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On this page you can browse our past Book Lovers Recommendations, which are a list of titles chosen by our Book Lovers Club and annotated by the wonderful and now retired Sue Lipstein. The club continues to meet once a month. While the annotated recommendations retired with Sue, you can find a plethora of wonderful suggestions in these past posts. Happy browsing, and happy reading!
- Book Lovers Recommendations December 2020 Part II December 21, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein All The Young Men By Ruth Coker Burks This is the memoir of Ruth, who, in 1986, visited a friend in the hospital and watched how an AIDs patient was being shunned. When…
- Book Lovers Recommendations December 2020 December 18, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Ex Libris By Michiko Kakutani This is your holiday gift to someone special-or yourself. It is an annotated list of 100 books from all genres suggested by a former book editor of the…
- Book Lovers Recommendations November 2020 Part II December 4, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Daddy By Emma Cline Ten stories about ordinary people living what first appears to be very ordinary lives, but then the stories take a switch. The author wants us to think about what…
- Book Lovers Recommendations November 2020 November 11, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic By Andrew Cuomo This book goes behind the scenes showing what had to transpire in New York State in order to go from a state…
- Book Lovers Recommendations October 2020 Part II October 21, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Dear Child By Romy Hausmann A debut thriller. A young woman is found who has been living in captivity for 13 years and has given birth to two children. She claims to be…
- Book Lovers Recommendations October 2020 October 7, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein A Room Called Earth By Madeleine Ryan This is a debut novel and tells a very simple story. A young Australian girl goes to a party. Things appear normal, but when we get inside her…
- Book Lovers Recommendations September 2020 Part II September 21, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein All the Devils are Here By Louise Penny The is the 16th in the Inspector Gamache series. This one takes place in Paris when a good friend of Gamache’s is killed in what…
- Book Lovers Recommendations September 2020 September 14, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Daughter of the Reich By Louise Fein Hetta, a young girl in the 1930’s, is the perfect German child-except that she has fallen in love with her brother’s best friend from childhood-a Jew. Slowly Hetta…
- Book Lovers Recommendations August 2020 August 12, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Color of Air By Gail Tsukiyama In 1935, Daniel, a young doctor returns to his native Hawaii after practicing medicine in Chicago. He returns to a family filled with secrets that slowly unravel…
Announcing Curbside Concierge August 5, 2020 - Not sure what your next great read should be? Let us pick for you! Fill out our Curbside Concierge form to let us know your reading habits, likes and dislikes, and our Reader’s Advisors, Children’s Librarians, or YA Librarians will…- Book Lovers Recommendations July 2020 Part II July 16, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein A Burning By Magha Majundar This is a debut novel by an Asian-Indian author. Jivan, a young Muslim student is falsely accused of being part of a train bombing which left over 100…
- Book Lovers Recommendations July 2020 July 2, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Becoming Wild-How American Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty and Achieve Peace By Carl Safina Safina, a MacArthur “genius,” believes that human beings are not the only animals that create a culture which helps…
Adult Summer Reading Club Has Now Ended June 18, 2020 - Thanks to everyone who participated in the Adult Summer Reading Club this summer. Over the course of 8 weeks you read 227 books and we completed the puzzle together. We will be randomly selecting 12 winners to receive a gift…
The Basics of Curbside Pickup June 16, 2020 - There are Three Ways to Request Materials Browse our Online Catalog and place items on hold If you know the title and author you’re interested in, or if you’d like our Reader’s Advisors to pick out some titles for you,…- Book Lovers Recommendations June 2020 Part II June 16, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein All Adults Here By Emma Straub It’s a multigenerational cast, starting with widowed Astrid, the matriarch, living in a small Hudson valley town, who decides to tell her grown children some secrets about her life. …
- Book Lovers Recommendations June 2020 June 4, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Butterfly Girl By Rene Denfeld – 9780062698186 This is the second novel featuring Naomi Cottle as an investigator whose forte is finding missing children. This time, Naomi has pledged to find her own missing…
- Book Lovers Recommendations May 2020 Part II May 21, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Animals at Lockwood Manor By Jane Healey This is a debut novel set in England in 1939. Hetty Cartwright, only 30 and single, is given the responsibility of taking care of the mammal collection of…
- Book Lovers Recommendations May 2020 May 7, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Afterlife By Julia Alvarez A return to adult fiction by renowned author Alvarerz. Antonia Vega, an immigrant from the Domenican Republic, her sisters and an undocumented pregnant teen-ager all that center stage in this novel…
Quarantine Reading Challenge April 28, 2020 - Update 6/30/20: Thank you to all who participated in our Quarantine Reading Challenge! It was a close competition, but the winners have been selected. Our first place winner, Annette Tyler, read 12 books and our second place winner, Diana Merritt,…- Book Lovers Recommendations April 2020 Part II April 15, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Book of Lost Friends By Lisa Wingate Lisa Wingate based this historical fiction on actual advertisements she saw in Southern newspapers after the Civil War. Three women from Louisiana head out for Texas. Two are…
- Book Lovers Recommendations April 2020 April 2, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein (These books are all available as ebooks) Dear Edward By Ann Napolitano Twelve year old Edward is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills every other person on board the aircraft,…
National Poetry Month April 1, 2020 - Enrich your lives with poetry during April, which is National Poetry Month, and during this time of collective hibernation. You can enjoy the magic of poetry from a variety of online resources! You can sign up to receive A Poem…
Suggestions for Purchase Through the Cloud Library App! March 17, 2020 - Updated: 3/3/21 Cloud Library is a platform for reading ebooks and listening to digital audiobooks. Our collection is always growing, and do our best to keep up with your reading needs! To that end, we wanted to let you know…- Book Lovers Recommendations March 2020 March 13, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein All My Mother’s Lovers By Ilana Masad A debut novel. When Maggie’s mother dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home, and when she finds five envelopes addressed to five men along with her mother’s…
- Book Lovers Recommendations February 2020 February 13, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Cursed Edited by Marie O’Regan This is a collection of short stories by many different writers that is a combination of fairy tales, magic, and stories to inspire shock and fear-all based on the…
- Book Lovers Recommendations January 2020 January 16, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Before She Was Found By Heather Gudenkauf Three twelve year old girls sneak out to go to an abandoned rail yard during a sleepover. Later that night, one is found bloody and beaten and…
- Book Lovers Recommendations December 2019 December 19, 2019 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Before and After: The Incredible Real-life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society by Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate After author Lisa Wingate published her novel “Before We Were Yours,” which was…
- Book Lovers Recommendations November 2019 November 14, 2019 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Nicole Chung wrote this memoir about her struggle for her own identity. She was born to Korean parents who had come to the US but released her…
- Book Lovers Recommendations October 2019 October 14, 2019 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Dominicana by Angie Cruz The author has based her story on the life of her mother. In 1965, 15 year old Ana marries a man nearly twice her age and moves from the Dominican…
- Book Lovers Recommendations September 2019 September 26, 2019 - All the Flowers in Paris by Sarah Jio Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital in 2009 with no memory of her past. She discovers a cache of letters in her home which start to jog her memory. The…
- Book Lovers Recommendations August 2019 August 13, 2019 - All That You Leave Behind By Erin Lee Carr Journalist David Carr died suddenly at age 58. He left behind twin daughters and lots of memories; this memoir was written by one of his surviving children. Talent as well as…
- Book Lovers Recommendations July 2019 July 29, 2019 - Alternative Remedies for Loss By Joanna Cantor Olivia is 22 and has left college to care for her mother. After her mother’s death, Olivia finds that the rest of her family is moving on, but she is adrift. She finds…
- Book Lovers Recommendations June 2019 June 25, 2019 - All the Rivers By Dorit Rabinyan A young Jewish woman, studying in New York in 2003, meets a handsome painter, who is Palestinian, also living in New York. Their attraction is strong, but when each one returns; one to Tel…
- Book Lovers Recommendations May 2019 May 15, 2019 - The Art of Dying Well By Katy Butler This is a non-fiction book that offers practical advice for people as they age. We have many books on preparing for childbirth and child development, but not much to help us prepare…
- Book Lovers Recommendations April 2019 April 22, 2019 - The Age of Light By Whitney Scharer This is the fictionalized story of Lee Miller, who was a Vogue model in the 1920’s. She aspired to be a photographer and travelled to Paris where she met the surrealistic photographer, Man…
- Book Lovers Recommendations March 2019 March 22, 2019 - The Au Pair By Emma Rous Seraphine Mayes never understood why her mother threw herself off a cliff on their Norfolk estate right after she gave birth to Seraphine and her twin brother, which just so happened to be the…