By Emily Henry
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a bestselling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer–long writing project that challenges them to write well in each others’ styles.

By Jennifer Weiner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

A woman confronts the dynamics of friendship and forgiveness while visiting Cape Cod to attend an old friend's increasingly disastrous wedding.

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Agreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn’t, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.

By Kirstin Chen
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Ava Wong, a strait–laced Chinese American lawyer, and Winnie Fang, her former college roommate from mainland China, who dropped out under mysterious circumstances, join forces in an ingenious counterfeit operation selling replica luxury handbags.

By Linwood Barclay
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Searching for the children he has never known, tech billionaire Miles Cookson, diagnosed with a terminal illness, discovers that, one by one, his potential heirs are vanishing – every trace of them wiped, like they never existed at all.

By Ann Leary
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

In 1927, when eighteen–year-old Mary Engle, while working at an institution for mentally disabled women, learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is an inmate, who begs Mary to help her escape, it forces Mary to make a terrible choice with life–altering consequences.

By Jill Shalvis
Series Sunrise Cove #2
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Forming a friendship pact, Tae Holmes and former Marine—and her high school fling—Riggs Copeland try to track down the father Tae’s never met, leading them on a wild adventure during which they form a bond in a way neither had seen coming.

By Laura Thompson

Looks at the lives of heiresses throughout history such as Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American “Dollar Heiress,” Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress and Patty Hearst, the notorious heiress to a newspaper fortune turned terrorist.

By Joanna Goodman
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Unable to forget the daughter she was forced to give up 17 years earlier, Maggie Hughes, now married to a businessman eager to start a family, is reunited with a man from her past who helps her realize that she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long–lost daughter.

By John Grisham

While on the hunt for a serial killer, Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, discovers that a man hiding behind the black robe may not only be taking bribes but may be taking lives.

By Jean Hanff Korelitz
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

When her triplets, who have no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, leave for college, Johanna, faced with being alone for the first time, decides to have a fourth child and wonders what role the “latecomer” will play in her already fractured family.

By Delia Ephron
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

The best–selling novelist and screenwriter of You’ve Got Mail shares how she got a second chance at love later in life with Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist; her battle with AML with Peter and friends by her side, and her feelings about facing death.

By Kate Atkinson
Series Todd Family
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, July 12, 2016. 7:30 PM.

“Follows the experiences of a woman, who after being born on a snowy night in 1910, repeatedly dies and reincarnates into the same life to correct missteps and ultimately save the world (From the Publisher).”

By Addison Armstrong

In this powerful tale of courage and an ode to the sacrificial love of mothers, Stella Wright, with her life falling apart, discovers a letter that brings into question everything she knew about her mother, a nurse who made a difficult choice long ago, and everything she knows about herself.

By Fiona Davis
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

A New York Public Library superintendent’s wife reevaluates her priorities upon joining a woman’s suffrage group in 1913, decades before her granddaughter’s efforts to save an exhibit expose tragic family secrets.

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

Macy Sorensen has decided to settle for marriage to an older man until she bumps into Elliot Petropoulos—her first and most intense love, who eventually broke her heart—sending her reeling into reminiscence and doubt.

By Nita Prose

When she discovers the dead body of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black in his suite, hotel maid Molly Gray finds her orderly life upended as she becomes the prime suspect in the case and is caught in a web of deception that she has no idea how to unravel.

By Stephanie Land
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.

By Fiona Davis
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

A recently divorced information–booth worker stumbles on an abandoned art school within a crumbling Grand Central Terminal before learning the story of a talented woman artist who went missing 50 years earlier.

By Matt Haig
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

By Annabel Monaghan
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A romance channel screenwriter, turning her disastrous marriage into the best script of her life, is shocked when the leading man, after shooting wraps, asks to stay with her for 7 days, $1,000 per day—just enough time to fall in love or just enough time to have her heart broken.

By Kristan Higgins
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When her husband suddenly leaves her for another woman, Lillie, furious and with limited options of whom to turn to for help, finds unexpected allies who come to her aid, while, at the same time, she comes to theirs.

By Jennifer Grey
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The star of the iconic movie Dirty Dancing richly evokes the places and times that defined a nation, looks back on her unbridled romantic adventures in Hollywood, shares the fallout from a plastic surgery procedure that negatively impacted her career and reveals how she took her life back.

By Janet Skeslien Charles
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Based on a true story, describes how a lonely, 1980s teenager befriends an elderly neighbor and uncovers her past as a librarian at the American Library in Paris who joined the Resistance when the Nazis arrived.

By Robyn Harding

A small party celebrating a sweet daughter’s 16th birthday is shattered by a devastating accident that turns friends on each other and exposes dark secrets about the daughter’s true nature and her parents’ marriage.

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Best friends Alex and Poppy try to repair their relationship two years after a disastrous vacation together by planning another vacation together.

By Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library, Belle de Costa Greene becomes one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she keeps.

By Jill Shalvis
Series Wildstone Series
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Discovering that her late husband had been living a double life, Lanie struggles to trust again when she falls for an Air Force veteran and member of the boisterous Capriotti winery family.

By Shelby Van Pelt
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

After her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key to solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18 year–old son, Erik, over thirty years ago on the Puget Sound.

By Fabian Nicieza
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

The cocreator of Deadpool presents this highly entertaining debut novel that follows a very pregnant former FBI profiler as she, with her five kids in tow, tries to solve the murder of a gas attendant with the help of a disgraced local journalist.

By Emma Straub
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

When Alice wakes up on her 40th birthday somehow back in 1996 as her 16–year–old self, she finds the biggest surprise is the 49–year–old version of her father with whom she is reunited, and, armed with a new perspective on life, wonders what she would change given the chance.

By Elvis Duran
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The host of one of the nation’s top morning shows, and the voice millions of Americans wake up to, shares his wildest stories and hardest-learned lessons, all with his trademark heart, honesty and humor.