By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces, and Reacher will risk his own to save her from a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

By Anders Roslund
Series Ewert Grens Thrillers

Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. What will happen when they get an unexpected chance at freedom?

By Liz Murray
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, September 9, 2013.  7 PM.

"The author offers an emotional account of her amazing journey from a 15-year-old living on the streets and eating garbage to her acceptance into Harvard, a feat that prompted a Lifetime movie and a successful motivational-speaking career (From the Publisher)."

*A 2011 Alex Award Winner

By Robert B.Parker
Series Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch track down the woman who stole Virgil's heart, they find a dispirited prostitute rather than the innocent beauty she once was. Now they must save her, even if murder is the price of redemption.

By Josh Kilmer
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

The unique story of the author’s attempt to tackle the next phase of life with his partner on a goat farm in upstate New York.

By Eric Lamet
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When the author was seven, his family’s middle-class Viennese existence was shattered by the Nazi seizure of Austria. His father fled to Poland, where he presumably perished in a death camp. Lamet and his mother made a harrowing escape to Italy, where they spent months seeking refuge in various isolated mountain villages.

By Donna Leon
Series Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries

Mystery series featuring Guido Brunetti who investigates crime in and around his home town of Venice, Italy. The first in the series is "Death at La Fenice".

By Michael Koryta
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, November 7, 2011. 7 PM.

WWII vet, Arlen Wagner, and young friend Paul Brickhill are traveling by train to a new CCC camp in the Florida Keys when Arlen’s supernatural sense tells him they have to get off the train if they want to stay alive. They find themselves at Cypress House and right in the middle of a vipers’ nest of small-town corruption and misery.

By Andrew Gross
Series Ty Hauck Mysteries

Two strangers touched by tragedy are pulled into a deepening relationship and unwittingly open the door to a twisted––and deadly––conspiracy.

By Anita Diamant

Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re–creating themselves in a strange new country.

By Kristin Kimball

Kimball chucked life as a Manhattan journalist to start a cooperative farm in upstate New York with a self–taught New Paltz farmer she had interviewed for a story and later married. To create a self–sustaining farm was enormously ambitious, and neighbors, while well–meaning, expected them to fail.

By Deborah Harkness
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

Scholar Diana Bishop mistakenly requests a bewitched manuscript for her research. She belongs to a family of witches––but because she's avoiding using her powers in favor of scientific pursuits, she sends the manuscript back into storage. What she doesn't realize is, she's already started down a path toward a life she wants to avoid.

By Lori Lansens

A novel told from two viewpoints: that of Rose and that of Ruby Darlen, 29-year-old conjoined twins. Rose and Ruby are about to go down in history as the oldest surviving twins to be joined at the head. A recent medical diagnosis has spurred them to write their autobiography, remembering the joys and challenges of their lives.

By Jeffrey Zaslow
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The "girls", eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames, Iowa, now in their forties, have a lifetime of memories in common, some evocative of their generation and some that will resonate with any woman who has ever had a friend.

By Sheila Weller

A biography of three of America's most important musical artists––Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell––offers an epic treatment of these mid–century women who dared to break tradition.

By Margaret Dilloway
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected.

By Suzanne Collins
Series The Hunger Games Trilogy
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

By Rebecca Skloot
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 29, 2011. 1 PM & 7:30 PM.

Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping.

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 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 Patti Smith
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of her youth among the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe - the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.

By Lisa Genova
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 30, 2011. 1 PM & 7:30 PM.

In the prime of her life, a woman's fate takes a tragic turn when a devastating car accident leaves her crippled with a debilitating brain disorder.

By John Berendt

Graceful prose depictions of some of Savannah, Georgia's most colorful eccentrics as well as a portrayal of Savannah socialite Jim Williams as he stands trial for the murder of Danny Hansford, a moody, violence–prone hustler––and sometime companion to Williams.

By Jane Fonda

In her memoir, Fonda divides her life into three acts: her childhood, early films, and first marriage make up act one; her growing career in film, marriage to Ted Turner, and involvement in the Vietnam War belong to act two; and the third act belongs to the future.

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 Michael Lavigne
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

When Michael’s father, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, hands him a box of moldy old journals, an amazing adventure begins – one that takes the reader from the concentration camps of Poland to a love story in Palestine, from a cancer ward in New Jersey to a hopeless marriage in San Francisco. While reading the journals, Michael becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about his father.

By Steve Martin
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallels the soaring heights––and, at times, the dark lows––of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.

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 Matt Haig
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

The Radleys are vampires, but they confront many of the same challenges any human family faces––a husband pining for his youthful exploits, a wife dwelling on her first "love," and children grasping for their place in the family and the world.

By Beth Hoffman
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

For years, 12–year–old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille–the tiara–toting, lipstick–smeared laughingstock of an entire town. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself.

By Jodi Picoult

When music therapist Zoe Baxter’s latest pregnancy ends in a stillbirth, her husband Max decides he can’t handle any more heartbreak and leaves her. As she picks up the pieces of her life, Zoe is surprised to find herself falling for a school counselor who happens to be a woman.

By John Paul Rathbone

This stranger–than–fiction dual history of a man and a nation tells of Julio Lobo, a Cuban sugar magnate who controlled the world sugar market throughout much of the first half of the 20th century.

By Gary Shteyngart
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, April 8, 2013. 7 PM

“In a novel set in the near future, when a beautiful, yet cruel, woman that Lenny Abramov met in Italy says she is coming to stay with him in New York, even the tanks and soldiers stationed in the city and the ongoing war with Venezuela can't get him down (From the Publisher).”

By Jack Finney
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

In November 1970, Simon Morley, an advertising sketch artist, is approached by U.S. Army to participate in a secret government project. For reasons of his own, Simon agrees to participate in the project, and requests permission to go back to New York City in 1882.

By Charles Portis

Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father with one–eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side.

By Lauren Hillenbrand
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 16.  7:30 PM.

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashes into the Pacific and Lt. Louis Zamperini survives. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, he would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.

By Michael Koryta
Series Lincoln Perry Mysteries

Private investigator Lincoln Perry finds himself in the crosshairs of police investigations in two states when an old rival, Alex Jefferson, is brutally murdered.

By Roger Lowenstein

The author tackles what could be the next looming crisis: the severe underfunding of pensions in both the private and public sectors focusing on three massive pension failures: General Motors, the New York transit system, and the city of San Diego.

By Shari Caudron

Part armchair travel, part cultural study and part personal journey, "Who Are You People?" is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising look at Americans today and the quirky, colorful passions that drive them.

By Patti Boyd

Pattie Boyd married two Sixties legends and inspired three of the era's greatest love songs, but life was far from glamorous. The ex–wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton tells her story.