By Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A final collection of selected letters & diary entries by the National Aviation Hall of Fame inductee.

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 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.

By Philip Carter

A resourceful woman on the run and a vengeance-driven man forge a reluctant partnership in an international cat-and-mouse race to survive and find answers.

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 Eyal Press

An exploration of what motivates individual acts of courage and conscience in dangerous circumstances.

By Tina Fey
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Amy B., Children's Librarian

Actress Tina Fey recounts her life, sharing how she managed to fulfill her dream of one day becoming a comedian on television and discussing her childhood, marriage, career, and views on beauty, politics, motherhood, and relationships.

By Richard Russo

After 60 years of living in upstate NY, Louis & his wife, prepare for a trip to Italy to visit Louis' childhood friend.

By Colm Toibin
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 25, 2010.  1 PM & 7:30 PM.

A diligent young woman with few opportunities in nineteen–fifties Ireland is packed off by her family to Brooklyn, where she encounters new and bewildering experiences before a family crisis presents her with a stark choice between her new life and her old one.

By Julie Otsuka
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 28, 2012.  1 PM & 7:30 PM.

Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

By Nora Roberts

Montana wildfire fighter Rowan has a strict rule: never get romantically involved with anyone she works with. But the moment she meets new recruit Gull Curry that rule is severely tested.

By Donna Leon
Series Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries

Mystery series featuring Guido Brunetti who investigates crime in and around his home town of Venice, Italy. The first in the series is "Death at La Fenice".

By Vince Flynn
Series Mitch Rapp Novels

CIA operative Mitch Rapp is targeted by the influential father of a terrorist who is demanding retribution for his son's death.

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 Erik Larson
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, the book intertwines the true tale of two men - the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America’s place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death.

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 Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

An exploration of the complicated terrain between best friends - one who chooses marriage and motherhood while the other opts for career and celebrity. 

By Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A woman's incisive reflections on life & compares them with the natural treasures of life in the sea.

By Jennifer Weiner
Series Cannie Shapiro Novels

Journalist Cannie Shapiro embarks on an adventure-filled odyssey as she confronts her losses, makes peace with the past, and comes to terms with herself.

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Struggling with a marital estrangement that is further complicated when one of them is deployed, military couple Michael and Joleen Zarkades are forced to confront their problems while protecting the security of their family.

By John Irving

Hoteliers & pet-bear owners, the Berry family "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.

By Margaret Dilloway
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected.

By Erik Larson
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Wednesday, June 6, 2012.  7:30 PM. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, during Hitler's rise to power, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

By Erik Larson

An account of the September 8, 1900 hurricane in Galveston, Texas, which killed more than six thousand people and is noted as the worst natural disaster in American history, is presented from the records of U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist Isaac Cline.

By Suzanne Joinson

In 1923, devout Eva English and her not-so-religious sister Lizzie embark on a journey to be missionaries in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar.

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 Francine Prose

While working for an idealistic college professor, twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian "brothers" return, in a novel set in the aftermath of 9/11.

By Jennifer Weiner

Television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss.

By Janet Evanovich
Series Stephanie Plum Mysteries

Out–of–work Stephanie Plum blackmails her bail bondsman cousin into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. Her first case involves tracking down a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one, a man who also happens to be her former lover.

Became the movie: One for the Money.

By David Baldacci

Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.

By Teju Cole

Julius, a young Nigerian doctor living in New York, takes long walks through the city while listening to the stories of fellow immigrants until a shattering truth is revealed.

By Diana Gabaldon
Series Outlander Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.

By Peter Behrens

A family saga spanning half a century in the lives of a restless and ambitious clan starts with the story of backwoods youth-turned-railroad magnate Joe O'Brien, who becomes the patriarch of a family that sees the first airplanes, two world wars, and the election of JFK.

By Dorothea Benton Frank
Series Lowcountry Tales

In South Carolina, three generations of a family share a memorable summer on Sullivan's Island.

By John Irving

While playing baseball in the summer of 1953, Owen Meany hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother.

By Adriana Trigiani
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Two star-crossed lovers - Enza and Ciro - meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever.

By Raymond Khoury

When a scientific expedition is swallowed up by a shimmering sphere of light during a live report, a devastated viewer recognizes the phenomenon.

By Elin Hilderbrand
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Follows the lives of four high school students, their friends, and families after a fatal car accident on graduation night on Nantucket has lasting repercussions for everyone involved.

By Stephen Greenblatt
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, February 12, 2013.  7:30 PM.

“A humanities professor describes the impact had by the translation of the last remaining manuscript of On the Nature of Things by Roman philosopher Lucretius, which fueled the Renaissance and inspired artists, great thinkers, and scientists (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 Diane Keaton

The award-winning actress documents her rise from an everyday girl to an acclaimed performer while exploring her defining relationship with her mother and how their shared and separate dreams influenced their experiences.