By Melanie Benjamin
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, November 26, 2013. 1:30 PM.

A story inspired by the marriage between Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh traces the romance between a handsome young aviator and a shy ambassador's daughter whose relationship is marked by wild international acclaim.

By Brad Thor
Series Scot Harvath Novels

When his name is added to a top-secret government list of individuals slated for assassination, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath engages in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game of survival while struggling to prevent a cataclysmic terrorist attack and learn who has framed him for treason.

By Nora Roberts
Series In the Garden Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Centering around three courageous women, who meet for the first time at a crossroads in their lives, this first installment in a brand new trilogy from the best-selling author follows Stella as she casts aside her fears and finds a special love that she will do anything to protect.

By David R. Gillham
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, January 28, 2014.  1:30 PM.

Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family. 

By Dan Brown
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A former National Security Agency programmer threatens to release a mathematical formula that will allow organized crime and terrorism to skyrocket, unless the code-breaking computer that is used to keep them in check but that violates civil rights is exposed to the public.

By Herman Koch
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Meeting at an Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons' act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love.

By Mitch Albom
Recommended By Kalpana Mehta, Reference Librarian

“… retired baseball player Charley "Chick" Benetto-facing the pain of unfulfilled ambitions, alcohol abuse, divorce, and estrangement from a grown daughter-returns to his abandoned childhood home and attempts suicide in a bungling fit of rage. He encounters the spirit of his deceased mother, Pauline "Posey" Benetto, who Chick thoughtlessly took for granted … (Publisher’s Weekly).”

By Jill Davis
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

After landing a job as a reporter at the "New York News," Ruby Capote joins three other women for evenings playing poker and finds herself falling for her intriguing and challenging boss, Michael.

By Gillian Flynn
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

When a beautiful woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage and a mysterious illness; while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.

By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Recommended By Josephine Amoia, Children's Librarian
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, September 26, 2017. 1:30 PM.

A classic novel portrays the Jazz Age and all its decadence and excess as it follows the life of Jay Gatsby, a newly rich man obsessed with money, power, and glamour.

Became the movie: The Great Gatsby.

By Jacob Tomsky

A veteran of the hospitality business uses humor and irreverence to describe working in the industry, coming clean on the housekeeping department, the unwritten code of bellhops and what really goes on in a valet parking garage.

By Elizabeth Haynes

Married to an erratic, controlling and sometimes frightening husband, Catherine plans a meticulous escape. Four years later, struggling to overcome her demons, Catherine dares to believe she might be safe from harm. Until one phone call changes everything.

By Jussi Adler-Olsen
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Chief detective Carl Mørck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.

By Nancy Horan

A fictionalization of the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney, best known as the woman who wrecked Frank Lloyd Wright's first marriage.

By Paula McLain
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A fictional account of a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.

By Priscille Sibley

After an accident leaves his wife Elle brain dead, Matt Beaulieu, resolving to take her off life support, changes his mind when the doctors discover that she is pregnant, a decision that results in a controversial legal battle with Elle's family.

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 Mitch Albom
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Given one last chance at redemption, Father Time, the inventor of the world’s first clock, must teach two earthly people the true meaning of time - a journey that leads him to a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy businessman who wants to live forever.”

By John Kenney
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Struggling with encroaching middle age and a broken engagement, advertising agent Finbar Dolan is forced to cancel his Christmas plans to tackle a last-minute work assignment only to learn that his estranged and abusive father has taken ill and that his siblings are unwilling to help, a situation that forces Fin to re-evaluate his choices.

By Mitch Albom
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

A sportswriter conveys the wisdom of his late mentor, professor Morrie Schwartz, recounting their weekly conversations as Schwartz lay dying.

Became the movie: Tuesdays With Morrie.

By Rachel Joyce
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Lisa Caputo, Assistant Library Director

Tuesday, March 19, 2013. 1:30 PM.

Harold Fry is convinced that he must deliver a letter to an old love in order to save her, meeting various characters along the way and reminiscing about the events of his past and people he has known, as he tries to find peace and acceptance.

By Daniel H. Pink

Uses the two sides of the human brain as a metaphor for understanding how the information age came about throughout the course of the past generation, counseling readers on how to survive and find a place in the information society.