By Christopher Hitchens

A collection of the noted author's essays includes his early writings on civil rights, Vietnam, and international incidents, as well as columns on the Clintons, the Catholic Church, Mother Theresa, radical Islam, and an array of reflections on politics.

By Susan Hill
Series Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler Mysteries

When a series of flash floods throughout Lafferton exposes the skeleton of a teenager who went missing 20 years earlier, Simon Serrailler investigates the girl's tragic family story and uncovers bizarre complexities and dangers.

By David Benioff
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard–to–find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.

By P.D. James
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Pemberly is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett’s disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband has been murdered.

By William Landay
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

His happy life and long-time respectability as a suburban Massachusetts assistant district attorney shattered when his 14-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, Andy Barber faces a wrenching decision about family loyalty when the facts increasingly suggest that the boy is guilty.

By Keigo Higashino

A clever mathematics teacher orchestrates a cover-up after a confrontation between a violent man and his terror-stricken ex-wife results in the man's accidental death.

By Alice Hoffman

A tale inspired by the tragic first-century massacre of hundreds of Jewish people at Masada presents the stories of a hated daughter, a baker's wife, a girl disguised as a warrior, and a medicine woman who keep doves and secrets while Roman soldiers draw near.

By RoseMarie Terenzio

A former personal assistant to John F. Kennedy, Jr. shares the story of their professional relationship and close friendship, describing how she landed her job under less-than-ideal circumstances, Kennedy's political beliefs, and his untimely death.

By Eric Schlosser

Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. The author explains with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.

By Franz Lidz

Examines the live of eccentric hoarders, brothers Homer and Langley Collyer, who lived in isolation and squalor in a Harlem brownstone for years before the discovery of Homer's body in March 1947, and the search for his missing Langley.

By Robert Olen Butler
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“A collection of stories about Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana as they face love, loss, despair, and the challenges and conflicts of a new life (From the Publisher).”

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Struggling with a marital estrangement that is further complicated when one of them is deployed, military couple Michael and Joleen Zarkades are forced to confront their problems while protecting the security of their family.

By Julie Orringer
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Orringer’s first novel is a grand love story and an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are torn apart by war in 1937 Paris.

By Laura Schroff
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

This inspirational true story of a friendship that has spanned three decades recounts how the author, a harried sales executive, befriended an eleven-year-old panhandler, changing both of their lives forever.

By Sophie Kinsella
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

After her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phone's owner, Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations.

By Jacqueline Kennedy

Presents the annotated transcription and original audio for the 1964 interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy on her experiences and impressions as the wife of John F. Kennedy, offering an intimate and detailed account of the man and his times.

By Pearl S. Buck

The lives of Gerald MacLeod, his wife Elizabeth, their son Rennie, and Gerald's father gradually come into focus as Elizabeth reflects on her life in China and their forced separation at the outbreak of the Communist revolution.

By Alyson Richman
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, January 24, 2012.  1PM & 7:30 PM.

“From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the Occupation, to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit- and the strength of memory (From the Publisher).”

By Ronald H. Balson
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 25, 2017. 1:30 PM.

Elliot Rosenzweig, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist, is attending opening night at the opera. Ben Solomon, a retired Polish immigrant, makes his way through the crowd and shoves a gun in Rosenzweig's face, denouncing him as former SS officer. Rosenzweig uses his enormous influence to get Solomon released from jail, but Solomon commences a relentless pursuit to bring Rosenzweig before the courts to answer for war crimes.

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 Philippa Gregory

Entering into an arranged marriage with an aspiring merchant in 1787 Bristol, Frances Scott is discouraged by her slavery-dependent lifestyle and unexpectedly falls for African slave and former Yoruba priest Mehuru.

By Emma Donoghue
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Susan L., Library Page, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 22. 1 PM & 7:30 PM

Five–year–old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven–by–eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.

By Erica Bauermeister

Gathering at Lillian's Restaurant for a weekly cooking class, a young mother struggles with the growing demands of her family, an Italian kitchen designer works to adapt to life in America, and a widower mourns the loss of his wife to breast cancer.

By Eowyn Ivey

A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.

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 Chevy Stevens
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“...Still Missing is a shocking, visceral, brutal, and beautifully crafted debut novel about surviving the un-survivable — and living to bear witness. Winner of the 2011 Thriller Award for Best First Novel (From the Publisher).”

By Anne Sebba

A portrait of the divorcee maligned for her marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII discusses the impoverished early life that fueled her ambitions, theories about her alleged personality disorder, and her posthumous status as a female empowerment icon.

By Katharine Weber
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Marrying into a candy conglomerate family that is struggling with differences over the company's eventual succession, Alice investigates the family's rags-to-riches story from a slave ancestor's efforts to flee the cacao plantations in Cote d'Ivoire to a Hungarian immigrant's inspiration from a stolen library book.

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.

By Thrity Umrigar
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 8, 2013. 7:30 PM.

Follows four friends who met as university students in Bombay in the late 1970s as they struggle to reconnect and reunite at the deathbed of one of their group.

By David McRaney

Explains how self-delusion is part of a person's psychological defense system, identifying common misconceptions people have on topics such as caffeine withdrawal, hindsight, and brand loyalty.