By Kate Quinn
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When pregnant American student Charlie St. Clair is banished to Europe by her family to have her baby, she takes the opportunity to head for London to find her missing French cousin and teams up with Eve, a former spy from the Alice Network, to solve the mystery.

By Mary Beth Keane
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When a violent event forcibly ends their romance, the son and daughter of two NYPD rookies reconnect years later and struggle to prevent the past from triggering another separation.

By Mark Sullivan
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A teenage boy in 1940s Italy becomes part of an underground railroad that helps Jews escape through the Alps but is forced by his parents to enlist as a German soldier for his own protection, where he becomes a spy for the Allies.

By Sarah Dunant

Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's Florentine palazzo.

By Melissa De la Cruz
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

When all of her secrets come to light on the night of her fabulous 40th birthday party, Ellie de Florent–Stinson, a woman greatly envied by all who know her, watches as the beautiful facade of her life crumbles in one eventful night.

By Lyssa Kay Adams
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

To win back his wife, who wants a divorce, desperate Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source—a secret romance–reading club of Nashville’s top alpha men.

By Jonathan Vatner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Urged by her overprotective parents to call off her wedding at the same time she discovers suspicious texts, an aimless woman in her early 30s turns for advice to her neighbors, who reveal their own marital crises.

By Richard Russo

One beautiful September day, three 66–year–old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college, and must puzzle out a lingering mystery from the summer of 1971.

By Ann Patchett
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A tale set over the course of five decades traces a young man’s rise from poverty to wealth and back again as his prospects center around his family’s lavish Philadelphia estate. By the award–winning author of Commonwealth.

By Louise Aronson
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A geriatrician, writer and professor of medicine challenges the way people think and feel about aging and medicine through stories from her twenty–five years of patient care as well as from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life.

By Celeste Ng
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tueday, July 28, 2015. 1 PM.

A story of the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family explores the fallout of the drowning death of Lydia Lee, the favorite daughter of a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio.

By Sandie Jones
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Believing she has finally achieved happiness in her second marriage, children and best friendship with the most loyal woman she has ever known, Alice turns suspicious when her husband and best friend start disappearing for extended times.

By Jennifer Robson
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

From the internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century—Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown—and the fascinating women who made it.

By Jarrett J Krosoczka

A powerful graphic memoir by the award–winning author of Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute traces the author's unconventional coming of age with a drug–addict mother, an absent father and two lovingly opinionated grandparents.

By Erik Larson
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Wednesday, June 6, 2012.  7:30 PM. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, during Hitler's rise to power, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

By Lucy Knisley
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

This moving, hilarious, and surprisingly informative memoir not only follows Lucy’s personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, including curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery. Whether you’ve got kids, want them, or want nothing to do with them, there’s something in this graphic memoir to open your mind and heart.

By Anthony Bourdain
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

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

A New York City chef who is also a novelist recounts his experiences in the restaurant business, and exposes abuses of power, sexual promiscuity, drug use, and other secrets of life behind kitchen doors.

By Susan Orlean
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the crucial role that libraries play in modern American culture.

By Libby Page
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Tuesday, February 11, 2020. 7:30 PM.

An anxiety–riddled cub reporter for a small London paper is assigned to cover the closing of a local rec center and bonds with an 86–year–old widow who has swum in the community pool every day since childhood.

By Kristan Higgins
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When she became pregnant in high school and her grandmother kicked her out, Emma worked to build a happy life for herself and her daughter, and now after nearly two decades with no contact, her grandmother suddenly calls her with a request.

By Celeste Ng
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, November 26, 2019. 1PM.

When a custody battle divides her placid town, straitlaced family woman Elena Richardson finds herself pitted against her enigmatic tenant and becomes obsessed with exposing her past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both families.

By Lori Gottlieb
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The national advice columnist presents a behind–the–scenes tour of a therapist's world from the perspective of both a patient and a psychotherapist who found answers in her client's journeys.

By Kitty Zeldis

Forced to hide her Jewish identity from her employer's post–World War II Park Avenue community, a Vassar–educated tutor forges unexpected bonds before a crossed line leads to life–changing decisions.

By Goldie Goldbloom
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Anticipating the birth of her first great–grandchild, a 57–year-old Chasidic woman in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, feels exposed and ashamed by a late–in–life pregnancy that slowly separates her from her community.

By Sandie Jones
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

A blissful romance between Adam and Emily is challenged by Adam's manipulative mother, who resorts to dire measures to keep all other women out of her son's life.

By James Islington
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Twenty years after the god–like Augurs were overthrown and killed, Davian, a Gifted who discovers he wields the forbidden power of the Augurs, sets in motion a chain of events that changes everything.

By Lucy Knisley

Presents an illustrated memoir of what happens after the proposal. Fascinated and horrified by the wedding industry, the author sets out to put her own stamp on the tradition and create the most adorable DIY wedding imaginable.

By William Kent Krueger
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Fleeing the Depression–era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans share a life–changing journey marked by struggling farmers, faith healers, and lost souls.

By John Steinbeck

Steinbeck records his emotions and experiences during a journey of rediscovery in his native land.