By Elise Hooper
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

An American Army nurse serving in Manila in 1941 is captured as a prisoner of war by the Japanese Army and teams up with a Filipina university student and resistance member to fight back and save lives.

By Liane Moriarty
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa V., Library Clerk

A family of tennis stars debate whether or not to report their mother as missing because it would implicate their father.

By Liane Moriarty
Recommended By Rosalia White, Library Clerk, Lisa V., Library Clerk, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

An annual school Trivia Night ends in a disastrous riot leaving one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but evidence shows it might have been premeditated.

By Sally Hepworth
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

When Isabelle, a single woman, rents the house next door to Essie and the two forge a friendship, Essie's friends have questions about the woman who moved to the neighborhood for a secret purpose.

By Kristin Harmel
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Lisa V., Library Clerk

Raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe after being kidnapped, a young German woman, in 1941, vows to teach a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror how to survive in the forest until she is betrayed as her past and present collide.

By Kelly Mustian
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle. She forms a plan to go north, to pack up the secrets she's holding about her life in the South and hang them on the line for all to see. As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives.

By Adrian McKinty
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

In a new thriller, a family that just wanted a nice vacation finds themselves running for their lives.

By Jennifer Ryan
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

An indebted young widow, a freedom-seeking kitchen maid, the wife of a wealthy but unkind man and a trained chef navigating sexism compete for a once-in-a-lifetime spot hosting a BBC cooking program during World War II.

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 Jojo Moyes
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian, Lisa C., Library Clerk, Lisa V., Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

Tuesday, November 12, 2013. 7:30 PM.

Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living.

By Karen McQuestion
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

On a cold January night, Sharon Lemke heads outside to see a lunar eclipse when she notices something odd at the house behind her backyard. Through her neighbor's kitchen window, she sees what appears to be a little girl washing dishes late at night. But the Fleming family doesn't have a child that age, and even if they did, why would she be doing housework at this late hour? It would be easy for Sharon to just let this go, but when eighteen-year-old Niki, a former foster child, comes to live with Sharon, she notices suspicious activity at the Flemings' house as well. When calling social services doesn't result in swift action, the two decide to investigate on their own.

By Susan Meissner
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa V., Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Moving to early 20th–century San Francisco to escape New York tenement life, an Irish mail–order bride uncovers transformative secrets involving a silent child and two other women before her precarious existence is upended by the great earthquake of 1906.

By Heather Webb
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

A young Italian woman arrives on the shores of America, her sights set on a better life. That same day, a young American woman reports to her first day of work at the immigration center. But Ellis Island isn't a refuge for Francesca or Alma, not when ships depart every day with those who are refused entry to the country and when corruption ripples through every corridor. While Francesca resorts to desperate measures to ensure she will make it off the island, Alma fights for her dreams of becoming a translator, even as women are denied the chance. As the two women face the misdeeds of a system known to manipulate and abuse immigrants searching for new hope in America, they form an unlikely friendship—and share a terrible secret—altering their fates and the lives of the immigrants who come after them.

By Melissa Fu
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

Settling in America years after his turbulent childhood in China, Renshu, now Henry Dao, refuses to talk to his daughter about her heritage, determined to keep her safe in this new land despite being weighed down by his history.

By Diane Chamberlain
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk, Lisa V., Library Clerk

“After a dark night of unimaginable consequences, CeeCee Wilkes starts a new life as Eve Elliot and now, as a successful therapist, finds her past and present colliding, forcing her to make a difficult decision (From the Publisher).”

By Catherine Ryan Hyde
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

Rescuing seven puppies from a nearby river, 13-year-old Abby, whose cruel father makes life miserable, hides the puppies in an abandoned cabin where she meets a grieving widower named Elliot who helps her — and her mother — find the courage to be free.

By Lauren Graham
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

A struggling actress in 1990s NYC searches for work and the perfect hair product.

By Diane Chamberlain
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

Ending her engagement to the love of her life to marry her unborn child's father, Tess quickly discovers she is trapped in a union with a secretive man and is treated with suspicion by her neighbors when a local girl dies in an accident.

By Shari Lapeña
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

Responding to a call she hoped she would never get, a woman braces herself for the worst in a bad part of town and wakes up with no memory of what happened at the same time the police and her husband accuse her of misconduct.

By Frances Liardet
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

Caring for a lost child during the chaotic 1940 evacuation of her once-quiet Southampton village, a woman who never believed she wanted children finds herself unexpectedly at a loss when the child is taken away.

By Delia Owens
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Lisa V., Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a murder, Kya Clark, who has survived alone for years in a marsh near the North Carolina coast, becomes targeted by unthinkable forces.

By Ruth Druart
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

A story told from alternating perspectives follows the experiences of a traumatized survivor of the Nazi occupation in France and a Jewish woman in wartime Paris who entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger.

By Kristin Harmel
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

A story set amid the champagne vineyards of northern France during the darkest days of World War II follows two women who risk everything when the Germans invade.