By Steve Pressman

Based on the HBO documentary, a true story of personal courage and heroism follows one Jewish American couple as they risked their own lives to travel to Nazi-controlled Vienna and Berlin to rescue fifty Jewish children.

By Art Shaw
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

A 75th–anniversary account of the Battle of Okinawa is told from the first–person perspective of a Bronze Star hero and commander of the Deadeyes unit, which played a crucial role in the surrender of Japanese forces.

By Stephanie Dray

A carefully researched tale based on thousands of original sources imagines the experiences of third American President's daughter Patsy, who while accompanying her father to Paris struggles with his past affair with a slave and falls in love with his protégé against a backdrop of a growing revolution.

By Susan Meissner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

A tale set in 1918 Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic traces the experiences of a family reeling from the losses of loved ones and changes in their adopted city, a situation that is further shaped by their decision to take in an orphaned infant.

By Lisa Wingate
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, May 28, 2019. 1:30 PM.

Learning that her grandmother was a victim of the corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society, attorney and aspiring politician Avery Stafford delves into her family's past and begins to wonder if some things are best kept secret.

By Sarah Dunant

Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's Florentine palazzo.

By Elizabeth Gilbert
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Eighty–nine–year-old Vivian recounts her life after being kicked out of Vassar College, living in Manhattan with her Aunt Peg and the personal mistake that resulted in a professional scandal.

By Ken Follett
Series Kingsbridge Series

A half–century love affair between a man in service to Elizabeth I and a woman on the opposing side of England's religious divide is challenged by violent ideological power shifts, torn loyalties and the queen's circle of spies.

By Sara Collins

A servant and former slave enduring a sensational trial for her employers' murders reflects on her Jamaican childhood and her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist whose questionable ethics set the stage for a forbidden affair.

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 Alan Brennert
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Moloka'i follows the story of quarantined leprosy patient Rachel Kalama's daughter, who is raised by adoptive Japanese parents on a California grape farm before her unjust internment during World War II.

By Candice Millard
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, March 25, 2014. 1:30 PM.

A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.

By Ken Follett

A ruthless enemy assassin known as "The Needle" can guarantee Nazi victory in World War II, but his mission is hampered by a lonely Englishwoman who has fallen in love with him.

By Kurt Andersen
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Explains how the influences of dreamers, zealots, hucksters, and superstitious groups shaped America's tendency toward a rich fantasy life, citing the roles of individuals from P.T. Barnum to Donald Trump in perpetuating conspiracy theories, self–delusion, and magical thinking.

By Ruta Sepetys

At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco’s rule.

By Caroline B. Cooney

Taken from her home on an Aegean island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxndra calls on the protection of her goddess while she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy.

By Candice Millard
Recommended By Betty T., Graphic Artist, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Presents a narrative account of Churchill’s heroics during the Boer War, describing his daring escape from rebel captors, trek through hundreds of miles with virtually no supplies, and eventual return to South Africa to liberate the soldiers captured with him.

By Jamie Ford
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti–Japanese sentiment.

By Charles Belfoure
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When his son racks up an impossible gambling debt to a notorious gang in nineteenth–century New York, John Cross uses his inside knowledge of high-society mansions and museums to craft a perfect heist.

By Susan Jane Gilman
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Russian immigrant Malka arrives in 1913 Manhattan, where she struggles to survive and learns trade secrets from an Italian ices peddler before setting off across America in an ice cream truck with a handsome, illiterate radical to seek their fortunes.

By Elizabeth Bettina
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Take a journey with the author as she discovers much to her surprise, that her grandparent's small village, nestled in the heart of southern Italy, housed an internment camp for Jews during the Holocaust, and that it was far from the only one.

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 Graham Moore
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.

By Bernard Cornwell
Series Saxon Stories
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Captured and raised by Danes in the ninth century, dispossessed nobleman Uhtred witnesses the unexpected defeat of his adoptive Viking clan by Alfred of Wessex and longs to recover his father's land. 1st book in the Saxon Tales series.

By Mandy Mikulencak
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

In 1950s Louisiana, Ginny Polk's job as a cook in a Louisiana prison, where she provides the last meals for death row prisoners, leads her into the secrets of her own past when she discovers information about the man who was executed for killing her father.

By Edward Rutherfurd
Recommended By Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

A fictionalized account of the City of London, tracing its role in history and describing succeeding generations of families associated with its fortunes. Interwoven are the everyday lives of ordinary people, from London as a Celtic settlement, 2,000 years ago, to its finest hour during the Blitz in World War II.

By C. W. Gortner

A creative reimagining of the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel traces the development of her exceptional sewing skills in an orphanage, her transformation into a couturier, and the private struggles behind her subsequent fame.

By Alan Brennert
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Tracks the poignant struggle of a Hawaiian woman who contracts leprosy as a child in Honolulu during the 1890s and is deported to the island of Moloka'i, where she grows to adulthood at the quarantined settlement of Kalaupapa.

By Edward Rutherfurd
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

A tale set against a backdrop of New York City's history from its founding through the September 11 attacks traces the experiences of characters who witness such periods as the Revolutionary War, the city's emergence as a financial giant, and the Gilded Age.

By Gene Weingarten

One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as "ordinary" when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.

By William Kent Krueger
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 1PM.

Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.

By Lyndsay Faye
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Fleeing to 1921 Oregon, Alice takes refuge in the city's only black hotel and helps new friends search for a missing child, hide from KKK violence and navigate painful secrets.

By Edward Rutherfurd

Presents a multigenerational saga detailing the history of Paris, from its founding under the Romans to the hotbed of cultural activity during the 1920s and 1930s.

By Candice Millard

Chronicles the 1914 expedition of Theodore Roosevelt into the unexplored heart of the Amazon basin to explore and map the region surrounding a tributary called the River of Doubt, detailing the perilous conditions they faced.

By Ruta Sepetys
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull.

By Lawrence Hill
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Dreaming of escaping her life of slavery in South Carolina and returning to her African home, slave Aminata Diallo is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, during which she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.

By James Michener
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

An archaeological excavation of Tell Makor initiates a journey into the ancient history and culture of Israel that explores the life of the early Hebrews, the impact of Christianity, the Spanish inquisition, and the modern Middle East conflict.

By Erik Larson

The best–selling author of Dead Wake draws on personal diaries, archival documents – and declassified intelligence in a portrait of Winston Churchill that explores his day–to– day experiences during the Blitz and his role in uniting England.

By William Kent Krueger
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Fleeing the Depression–era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans share a life–changing journey marked by struggling farmers, faith healers, and lost souls.