By Tayari Jones
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 14, 2019. 7:30 PM.

When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned.

By Robert Goldsborough
Series Nero Wolfe Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A shake-up in the NYPD homicide squad following a high-profile murder is bad for business for private investigator Nero Wolfe.

By James McBride
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

A black man describes growing up as one of 12 children of a white mother and black father.

By Mary Oliver
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

A selection of new and favorite poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Primitive celebrates the canine companions who have enriched her world, exploring how they have accompanied her walks, inspired her work and served as life guides. 

By Zulema Renee Summerfield
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

In the year following her parents' divorce, highly imaginative eight-year-old Nenny has a creeping premonition that something terrible will happen, and when this hunch comes true in the most unexpected of ways, she must deal with the fallout.

By Patricia Briggs
Series Mercy Thompson Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Mercy Thompson, shapeshifter and mate of the local werewolf pack's Alpha, discovers the entire pack has been abducted while she was in a minor fender bender with her stepdaughter.

By Amor Towles
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, June 26, 2018. 1:30 PM

Deemed unrepentant by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he lives in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold.

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid–1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.

By Joanna Goodman
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Unable to forget the daughter she was forced to give up 17 years earlier, Maggie Hughes, now married to a businessman eager to start a family, is reunited with a man from her past who helps her realize that she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long–lost daughter.

By Val McDermid
Series Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Novels
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

While Tony and Carol investigate a serial murderer luring single women from weddings, Paula McIntyre and her partner Elinor work to find a blackmailer targeting their ward.

By Nancy Thayer
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Having spent every summer of her adult life in Nantucket, Kansas City university professor Courtney finds herself caught between two lifestyles and two men before settling into the glamorous life she associates with the seaside and questioning her choice in the face of an unexpected turn.

By Catherine Ryan Howard
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Alison Smith—the former girlfriend of Will Hurley, who, unbeknownst to her at the time they were dating, was a serial killer—arrives at Dublin’s Central Psychiatric Hospital to hear Will’s last confession in order to get him to help the Garda detectives solve a copycat murder.

By Harry Dolan
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Having spent two years searching for the man he believes murdered his wife, private investigator Jack Pellum follows a bewildering message to a winding trail of unsolved murders and a philosophical man with a dark and secret past.

By Karen Cleveland
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, John Shea, Library Page

A dedicated CIA counterintelligence analyst assigned to uncover the leaders of Russian sleeper cells in the United States stumbles on a secret dossier of deep–cover agents before facing an impossible choice that tests her loyalties to the agency and her own family.

By Alice Hoffman
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, February 12, 2019. 7:30 PM.

Traces the story of Susanna Owens' children, who have powerful magical abilities, as they uncover secrets about a family curse while visiting their Aunt Isabelle and struggle to escape it before tragedy strikes.

By Catherine Steadman
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Lisa C., Library Clerk

A successful banker and a rising filmmaker embark on a blissful paradise honeymoon in Bora Bora, where the discovery of a mysterious bag of riches triggers a sequence of events that indelibly marks their marriage and lives.

By Anthony Ray Hinton
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 9, 2019. 7:30 PM.

A man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration.

By Swan Huntley
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Feeling empty in spite of the wealth that affords her a luxurious Manhattan apartment, designer accessories, and fine art, Catherine West pursues a relationship with the son of a family friend who her Alzheimer's patient mother only remembers negatively.

By Camille Perri
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

A romantic comedy about gender and sexuality follows the experiences of a traditionally minded Midwesterner who, in the aftermath of an ended engagement, finds herself in a transformative relationship with a self-assured New York businesswoman.

By John Clayton
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Blends together history and nature writing to provide a new perspective on Yellowstone and what it has come to represent, explaining the park's relationship to America throughout history.