By Alison Espach
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“In Espach's charming coming-of-age debut, 14-year-old Emily Vidal's life begins to veer off course at her father's 50th birthday party when he announces that he and her mother are divorcing… (From Publishers Weekly).”

By Kate Christensen

Kicked out of the crumbling Brooklyn home that he thought was a happy one, poet Harry Quirk struggles to make sense of his literary, marital, financial and parental failures while trying to get back into his estranged wife's good graces.

By Tina Fey
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Amy B., Children's Librarian

Actress Tina Fey recounts her life, sharing how she managed to fulfill her dream of one day becoming a comedian on television and discussing her childhood, marriage, career, and views on beauty, politics, motherhood, and relationships.

By Melody Carlson
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“When an abandoned dog finds its way to Betty Kowalski's house during the Christmas season, she reluctantly takes it in and learns that Christmas is truly the season of giving (From the Publisher).”

By Christina Haag
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Traces the Juilliard-trained actress author's longtime friendship and eventual love affair with John F. Kennedy, Jr., describing their prep-school antics and shared stage productions before entering into a love affair that heartbreakingly ended when Kennedy decided he was not ready to settle down (From the Publisher).”

By Robert Harris
Series Cicero Trilogy
Recommended By Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

“A second installment in the trilogy that began with Imperium finds powerful and brilliant politician Cicero struggling with the high human cost of agendas gone terribly wrong (From the Publisher).”

By Jack Finney
Series Time and Again
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“The continuing escapades of Simon Morley, a time-travelling New York advertising executive engaged in a U.S. government program to change history (From the Publisher).”

By Rhys Bowen
Series Molly Murphy Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“Searching for the long-lost sister of an Irish-American impresario, P.I. Molly Murphy leaves turn-of-the-century New York to head back to her native Ireland, only to be confronted by the murder of her maid and the disappearance of a famed Irish actress (From the Publisher).”

By Sandra Brown
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk

“After plastic surgery transforms her face following a devastating plane crash, reporter Avery Daniels is mistaken for the greedy and glamorous wife of senatorial candidate Tate Rutledge, with whom she falls in love and must live a lie to protect (From the Publisher).”

By Steve Martin
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallels the soaring heights––and, at times, the dark lows––of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.

By Kyong-sook Shin

Follows the efforts of a family to find the mother who went missing from Seoul Station and their sobering realizations when they recall memories that suggest she may not have been happy.

By Plutarch
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

 “Plutarch's Lives contains the fifty lives of famous Greeks and Romans written by first century Greek historian and biographer Plutarch (From the Publisher).”

By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“The only wizard in the Chicago phone book, Harry is given the task of investigating rumors of black magic in the Windy City, while, at the same time, searching for some malevolent entities that feed on fear who have been set loose on Chicago (From the Publisher).”

By Nicholas Carr
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“Expanding on an article that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the best-selling author of The Big Switch discusses the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet, and how it may be transforming our neural pathways for the worse (From the Publisher).”

By David Baldacci
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer--an old friend of Sean King--to look into the case. But, en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body (From the Publisher).”