By Donna Leon
Series Guido Brunetti Mysteries
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

“With her 18th stellar entry in the Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Leon continues to live up to the increasingly high standards set by each novel. Her latest brings the Venetian policeman into intertwining cases involving dangerous environmental hazards: mounting trash heaps, air & water pollution (Library Journal Review).”

By Daniel James Brown
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 8, 2016. 7:30 PM.

Traces the story of an American rowing team from the University of Washington that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower.

By David R. Gillham
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, January 28, 2014.  1:30 PM.

Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family. 

By Abraham Verghese
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Marion and Shiva Stone come of age in an Ethiopia on the brink of revolution, where their love for the same woman drives them apart.

By Jim DeFede
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Shares the experiences of the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland, who were hosts to the more than six thousand passengers of thirty-eight U.S.-bound jetliners forced to land there in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

By Regina Calcaterra
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Amy B., Children's Librarian

“A tenacious lawyer, state official, and activist records her childhood in foster homes and on the streets with her four siblings, revealing a life of horrible abuse in the shadows between Manhattan and the Hamptons (From the Publisher).”

By Jojo Moyes
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

Unwillingly rendered an object of obsession by the Kommandant occupying her small French town in World War I, Sophie risks everything to reunite with her husband a century before a widowed Liv tests her resolve to claim ownership of Sophie's portrait.

By Gretchen Rubin
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Recounts the author's efforts to render her home a place of greater simplicity, comfort, and love, discussing how she experimented with a range of concrete resolutions and came to redefine her views about family, time, and material comforts.

By Hilary Rodham Clinton
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

The former secretary of state, senator and first lady shades candid reflections about the key moments of her services in the Obama Administration as well as her thoughts about how to navigate the challenges of the 21st century

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamache Mysteries
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

“Struggling to maintain the Homicide group during the holiday season in the wake of interdepartmental estrangements, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache quietly investigates the disappearance of a once-famous mad poet while seeking a safe haven for his loyal colleagues in an increasingly hostile town (From the Publisher).”

By Nora Ephron
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

"Nora Ephron returns taking a cool, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten (From the Publisher)."

By Ronald Kessler
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

A behind-the-scenes account of the experiences of Secret Service agents draws on interviews with more than 100 current and former agents who served during the administrations of such presidents as JFK, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

By Martha Hall Kelly
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

The lives of three women converge at the Ravensbruck concentration camp as Caroline Ferriday resolves to help from her post at the French consulate, Kasia Kuzmerick becomes a courier in the Polish resistance, and Herta Oberheuser takes a German government medical position.

By David Dosa
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

 “Making Rounds with Oscar is the story of an unusual cat, the patients he serves, their caregivers, and of one doctor who learned how to listen. Heartfelt, inspiring, and full of humor and pathos, this book allows readers to take a walk into a world rarely seen from the outside, a world we often misunderstand (From the Publisher).”

By Nathan Hill
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Astonished to see the mother who abandoned him in childhood throwing rocks at a presidential candidate, a bored college professor struggles to reconcile the media depictions of his mother with his memories and decides to draw her out by penning a tell– all biography.

By Steve Martin
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallels the soaring heights––and, at times, the dark lows––of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.

By Elizabeth Strout
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

A collection of thirteen linked short stories recounting the experiences of Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who witnesses the changes in her town and the world at large.

By Janice Y.K. Lee
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Claire Pendleton, newly married and arrived in Hong Kong in 1952, finds work giving piano lessons to the daughter of Melody and Victor Chen, a wealthy Chinese couple. While the girl is less than interested in music, the Chens’ flinty British expat driver, Will Truesdale, is certainly interested in Claire, and vice versa. Their fast–blossoming affair is juxtaposed against a plot line beginning in 1941 when Will gets swept up by the beautiful and temptestuous Trudy Liang, and then follows through his life during the Japanese occupation.

By Camron Wright
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Sang Ly struggles to survive by picking through garbage in Cambodia’s largest municipal dump. Under threat of eviction by an embittered old drunk who is charged with collecting rents from the poor of Stung Meanchey, Sang Ly embarks on a desperate journey to save her ailing son from a life of ignorance and poverty.

By Emma Donoghue
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Susan L., Library Page, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 22. 1 PM & 7:30 PM

Five–year–old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven–by–eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.

By Laura Hillenbrand
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

"Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938… Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race (From the Publisher)."

By Cate Linberry
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

“Recounts how the passengers and crew of an American medical evacuation plane, including thirteen nurses and thirteen medics, survived after it crashed in Nazi-controlled Albania in November, 1943, until they could be rescued (From the Publisher).”

By A.S.A. Harrison
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk, Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

Told in alternating voices, this gripping novel follows the events leading up to the violent dissolution of Jodi and Todd's marriage - a union steeped in lies, infidelity, jealousy and denial.

By Mira Jacob
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Decades after an interrupted visit to his mother’s home in 1979 India triggers a haunting series of events, brain surgeon Thomas Eapen begins having conversations with his dead relatives, prompting his daughter to investigate a painful family history.

By Deborah Crombie
Series Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mysteries
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

"While investigating the murder of a well-respected barrister who was found dead at a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Detective Sergeant Melody Talbot, begin to question everything they think they know about their world and those they trust most (From the Publisher)."

By Lauren Hillenbrand
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 16.  7:30 PM.

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashes into the Pacific and Lt. Louis Zamperini survives. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, he would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.

By Elinor Lipman
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Two newly-single sisters, one a divorceé, the other a widow, become roommates with a handsome, gay cupcake-baker as they try to return to the dating world of lower Manhattan.

By Lisa Scottoline
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

“Brief, punchy slices of daily life originally published in her Philadelphia Inquirer column allow novelist Scottoline to dish on men, mothers, panty lines and, especially, dogs (From Publishers Weekly).”