Recommended by Elizabeth, Circulation:

Princess of Glass is a retelling of Cinderella, but it is so much more than that. It was well written and engaging. I really felt like I was visiting with friends as I read about the escapades of the characters. I highly recommend this book to children of all ages. I really liked Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George. It's actually book 2 in her series about the 12 dancing princesses from the Grimm Fairy Tale.

Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George

In the midst of maneuverings to create political alliances through marriage, sixteen-year-old Poppy, one of the infamous twelve dancing princesses, becomes the target of a vengeful witch while Prince Christian tries to save her.

Recommended by Kim, Circulation:

Dancers Among Us: a celebration of joy in the everyday by Jordan Matter.

Collects pictures of dancers striking poses in everyday places and while doing everyday things, including in libraries, on subway platforms, at restaurants, and on beaches.

Recommended by Christine, Circulation:

I recently watched Season One of Call the Midwife, a BBC production. It is a compelling depiction of Post WWII London. The cast is brilliant; the writing is on a par with that found in the series Downton Abbey. Well worth watching.

Call the Midwife (Television program). Season 1

A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.

Recommended by Tom, Library Manager:

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him.

Recommended by Tinetra, Technical Services:

The TV series Scandal is very good. Once you start watching it you get hooked instantly.

Scandal (Television program). Season 1

When trouble rears its ugly head, headline-making, life-ruining trouble, there's only one person to call: the legendary Olivia Pope. With her steadfast rule of always trusting her gut, Olivia leads an expert team of crisis management consultants skilled at making even the most sordid, salacious scandals disappear.

The Diviners by Libba Bray

Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.

Once upon a time. The complete first season [videorecording]

On her 28th birthday, Emma Swan meets Henry, the son she gave up for adoption 10 years ago. Henry believes Emma is the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, prophesied to break a powerful curse. Unconvinced, Emma returns Henry to Storybrooke, where she encounters the enigmatic Mr. Gold and clashes with mayor Regina Mills, the boy's adoptive mother, who Henry insists is none other than the Evil Queen!

Sherlock. Season one [videorecording]

A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern adventures, Sherlock and John navigate a maze of cryptic clues and lethal killers to get at the truth.

Recommended by Caitlin, Library Page:

This dark endeavor : the apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel

When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.

Recommended by Shilo, Youth Services:

Imperfect : an improbable life by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown

A one-handed pitcher who became one of the select few to pitch a no-hitter in Major League Baseball explains how he rose above his disability to excel at the sport he loved in high school, college, and adulthood.

Recommended by Shilo, Youth Services:

Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich

After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie's bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black.

Recommended by Shilo, Youth Services:

Speechless by Hannah Harrington

After her behavior causes her to lose her popular friends and results in one person being hospitalized, Chelsea takes a vow of silence.

Emily Post talked about a lot more than just Emily Post; it had her parents' story and prominent people in society as she grew up; very entertaining about society at that time.

Emily Post [sound recording]: daughter of the Gilded Age, mistress of American manners by Laura Claridge

A biography of the woman whose name has become synonymous with good manners describes Emily Post's patrician upbringing in Baltimore and her social life in Gilded Age New York, her scandalous divorce and writing career, and her creation of the classic work, "Etiquette."

Recommended by Julie Ann, Circulation:

Jane: the woman who loved Tarzan by Robin Maxwell.

Re-imagines the classic story of Tarzan from Jane's perspective, following the only woman student in Cambridge's medical program as she travels the world to prove the theories of Darwin and finds love with an extraordinary man in the jungles of West Africa.

Recommended by Evan, Circulation:

Kynodontas [videorecording] = Dogtooth

In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple tranforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. But children cannot remain innocent forever.

Recommended by Evan, Circulation:

The Imposter [videorecording]

In 1994, a thirteen-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive and well thousands of miles away in Spain. He tells a story of kidnap and torture when he returns. While his family is excited to bring him home, all is not quite as it seems. Is the boy really who he claims to be, or is he an imposter giving the family false hope for their child's return?

Recommended by Evan, Circulation:

Vozvrashchenie [videorecording] The return

Having a fatherless childhood, young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown closer than most siblings. But when they least expect it, the father the boys have never known returns.

La piel que habito [videorecording]

Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has wanted to create a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he cultivates a skin that is a real shield against every assault. Now, besides the years of study and experimentation, the unscrupulous doctor needs to find an accomplice, and a human guinea pig.

Recommended by Evan, Circulation:

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Confined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant and a very friendly hot dog stand operator.

Recommended by Randi, Library Page:

That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo

The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce.

Recommended by Joyce, Reference:

I just read both of these and enjoyed them. Love the idea that they modernize classics. They have inspired me to go back and read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

Jane by April Lindner

In this contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre, an orphaned nanny becomes entranced with her magnetic and brooding employer, a rock star with a torturous secret from his past.

Catherine by April Lindner

In this retelling of Wuthering Heights, Catherine explains how she fell in love with a brooding musician and left her family to return to him, and her daughter describes searching for her mother many years later.

Recommended by Vicky, Reference:

Where'd you go, Bernadette: a novel by Maria Semple

When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.

Recommended by Helen, Collection Development:

Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

Recommended by Helen, Collection Development:

Swamplandia by Karen Russell

Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wrestling. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine.

Recommended by Helen, Collection Development:

Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith

When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.

Recommended by Neil, Circulation:

The Age of Conversation by Benedetta Craveri

Presents the history of the French salons of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, which were presided over by women of the aristocracy and which influenced the development of literary forms and fostered intellectual debate.

Recommended by Neil, Circulation:

Letters of Ted Hughes selected and edited by Christopher Reid

A volume of nearly three hundred selections from the late writer's extensive correspondence offers insight into his contributions as a family member, natural-world advocate, and English nationalist, in a collection that includes pieces that discuss a wide range of topics, from his marriages and views about Shakespeare to his interest in astrology and his life on a Dorset farm.

Recommended by Neil, Circulation:

The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann

The unexpected death of her husband Rickie comes as a blow to Madeleine, but it also deeply affects her sister Dinah, with whom Rickie had conducted a long-time affair, ultimately forcing the two sisters to confront the true nature of their own relationship.

Recommended by Neil, Circulation:

A Burning Hot Summer [videorecording]

A young couple goes for a summer-long visit with a fellow couple in Rome, only to witness their friends' marriage start to crumble.