By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

When her daughter Anna is murdered and her new husband Noah is accused of the crime, Maggie searches for the truth, where she uncovers something darker than she could have ever imagined.

By Mary Beth Keane
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When a violent event forcibly ends their romance, the son and daughter of two NYPD rookies reconnect years later and struggle to prevent the past from triggering another separation.

By Jess Walter
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 28, 2013.  1:30 PM.

A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.

By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

When singer Daisy Jones meets Billy Dunne of the band The Six, the two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.

By Ann Napolitano
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Amy B., Children's Librarian

12–year–old lone survivor of a plane crash investigates the stories of his less-fortunate fellow passengers before making a profound discovery about his life purpose in the face of transcendent losses.

By Mary Kay Andrews
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Her efforts to secure a job on a national cooking channel challenged by her unfaithful boyfriend, irresponsible sister, and interfering mother, television chef Gina Foxton finds her endeavor further complicated by her unexpected attraction to a rival chef with an off-putting redneck personality.

By Ronald H. Balson
Series Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart novels, 4
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart investigate a German violin prodigy's handwritten records from Berlin's interwar period to resolve a land dispute between a powerful corporation and a woman facing the loss of her Tuscan hills home.

By John Steinbeck
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, June 24, 2014. 1:30 PM.

The landmark novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the 1930's.

Became the movie: The Grapes of Wrath.

By Rebecca Makkai
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Tuesday, October 22, 2019. 1PM.

A novel set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris follows the director of a Chicago art gallery and a woman looking for her estranged daughter in Paris who both struggle to come to terms with the ways AIDS has affected their lives.

By Margaret Atwood
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

A look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.

By Robert Kolker
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Tells the heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, 6 of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

By Vaddey Ratner
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 9, 2013. 7:30 PM.

Her life of privilege in Cambodia shattered by the outbreak of civil war on the streets of Phnom Penh, young Raami endures four years of loss, starvation, and brutal forced labor while clinging to memories of the legends and poems told to her by her father. 

By David Grann
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, June 12, 2018. 7:30 PM.

Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

By Axton Betz-Hamilton
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Describes the impact of identity theft on the author’s family at a time when banks and authorities were unwilling to help, revealing how her parents and she endured nightmarish victimization at the hands of a loved one.

By Susan Orlean
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the crucial role that libraries play in modern American culture.

By Ishmael Beah
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Ishmael Beah described his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a solider for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

By David Grann

Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author's own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett's final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle.

By Ava Dellaira

A troubled teen writes poignant letters to influential celebrities who died young, confronting in the process her own efforts to fit in, navigate her splintering family and come to terms with a past trauma.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Using a sperm donor to conceive when she learns that her husband is infertile, a happily pregnant woman is shattered to learn that a man arrested for a series of brutal murders is the biological father of her baby.

By Jennifer Weiner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Tuesday, February 25, 2020. 1 PM.

Two sisters struggle to find their place, be true to themselves and adapt to rapid changes happening throughout the latter half of 20th–century America.

By Shirley Jackson

An anthology of writings by the leading mid – 20th–century classic author, compiled by the National Book Award–winning author of Them, includes The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and 21 short pieces that reflect Jackson's work in other genres.

By Ishmael Beah
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, October 13, 2015. 7:30 PM.

In a parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone, two long-time friends return to their ruined home village and struggle to rebuild in the face of violence, scarcity, and a corrupt foreign mining company.

By Alyson Richman
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 15, 2019. 1:30 PM.

An English teacher with haunting childhood memories gains perspective and inspiration while tutoring a young Ukrainian immigrant whose serious health issues prevent him from taking any day for granted.

By Nickolas Butler
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

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

Sharing a childhood in small-town Wisconsin before going their separate ways with careers and families, Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny are reunited during a visit marked by culture clashes, respective pursuits of meaning and a woman who inspires passion in each of them.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Haunted by her role in a covered-up prank gone wrong twenty years earlier, Allie returns to her hometown for a friend's funeral and resolves to uncover the truth.

By Mike Massimino
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 13, 2018. 7:30 PM.

A memoir by an unlikely astronaut who helped save the Hubble telescope describes his early attempts to gain admission into NASA, his first spacewalks, the loss of his fellow astronauts in the Columbia disaster, and his ongoing support of future space travel ventures.

By Michael Finkel
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 24, 2018. 1:30 PM.

Documents the true story of a man who endured an isolated existence in a tent in the Maine woods, never speaking with others and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins, for twenty–seven years, and illuminates the reasons behind his solitary life.

By Carol Rifka Brunt
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, April 21, 2014. 7 PM.

Her world upended by the death of a beloved artist uncle who was the only person who understood her, fourteen–year–old June is mailed a teapot by her uncle's grieving friend, with whom June forges a poignant relationship.

By Harper Lee
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, June 28, 2011. 1 PM & 7:30 PM.

The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

Became the movie: To Kill a Mockingbird.

By Etah Rum
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
With Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 12, 2020. 7:30 PM.

Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.