Crystal
Crystal's Pick: Sweet Jane by Joanne Kukanza Easley
A drunken mother makes childhood ugly. Sweet Jane by Joanne Kukanza Easley was an emotional, coming of age story about healing from past...
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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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Catherine
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Catherine's Pick: Selling the Dream by Jane Marie
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel...
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Brittany
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Brittany's Pick: Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Once Upon a Time meets The Office in Hannah Maehrer’s laugh-out-loud viral TikTok series turned novel, about the sunshine assistant to an...
6
Laura
- Aug 12
- 2 min
Laura's Picks: All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
After a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur...
7
Brooke
- Aug 12
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Look in the Mirror by Catherine Steadman
When her late father leaves her property in the British Virgin Islands--a vacation home she never knew existed, Nina wonders what else he...
6
Van
- Jul 25
- 2 min
Van's Pick: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find...
5
Heather
- Jul 25
- 2 min
Heather's Pick: Art Club by Rashad Doucet
Starting an after-school art club, Dale Donovan, who wants nothing more than to create comics forever, assembles together creative...
6
Brooke
- Jul 25
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: The Guests by Margot Hunt
When a Category 5 hurricane is poised to hit their coastal Florida town, the Davies family takes refuge in their waterfront manse....
8
Brittany
- Jul 25
- 2 min
Brittany's Pick: The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
In 1918, field nurse Laura Iven returns to Belgium to uncover the truth about her brother Freddie's supposed death in combat, while...
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Brooke
- Jun 28
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
A young woman attempts to navigate adulthood, new motherhood and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world. Rufi Thorpe...
7
Katina
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Katina's Pick: Cajun Mardi Gras by Dixie Poche
Dive into Cajun Mardi Gras, where the party goes down with a wholly different flourish. People the world over know about Mardi Gras. It’s...
1
Brooke
- Jun 27
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird
Set in the glamorous, dizzying world of 1950s Reno, where housewives and movie stars rubbed shoulders at gin-soaked casinos, The...
6
Katie
- Jun 27
- 1 min
Katie's Pick: Crafting Wizardry by Jody Revenson
Over 250 crafting activities inspired by the Harry Potter films. If you’re a Harry Potter fan like me, Jody Revenson’s book Crafting...
3
Brooke
- Jun 26
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering
From the author of the Hulu sensation Tell Me Lies comes a novel about female friendship, a missing baby, and the toxic, secret history...
13
Van
- Jun 26
- 2 min
Van's Pick: My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
In her own words, the living legend tells the story of her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first...
7
Brooke
- Jun 18
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: The King's Pleasure by Alison Weir
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of the legendary king Henry VIII and his...
3
Crystal
- Jun 18
- 2 min
Crystal's Pick: The Women by Kristin Hannah
In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words "Women can be heroes, too," impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and...
8
Dione
- May 23
- 2 min
Dione's Pick: The Cookie That Changed My Life by Nancy Silverton
The eagerly anticipated baking bible from America's most respected authority: 100+ recipes for cookies, cakes, breads, breakfast...
6
Brooke
- May 20
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover
The daughter of a self-help superstar, Audrey is determined to create her own identity and agrees to go on her mother's book tour, hoping...
10
Crystal
- Mar 27
- 2 min
Crystal's Pick: The Dust Bowl Orphans by Suzette D. Harrison
Grieving the loss of her child, Zoe Edwards, cataloguing old photos for an exhibition, discovers an image of a teenage girl who looks...
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Catherine
- Mar 22
- 2 min
Catherine's Pick: Meet Me By the Fountain by Alexandra Lange
An entertaining and evocative stroll through the rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention of malls, which proved to be a powerful draw for...
10
Brittany
- Mar 22
- 2 min
Brittany's Pick: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
A Cambridge professor, scholar and researcher on the study of faeries visits the hardscrabble village of Hransvik where she gets closer...
34
Katie
- Mar 4
- 1 min
Katie's Pick: Guarded Treasure by Mae Lovette
Mae Lovette’s debut romance novel, Guarded Treasure, is a steamy opposites attract adventure that I could not put down. Edith Taylor is...
7
Brooke
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Real Self-Care by Pooja Lakshmin, MD
Packed with actionable strategies to deal with common problems, Real Self-Care is a complete roadmap for women to set boundaries and move...
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