By Stephen King
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture.

By Albert Brooks
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

“A near-future world struggles with the challenges of a dramatically aging population revitalized by the cure for cancer, a scenario that is challenged by an unprecedented natural disaster that drives the government into bankruptcy (From the Publisher).”

By Seth Grahame–Smith

“Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln’s life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies (From Publishers Weekly).”

Became the movie: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“When his pregnant wife and child are kidnapped and he discovers that he has been set up as a traitor, brilliant CIA agent Sam Capra begins a desperate hunt for the unknown enemy who he believes has targeted the wrong man (From the Publisher).”

By Paul Piers Read
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

“On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive (From the Publisher).”

By Erich Maria Remarque
With Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 8, 2014. 7:30 PM.

The testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I, illuminates the savagery and futility of war.

By Vince Flynn
Series Mitch Rapp Novels
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn’s latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind the steely gaze of the nation’s ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin (From the Publisher).”

By Neil Gaiman
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Wednesday, April 25. 7:30 PM

“On the plane home to attend the funerals of his wife and best friend, Shadow, just released from prison, encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world, where the soul of America is at stake (From the Publisher).”

By Matthew Polly

This is the story of the childhood dream that led Polly to study martial arts at China’s famed Shaolin Temple, his initial disenchantement that turned into respect for the instructors, and the training that eventually led him to represent the Temple in international competitions.

By Jim Butcher
Series The Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Thomas Raith, Harry Dresden's incubus half-brother, comes up with a plan to save Harry from the evil Stygian Sisterhood while continuing to conceal his involvement in the Oblivion War (From the Publisher).”

By Kōshun Takami
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

A group of ninth–grade students are confined to a small isolated island where they must fight each other for three days until only one survivor remains, as part of the ultimate in reality television.

By Josh Bazell
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

In this debut thriller, an intern at a run-down Manhattan hospital who's atoning for his former life as a mob hit man encounters in the course of a single day a patient with a mystery illness, a 21-year-old girl about to have a leg amputated, and a former mob associate.

By Michael Connelly
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“Connelly is firing on all cylinders in this epic page-turner. The intriguing story line, the chance to view Bosch from another perspective, and Haller's reappearance as a main character add up to a fantastic read. One of the best thrillers of the year (Library Journal).”

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 David L. Robbins

Set against the backdrop of the Los Banos prison raid––one of the most daringepisodes of World War II - Broken Jewel tells a powerful story of war, love, and survival.

By Peter Golenbock

Reminiscences about the most beloved baseball team of all times.

By Joseph Finder
Series Nick Heller Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“Hoping to set up his own spy operation in his Boston home town, Nick Heller is contacted by a desperate family friend to rescue his kidnapped daughter, whose terrifying incarceration in an underground crypt is being broadcast on the Internet (From the Publisher).”

By Herman Wouk
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has become a perennial favorite of readers young and old, has sold millions of copies throughout the world, and has achieved the status of a modern classic.

By John Grisham
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“Follows the divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher (From the Publisher).”

By Eric Ambler
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“Robert Halliday, an American free-lance writer is coerced into negotiations between NATO and the "Ruler," a powerful Persian Gulf sheik of questionable sanity, and finds mystery in each of their interests (From the Publisher).”

By Lars Anderson
Recommended By Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

“A stunning work of narrative nonfiction, Carlisle vs. Army recounts the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that pitted Jim Thorpe, one of America's finest athletes, against Dwight D. Eisenhower, the man who would become one of the nation's greatest heroes. But beyond telling the tale of an epic afternoon whose reverberations would be felt for generations, Lars Anderson also reveals the broader social and historical context of the match, lending it his unique perspectives on sports and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century (From the Publisher).”

By Tom Rob Smith
Series Leo Demidov
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, July 21, 2009.  7 PM.

“During the terror of Stalin's last days, a secret policeman becomes a detective stalking a serial killer in a debut novel from a shockingly talented 28-year-old Brit (Kirkus Reviews).”

By John Grisham
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page, John Shea, Library Page

“An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him (From the Publisher).”

By Robert Harris
Series Cicero Trilogy
Recommended By Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

“A second installment in the trilogy that began with Imperium finds powerful and brilliant politician Cicero struggling with the high human cost of agendas gone terribly wrong (From the Publisher).”

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 Jeff Lindsay
Series Dexter
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Hiding a secret life as an assassin while working as a murder analyst for the Miami police, Dexter Morgan is intrigued by the work of a new serial killer whose style mimics his own (From the Publisher).”

Became the TV show: Dexter.

By Peter Spiegelman
Series John March Mysteries

Hired to find missing Wall Street analyst Gregory Danes, private detective John March uncovers a deadly web of financial deception as his investigation leads him through the corrupt inner workings of the financial world.

By Laurence Gonzales

After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference? Through close analysis of case studies, author Laurence Gonzales describes the essence of a survivor and offers twelve "Rules of Survival." In the end, he finds, it is what's in your heart, not what's in your pack, that separates the living from the dead.

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

“A novel that will curl your toes... Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension (New York Times Book Review).”

By D.E. Johnson
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

“In the wake of a fatal industrial accident, Will Anderson of 1910 Detroit becomes a chief suspect when the victim proves to be a man engaged to a woman Will loves, a situation that is complicated by a dangerous secret (From the Publisher).”

By Rick Riordan
Series Tres Navarre Mysteries

“When his brother Garrett, a wheelchair bound computer genius and ardent Jimmy Buffett fan, is accused of killing his oldest friend, Texas private detective and English teacher Tres Navarre ventures into a world of high-tech evil and old secrets as he sets out to find the real killer and clear his brother’s name (From the Publisher).”

By Philip K. Dick

Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids. They are machines, but look, sound and think just like humans - clever and most of all dangerous humans.

Became the movie: Blade Runner.

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra Novels
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, John Shea, Library Page, Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Compelled to assist a beautiful woman who whispers a plea for help in his San Francisco bar, former CIA agent Sam Capra is pursued by authorities and a secret network of people who owe their wealth and power to a mysterious Faustian figure (From the Publisher).”

By Jim Butcher

A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival.

Became the TV show: The Dresden Files.

By Frank Herbert
Series Dune Saga
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family - and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

Became the movie: Dune and Mini-Series: Dune.

By Henning Mankell
Series Kurt Wallander Mysteries
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

"Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local Swedish police officer whose own personal life is falling apart, finds himself coping with a wave of anti-foreigner sentiment when he is put in charge of the investigation into the brutal murders of an elderly couple (From the Publisher)."

By Stefan Fatsis
Recommended By Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

“…Fatsis with wry candor and hard-won empathy unveils the mind of the modern pro athlete and the workings of a storied sports franchise as no writer has before (From the Publisher).”

By Charles Cumming
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

When Amelie Levene, who in six weeks is due to take over as the first female Chief of MI6, disappears without a trace while in the south of France, it is the gravest crisis MI6 has faced in more than a decade. Britain's top intelligence agents turn to one of their own: disgraced former MI6 officer Thomas Kell. The trail leads Kell to France and Tunisia, where he uncovers a shocking secret and a conspiracy that could have unimaginable repercussions for Britain and its allies.

By David Baldacci
Series John Puller Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

"After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy (From the Publisher)."

By H.G. Bissinger
Recommended By Kalpana Mehta, Reference Librarian

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bissinger tells of the year he spent 1988 in Odessa, Tex., a town obsessed with its champion high–school football team, the Permian Panthers.

Became the movie: Friday Night Lights and TV show: Friday Night Lights.

By Steven Pressfield

Chronicles the battle of three hundred Spartan warriors against a huge force of Persian soldiers in 480 B.C. against the background of life in ancient Sparta and its extraordinary culture.

By Conn Iggulden
Series Genghis Trilogy

Chronicles the rise to power of Genghis Khan, one of the world's most powerful and fearsome rulers, from his tragic beginnings, to the murder of his father, to his legendary exploits as a feared warrior who conquered much of the known world.

By Conn Iggulden
Series Conqueror
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“After defeating the last of the Mongol tribes, Genghis, with his formidable army, sets his sights toward the Chin, whom he has long vowed to conquer. He has become a fearsome force who, with his ruthlessness and cunning need to vanquish, will lead his army to unfathomable victories (School Library Journal).”

By Mark Kram

“The intense rivalry between two great boxers is traced in this epic history of a sports legend that sets readers up for one of the greatest sporting events of all time--the "Thrilla in Manila” (From the Publisher).”

By Jo Nesbo
Series Harry Hole Series

A first case starring the intrepid inspector from such internationally best-selling crime novels as The Redbreast and Nemesis follows Harry Hole’s efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings.

By Robert Ferrigno
Series Assassin Trilogy
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Set in a future American divided into two major regions, Edgar-finalist Ferrigno’s final entry in his Assassin trilogy nicely ties up the wildly diverse plot lines that have motivated his many characters (Publishers Weekly).”

By John Le Carré
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“George Smiley, of England's Secret Service, goes onto the attack, manipulating old Asian hand Jerry Westerby through the Far East and a tangle of money, defection, passion, loyalty and love that severely tests Westerby's hitherto unfaltering allegiances (From the Publisher).”

By Reed Farrel Coleman
Series Moe Prager Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Entreated by his ex-wife to solve the murder of her estranged sister, private investigator Moe Prager learns that the victim, a New York EMT, died after refusing to give assistance to a dying man (From the Publisher).”

By Truman Capote

“On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.  As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy (From the Publisher).”

By Doug Stanton

“The definitive account of this harrowing chapter of World War II history-- In Harm’s Way is a classic tale of war, survival, and extraordinary courage (From the Publisher).”