Staff Picks

  • Staff Picks: Spooky Reads

    October 26, 2022
    A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens “Not seasonal, but it’s such a great story!” The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The classic short story that made teenage-me fall in love with short stories.” Road of Bones by Christopher Golden Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand The Rats by James Herbert My Heart is a ...
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  • Staff Pick: Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

    October 20, 2022Staff Pick: Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
    17-year-old Hazel Sinnett has always wanted to be a surgeon, but that is not an option for a lady of society such as herself in Scotland in 1817. However, with her father away on military post and her mother on holiday with her younger brother, Hazel takes advantage of the lack of supervision to disguise ...
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  • Staff Pick: Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

    October 13, 2022Staff Pick: Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
    Talty’s debut short story collection is a beautifully written glimpse into the lives and deaths of several families on the Penobscot Indian Nation reservation.   I always like reading books that take place in an unfamiliar setting, even better if it’s one that does not often appear in the media.  The glimpse I got into this world, ...
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  • Staff Picks: Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

    October 5, 2022Staff Picks: Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
    Three middle aged, middle income couples – all friends – get together for a backyard barbecue.  What could be more generic?  Boring?  Typical?  How utterly…life-changing? Moriarty’s timeline zings back and forth from before the barbecue, to after, and before again, building the reader’s understanding of the characters’ lives and creating a tangle of backstories and aftereffects ...
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  • Staff Picks: Favorite Books about Libraries

    September 28, 2022Staff Picks: Favorite Books about Libraries
    Happy Library Card Signup month! To celebrate we are sharing some of our favorite books about libraries for all ages.   Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Book! Book! Book! By Deborah Bruss Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins I Took My ...
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  • Staff Picks: Banned Books Week

    September 21, 2022Staff Picks: Banned Books Week
    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Ready Player One by Ernest Cline The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Lord of the Flies by William Golding Ulysses by James Joyce To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Beloved by Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 1984 by George Orwell Animal Farm by Orwell Maus by Art Spiegelman Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Color ...
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  • Staff Picks: Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    September 15, 2022Staff Picks: Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    The book spans decades, but starts with the main character being introduced to The Library of Forgotten Books. He is expected to choose one book to protect. That book is the beginning of an intriguing, sometimes spooky, journey to learn more about the author and find out why that author’s books are being destroyed. One ...
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  • Staff Pick: Landslide by Susan Conley

    September 8, 2022Staff Pick: Landslide by Susan Conley
    After a fishing accident leaves Jill’s husband injured and hospitalized in Canada, Jill must go it alone with her teenage sons (or wolves, as Jill refers to them) in their small fishing village in Maine. It’s no easy task—seventeen-year-old Charlie is preoccupied with a new girlfriend, and Sam, sixteen, is still reeling from a personal ...
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  • Staff Picks: Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

    August 31, 2022Staff Picks: Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
    Emma Starling has returned home in disgrace.  Once blessed with healing hands that could cure all manner of small injuries, she has now not so much flunked out of med school as just not shown up.  Now her motorcycle-riding ex-college professor father is dying of a mysterious brain disease, her brother is in recovery from ...
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  • Staff Pick: Let Me Finish by Roger Angell

    August 25, 2022Staff Pick: Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
    Known for his writing about baseball, Angell has produced a book of short essays about small moments he has relished in life. Insightful, comforting, and funny. Well worth a read.  Paula, Circulation
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