By Amanda Hodgkinson

“Leaving Poland for England at the end of World War II, Silvana is accompanied by eight-year-old, near-feral Aurek, with whom she shares traumatic wartime memories that set them apart from her husband, who has remade himself as an Englishman to forget the past (From the Publisher).”

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 Richard Paul Evans
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“The Carousel is about what happens when life doesn't turn out the way that we planned. Beyond a love story, it is about faith, loyalty, and sacrifice (From the Publisher).”

By P.D. James
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

In 2021, with the human race becoming extinct due to the infertility of all males, Theodore Faron is drawn into the schemes of an unlikely group of revolutionaries out to save society.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels

“When her boyfriend Bill, a vampire who has been rather distracted of late, disappears, Sookie journeys to Mississippi to find her beloved, who has gotten himself caught in a dangerous web of murder and betrayal at Club Dead, an elite underground society (From the Publisher).”

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 Christie Hodgen
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Mary Murphy searches for identity and purpose as she tells the story of her erratic childhood, her runaway sister, and the histories of people with whom she's crossed paths (From the Publisher).”

By Laura Lippman
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

“Pregnant Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan probes the disappearance of a chic blonde green-raincoated dog walker she'd been watching from her comfy prison. Tess also takes in the missing woman's abandoned green-slickered Italian greyhound from hell and unravels a complex scam (From the Publisher).”

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

“Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney confronts dramatic changes in her life--her daughter's marriage and move to Italy, her husband's new job, and a mysterious stranger with a long-buried secret--as she must come to terms with the past in order to build a new life for herself… (From the Publisher).”

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 Tatjana Soli
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 6, 2013. 7:30 PM.

"A novel that follows an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men (From the Publisher)."

By J. Courtney Sullivan
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction (From the Publisher).”

By Keith Devlin
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“One of the great math popularizes of our time, Devlin recreates the life and enduring legacy of an overlooked genius, and in the process makes clear how central numbers and mathematics are to our daily lives (From the Publisher).”

By Barbara Ehrenreich

In an attempt to understand the lives of Americans earning near-minimum wages, Ehrenreich works as a waitress in Florida, a cleaning woman in Maine, and a sales clerk in Minnesota.

By Edgar Lee Masters
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“A notorious success when it was first published in 1915, this collection of dramatic monologues by over 200 former inhabitants of the fictional town of Spoon River topples the myth of moral superiority in small-town America, as the dead give testimony to their shocking scandals and secret tragedies (From the Publisher).”

By Alice LaPlante
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Implicated in the murder of her best friend, Jennifer White, a brilliant retired surgeon with dementia, struggles with fractured memories of their complex relationship and wonders if she actually committed the crime.

By Susan Henderson
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Tillie Harris is forced to face painful memories when her husband is away on business and she finds herself with sudden labor pains and must turn to her estranged father for help.

By Roopa Farooki

“Orphaned in early adulthood, the three Murphy siblings struggle with challenges related to the eldest's autism and the resentment and heightened responsibilities of the younger two, a situation that threatens to tear them apart (From the Publisher).”

By David Baldacci
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.