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5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

By Gary Chapman
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Outlines five expressions of love—quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch—and explains how to identify and communicate effectively in a spouse's "love language."

Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle that Shaped America’s Destiny

By Brian Kilmeade
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A portrait of the seventh American president focuses on his formative military prowess during the War of 1812 and his pivotal contributions to the capturing of New Orleans from the British.

Blind

By A. F. Brady

As accomplished Manhattan psychologist Sam James gets pulled into the twisted past of a patient no other therapist is willing to treat, she analyzes her life and confronts her own mental turmoil.

Bonfire

By Krysten Ritter
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Successful environmental lawyer Abby Williams is forced to confront her small-town past while investigating a high-profile corruption case back home.

Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and my Father, Warren Jeffs

By Rachel Jeffs
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

The daughter of the self-proclaimed prophet of the FLDS Church describes the abusive patriarchal culture in which she was raised by sister wives and dominating men and discusses how her father remains a powerful influence on his followers.

Food Can Fix It: The Superfood Switch to Fight Fat, Defy Aging, and Eat Your Way Healthy

By Dr. Mehmet Oz

Emphasizes the role of food in wellness, outlining a strategic blueprint for promoting health and reducing stress by modifying a diet to focus on nutrient-rich superfoods.

Four Tendencies

By Gretchen Rubin

Identifies four key personality types that shape every aspect of behavior, explaining how to gain better understanding about each personality's strengths and vulnerabilities for better decision-making, reduced stress, and more effective communication.

House of Names

By Colm Tóibín
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 8, 2018. 7:30 PM.

A retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children in the legendary Greek city of Mycenae, describes how at the side of her lover she plots to murder her long-absent husband for his betrayals and infidelities.

Knife of Dreams

By Robert Jordan
Series Wheel of Time Series
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, prepares for a confrontation with the Dark One in order to save humanity, a feat that is challenged by the murderous Forsaken and Rand's need to acquire the remaining seals on the Dark One's prison.

Last Suppers

By Mandy Mikulencak
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

In 1950s Louisiana, Ginny Polk's job as a cook in a Louisiana prison, where she provides the last meals for death row prisoners, leads her into the secrets of her own past when she discovers information about the man who was executed for killing her father.

Little Fires Everywhere

By Celeste Ng
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, November 26, 2019. 1PM.

When a custody battle divides her placid town, straitlaced family woman Elena Richardson finds herself pitted against her enigmatic tenant and becomes obsessed with exposing her past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both families.

My Life, My Love, My Legacy

By Coretta Scott King
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Tuesday, April 10, 2018. 7:30 PM.

The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist presents her full life story, as told before her death to one of her closest confidants.

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

By Joseph R. Biden
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

The former vice-president of the United States chronicles the difficult final year of his son's battle with cancer, his efforts to balance his responsibilities to the country and his family, and the lessons he learned.

Sisters First: Stories From Our Wild and Wonderful Life

By Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The fraternal twin daughters of the 43rd U.S. president share personal stories and reflections from their lives within a political dynasty, from their grandfather's presidency through their subsequent upbringing under the eyes of the Secret Service, public, and paparazzi.

Stolen Marriage

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.

This Is How It Always Is

By Laurie Frankel
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 22, 2018. 1:30 PM.

A family reshapes their ideas about family, love, and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent.

Three Floors Up

By Eshkol Nevo
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Explores the interconnected lives of the residents of an upper middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, people whose turmoils, secrets, confessions, and decisions reveal the ills of a society with an identity crisis.

Waters of Eternal Youth

By Donna Leon
Series Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Hired to investigate a suspicious near-drowning that left a girl permanently brain damaged years earlier, Brunetti struggles to determine if a crime was actually committed in a case set against a backdrop of dynamic transitions in contemporary Venice.

Wife Between Us

By Greer Hendricks
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A psychologically charged tale of suspense follows the unexpected twists that shape a divorce and second marriage that are anything but what they seem.