By Wendy Walker
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of a violent assault, young Jenny Kramer struggles with difficult emotional memories that linger months later as her father becomes obsessed with revenge and her mother descends into denial.

By Ann Leary
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A wealthy but unconventional New England family of four stepsiblings struggles to come to terms with their legacy and the myths they have built their lives upon during a lavish family wedding that exposes long-standing resentments and unfortunate truths.

By Blake Crouch
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Kidnapped and drugged at gunpoint for inexplicable reasons, physics professor Jason Dessen awakens in a lab and is informed that his entire life has been an illusion and that he is being hunted by a deadly adversary.

By Thomas Mullen
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Hired by the Atlanta Police Department in 1948, Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith confront deep hostility from their white peers before confronting a corrupt officer who complicates their investigation into the murder of a black woman.

By Diana Gabaldon
Series Outlander Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

In eighteenth-century Scotland, Claire Randall and her raven-haired daughter, Brianna, return to the majestic hills where Claire recalls the love of her life—gallant warrior James Fraser.

By Chris Cleave
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Shocking her blueblood political family by volunteering for the war effort in 1939 London, socialite Mary teaches evacuated and marginalized children and bonds with her employer, Tom, before their romance is challenged by a painful love triangle and the grueling realities of the war.

By Nina Willner
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A former American military intelligence officer traces the experiences of five women in her family who were separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years and who endured terrifying Communist rule before being reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

By Elin Hilderbrand

Gathering at a ramshackle Nantucket cottage, a late celebrity chef’s wives and children confront the sources of their bitter rivalries and slowly let go of resentments as they remember positive times and share long-held secrets.

By Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The mother-daughter duo present a collection of witty, wise, and relatable stories on topics ranging from online dating to fleece as formal wear.

By Jonas Karlsson
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

An unassuming Swedish video store clerk receives an invoice in the amount of 5.7 kronor to pay for every one of his life experiences.

By William Norwich
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

Called upon to inventory the estate of a wealthy woman, Emilia Brown, a frugal and unnoticed woman in small-town Rhode Island, discovers an exquisitely tailored Oscar de la Renta dress in the woman’s collection and changes her life to be able to purchase the dress.

By Darrin Lunde
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Demonstrates how a young Theodore Roosevelt actively modeled himself in the proud tradition of influential museum naturalists who had a significant influence on the 26th President’s personality and politics, exploring how his passion for the natural world set the stage for America’s wildlife conservation movement.

By Jane L. Rosen

Nine unrelated women whose circumstances are shaped by unrequited love, infidelity and fame find their lives touched by the same little black dress and its seemingly magical properties.

By Suzanne Rindell
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Working as a typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, Rose Baker documents confessions of harrowing crimes and struggles with changing gender roles while clinging to her Victorian ideals and searching for nurturing companionship.

By Nora Roberts
Series Chesapeake Bay Saga
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Cameron, a champion boat racer, returns home to the Maryland shore at the behest of his dying father to care for Seth, a troubled young boy.

By Jeff Hobbs
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, September 13, 2016. 7:30 PM.

Traces a young man's effort to escape the dangers of the streets and his own nature after graduating from Yale, describing his youth in violent 1980s Newark, efforts to navigate two fiercely insular worlds and life-ending drug deals.

By Stephanie Danler
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

A year in the life of a beguiling young woman in the wild world of a famous downtown New York restaurant follows her burning effort to become someone of importance through a backwaiter job that enables her indulgences in culinary and intellectual interests.

By Philippa Gregory
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Reimagines the story of Henry VIII’s sixth wife, Kateryn Parr, who after being forced to marry the king struggles against dangerous adversaries to observe her own faith and promote religious reforms.

By Colson Whitehead
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.

By Anne Tyler
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, February 14, 2017. 7:30 PM.

A modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew follows the experiences of a preschool teacher who alienates others by speaking her mind, and who manages her family's home before she is expected by her eccentric father to marry his assistant to prevent the young man's deportation.