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Staff Picks - May 2023RSS

An Honest Living

By Dwyer Murph
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

A former attorney agrees to help a reclusive literary star find her missing bookseller husband and is drawn into spiraling mysteries and feeling out of his depth when the person who hired him turns out to be an imposter.

Any Other Family

By Eleanor Brown
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Three sets of parents become intertwined after adopting four biological siblings and making a commitment to keep the children connected.

Bone Gap

By Laura Ruby
Recommended By Kaye Spurrell, Readers' Services Librarian

Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.

Dark Earth

By Rebecca Stott
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

After their father, a legendary blacksmith accused of infusing his swords with dark magic, suddenly dies, his daughters are faced with enslavement and must escape to the Ghost City where they find an underworld of rebel women living in secret.

Every Heart a Doorway

By Seanan McGuire
Series Wayward Children #1
Recommended By Kaye Spurrell, Readers' Services Librarian

Sent away to a home for children who have tumbled into fantastical other worlds and are looking for ways to return, Nancy triggers dark changes among her fellow schoolmates and resolves to expose the truth when a child dies under suspicious magical circumstances.

Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

By Robert Dugoni
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

Born with ocular albinism, small-town eye doctor Sam Hill, who was called “Devil Boy” in his youth, must finally face a past tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown and the life he’d always known—a journey that makes him realize what truly matters.

Four Winds

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

A Depression–era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl–ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California.

Garden of Small beginnings

By Abbi Waxman
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

After her husband's fatal car accident, Lillian recruits her daughters and supportive sister to help her do research for a boutique vegetable guide at the Los Angeles Botanical Garden, where an instructor and quirky gardeners help her grieve and heal.

Hostage

By Clare Mackintosh
Recommended By Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination. Someone who needs Mina's assistance and who knows exactly how to make her comply. It's twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours.

Hotel Nantucket

By Elin Hilderbrand
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Attempting to win the favor of the Hotel Nantucket’s new London billionaire owner, general manager Lizbet Keaton, with drama behind closed doors, staff and guests with complicated pasts, a ghost roaming the halls and her own romantic uncertainty, has her work cut out for her.

Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

By V.E. Schwab
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Kaye Spurrell, Readers' Services Librarian

Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.

Island of Missing Trees

By Elif Shafak
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

The fig tree in her parents’ garden, which unbeknownst to her bore witness to their secret meetings decades ago, is her only knowledge of a home she has never known as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.

Love Hypothesis

By Ali Hazelwood
Series Love Hypothesis #1
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

To convince her best friend that she is on her way to a happily ever after, third-year Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith, who doesn’t believe in long-lasting romance, forms a fake relationship with Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant and soon finds their experiment putting her own heart under the microscope.

Mika in Real Life

By Emiko Jean
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Getting to know Penny, the daughter she placed for adoption 16 years ago, 35-year-old Mika Suzuki finds unexpected love with Penny’s widowed father and finally has a chance to have the life and family she’s always wanted until her deceptions catch up with her.

Notes on an Execution

By Danya Kukafka
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

Told through the women in his life -- his mother, his sister-in-law, and the detective who brought him to justice -- this gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row as he awaits his execution in twelve hours.”

Out of the corner : a memoir

By Jennifer Grey
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The star of the iconic movie Dirty Dancing richly evokes the places and times that defined a nation, looks back on her unbridled romantic adventures in Hollywood, shares the fallout from a plastic surgery procedure that negatively impacted her career and reveals how she took her life back.

Some of it was Real

By Nan Fischer
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When up–and–coming psychic–medium Sylvie Young meets a reporter using his last–chance article to expose her as a conniving fraud and resurrect his career, they search for a truth that might destroy them both as they try to determine what’s real.

Summer Hours at the Robbers’ Library

By Sue Halpern
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Head librarian Kit has her quiet existence disrupted when a local, home-schooled teen, desperate for contact with people other than her hippie parents, is arrested for shoplifting a dictionary and is forced to do community service at the library.

Vacationland

By Meg Mitchell Moore
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

While staying at her parents’ house in Maine, Louisa must unravel a family mystery, while newly arrived Kristie cannot keep her various lives from colliding forever, and as these two women cross paths, they will ask themselves what they are owed and what they owe others.

Wish You Were Here

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.