By Agatha Christie
Series Hercule Poirot Mysteries

Hercule Poirot's mastery of detective skills is tested by a mysterious correspondent who predicts and then executes alphabetical murders.

By Dara Horn

Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, struggles with difficult moral questions when he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who has been plotting an assassination attempt against President Lincoln.

By Joshilyn Jackson
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Leia discovers she is pregnant with a biracial child but before she can tell her conventional Southern family, her grandmother slips into dementia and Leia discovers that the elderly woman has been hiding a secret linked to the Civil War.

By Jonathan Franzen
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old–fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands–off parenting, do– it–yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.

By Karen M. McManus

Invited to their grandmother’s island resort for the summer, three cousins who have never previously met uncover dark family secrets about why their parents were disinherited and what they must do to regain their grandmother’s favor.

By Justine Bateman

Based on "older face" experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes for society’s often negative attitudes toward women’s older faces. In doing so, Bateman rejects those ingrained assumptions about the necessity of fixing older women’s faces, suggesting that we move on from judging someone’s worth based on the condition of her face.

By Justine Bateman
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

A passionate and critical analysis of the life cycle of Fame, from film producer/director and former worldwide TV star Justine Bateman.

By Sanjena Sathian
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A satirical coming–of–age story follows the experiences of an Indian–American teen in the Bush–era Atlanta suburbs, who joins his crush’s plot to use an ancient alchemical potion to meet high parental expectations, triggering devastating consequences.

By Helene Wecker
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire, form an unlikely friendship on the streets of New York until a fateful choice changes everything.

By Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

In this bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us, Flora Mancini finds everything she thought she knew about her husband, her marriage and her relationship with her best friend upended when she makes a startling discovery.

By Sally Hepworth
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Twin sisters who are polar opposites but who are harboring a deep, dark secret about their sociopathic mother must face the consequences of both her actions and their own when one tries to start a family.

By Jillian Cantor
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real–world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices.

By Helene Wecker

Pretending to be human, magical beings Chava, a golem, and Ahmad, a jinni, find their lives intertwined as they try to make sense of the world around them and the people whose lives they have unwittingly affected.

By Laura Dave
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

After her husband disappears, Hannah Hall quickly realizes he isn’t who he said he was and that his 16–year–old daughter, who wants nothing to do with her, may hold the key to figuring out his true identity.

By Rachel Joyce
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Leaving London behind, Margery Benson, a schoolmarm and spinster in 1950, embarks on a quest to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession – the golden beetle of New Caledonia – with the help of a fun–loving assistant who changes her life forever.

By Marie Benedict

Claiming amnesia after going missing for more than a week in late 1926, up–and–coming mystery author Agatha Christie pens a chilling story that brashly implicates her war–hero husband.

By Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Gathering to confront their older brother, who has recently been released from rehab after a drunk driving accident, the Plumb siblings watch as the trust fund left by their father rises and falls according to self-inflicted problems.

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 Flynn Berry
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Certain that her beloved sister did not join the IRA by choice, a Catholic BBC producer confronts impossible decisions that test family bonds, the limits of her ideals and her responsibilities as a mother.

By Karen M. McManus

When one of five students in detention is found dead, his high–profile classmates—including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all–star athlete—are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings.

By Bill Clinton
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

As enemies plan an unprecedented attack on American soil, Washington is gripped by uncertainty and fear as rumors spread of a traitor in the cabinet and the president himself comes under suspicion, before he goes missing.

By Elizabeth Berg

Making daily visits to the grave of his beloved late wife, Arthur forges unexpected relationships with a nosy neighbor and a troubled teen who dubs him "Truluv" before the trio discovers healing and family together.

By Francine Pascal
Series Sweet Valley High

After she betrays her identical twin, Jessica Wakefield longs for forgiveness, but Elizabeth moves from Sweet Valley, California, to New York City and searches for the perfect revenge.

By Marjorie Wilenski
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Marjorie Wilenski’s only novel, as biting and funny as Barbara Pym at her crankiest, follows an office of women translators at the fictional Ministry of Foreign Intelligence in London as they bicker, maneuver, and shift allegiances just before and then in the thick of the London Blitz.

By Lea Geller
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A freshly funny and heartfelt novel about one woman’s secret life, the stories she tells, and the thrill and notoriety of being noticed.

By E. Lockhart
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services
With Sharon Long, Teen Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian

Tuesday, August 9, 2016. 7:30 PM.

Crossover book discussion of the Young Adult Novel.

Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.

By E.B. Sledge
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front-line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns—the bloody campaigns at Peleliu and Okinawa—in which he participated as a teenage soldier.