Want to warm up a bit? Think SPRING with these titles!

Click here and think spring thoughts!

  
 
 
Place hold here:
Best Exotic
Daisy Miller
Ivy Chronicles
Wild Iris
Rose Garden
Flower Arrangement
A Memory of Violets

Need more of those psychological thrillers?

Our friends at BookRiot put together 24 titles, yes, 24 titles for those of you who loved, Big Little Lies, Gone Girl and Girl on the Train. 
Click here to see this not to be missed list! 
A sample follows below. 
There are some good things here folks, don't miss them!
 
  
Click here to place a hold on any of the above titles!

As we get set for season two of The Handmaid's Tale on HULU...

Margaret Atwood sat down for this terrific interview 
with The Guardian. 
Check it out.

Place your hold for the book here. 

Find all things Margaret Atwood right here!

 

The Handmaid's Tale is available to stream on Hulu.
Alias Grace can be streamed via Netflix.

Elena Ferrante is now a weekend columnist at the Guardian...

Yes, that Elena Ferrante! Author of the Neopolitan novels quartet will appear in the weekend edition of the Guardian UK newspaper. Ferrante writes under a pseudonym and guards her privacy diligently.
Her column will be translated by her current translator, Ann Goldstein. 

Read Ferrante's first column here. 

Guardian Weekend editor Melissa Denes had this to say, “I’m thrilled to be working with Elena Ferrante on her first newspaper column – a new adventure for her and for Guardian Weekend magazine. Every week, she will be writing a personal piece, covering subjects from sex to ageing to the things that make her laugh. We can’t wait to see where she will take us."

 
 

Place your hold on any of these Ferrante titles here!

The book everyone is talking about....!

A.J. Finn's debut novel, "The Woman in the Window" has taken the publishing world by storm!

A twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house. Place your reserve here.

Read the NYT article about the author here. 

Author A.J. Finn

Need to warm up? Try this HBO movie trailer for Fahrenheit 451...

The HBO treatment of Ray Bradbury's classic will star Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon. 
I'll see anything starring either of them!
  
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Or just watch this video.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine AND the 2018 Long Island Reads pick have been loaded to all our our e-readers...!

Join us at the 

Wednesday Afternoon Book Discussion 

on Wednesday, February 7th at 2:30 

as we discuss Gail Honeyman's debut novel,

 "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine"!

Get ready for the 2018 Long Island Reads pick!
"Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock
the Secrets of the Universe"
by Mike Massimino

Click a title to place a hold on our e-readers!

Our e-readers have just been loaded with the number one bestseller AND the Long Island Reads pick for 2018!

BORROW AN E-READER TODAY!

The 2018 Long Island Reads pick is IN:

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to

 Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

by Mike Massimino 

"A memoir by an unlikely astronaut who helped save the Hubble telescope describes his early attempts to gain admission into NASA, his first spacewalks, the loss of his fellow astronauts in the Columbia disaster, his decision not to return to space and his ongoing support of future space-travel ventures."

And the number one book 

in the country right now is:

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

 by Michael Wolff

"The first nine months of Donald Trump’s term were stormy,

 outrageous—and absolutely mesmerizing. 

Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing,

 bestselling author Michael Wolff tells 

the riveting story of how 

Trump launched a tenure as 

volatile and fiery as the man himself." 

Don't wait for either to hit our shelves, 

borrow an e-reader today.

So what were the best crime books of 2017?

This terrific list from LitHub provides 

both national and international titles. 

There are books here that are not to be missed!

Click here to see them. 

It's really a fabulous list!

...and here come my favorites for 2017!

 

I'm all over the genre map, but what follows is my list of 16, plus 3 that will hit shelves in 2018. In no particular order, but my top two are truly my faves of the year. 
Click here to place a hold on any of these:

The Fisherman by John Langan
4321 by Paul Auster
The Child Finder by Renee Denfeld
When the English Fall by David Williams
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt 
Himself by Jess Kidd
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich 
If the Creek Don't Rise by Leah Weiss
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal 
The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang
Entropy in Bloom: Stories by Jeremy Rober Johnson

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR 2018:

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell (March 2018)