By Piero degli Antoni
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“Two elderly survivors of Auschwitz recall the harrowing night when they and eight other prisoners were ordered to pick which of their number would be executed at dawn, a choice marked by shocking revelations and wrenching debates (From the Publisher).”

By Kate Christensen
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“Builds on the author’s popular food-centric blog to recount her unconventional upbringing and her unusually happy and occasionally sorrowful life of literary and culinary sensuality (From the Publisher).”

By Nora Roberts
Series The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“American Iona Sheehan searches for her Irish ancestors, the O’Dwyers, to learn more about her powers and break an ancient curse, and she falls head over heels for Boyle McGrath, the owner of a local stable (From the Publisher).”

By Candice Millard
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, March 25, 2014. 1:30 PM.

A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.

By Jonathan Maberry
Series Joe Ledger Novels

“Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences face their deadliest threat yet when they go up against two competing groups of geneticists bent on world domination (From the Publisher).”

By Tracy Chavalier
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A poor seventeenth–century servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty whispers and rumors circulate throughout the town.

Became the movie: Girl with a Pearl Earring.

By Ann Leary
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“Successful real-estate broker, family woman and raging alcoholic Hildy Good embarks on a life of denial and loneliness while resenting the intervention of her loved ones and becoming embroiled in a scandal in her New England town that involves two craggy seniors (From the Publisher).”

By James McBride

“Fleeing her violent master at the side of legendary abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-19th-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 (From the Publisher).”

By Joe Hill
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet.

By Laura Lippman
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Eliza Benedict’s peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row (From the Publisher).”

By Susann Cokal
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

The wedding festivities of Scandinavian Princess Sophia are thrown into turmoil by an illness plaguing the royal family and a courtier's plot that places a seamstress and a royal nursemaid at the center of an epic power struggle.

By Steve Berry
Series Cotton Malone Novels
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“While escalating political tensions between the United States and England put his son, Gary, in the hands of a man with a shadowy and intensely personal agenda, Cotton Malone finds himself confronting a baffling historical mystery that questions the legitimacy of Elizabeth I (From the Publisher).”

By Matt Haig
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Struggling with the typical throes of human life with the help of their loyal black Labrador, Prince, the Hunter family is aided in unusual ways by their canine friend when he perceives that they are becoming their own worst enemies (From the Publisher).”

By Jojo Moyes
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian, Lisa C., Library Clerk, Lisa V., Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

Tuesday, November 12, 2013. 7:30 PM.

Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living.

By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

Jack Reacher arrives in Virginia hoping to contact the woman he spoke with on the phone in 61 Hours, only to be drafted back into the Army, where he confronts life-changing elements from his past.

By Bill Bryson
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Recounts the story of a pivotal cultural year in the United States when mainstream pursuits and historical events were marked by contributions by such figures as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and Al Capone.

By Jason Mott
Series The Returned
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When their son Jacob, who died tragically at his eighth birthday party in 1966, arrives on their doorstep, still eight years old, Harold and Lucille Hargrave must navigate a strange new reality as chaos erupts around the world as people's loved ones are returned from beyond.

By John Lukacs
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Offers a succinct chronicle of 20th Century world history, focusing on the period from the beginning of World War I through the fall of the Soviet Union (From the Publisher).”

By Elizabeth Gilbert
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an artist.

By Lauren Graham
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

A struggling actress in 1990s NYC searches for work and the perfect hair product.