Reader's Choice: Fiction: Alam - Dugoni

A family vacation in an isolated part of Long Island is thrown into confusion when the home’s owners return claiming New York City is having a blackout.

A devastating event forces a mother who questions her child’s behavior and her own sanity to confront the truth.

Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.

A grumpy yet lovable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.

It is springtime, and two outcasts -- a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life -- find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection.

Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and thewhirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.

A Black woman who becomes one of the most powerful people in the art and book world is forced to hide her true identity.

It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die.

The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret.

The story of a young woman falling in love with language in a working-class town outside London, has an unusual setting: the human mind — a brilliant, surprising, weird and very funny one.

The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine.

The Guest Book by Sarah Blake, chronicles three generations of the Milton family as they weather love and loss, tragedy and triumph, and the winds of social and political change. Set largely on Crockett's Island off the Maine coast, the story is both family saga and American epic as it spans the 1930s to the present in its examination of the Miltons and their legacy.

Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.

Dr. Toby Fleishman wakes up each morning surrounded by independent women know what they want--and, against all odds, what they want is Toby. Who knew what kind of life awaited him once he extracted himself from his nightmare of a marriage? Who knew that there were women who would look at him with softness and desire? His optimisim is quickly extinguished when his ex-wife suddenly disappears.

Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union.

As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the Civil War, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs

After one moment of poor judgment, government officials will decide if Frida Liu will get to keep her child.

In 1982, David and Sarah, two freshmen at a highly competitive performing arts high school, thrive alongside their school peers. It is here in these halls that David and Sarah fall innocently and powerfully into first love. And also where, as this class of students rises through the ranks of high school, the outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and the future, does not affect them--until it does.

A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.

On the eve of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's life is completely devastated when a shocking disaster takes the lives of her daughter, her daughter's fiancé, her ex-husband, and her boyfriend, Luke--her entire family, all gone in a moment.

In 1940s and '50s America, polio is a feared disease that affects everyone, especially children, leading to city lockdowns. Dorothy Horstmann, driven by her immigrant background and determination, focuses on finding a cure rather than competing with her colleagues.

A middle-class mother and son become desperate migrants fleeing Mexico in this heart stopping thriller that is all too timely and real.

A 14-year-old Nigerian girl, who is sold as a wife then as a servant, resolves to speak for herself and others.

When rarities disappear, a curator at the New York Public Library, who grapples with her grandmother’s legacy, uncovers new truths about her family heritage.

Competing narratives about a wealthy New York couple have new revelations over the course of a century.

An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future.

Born with ocular albinism, small-town eye doctor Sam Hill must finally face a past tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown, and the life he'd always known--a journey that makes him realize what truly matters.