By Agatha Christie
Series Miss Marple #10
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

During a vacation in London, Miss Marple becomes suspicious of the other guests in her too-dignified West End hotel.

By Stephen King
Recommended By Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, grieving widower Mike Noonan returns to his former Maine getaway, only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations.

Became the TV mini-series: Bag of Bones.

By Qian Julie Wang
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

This memoir from a Chinese woman who arrived in New York City at age 7 examines how her family lived in poverty out of fear of being discovered as undocumented immigrants and how she was able to find success.

By Pat Benatar
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

The singer of such 1980s hits as "Heartbreaker" and "Love Is a Battlefield" discusses her rock 'n' roll life--including concert tours, MTV videos, and adoring fans -- and the marriage that kept her away from the pitfalls of fame.

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

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a collection of comic essays that reflect on the middle–aged experience of modern women, with characters such as fifty–year–old new moms and garage sale swindlers.

By Rachel Harrison
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

After being dumped and needing a new start, Annie accepts a job teaching in a picturesque town in Upstate New York, where she befriends the enchanting Sophie, who seems to frighten the townsfolk and just might be a witch.

By Erin Sterling
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Vivienne Jones must find a way to break her Ex Hex on Rhys Penhallow, while ignoring their off–the–charts chemistry, when the town falls under the attack of murderous wind–up toys, a pissed –off ghost and a talking cat with some interesting things to say.

By Naomi Krupitsky
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Pushing against the boundaries of society’s expectations and fighting to preserve their complex but life–sustaining friendship, Sofia Colicchio and Antonia Russo, who live in the shadow of their fathers’ unspoken community until Antonia’s father disappears, find their loyalty tested on one fateful night.

By Brent Spiner
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

A serio-comic, semi-autobiographical thriller from the actor best known for portraying the android Lieutenant Commander Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation describes the bizarre relationship between a celebrity and one of his obsessed fans.

By Natalie D. Richards
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Desperate to reach her grieving mother, Mira joins a group of college students driving home after their flight is stranded, but the road conditions are not the only mortal danger they face.

By Cherie Priest
Series Grave Reservations #1
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

A psychic with scattershot, inconsistent abilities, Leda Foley, joins forces with a Seattle PD detective, Grady Merritt, whom she accidentally saved from a doomed flight, to solve a cold case and catch a killer.

By Laura Dave
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

After her husband disappears, Hannah Hall quickly realizes he isn’t who he said he was and that his 16–year–old daughter, who wants nothing to do with her, may hold the key to figuring out his true identity.

By Richard Osman
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

When an old friend, who has been accused of stealing millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds, desperately needs her help leaving a dead body in his wake, Elizabeth and her friends go up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.

By Jane Austen
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

Jane Austen's first novel, Northanger Abbey - published posthumously in 1818 - tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion.

By Natasha Lester
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

When she mysteriously inherits a home on the Riviera, Remy Lang, while working on her vintage fashion business, finds a catalog of the artworks stolen during World War II and makes a shocking discovery that leads her on an extraordinary journey to the past.

By Francesca Hornak
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Looking forward to a Christmas family reunion for the first time in years, the Birch family is upended by the news that their physician-activist daughter has been exposed to a foreign virus that forces the entire family into quarantine for a week also shaped by respective anxieties, past glory and a shocking secret.

By Hillary Rodham Clinton
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A passionate young foreign service officer, a dedicated journalist, and a smart, determined, but as yet untested new secretary of state must team up to defeat an intricate, carefully constructed conspiracy planned to take advantage of four years of an American government out of touch with international affairs.

By Nathaniel Philbrick

Written at a moment when America’s founding figures are under increasing scrutiny, the author, retracing George Washington’s journey as a new president through all thirteen former colonies, paints a picture of 18th-century America as divided and fraught as it is today/

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian, Ann Competello, Library Clerk, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

With everything perfectly on track, Diana O’Toole finds things going off the rails when she is quarantined during her dream vacation in the Galapagos due to a virus, forcing her to reevaluate herself and her life when she makes a connection with a local.