By Johan Theorin

Winner of Sweden’s best crime novel award. On an idyllic island off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh.

By Jess Walter

Follow Matt in his weeklong quest to save his marriage, his sanity and his dreams.

By Kate Jacobs
Series Friday Night Knitting Club

Gathering for their weekly knitting club at a small yarn shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of friends shares such challenges as raising children, navigating the ups and downs of their careers, and pursuing uncertain relationships.

By Brian McGilloway
Series Inspector Benedict Devlin Mysteries

Inspector Devlin waits on the borderlands separating north and south Ireland in order to capture James Kerr, a notorious ex-con returning home on early release.

By Elizabeth Noble

A novel about the intertwining lives of the residents of a New York City apartment building.

By Stieg Larsson
Series Millennium Trilogy
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.

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 Kate Morton
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

“This debut page-turner from Australian Morton recounts the crumbling of a prominent British family as seen through the eyes of one of its servants…. Morton triumphs with a riveting plot, a touching but tense love story and a haunting ending (From Publishers Weekly).”

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome.  He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and Jacob has special focus on one subject - forensic analysis.

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 Alexander McCall Smith
Series No. 1 Ladies\' Detective Agency

Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Detective Agency is a charming account of the challenges facing a female private detective in Botswana.

By Ann Hood

After the sudden loss of her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle as a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days. The women welcome her and reveal their own personal stories of loss, love, and hope.

By Victor Hugo
Recommended By Josephine Amoia, Children's Librarian

After nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean has difficulty adjusting to the outside world, which scorns and shuns him.

Became the movie: Les Misérables.

By Alice Lichtenstein

"On a cold January morning, Susan, a professor of biology, leaves her husband alone for a few minutes and returns to find him gone. Suffering from dementia, no longer able to dress or feed or wash himself without help, Christopher has wandered alone into a frigid landscape with no sense of home or direction. Lost (From the Publisher)."

By Jennifer Chiaverini
Series Elm Creek Quilts

A tale of adventure, love, perseverance and quilting involving a run-away slave.

By Lucette Lagnado

An unforgettable memoir about family, faith, tragedy and triumph set against the backdrop of Cairo, Paris and New York.

By Tony Perrottet

Offbeat, riotously entertaining anecdotes that are guaranteed to amaze and shock you.

By Karen Hesse

This novel, written in stanza, or “free” verse, conveys Oklahoma’s staggering dust storms and the environmental an emotional turmoil they leave in their path.

By Robert Goolrick
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

“Robert Goolrick's intoxicating debut novel delivers a classic tale of suspenseful seduction, set in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis (From the Publisher).”

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 Karin Fossum
Series Inspector Sejer Mysteries

Norwegian author Fossum tells the story of the Rises’ who, after finding the body of a young boy, assists in the murder investigation, and finds their marriage unraveling.

By Malcolm Gladwell

A fascinating and odd assortment of essays about inventions and discoveries.