Thursday, Mar 28, 2024
Today's Hours: 9 AM - 9 PM

Main Menu

Directions

225 South Oyster Bay Road
Syosset, NY 11791
516-921-7161

Enter your starting address:


 

More Information

Hours

Hours of Service

  • Monday-Thursday: 9 AM to 9 PM
  • Friday: 10 AM to 6 PM
  • Saturday: 9 AM to 5 PM
  • Sunday: 12 PM to 5 PM
    (Closed Sundays July through Labor Day)

Click for Holiday Hours 

Contact

225 South Oyster Bay Road
Syosset, NY 11791-5897

516-921-7161
Phone Directory

Fax: 516-921-8771


Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any questions, comments, or concerns.


Quotes About Libraries

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

 

- Lemony Snicket

 

 

Share

Pin It

top

Humorous RomanceRSS

Before I Do

By Sophie Cousens

On the eve of her wedding, Audrey begins questioning whether or not Josh really is “the one,” especially after his sister shows up at the rehearsal dinner with one of her exes and everything that could go wrong, does.

Best Staged Plans

By Claire Cook
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

"A professional home stager in the Boston suburbs, Sandy Sullivan, after reading her family the riot act, takes a job staging a boutique hotel in Atlanta where she becomes immersed in other people’s lives while trying to fix up her own (From the Publisher)."

Big Cherry Holler

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Big Cherry Holler, the extraordinary sequel to Big Stone Gap, takes us back to the mountain life that enchanted us in Adriana Trigiani’s best selling debut novel (From the Publisher).”

Big Stone Gap

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Ave Maria's life in Big Stone Gap, VA, is essentially the same as it's been for all 35 years of her life, but after her mother's will reveals that the man Ave thought was her father isn't, she begins to lose hold of her routine… In between panic attacks and shouting matches, Ave tries to figure out what all these changes mean in her life (Library Journal).”

Book Lovers

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Agreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn’t, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.

Boy Meets Girl

By Meg Cabot
Series Boy

“Twentysomething Kate Mackenzie, who works and lives in New York City, is a typical chick-lit heroine: she hates her boss and has just broken up with her longtime boyfriend because he can't commit. Her job as a human resources representative at the New York Journal brings her to the center of controversy when her boss makes her fire the popular Dessert Cart Lady, Ida Lopez …  The grievance suit that ensues brings Kate in contact with the perfect guy, but he's a lawyer, so it takes Kate a while to realize that they're meant to be together (Library Journal).”

Boyfriend Material

By Alexis Hall
Series Material #1
Recommended By Kaye Spurrell, Readers' Services Librarian

Fabricating a respectable relationship with a man with whom he shares nothing in common when his rock-star father’s comeback leads to unwanted attention, Luc stages publicity-friendly dates that become complicated by all-too-real feelings.

Can You Keep a Secret?

By Sophie Kinsella

“When her plane en route from Glasgow to London experiences horrible turbulence, Emma Corrigan is convinced she is going to die. She babbles all of her most intimate thoughts and secrets to the handsome American man sitting next to her… When she enters the office on Monday and learns the CEO of the company is in for a visit, Emma is horrified to learn Jack is actually the man in whom she confided on the flight… (Booklist).”

Dating Big Bird

By Laura Zigman
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

Dating Big Bird is funny and convincing enough to penetrate the cynicism of readers who still associate parenthood with " minivans and portacribs and strollers and enormous shoulder-strapped survival bags stuffed with toys and dolls and stickers and hundreds of little Ziploc Baggies (USA Today).”

Delilah Green Doesn't Care

By Ashley Herring Blake
Series Bright Falls #1
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Pressured into photographing her estranged step-sister’s wedding, Delilah Green reluctantly returns home to Bright Falls where she finds herself falling for one of the stuck-up bridesmaids after the pair are forced together during party preparations.

Flatshare

By Beth O'Leary
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence.

Frankly in Love

By David Yoon

Torn between his love for his white girlfriend and his sense of duty to the matchmaking parents who made hard sacrifices to move to the United States, a Korean American teen looks for solutions along with a friend who has a similar problem.

Friend Zone

By Abby Jimenez
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Planning her best friend's wedding is bittersweet for Kristen Peterson as she faces a medical procedure that will make her unable to have children, especially as she finds herself connecting with the best man.

Getting Rid of Matthew

By Jane Fallon
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

"Fallon takes "careful what you wish for" to hilarious heights in her debut novel, a comedy of errors triggered by a mistress who discovers thrice-weekly hookups with her married lover are better than a 24/7 relationship with him (Publishers Weekly)."

Girls' Poker Night

By Jill Davis
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

After landing a job as a reporter at the "New York News," Ruby Capote joins three other women for evenings playing poker and finds herself falling for her intriguing and challenging boss, Michael.

Good Riddance

By Elinor Lipman
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Discarding her late mother's cherished and heavily annotated high school yearbook, Daphne is entangled in a series of absurdities when the yearbook is discovered by a busybody documentary filmmaker.

Happy Ever After Playlist

By Abby Jimenez
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Adopting a rescue puppy to help her get her life back on track two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan clashes with the mischievous pup’s original owner, Jason, a rising musician who challenges Sloan to make difficult choices.

Honey Girl

By Morgan Rogers
Recommended By Kaye Spurrell, Readers' Services Librarian

After completing her Ph.D. in astronomy, a young, straightlaced, Type A personality black woman goes on a girls' weekend to Vegas to celebrate and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't even know.

I Heart Vegas

By Lindsey Kelk
Series I Heart Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“After her first standalone novel, The Single Girl’s To-Do List, Lindsey returns with a sparkling and romantic new novel in the “I Heart series” (From the Publisher).”

Just My Type

By Falon Ballard

A serial dater and relationship columnist for a trendy L.A. website decides to learn how to stay single, but has her resolve tested by her high school ex, who has accepted an assignment for the website.

Life's Too Short

By Abby Jimenez
Series Friend Zone #3
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Gaining an unexpected online following after quitting her job to travel the world, a woman anticipating a short life becomes the guardian of her infant niece before her resolve to avoid relationships is tested by a baby-savvy lawyer.

Love Hypothesis

By Ali Hazelwood
Series Love Hypothesis #1
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

To convince her best friend that she is on her way to a happily ever after, third-year Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith, who doesn’t believe in long-lasting romance, forms a fake relationship with Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant and soon finds their experiment putting her own heart under the microscope.

Love is a Canoe

By Ben Schrank

Famous for his fifty-year-old self-help book on love and relationships, Peter engages in a passionless relationship after the death of his wife and questions the validity of his advice when an ambitious young editor launches a contest for struggling couples based on his book.  

Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

By Jenny Colgan
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Having spent her childhood helping her grandfather in his bakery, Issy Randall decides to open her own cafe after being laid off from her desk job, but she encounters a host of problems on the path to success in business.

Mr. Maybe

By Jane Green
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Libby Mason, who dreams of marrying a wealthy man, finds herself torn between Nick, a struggling writer who makes up for his lack of funds with his passion in bed, and Ed, Britain's wealthiest but stodgiest bachelor.

Mr. Perfect On Paper

By Jean Meltzer

The founder of J–Mate, the world’s most successful Jewish dating app, Dara Rabinowitz, when her beloved bubbe outs her list for “The Perfect Jewish Husband” on a TV news show, is thrust into the spotlight as she, with the help of a reporter, searches for true love.

My Lady’s Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel

By Kitty Curran

The romance novel that lets you pick your path, follow your heart, and find happily ever after. You are the plucky but penniless heroine in the center of eighteenth-century society, courtship season has begun, and your future is at hand. Make choices, turn pages, and discover all the daring delights of the multiple (and intertwining!) storylines. And in every path you pick, beguiling illustrations bring all the lust and love to life.

Prada and Prejudice

By Mandy Hubbard

Callie buys a pair of Prada shoes to impress the popular girls, a scheme that backfires and sends her back to 1815.

Romantic Comedy

By Curtis Sittenfeld

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a hilarious, observant, and deeply tender novel.

Rosie Effect

By Graeme Simsion
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

After his wife Rosie announces that she is pregnant, Don Tillman sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father while helping his best friend Gene, who is living with them, reconcile with his wife Claudia.

Ship Wrecked

By Olivia Dade
Series Spoiler Alert #3

Co–stars Maria and Peter, who once had a mind–blowing one–night stand, don’t touch off–camera for six years, but on their last night of filming, their pent-up desire explodes into renewed passion, forcing them to decide what the future holds.

Switch

By Beth O'Leary
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Ready for an adventure in the months after her husband of 60 years departs, a woman from a picture–postcard Yorkshire village offers to swap places with her burned–out adult granddaughter to pursue romance in bustling London.

Tea Rose

By Jennifer Donnolly
Series Tea Rose Trilogy

London, 1888: a young woman dares to dream of a life beyond tumbledown wharves, gas lit alleys and the grim, crumbling dwellings of the poor.

Undercover Bromance

By Lyssa Kay Adams
Series Bromance Book Club Novels

A sequel to The Bromance Book Club finds restaurant employee Liv Papandreas fired for reporting sexual harassment before teaming up with Bromance Book Club member Braden Mack to turn the tables on an abusive celebrity chef.

Unhoneymooners

By Christina Lauren

When her twin sister and new brother-in-law get food poisoning at their wedding, maid of honor Olive, accompanied by her nemesis, the best man Ethan, assumes the role of a newlywed on a Hawaii honeymoon before unexpectedly falling for her companion.

Wedding Night

By Sophie Kinsella
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“Tiring of commitment-phobic boyfriends, Lottie readily accepts her ex’s offer of marriage in fulfillment of a safety pact made years earlier that they would marry if they were still single in their thirties, a rushed arrangement that prompts family disapproval and an unexpected renewal of passion (From the Publisher).”

Worst Best Man

By Mia Sosa

The top wedding coordinator in Washington, D.C., Carolina Santos is offered an opportunity of a lifetime, but there is just one hitch—she has to collaborate with the best man from her own failed nuptials—and decides to dish out a little payback of her own until the unexpected happens.