By Gary Chapman
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Outlines five expressions of love—quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch—and explains how to identify and communicate effectively in a spouse's "love language."

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

Interior designer Bailey Camdenis leaps at a chance to renovate her heiress cousin's lavish apartment at The Dakota, and learns the scandalous history of a distant ancestor's connection to the murder of the building's architect a century earlier.

By Kim Van Alkemade
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Jazz Age millionaire Jacob Ruppert, the owner of the New York Yankees, takes his personal secretary and a young actress under his wing and oversees their growing love for each other before triggering dark rumors with his decision to leave the young woman the bulk of his fortune.

By Fredrik Backman
Series Beartown Series
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 28, 2018. 1:30 PM.

In the tiny forest community of Beartown, the possibility that the amateur hockey team might win a junior championship, bringing the hope of revitalization to the fading town, is shattered by the aftermath of a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized.

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 Meg Wolitzer

Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.

By Simone St. James

More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.

By Meg Medina
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian
With Meghan Fangmann, Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian

Tuesday, August 7, 2018. 7:30 PM

Enduring the infamous New York summer of 1977 in the wake of arson fires, a massive blackout and the Son of Sam serial killings, 17-year-old Nora Lopez navigates the additional stresses of her family's limited finances, her father's absence and her brother's growing violence.

By Emmanuelle De Villepin

Three generations of women untangle a complex family story that encompasses the First and Second World Wars, revealing unexpected lessons about marriage and fidelity.

By Fiona Davis
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Arriving at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, a plain, self– conscious secretarial school student is befriended by a hotel maid, who introduces her to the city's jazz and drug counterculture, and becomes involved in a deadly skirmish that reverberates half a century later.

By Gail Honeyman
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, July 10, 2018. 7:30 PM.

A socially awkward, routine–oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness.

By Mohsin Hamid
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Two young lovers engage in a furtive affair shaped by local unrest on the eve of a civil war that erupts in a cataclysmic bombing attack, forcing them to abandon their previous home and lives.

By Meg Wolitzer
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
With Pam Strudler, Librarian, Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 26th 2019

A college student finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned.

By Emily Giffin
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

While Meredith becomes increasingly unsure about the strength of her bond with her seemingly perfect husband and daughter, her once–happily single sister, Josie, frantically dates and considers her options in her desperation to have a baby.

By Susan Henderson
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Mary Crampton works as an embalmer in a small town that went into decline after a grain elevator accident killed a young athlete, but when the athlete's brother returns, Mary forms a friendship with him and is faced with the possibility of leaving her town.

By Amor Towles
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, June 26, 2018. 1:30 PM

Deemed unrepentant by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he lives in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold.

By Clemantine Wamariya
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Traces the author's experiences as a young child during the Rwanda massacres and displacements, which separated her from her parents and forced the author and her older sister to endure six years as refugees in seven countries before she was granted asylum in the United States.

By Ali Land

Milly, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a serial killer, is given a fresh start with a new identity and placement in an affluent foster family, but wrestles with the decision not to follow in her mother's violent footsteps.

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid–1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.

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 Marilyn Simon Rothstein

After a lifetime of marriage, Marcy Hammer is ready to get herself unhitched—just as everyone else in her life is looking for a commitment. Her new boyfriend, Jon, wants to get serious, and her soon–to– be ex– husband, Harvey, is desperate to get back together. When her headstrong daughter announces a secret engagement to Harvey’s attorney, Marcy finds herself planning her daughter’s wedding as she plans her own divorce.

By Ariel Lawhon
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

In Germany in 1920, the unexplained appearance of a traumatized, badly scarred young woman who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest Romanov daughter, launches a half–century of questions and accusations.

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 Liv Constantine
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A coolly manipulative woman worms her way into the lives of a wealthy golden couple from Connecticut as part of her plot to achieve a privileged life, unveiling dark secrets along the way.

By Catherine Ryan Howard
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Alison Smith—the former girlfriend of Will Hurley, who, unbeknownst to her at the time they were dating, was a serial killer—arrives at Dublin’s Central Psychiatric Hospital to hear Will’s last confession in order to get him to help the Garda detectives solve a copycat murder.

By Martha Hall Kelly
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

The lives of three women converge at the Ravensbruck concentration camp as Caroline Ferriday resolves to help from her post at the French consulate, Kasia Kuzmerick becomes a courier in the Polish resistance, and Herta Oberheuser takes a German government medical position.

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 Rachel Kushner

At the beginning of her two life sentences in Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, Romy Hall reflects on her youth and her relationship with her son, while navigating the harsh realities of prison life.

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 Mohsin Hamid

“Hamid's tale, played out against the background of Pakistan's recent testing of a nuclear device, creates a powerful image of an insecure society toying with its own dissolution (Publishers Weekly Review).”

By Charles Martin
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Stranded in a frigid mountain wilderness after a plane crash, a gifted surgeon and a young magazine writer are forced to rely on each other for survival while confronting painful truths about their personal lives.

By Jonathan Stone

When Stanley Peke and his wife become victims of an elaborate moving-day scam that robs them of all their possessions, it reminds him of his time evading the Nazis in the war-torn Polish countryside, and soon he and his wife are on a cross-country trip, trying to track the criminals down.

By Agatha Christie
Series Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

On a three–day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find the passenger who murdered a gangster on the Orient Express.

By Jayne Ann Krentz
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

After one of her artists sends her a painting before apparently taking her own life, Seattle gallery owner Virginia teams with private investigator Cabot to catch the true killer and uncover the truth about the cult they were a part of as children.

By Mohsin Hamid

In the aftermath of 9/11 a young Pakistani man tells his life story to a mysterious American stranger.

Became the movie: The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

By Amor Towles
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults witty Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well and a single-minded widow.

By Laurie Frankel
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 22, 2018. 1:30 PM.

A family reshapes their ideas about family, love, and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent.

By Susan Henderson
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Tillie Harris is forced to face painful memories when her husband is away on business and she finds herself with sudden labor pains and must turn to her estranged father for help.