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The Girl on the Train is a gripping, twisty, clever, nail-biting mystery that is being advertised as "the next Gone Girl" and it will debut at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. Read more

The latest batch of librarian favorites is here! Head to the LibraryReads website to see brief reviews submitted by librarians from across the country. Read more

Two FBI agents are called to the scene of an unusual murder: a body, a love seat thrown from a window, and a suspect who remembers nothing. But the case quickly becomes stranger still, because the suspect is an Integrator, a victim of the deadly disease Haden's Syndrome. Read more

Ten year old Mirka is “yet another troll-fighting 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl,” who is bored with knitting and longs to slay dragons. She has a short temper, a skill for arguing with her (not evil) stepmother, and lots of self confidence. Can she channel her aggressiveness and use her smarts to earn her sword? Read more

Many times when I read a book, I am left wondering, "What happened to the characters?" when I'm done reading. This is one of those times. In The Rosie Project, Don and Rosie married at the end of the book. Now The Rosie Effect follows them in the first year of their marriage. Read more

It's time for more end-of-the-year favorites, this time from Chandler Library staff! Check out some of the books that we recommend as the best of 2014. Read more

The latest batch of librarian favorites is here! Head to the LibraryReads website to see brief reviews submitted by librarians from across the country. Read more

Breaking In follows Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's professional career. Her memoir, My Beloved World, was one of my favorite books last year, and focused more on her upbringing and personal life. Breaking In is an excellent follow-up that fills in the gaps... Read more

The latest batch of librarian favorites is here! December's list is made up of our favorite books since the LibraryReads list began in September 2013. They were voted on by librarians across the country. Read on to see the Favorite of Favorites! Read more

Old Filth is very hard to describe because it has a seemingly slight plot: elderly ex-judge mourns the loss of his wife Betty while remembering his early childhood in Malay, his brutal time spent as a foster child in Wales, his golden school years and the ocean voyage that nearly killed him in WWII. However, this many layered novel... Read more