BLOG & STAFF PICKS

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Like you, our librarians love to read good books. Discover what we think about the books we've read, and find some new titles to add to your TBR (to be read) pile with our monthly Staff Picks!

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Heather's Pick: The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud

Makayla is bursting with ideas but doesn't know how to make them into a story. Howard loves to draw, but he struggles to come up with...

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Heather

Jul 112 min read

Brooke's Pick: Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

Liv Reese, waking up holding a bloodstained knife and her hands covered in scribbled messages, remembers nothing from the past two years...

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Brooke

Jul 112 min read

Homebound Delivery with Dione

Jacob is making a Homebound Delivery. Have you wanted an item from the library but can’t physically get to us because of a medical or...

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Dione

Jul 112 min read

Van's Pick: Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher

After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a...

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Van

Jul 32 min read

Katie's Pick: Boards: Stylish Spreads for Casual Gatherings by Elle Simone Scott

Take boards beyond cheese and crackers and show off your effortless entertaining style with conversation-starting spreads that are sure...

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Katie

Jul 32 min read

Brooke's Pick: Baby-Sitters on Board! by Ann M. Martin

As the baby-sitters take a scenic cruise through the Caribbean, Mary Anne encounters a mysterious girl, Claudia gains a secret admirer,...

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Brooke

Jun 273 min read

Dione's Pick: Variation by Rebecca Yarros

One fateful summer a celebrated dancer returns home and unearths years of family secrets with the Coast Guard rescue swimmer she never...

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Dione

Jun 271 min read

Makerspace with Heather

A maker learning how to sew on the machine in the Makerspace. Actress Mary Lou Cook once said that “Creativity is inventing,...

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Heather

Jun 164 min read

Brooke's Pick: Sunrise On the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

It's the 50th annual Hunger Games and as the games begin, District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy realizes he's been set up to fail, but...

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Brooke

Jun 62 min read

Brittany's Pick: Every Way With Granny Crochet by Julia Madill

Fifty shapes to crochet using classic granny stitch. Think outside the box (or square, that is), grab your hook and create circles,...

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Brittany

Jun 62 min read

Brooke's Pick: Shopgirls by Jessica Anya Blau

A novel of found family, growing up, and the best and worst of the 1980s, revolving around San Francisco’s most exclusive department...

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Brooke

Jun 53 min read

Catherine's Pick: Babel by R.F. Kuang

A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxford's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the...

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Catherine

Jun 52 min read

Crystal's Pick: Happy Harbor by Rachel Hanna

Josie Campbell has spent her entire adult life distancing herself from her childhood in the small Southern town of Happy Harbor. But when...

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Crystal

Jun 41 min read

Brooke's Pick: Let's Call Her Barbie by Renee Rosen

Including a readers guide and exclusive vintage Barbie photos, a bold new novel shows how Ruth Handler, along with head engineer Jack...

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Brooke

Jun 42 min read

Library Calendar + Program Types with Brooke

Summer Experience 2025: Level Up @ Your Library is in full swing, and gamers are "pressing play" on a variety of programming...

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Brooke

May 282 min read

Adventure Kits & Portable Story Time Kits with Lynette

If you’re looking for STEAM activities for your family, Adventure Kits are the perfect option for you. Kits include themed hands-on...

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Lynette

Apr 242 min read

Catherine's Pick: Baking for Two by America's Test Kitchen

America's Test Kitchen takes the guesswork out of baking on a smaller scale by reengineering all your favorite baked goods in the Baking...

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Catherine

Apr 241 min read

Crystal's Pick: Little Souls by Sandra Dallas

In 1918 Colorado, as the Spanish Influenza run rampant, sisters Helen and Lutie, after their tenant dies, must assume care of her...

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Crystal

Apr 241 min read

Hotspots with Shannon

No Wi-Fi at home, no problem. LPPL has the answer for you in the form of dedicated mobile hotspots. Mobile hotspots work by using...

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Shannon

Mar 11 min read

Brooke's Pick: Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin

After her daughter Stella begins mimicking the personality of her deceased babysitter, Blanka, pregnant Charlotte becomes convinced that...

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Brooke

Feb 52 min read

Brittany's Pick: Water Moon by Samanta Sotto Yambao

Hana Ishikawa inherits a hidden pawnshop in Tokyo where people trade their regrets, but when a precious item is stolen and her father...

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Brittany

Feb 52 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Favorites by Layne Fargo

Katarina Shaw and Heath Rocha, childhood sweethearts turned champion ice dancers, captivated the world with their fiery chemistry until a...

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Brooke

Feb 33 min read

Laura's Pick: Blood Beneath the Snow by Alexandra Kennington

Revna is no stranger to struggle. As the only member of the royal family without a magical ability, she is seen as an embarrassing...

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Laura

Feb 31 min read

Brooke's Pick: Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee

A new mom reinvents herself and finds her happily-ever-after in this heart-filled romance about family, second chances, and growing into...

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Brooke

Jan 312 min read