By Annie Ward
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Starting a therapeutic journal in the aftermath of a scarring accident, former travel writer Maddie is forced to reckon with her husband's PTSD, her son's safety, and her family's complicated history with her best friend, Jo.

By Peter Swanson
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Finding some peace in her new life in a house outside of Boston, Hen's calm begins to dissipate after she meets a new neighbor and spots an object in his home that once belonged to the victim of an unsolved murder case that has been an obsession for Hen.

By Sarah Haywood
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Avoiding messy emotions in a perfectly ordered life, Susan tackles the unexpected double challenge of losing her mother and becoming pregnant and is challenged to ask for help while discovering herself in unlikely ways.

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 Deanna Raybourn
Series Veronica Speedwell Mysteries

Attending a party in remote Cornwall as a favor to a colleague, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell races to uncover her host's true agenda when suspicious accidents plague the guests.

By Robert D. Matzen

Near the end of 1939, ten–year–old Audrey Hepburn flew from boarding school in England into the Netherlands, which would soon become a war zone. What she experienced in five years of Nazi occupation has never been explored until now. Dutch Girl sets the story straight, revealing the Nazi past of Audrey's parents and how their daughter dealt with this information.

By Linda Holmes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Young widow Evvie Drake and major league pitcher Dean Tenney, who has lost his game and needs a chance to reset his life, form an unlikely relationship when Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house.

By Susan Meissner
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Two women living 100 years apart experience similar tragic losses of love, Clara's in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, and Taryn's in the collapse of the Twin Towers, are connected through time by a scarf.

By Michael Wolff

Reveals the chaos of Donald Trump's first nine months in office, detailing why Comey was really fired, how to communicate with the president, and who is directing the administration following Bannon's dismissal.

By Beth O'Leary
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence.

By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Divorcing his hostile wife when he concludes he could find genuine happiness elsewhere, a doctor is astonished when his ex abruptly disappears, making him unable to move on without acknowledging painful truths about his marriage.

By Eric Weiner
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Draws on the author's experiences as a foreign correspondent to evaluate more than three dozen countries for their happiness potential, in a survey that includes profiles of such locales as the American shores, glacial Iceland, and the Bhutan jungles.

By Gillian McAllister
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When Martha finds herself struggling to manage her business and early motherhood, her sister Becky steps in to help out, but when Becky is charged with the murder of Martha's child, she must choose to believe her sister or the police.

By Michael Connelly

These intricately plotted and gritty mysteries feature Harry Bosch, an anti–establishment LAPD detective who routinely flouts the authority of his superiors, who (to be fair) are often corrupt or making questionable choices. These stand–alone police procedurals are character–driven and psychologically astute, giving readers great insight into Bosch’s inner world.

By Peter Swanson
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

A woman prone to panic attacks in the aftermath of a violent kidnapping relocates to a cousin’s home in Boston, where a neighbor’s murder embroils her in speculation about her cousin’s nature and the intentions of an appealing stranger.

By Allison Pearson
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The heroine from the best–selling I Don't Know How She Does It is forced by her husband's flaky unemployment to reinvent herself as a younger, hip professional to secure a job with the hedge fund she founded.

By Katherine Center
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, June 25, 2019. 1:30 PM.

When an accident on what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life lands her in the hospital with a very uncertain future, Margaret struggles to come to terms with family secrets, heartbreak, and starting over before discovering love in an unexpected place.

By Henry Bushkin

An unreserved and incisive account of the career and personal life of the "King of Late Night" at the height of his fame and influence is shared from the perspective of his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant.

By Julia Kelly
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Unable to confront the challenges in her own life, Cara Hargraves immerses herself in work for her antiques–dealer boss, uncovering relics from the life of World War II British "Gunner Girl" Louise Keene and her complicated relationship with a man named Paul.

By Jenna Blum
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 27, 2019. 1:30 PM.

In 1965 Manhattan, chef and Auschwitz survivor Peter Rashkin is resigned to solitude and devotes himself to running his restaurant until he meets and marries June, but the horrors of his past soon overshadow him and his new family.

By Avery Corman

Presents a memoir of growing up in the Bronx in the 1940s and 1950s, recalling the simpler way of life and sense of community that prevailed there and discussing the reasons for its later transformation brought about by increasing poverty and crime.

By Nora Roberts
Series Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The historic hotel in Boonsboro, Maryland is getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers. As the architect of the family, Beckett's social life consists mostly of talking shop over pizza and beer. But there's another project he's got his eye on: the girl he's been waiting to kiss since he was fifteen.

By Craig Brown

Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays on Princess Margaret, the author offers a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography and a meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society.

By Louise Candlish
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Arriving home to find strangers moving into the prized family home she agreed to share with her ex, Fiona endures a domino effect of horrors as she discovers that her children have gone missing amid terrible revelations.

By Charlie N. Holmberg
Series Paper Magician Series
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Under the tutelage of magician Emery Thane, Ceony Twill discovers the wonders of paper magic, but when her teacher’s life is threatened, she must face the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic to save him.

By Nadia Hashimi
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 23, 2017. 1:30 PM.

Adopting the custom of bacha posh in 2007 Kabul, which allows her to dress and be treated as a boy, attend school and chaperone her sisters until she is of marriageable age, Rahima, the daughter of a drug– addicted father, discovers that she is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom.

By Christina Baker Kline

Imagines the life story of Christina Olson, the subject of Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World," describing the simple life she led on a remote Maine farm, her complicated relationship with her family, and the illness that incapacitated her.

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 Michael Wolff

With Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege, he has written an equally essential and explosive book about a presidency that is under fire from almost every side. A stunningly fresh narrative that begins just as Trump’s second year as president is getting underway and ends with the delivery of the Mueller report.

By Helen Ellis
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Presents a humorous collection of essays on the art of living as a "Southern Lady" that explores subjects ranging from marriage and manners to women's health and entertaining.

By Elin Hilderbrand
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

During the tumultuous summer of 1969, the children of the Levin family, looking forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic Nantucket home, find their lives upended by troubling family secrets.

By Louise Candlish

An idyllic suburban neighborhood is thrown into chaos by the arrival of new neighbors who disrupt the community with rude behavior, loud music, and unsightly renovations, until a shattering murder exposes a network of secrets.

By Nadia Hashimi
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

When her happy middle–class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.

By Lisa Gabriele
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Moving into the opulent estate of her new fiancé, Max Winter, after a whirlwind romance, a young woman navigates the ire of his manipulative teen daughter and her future husband's cutthroat political ambitions.

By Jennifer Cody Epstein

A German–American woman in 1989 New York City evaluates her relationship with her late mother, whose childhood best friendship was shattered in the wake of a betrayal involving the Hitler Youth movement and a family secret.