By James Patterson
Series Women's Murder Club
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Four women—a police detective, an assistant D.A., a reporter, and a medical examiner who call themselves the Women’s Murder Club—develop lifelong bonds as they pursue a killer whose twisted imagination has stunned an entire city.
By Clare Mackintosh
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Disagreeing for the first time when their son falls ill and they receive conflicting doctor recommendations, a devoted couple finds a unique way for both of their preferences to become possible.
By Tim Manley
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Favorite fairy tale characters are depicted as living in the 21st century and find themselves braving creeps on dating sites, gluten allergies, and Facebook stalkers.
By Scott Snyder
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Includes King’s western tale about a sun-powered vampire with rattlesnake fangs + Snyder’s story about a female vampire who is seeking revenge against the European bloodsuckers who tortured and abused her.
By Scott Snyder
Series American Vampire Series
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
This volume of the critically-acclaimed AMERICAN VAMPIRE follows the star of AV Volumes 1 and 2, Pearl, and her husband Henry, as he is recruited by a mysterious group of vampire hunters, off to World War II Japan to find a new breed of blood sucker. But what does the notorious vampire Skinner Sweet have to do with it?
By Agatha Christie
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian
When ten people arrive on private Indian Island off England's southwest coast, lured to a mansion by invitations from a mysterious host, terror mounts as one guest after another is murdered, in a classic whodunit that is an elaboration of the famous children's rhyme "Ten Little Indians."
By Nora Roberts
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
The sole survivor of a brutal crime, Reece Gilmore seeks refuge from the terror of the past in Angel's Fist, Wyoming, only to become an eyewitness to a possible murder, but when all evidence of the crime vanishes, no one seems to believe her, except for Brody, a gruff loner who becomes her only hope of escaping a killer.
By George Orwell
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian
A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.
Became the movie: Animal Farm.
By Ernest Cline
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian
By Neil deGrasse Tyson
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
The notable host of StarTalk reveals just what people need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
By Kim-Joy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Infuse your baking with a sprinkle of glitter, a rainbow of colors and a menagerie of woodland creatures with the help of this unique baking book from everyone's favorite Great British Bake Off finalist, Kim-Joy!
By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden Files #17
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
When the Last Titan, a being more dangerous than anything humanity has faced in a millennium, declares war on the city of Chicago, professional wizard Harry Dresden embarks on a defense that permanently transforms the mortal world.
By Nora Roberts
Series Guardians Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Space and time traveler Sawyer King has brought the guardians to Capri, where mermaid Annika will search for the missing water star, while their enemy lurks in the darkness, waiting for the chance to use a dangerous new weapon.
By Mary Kay Andrews
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation
Given a last chance to salvage her career after being wrongly blamed for property damage, movie location scout Greer Hennessy confronts an environmentally-minded mayor in a sleepy Florida Gulf Coast community.
By Brent Ridge
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
The founders of the upstate New York-based farm company share favorite eco-conscious, vintage-modern recipes collected from generations of their family, complementing such entries as Fourth of July Fruitcake and Hot Chocolate Dumplings with nostalgic personal stories.
By B. A. Paris
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
The friends of a seemingly perfect socialite couple begin to see cracks in the facade when they realize that the husband and wife are never apart and that there are bars on one of the couple's upstairs windows.
By Sarah Pekkanen
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Four old college friends, desperate for an escape from their crazy lives, spend a week at a luxury villa in Jamaica and help each other cope with their problems.
By Betty White
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
“The popular actress and animal welfare advocate offers personal stories of the zoo animals she has known and loved through the years... (From the Publisher).”
By Liane Moriarty
Recommended By Rosalia White, Library Clerk, Lisa V., Library Clerk, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian
An annual school Trivia Night ends in a disastrous riot leaving one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but evidence shows it might have been premeditated.
By Melissa De la Cruz
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist
When all of her secrets come to light on the night of her fabulous 40th birthday party, Ellie de Florent–Stinson, a woman greatly envied by all who know her, watches as the beautiful facade of her life crumbles in one eventful night.
By Nora Roberts
Series Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With their love forbidden by history and blood, Finbar and Branna have been separated for years, until a storm of shadows threatens everything they hold dear and they must battle against the evil magic that has haunted their families for centuries.
By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden Files
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
While going undercover on the set of an adult film to investigate the mysterious deaths of several actresses, Chicago wizard Harry Dresden unexpectedly learns the shocking truth about his vampire friend Thomas.
By Nora Roberts
Series In the Garden Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Centering around three courageous women, who meet for the first time at a crossroads in their lives, this first installment in a brand new trilogy from the best-selling author follows Stella as she casts aside her fears and finds a special love that she will do anything to protect.
By Krysten Ritter
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Successful environmental lawyer Abby Williams is forced to confront her small-town past while investigating a high-profile corruption case back home.
By Deborah Harkness
Series All Souls Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Historian and witch Diana Bishop and her vampire scientist husband Matthew Clairmont return from a trip to the past still searching for the elusive alchemy tome “Ashmole 782."
By Claire Kendal
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
While serving jury duty, university administrator Clarissa realizes that the disturbingly violent crime unfolding in front of her parallels to recent events in her own life as she becomes the obsession of her colleague who has crossed the line between fantasy and reality, love and compulsion.
By Amy Meyerson
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
When Miranda Brooks receives the unexpected news that her uncle Billy has died and left her his bookstore, she discovers he's left her a business teetering on bankruptcy and a final scavenger hunt.
By Jenny Colgan
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
A “literary matchmaker” who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from the city to a sleepy village where she becomes a bookmobile driver and rediscovers her sense of adventure while searching for a happy ending of her own.
By Trevor Noah
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
The host of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah traces his wild coming of age during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, offering insight into the farcical aspects of the political and social systems of today's world.
By Laurie Woolever
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
The closest friends and colleagues of the late travel and food writer share their memories of his incredible life, from his early years in New York, his best–selling memoir Kitchen Confidential and emergence as a TV star.
By Cheryl Strayed
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
A collection of quotes from the columnist and author captures her wisdom, courage, honesty, spirit, and outspoken humor.
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 Lauren Beukes
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Detective Gabriella Versado investigates after disturbing displays that fuse the bodies of murder victims with those of animals are uncovered in abandoned Detroit buildings.
By Lyssa Kay Adams
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
To win back his wife, who wants a divorce, desperate Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source—a secret romance–reading club of Nashville’s top alpha men.
By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden Files
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the vampiric Red Court, discovers the secret being kept by Harry Dresden's ex-lover, Susan Rodriguez, leaving Harry with no choice but to tap into his own dark power and fight to save the world.
By Lauren Weisberger
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
“Making a pact that they will change the things that most challenge them within a year's time, Manhattan friends Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana shed their downtrodden identities in order to pursue the high life (From the Publisher).”
By Nora Roberts
Series Chesapeake Bay Saga
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Returning as a successful artist to the home of the family that adopted him, Seth Quinn is intrigued by independent newcomer Dru Whitcomb Banks, who is hesitant to trust Seth, while dark secrets from the past threaten the entire Quinn family.
By Ann Leary
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
A wealthy but unconventional New England family of four stepsiblings struggles to come to terms with their legacy and the myths they have built their lives upon during a lavish family wedding that exposes long-standing resentments and unfortunate truths.
By P.D. James
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
In 2021, with the human race becoming extinct due to the infertility of all males, Theodore Faron is drawn into the schemes of an unlikely group of revolutionaries out to save society.
By Clancy, Tara
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Describes the author's unconventional upbringing as a fifth–generation New Yorker in three wildly divergent homes, including a Queens boat shed, an Italian geriatric commune, and a sprawling Hamptons estate.
By George R.R. Martin
Series Song of Ice and Fire
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Martin, George R.R. – A Clash of Kings* Six separate factions vie for control of the Seven Kingdoms, while an ancient form of magic, an everlasting winter, and an unearthly army threaten to return.
By Nora Roberts
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Running the Montana ranch that has been home to four generations of her family, Bo and the man she is starting to love encounter her badly injured aunt, who ran off decades earlier, before a local murder reveals sinister activities in the mountains that surround their home.
By K.M. Walton
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
When Bull Mastrick and Victor Konig wind up in the same psychiatric ward at age sixteen, each recalls and relates in group therapy the bullying relationship they have had since kindergarten.
By John Cleese
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The Monty Python comic master shares lighthearted advice on how anyone can learn the skill of creativity, drawing on whimsical personal experience to explain how to get into the right frame of mind, develop worthwhile ideas and overcome blocks.
By Emily Schuman
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
A popular lifestyle blogger presents advice on such topics as fashionable home decor, cooking, beauty tips, and party planning, organized according to the season.
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 Nora Roberts
Series Three Sisters Island Trilogy
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After a year on the run, Nell Channing feels that she can make a home for herself on Three Sisters Island and, aided by Mia, the proprietor of the island's small book store and Ripley, the town's assistant sheriff, she finally dares to envision a brighter future.
By Megan Abbott
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
After a suspicious suicide, the members of a high school cheerleading squad, along with their new, perfectly cool coach, Colette French, are drawn into the investigation.
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 Sophie Goldstein
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
It’s tough living in the 21st century, when mythical beings not only roam the earth, but camp out on your sofa and raid your refrigerator. Jobs are scarce; angels infest Brooklyn (the demons have taken all the good property in Manhattan) and minor gods bus tables at the local diner. The mortals of New York must balance not only their checkbooks but keep a close eye on their souls’ karmic account.