By Darragh McKeon
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Follows the lives of several people on the eve of the Chernobyl disaster, including a nine-year-old piano prodigy, a leading surgeon with a failing marriage, and a young Ukrainian villager who wakes to find his cattle bleeding from their ears.

By Sarah Silverman
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne who has her own show on Comedy Central comes a memoir that is at once personal, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny and includes humorous essays, embarrassing photos, mortifying childhood diary entries and truly humiliating e-mails to and from her comedian friends.

By Timothy Snyder
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Describes how fourteen million people were murdered by Hitler’s and Stalin’s regimes in the area between Germany and Russia during the time when both men were in power and examines the motives and methods behind the mass murders (From the Publisher).”

By William Landay
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

His happy life and long-time respectability as a suburban Massachusetts assistant district attorney shattered when his 14-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, Andy Barber faces a wrenching decision about family loyalty when the facts increasingly suggest that the boy is guilty.

By Joseph O'Neill

“Leaving New York in the wake of a breakup to take a job in a futuristic Dubai at the height of its metropolitan self-invention, a young man struggles with the growing feelings of being trapped while navigating the eccentricities of his wealthy employers (From the Publisher).”

By J.A. Jance
Series Joanna Brady Mystery
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Juggling the demands of her career and her family, Southwestern Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most unsettling case yet in the disturbing murder of a loner and her seventeen dogs.

By Clinton Kelly
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The style consultant and co-host of What Not to Wear shares his witty expertise on everything from the importance of tailoring and making the perfect omelet to party planning, table manners, thank-you notes, and more, with frank and funny advice on how to become fabulous in every aspect of one's life.

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 Sue Monk Kidd
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 26, 2015. 1:30 PM.

Traces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self.

By John Green
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Sharon Long, Teen Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian

Tuesday, August 4, 2015. 7:30 PM.

Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

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.

By Joanna Trollope
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Both happy in their relationships with younger women, James Mallow, a teacher, and his friend, Hugh Hunter, a television personality, find the age difference becoming a problem when an older woman sows a seed of discontent in the young women.

By JoJo Moyes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A single mom trying to raise a bullied stepson and a mathlete daughter finds an unexpected rescue in the form of an obnoxious tech millionaire named Geeky Ed.

By Greg Prato
Recommended By Chris Crosby, Library Clerk

“Presents a history of the group through interviews with current and former members of the band and other notable musicians, including Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Trey Anastasio of Phish, and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (From the Publisher).”

By Robert Dawson
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A collection of photographs of public libraries throughout the United States is accompanied by essays, letters, and poems by distinguished writers and librarians honoring this threatened institution.

By Tana French
Series Dublin Murder Squad Novels
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Investigating a disturbing photo of a boy whose murder was never solved, aspiring Murder Squad member Stephen Moran partners with abrasive detective Antoinette Conway to search for answers in the tight-knit cliques and rivalries at a Dublin boarding school.

By Christopher Moore
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

When merchant Antonio, senator Montressor Brabantio and naval officer Iago lure Fool Pocket, the widower of the murdered Queen Cordelia—and the man who has consistently foiled their grand scheme for power and wealth—to Venice, the tables are quickly turned by this Fool who is no fool.

By Jo Nesbø
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Serving time for crimes he did not commit in exchange for heroin payouts, Sonny Lofthus uses his spiritual charisma to navigate corrupt and violent elements in his life before learning disturbing truths about his police officer father’s suicide.

By Thrity Umrigar
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

Befriending a young Indian woman named Lakshmi who is suicidal, lonely, and trapped in a loveless marriage psychologist Maggie finds their relationship warped by conflicting expectations and threatened by the revelation of long buried secrets.

By Janelle Brown
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

"The bohemian life of artsy new homeowners Claudia and Jeremy is thrown into chaos by the failure of Claudia’s first film, the return of Jeremy’s successful ex-girlfriend, and the staggering adjustment of their monthly mortgage payments (From the Publisher).”