By Gary Chapman
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Outlines five expressions of love—quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch—and explains how to identify and communicate effectively in a spouse's "love language."

By Brandon Sanderson

On his birthday, Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand, an inheritance from his lost parents, but it is stolen by the evil Librarians who want to use it to take over the Free Kingdoms and it is up to Alcatraz and the freedom fighters to stop them.

By Kayla Rae Whitaker

Two women, who met in an art class in college and instantly became best friends, try to salvage their relationship after their successful animated filmmaking partnership nearly destroys their personal lives nearly a decade later.

By Samantha Shannon
Series Bone Season
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

A first entry in a planned seven-part series is set in the mid-21st century where major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force and where clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a part of their supernatural army.

By Stephen King

Mayhem and violence are unleashed around the world when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs, and only a small band of "normies" who avoided the technological attack can stop the rampage.

By Chuck Palahniuk

Medical school dropout Victor Mancini comes up with a complicated but ingenious scam to pay for his mother’s elder car, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his zany mother, whose Alzheimer’s disease hides the bizarre truth about his parentage.

Became the movie: Choke

By Chuck Pakahniuk

Abandoned at a Swiss boarding school while her billionaire parents pursue the adoptions of new children during the Christmas season, 11-year-old Madison dies from a drug overdose and arrives in Hell, where she forges Breakfast Club-style friendships with other dead youths and seeks a confrontation with Satan.

By Timothy Zahn

When Grand Admiral Thrawn takes command of what is left of the Imperial fleet and launches a massive campaign against the New Republic, Han and Lando Calrissian race to find proof of treason inside the highest Republic Council.

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 Jim Butcher

A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival.

Became the TV show: The Dresden Files.

By N. K. Jemisin
Series The Broken Earth Novels

After the empire Sanze collapses and the vast continent Stillness becomes ravaged by a red rift which darkens the sky, Essun, whose daughter has been kidnapped by her murderous husband, crosses Stillness in a desperate attempt to save her daughter.

By Bob Burg

A business parable in the tradition of The One Minute Manager explains how to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment by prioritizing the needs of others, in an inspirational tale that introduces a young protagonist to five business principles as imparted by a series of mysterious teachers.

By Timothy Zahn

Five years after they defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting children, and Luke is a Jedi knight, and all are unaware that the last of the Emperor's warlords plan to reclaim the empire.

By Dale Carnegie

The classic, inspirational personal development guide provides an authoritative program for developing the basic and essential people skills that readers need to achieve maximum lifetime success.

By Dale Carnegie

Explains how to apply Carnegie's advice to a world driven by electronic communication devices, sharing advice on topics ranging from e-mail etiquette to cyber bullying.

By Kevin Hart

The actor and comedian presents a memoir on the importance of believing in oneself, sharing stories about the addiction and abuse that marked his childhood and how his unique way of looking at the world enabled his survival and successful career.

By Ariel Lawhon
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

In Germany in 1920, the unexplained appearance of a traumatized, badly scarred young woman who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest Romanov daughter, launches a half–century of questions and accusations.

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 Chuck Palahniuk

She’s a fashion model who has everything – until a sudden freeway “accident” leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better.

By Timothy Zahn

Luke and Leia face personal danger as they defend themselves and the newborn Jedi twins against the twisted ambitions of the Dark Jedi C'baoth.

By Rhiannon Thomas

When the king and his closest allies are poisoned at a banquet, Freya finds herself on the throne and must uncover the identity of the murderers if she hopes to survive.

By Chuck Palahniuk

A compilation of 21 stories and one novella by the transgressive author of Beautiful You includes both previously published and original pieces, including "Zombies," "Knock, Knock" and "Tunnel of Love."

By Brandon Sanderson
Series Mistborn
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Experiencing an epiphany within the most daunting prison of the monstrous Lord Ruler who has enslaved his people for a thousand years, half-Skaa Kelsier finds himself taking on the powers of a Mistborn and teams up with ragged orphan Vin in a desperate plot to save their world.

By Kitty Curran

The romance novel that lets you pick your path, follow your heart, and find happily ever after. You are the plucky but penniless heroine in the center of eighteenth-century society, courtship season has begun, and your future is at hand. Make choices, turn pages, and discover all the daring delights of the multiple (and intertwining!) storylines. And in every path you pick, beguiling illustrations bring all the lust and love to life.

By Patrick Rothfuss
Series Kingkiller Chronicles

A hero named Kvothe, now living under an assumed name as the humble proprietor of an inn, recounts his transformation from a magically gifted young man into the most notorious wizard, musician, thief, and assassin in his world.

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 Galt Niederhoffer
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Starting over after moving to Portland, Maine, a newly blended family forged by two seemingly happy career people becomes subject to small omissions and a series of denials that escalate in menacing ways.

By Chuck Palahniuk

Pygmy—a young adult from a totalitarian state, disguised as an exchange student--plans a terrorist attack and depicts U.S. Midwestern life through the eyes of a hateful, indoctrinated killer, in this satire of American xenophobia.

By Brandon Sanderson

As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice.

By Galt Niederhoffer

Laura prepares to serve as maid of honor to her former college roommate, who is marrying Laura’s ex-boyfriend, a situation that forces her to evaluate her relationships with her mother, her Jewish faith, and the groom-to-be.

By Catherine Steadman
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Lisa C., Library Clerk

A successful banker and a rising filmmaker embark on a blissful paradise honeymoon in Bora Bora, where the discovery of a mysterious bag of riches triggers a sequence of events that indelibly marks their marriage and lives.

By George R.R. Martin

The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter.

Became the TV show: Game of Thrones.

By Gary John Bishop

Shows how people can empower themselves and thrive by overcoming negative self-talk.

By Ariel Lawhon
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A steamy re-imagining of the scandal-marked 1930 disappearance of Justice Joseph Crater explores events decades later from the perspectives of the three women who knew him best.

By Ross McCammon

Offers advice for overcoming anxieties and insecurities in the workplace in order to achieve professional success, covering everything from interviewing and working with recruiters to pitching ideas, making small talk, and networking.