Reference Librarian Cyndi’s Pick
Me & Emma / Elizabeth Flock (2005 fiction, F Flock) Eight-year-old Carrie Parker and her little sister, tired of living in an abusive environment, concoct a plan to run away, […]
Circulation Assistant Holly’s Pick
Secrets of a charmed life / Susan Meissner (2015 fiction, F Meissner) An elderly Oxford woman reminisces about her childhood during World War II, during which she was evacuated from […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
Lillian Boxfish takes a walk : a novel / Kathleen Rooney (2017 fiction, F Rooney) Embarking on a walk across Manhattan on New Year’s Eve in 1984, eighty-five-year-old Lillian Boxfish […]
Reference Librarian Cyndi’s Pick
Everything you want me to be : a novel / Mindy Mejia (2017 suspense, F Mejia) When a civic-minded high-school senior is found murdered on the opening night of the […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
The signature of all things / Elizabeth Gilbert (2013 fiction, F Gilbert) Traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before […]
Reference Librarian Cyndi’s Pick
Wilde Lake : a novel / Laura Lippman (2016 suspense, F Lippman) Seeking to establish herself during a first case against a mentally ill drifter accused of murder, newly elected […]
Reference Librarian Cyndi’s Pick
Prep : a novel / Curtis Sittenfeld (2005 fiction, F Sittenfeld) During the late 1980s, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves behind her close-knit, middle-class Indiana family to enroll in an elite […]
Saturday Reference Librarian Christine’s Pick
Maine : a novel / J. Courtney Sullivan (2011 fiction, F Sullivan) Descending on a family beach house won in a bet years earlier, three generations of women gradually impart […]
Saturday Reference Librarian Christine’s Pick
The vacationers / Emma Straub (2014 fiction, F Straub) Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter’s high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old […]
Anonymous Reference Librarian’s Pick
Vinegar girl : The taming of the shrew retold / Anne Tyler (2016 fiction, F Tyler) A modern retelling of “The Taming of the Shrew” follows the experiences of a […]