By Joy Fielding
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Estranged from her family because of her complicated relationship with her stepmother, Robin returns home after her family experiences a brutal home invasion, only to uncover horrible family secrets that may have led to the attack.

By Sylvia Plath
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Kaye Spurrell, Readers' Services Librarian

Esther Greenwood, a talented and successful writer, finally succumbs to madness when the world around her begins to falter.

By Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

A heart-stopping memoir of a girl shaken by the brutalities of war and empowered by the will to survive, The Broken Circle brilliantly illustrates that family is not defined by the borders of a country but by the bonds of the heart.

By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

When singer Daisy Jones meets Billy Dunne of the band The Six, the two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.

By Ruth Ware
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

After erroneously receiving a mysterious letter about a large inheritance, Hal attends the deceased’s funeral and realizes that something is very, very wrong.

By Eric Weiner
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Draws on the author's experiences as a foreign correspondent to evaluate more than three dozen countries for their happiness potential, in a survey that includes profiles of such locales as the American shores, glacial Iceland, and the Bhutan jungles.

By Abbi Jacobson
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Presents a humorous and poignant collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.

By Jackie Hance
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

Shares the story of Jackie Hance's journey through unbearable loss and deep despair after her three young daughters were killed in a horrific traffic accident on a New York highway while riding in a minivan driven by their aunt.

By Michael Crichton
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, October 9, 2018. 7:30 PM

The Great American Read Title Selection: JURASSIC PARK by Michael Crichton

A breakthrough in genetic engineering leads to the development of a technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA, a method that brings about the creation of Jurassic Park, a tourist attraction populated by creatures extinct for eons.

By Susan Orlean
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the crucial role that libraries play in modern American culture.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Mysteries
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

When a vampire enlists the aid of cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic talents to find a missing vampire in Dallas, she agrees to the deal if the vampires promise to behave and to let the humans go unharmed.

By Jane Green
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Libby Mason, who dreams of marrying a wealthy man, finds herself torn between Nick, a struggling writer who makes up for his lack of funds with his passion in bed, and Ed, Britain's wealthiest but stodgiest bachelor.

By Jen Carter
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

The world calls The Falkland Islands harsh and isolated. The Carters called it home… In 1982, war brought The Falkland Islands into the spotlight. When Jennifer and her family put down roots in an unspoiled community on West Falkland, they can’t help but see the unruly climate and the close proximity to a frozen wasteland. How could a place like this be worth fighting for? The Carters quickly learn that the Falklands way of life is friendliness and self-sufficiency. Their new life becomes one of abundant wildlife and growing their own food, but it never strays from the island’s true British identity. Part homesteading, part off-the-grid, and all charm, this loving testimony to the resilient people of the islands will have you adding the Falklands to your bucket list in an instant. My Falkland Islands Life is the story of one family’s adventure in a British territory 8,000 miles from the United Kingdom. Whether you live on the islands, plan to travel there, or enjoy fascinating travelogues, you’ll love Jen Carter’s engaging memoir of a charming life at the bottom of the world.

By Louise Candlish
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Arriving home to find strangers moving into the prized family home she agreed to share with her ex, Fiona endures a domino effect of horrors as she discovers that her children have gone missing amid terrible revelations.

By Michael Robotham
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

A seemingly chance friendship between a parenting blogger and an unmarried grocery store clerk, both of whom are expecting babies the same month, is shattered by obsession, terrible secrets, and a shocking kidnapping plot.

By Helen Ellis
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Presents a humorous collection of essays on the art of living as a "Southern Lady" that explores subjects ranging from marriage and manners to women's health and entertaining.

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamache Mysteries/Three Pines Mysteries
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of Canada's Sûreté du Québec is called to Three Pines, a tiny hamlet south of Montreal, to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village.

By Bobby Hall

Arriving to work at the supermarket to a crime scene, Flynn's world begins to crumble as the secrets of his tortured mind are revealed.

By Lynda Cohen Loigman
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Reunited after an estrangement at the beginning of World War II, two Brooklyn sisters, one an officer's wife, the other a widow and factory laborer, are shattered by the revelations of a mysterious figure from the past.

By Anthony Horowitz
Series Detective Daniel Hawthorne Series
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

When a wealthy woman is found murdered after planning her own funeral service, disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate.