By Elin Hilderbrand
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A tale inspired by the film Same Time Next Year follows a man's discovery of his mother's long-term relationship with the husband of a Presidential frontrunner.

By Heather Dune Macadam
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

The acclaimed internationally best-selling author of Rena's Promise reveals the poignant stories of the 999 women on the first official transport to Auschwitz, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses and relatives of those first deportees.

By Andrea Bernstein

Examines the multigenerational saga of two families who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of U.S. power that tracks the unraveling of American democracy.

By Suzanne Collins
Series Hunger Games Trilogy

In a prequel to The Hunger Games, eighteen–year–old Coriolanus Snow prepares to mentor the female tribute from District 12 in the tenth Hunger Games, with the fate of his family hanging on the slim chance that he can help her win the Games.

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a bestselling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer–long writing project that challenges them to write well in each others’ styles.

By Jennifer Weiner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

A woman confronts the dynamics of friendship and forgiveness while visiting Cape Cod to attend an old friend's increasingly disastrous wedding.

By Megha Majumdar
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

An opportunistic gym teacher and a starry–eyed misfit find the realization of their ambitions tied to the downfall of an innocent Muslim girl who has been wrongly implicated in a terrorist attack.

By Afia Atakora

A midwife and conjurer of curses reflects on her life before and after the Civil War, her relationships with the families she serves and the secrets she has learned about a plantation owner’s daughter.

By Connie Schultz
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

A first novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Life Happens explores the impact of forfeited dreams, long–kept secrets and evolving gender roles on a small family throughout the latter half of the 20th century.

By Dolly Alderton

The award–winning Sunday Times columnist and co–host of The High Low podcast presents a U.S. release of her internationally best–selling memoir about growing up, aging and learning to navigate relationships and a career.

By William W. Johnstone
Series First Mountain Man
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Mountain man Preacher's plans to find a date for the annual mountain man rendezvous are changed when he agrees to lead a train of sixty wagons on the last leg of the rugged trail to Oregon, encountering outlaws and Native Americans along the way.

By Maggie O'Farrell
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The award–winning author of I Am, I Am, I Am presents the evocative story of a young Shakespeare’s marriage to a talented herbalist before the ravaging death of their 11– year–old son shapes the production of his greatest play.

By Sarah Smarsh
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

Tuesday, September 10, 2019. 7:30 PM.

Traces the author's turbulent childhood on a Kansas farm in the 1980s and 1990s to reveal her firsthand experiences with cyclical poverty and the corrosive impact of intergenerational poverty on individuals, families and communities.

By J. D. Vance
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Clare Badke, Principal Account Clerk, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, October 24, 2017. 1:30 PM.

Shares the poignant story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

By Alice Feeney
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Sacrificing everything for her hard–won BBC presenter career, Anna teams up with DCI Jack Harper to investigate a childhood friend’s murder in her sleepy hometown village.

By Riley Sager
Recommended By Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

Twenty-five years after her father published a wildly popular nonfiction book based on her family’s rushed exit from a haunted Victorian estate, naysayer Maggie inherits the house and begins renovations, only to make a number of disturbing discoveries.

By Sophie Heawood

An award–winning Yorkshire journalist describes her unconventional experiences with single motherhood, describing how the abandonment of her unplanned child’s father compelled her adjustment to a stable and laughably real two–person family.

By Julie Clark
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation, Lisa V., Library Clerk

Working for months on a plan to escape her secretly violent husband, Claire impulsively swaps airline tickets with a stranger also on the run before a fateful accident compels her to assume the other’s identity.

By Yangsze Choo
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A vivacious dance-hall girl in 1930s colonial Malaysia is drawn into unexpected danger by the discovery of a severed finger that is being sought by a young houseboy in order to protect his late master's soul.

By Caitlin Mullen
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Two young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home.

By Eliese Colette Goldbach
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Taking readers deep inside the mill and her Middle American upbringing, a steelworker at ArcelorMittal Steel in Cleveland, Ohio, shares how she found humanity and hope in the most unlikely and hellish of places.

By Sophie Ranald

Charlotte has always been a good girl. But after discovering a motivating podcast she suddenly feels restless and sees that being good is getting boring ... The only company she has in bed is the back catalog of Netflix, and falling in love feels like the stuff of fairy tales. So when she stumbles across the popular podcast Sorry Not Sorry which challenges women to embrace their inner bad girl, she jumps at the chance to shake things up.

By Grady Hendrix
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A supernatural thriller set in South Carolina in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious stranger who turns out to be a real monster.

By Byron Lane

A debut novel by Carrie Fisher's former personal assistant follows the experiences of an assistant to an award Byron–winning celebrity who becomes a close friend and possibly more as she conducts him through the wonders of Hollywood life.

By Meryl Ain
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Twin sisters Bronka and JoJo Lubinski are brought to America from Germany by their Polish refugee parents after World War II—but in “idyllic” America, political, cultural, and family turmoil awaits them. As the girls grow older, they eventually begin to ask questions of and demand the truth from their parents.

By Mary Trump

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric.

By Yaa Gyasi
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

A follow–up to the best–selling Homegoing finds a sixth–year PhD candidate grappling with the childhood faith of the evangelical church in which she was raised while researching the science behind the suffering that has devastated her Ghanaian immigrant family.

By Katherine Center
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When the new principal turns out to be the former, unrequited crush of her teen years, elementary school librarian Samantha Casey discovers that he is a changed man, determined to destroy everything she loves about the school, which forces her to take action.

By Amber Garza

When Kelly Medina gets a call from her son's pediatrician to confirm her upcoming appointment, it is a case of mistaken identity, but when Kelly happens to bump into the single mother, who shares her name, outside the pediatrician's office their unlikely friendship brings Kelly a renewed sense of purpose that may cost her.

By Alyssa Cole
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Finding unexpected support from a new friend while collecting stories from her rapidly vanishing Brooklyn community, Sydney uncovers sinister truths about a regional gentrification project and why her neighbors are moving away.

By Jennifer Rosner
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A mother who goes into hiding when Nazis begin arresting Jewish citizens in Poland considers an impossible choice while struggling to keep her 5– year–old daughter, a musical prodigy, from being overheard.