked for six years in the hotels of exotic resort towns, Adrienne Dealey relocates to Nantucket in the hopes of recouping her finances and gets a crash course in restaurant management at a popular locale that is preparing to close.

By Anita Diamant
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Recounting the story of her life to her granddaughter, octogenarian Addie describes how she was raised in early-twentieth-century America by Jewish immigrant parents in a teeming multicultural neighborhood.

By Truman Capote

The tale of a fun-loving, amoral playgirl in New York City is accompanied by "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory."

Became the movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's

By Kevin Kwan
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Feeling incomplete because her unknown birth father cannot walk her down the aisle, Rachel Chu, on the brink of marrying one of Asia's richest bachelors, is brought into the elite circles of Shanghai by a shocking revelation.

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 Janice P. Nimura

Follows the true story of five Japanese girls who were sent to live in the United States in 1871 to learn the ways of the West and return home a decade later to help nurture the future of Japan.

By William Landay
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

His happy life and long-time respectability as a suburban Massachusetts assistant district attorney shattered when his 14-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, Andy Barber faces a wrenching decision about family loyalty when the facts increasingly suggest that the boy is guilty.

By Renee Knight
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Reading a mysterious novel that recounts in haunting detail the day she became the victim of a dark secret, documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft is forced to confront the past to prevent her world from falling apart.

By Lisa Scottoline

Scottoline, Lisa and Francesca Serritella – Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat? The mother and daughter writing team present another collection of witty, poignant, and humorous stories and essays that offer entertaining observations, insights, and relatable wisdom.

By Laura Dave
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When her wedding is cancelled after her fiancé reveals a shocking secret, Georgia Ford returns to her family's Sonoma vineyard, where she expects the comfort of her family but discovers that her fiancé wasn't the only one keeping secrets.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A single father and head of a successful Philadelphia psychiatric care unit sees his life begin to crumble when a teen patient is implicated in a murder and the doctor himself is wrongly accused of sexual harassment.

By Bryan Reardon

In the wake of a wrenching school shooting, a stay-at-home father is forced to confront what he does and does not know about his missing teenaged son.

By Mary Kay Andrews

Reluctantly accepting help to refurbish a recently inherited Georgia family home after losing her public relations job, Dempsey Jo Killebrew is quickly overwhelmed by the enormity of the task, which is further hampered by a cantankerous squatter.

By Beth Harbison

Their friendship ruined by a vicious rumor twenty years earlier, Allie and Olivia prepare for a high school reunion while acknowledging disparities between their youth and adult realities, circumstances that cause them to wonder if they can put aside past demons.

By Truman Capote

“On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.  As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy (From the Publisher).”

By Judy Blume
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

A novel inspired by a series of passenger airplane crashes that occurred in 1951 and 1952. New Jersey reimagines the impact of the tragedies on three generations of families, friends and strangers.

By Sue Monk Kidd
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 26, 2015. 1:30 PM.

Traces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self.

By Chris Colfer
Series Land of Stories Series

Using a mysterious book to travel to a land of wonder and magic, twins Alex and Connor meet a host of classic fairy tale characters and nefarious monsters before discovering that returning back home will be more difficult than anticipated. Genres: Adventure Stories (Fiction); Fantasy; Folk & Fairy Tales; Series

By Nora Roberts

Devastated to learn that her unfaithful husband had actually married her using an alias, Shelby returns with her young daughter to her Tennessee hometown and pursues a new relationship before her husband's past poses dangerous threats.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

“If you received news that threatened your family, would you ignore it or devote yourself to proving it false …Scottoline's best novel to date will have faithful fans and new readers singing her praises (Library Journal).”

By John Green
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Sharon Long, Teen Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian

Tuesday, August 4, 2015. 7:30 PM.

Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

By Matthew Quick

Escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating husband, Portia Kane returns to the South Jersey home of her youth and resolves to save herself by assisting a beloved English teacher who has retired after a traumatic incident.

By David Baldacci
Series Amos Decker Novels
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

More than a year after the most tragic event in Amos Decker's life, a man confesses to murdering his family and Amos, called to help with the investigation, struggles with the memories.

By Nathan Englander
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, August 25, 2015. 1:30 PM.

In 1976 Buenos Aires, Kaddish Poznan, the outcast son of a whore, and his wife, Lillian, are devastated by the disappearance of their own son, Pato, which forces them into the bleak corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases in search of the truth.

By Jon Krakauer
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Chronicles the experiences of several women in Missoula, Montana, who claimed to be raped by University of Montana football players, highlighting the inequities of the law in regard to rape allegations and the treatment of rape victims and perpetrators.

By Cara Black
Series Aimee Leduc Investigations

Detective Aimee Leduc goes undercover inside a neo-Nazi group to ferret out a killer in the old Jewish quarter of Paris.

By Alexander McCall Smith

 “The No.1 Ladies´ Detective Agency, located in Gaborone, Botswana, consists of one woman, the engaging Precious Ramotswe. A cross between Kinsey Millhone and Miss Marple, this unlikely heroine specializes in missing husbands, wayward daughters, con men and imposters (From the Publisher).”

By Bethany Chase

Thinking she has finally settled into life, Sarina Mahler has everything turn upside down when an old crush, and the only man she has never truly gotten over, moves to town and asks for her help renovating his new place.

By Christopher Bollen

A series of mysterious deaths in a small Long Island town is investigated by a young loner who would identify the culprit before his own time runs out.

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 Antoine Laurain

After finding an abandoned handbag on the street, a Parisian bookseller endeavors to find its owner, the woman whose jottings he discovers in a red notebook within the bag.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

“Volunteering at her daughter's school so that she can keep an eye on a bully, Susan faces a difficult choice when her daughter is tormented at the same time an explosion occurs in the cafeteria, a situation that causes Susan to be blamed for the bully's injuries (From the Publisher).”

By Sue Monk Kidd
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

After her "stand–in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee–keeping sisters.

By Beth Harbison
Series Shoe Addict Series

Loreen struggles to recover from her ill-advised hire of a Las Vegas male prostitute, while minister's wife Abbey hides the truth about how she is being blackmailed for her secret past, and Tiffany finds herself in debt after an impulsive shopping spree.

By Elin Hilderbrand

Facing homelessness and a loss of social standing after her husband cheats rich investors out of billions of dollars, Meredith and her best friend, Connie, who has troubles of her own, escape to Nantucket to heal.

By Matthew Quick
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Embracing a philosophy that life is a movie produced by God, neural health patient Pat Peoples endeavors to win back his estranged wife by making strategic sacrifices and coordinating their communications through a depressed widow (From the Publisher).”

By J.R. Moehringer

In a memoir of growing up with a single mother, the author describes how he received valuable life lessons and friendship from an assortment of characters at the neighborhood bar, who provided him with a kind of fatherhood by committee.

By Beth Harbison
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

"…The story of three women who believe that happiness is the next dress size down, the next dollar figure up, or the next appreciative glance from a stranger. But mostly it\'s the story of how three women save each other, and show each other the path to true contentment (From the Publisher)."

By Lauren Hillenbrand
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 16.  7:30 PM.

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashes into the Pacific and Lt. Louis Zamperini survives. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, he would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.

By Jon Krakauer
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

Traces the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons, exploring the belief systems and traditions that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America.

By David Nicholls
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A mild-mannered scientist with a hidden sense of humor struggles to repair his marriage and his relationship with his teen son during a month-long European tour.

By Beth Harbison

Dedicating herself to her culinary patrons, private chef Gemma Craig goes home every night to boxed cereals until an unexpected event compels a confrontation with the past and an unexpected romance.