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BLOG & STAFF PICKS
Want the latest and greatest news from your LPPL? Want to read what we are reading? You're in the right place!
Stay in the know with our monthly blog. Our librarians are here to update you on services, events, resources, and more.
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!
Find archived blogs and staff picks at the links below:
We always have a good book in hand!
Heather's Pick: The Three Little Superpigs: Merry Christmas by Claire Evans
Join the Three Little Superpigs as they head out on a holiday adventure to find Santa! Can the Superpigs save Christmas? The Three...
Heather
Dec 19, 20231 min read
Laura's Pick: Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena
A father who had been having an affair that just ended badly discovers his difficult daughter unexpectedly home from school and loses his...
Laura
Dec 7, 20232 min read
Brooke's Pick: Once Upon a December by Amy E. Reichert
When Astra Noel Snow and Jack Clausen meet at a one-of-kind Christmas market, they fall in love, but they must decide if this newfound...
Brooke
Dec 5, 20233 min read
Crystal's Pick: Winds of Change by Jo Grafford
The cowboy bad boy who broke her heart years ago and the career opportunity that offers them a second chance at happily-ever-after? Winds...
Crystal
Dec 4, 20231 min read
December 2023: Blogging with Katie
The year of 2023 has flown by. We at Lafourche Parish Public Libraries would like to say thank you to our communities’ continued support...
Katie
Dec 1, 20234 min read
Brooke's Pick: Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle
What’s a girl to do when her Christmas spirit levels are sinking to a disastrous low? Why accidentally conjure the Holiday Spirit in...
Brooke
Nov 9, 20232 min read
November 2023: Blogging with Catherine
RAWR ... Dinovember @ the Library! This November is Dinovember at the Lafourche Library! Expect to find displays in all our branches and...
Catherine
Nov 1, 20232 min read
Dione's Pick: Code Red by Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills
Mitch Rapp crosses into war-torn Syria at the behest of a powerful crime lord to determine who is manufacturing a highly addictive new...
Dione
Oct 24, 20232 min read
Brooke's Pick: With a Kiss We Die by L.R. Dorn
Two college lovers suspected of a brutal double homicide enlist a podcasting crime journalist to proclaim their innocence. L. R. Dorn’s...
Brooke
Oct 19, 20232 min read
Catherine's Pick: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson journey to unpopulated regions of bracken and fog to solve a mystery at an isolated manor house. The air...
Catherine
Oct 19, 20232 min read
October 2023: Blogging with Brooke
Pumpkins, potions, and photo ops! Fall, furs, firefighters, Flipster, and frights! It must be October @ Lafourche Parish Public Library!...
Brooke
Oct 3, 20232 min read
Katina's Pick: The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
Tells the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and...
Katina
Oct 3, 20232 min read
Brooke's Pick: How Can I Help You? by Laura Sims
Accepting a position at a small-town public library, a recent graduate student and failed novelist discovers a patron dead in the library...
Brooke
Sep 27, 20232 min read
Van's Pick: The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
Two English school children share hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is...
Van
Sep 26, 20232 min read
Brooke's Pick: California Golden by Melanie Benjamin
Two teens in 1960s California grapple with the unconventional path of their mother, who defies societal expectations as a talented female...
Brooke
Sep 19, 20232 min read
Katie's Pick: A Dead & Stormy Night by Steffanie Holmes
Book boyfriends may do it better, but they're more trouble than they're worth. A Dead and Stormy Night by Steffanie Holmes is first book...
Katie
Sep 14, 20232 min read
September 2023: Blogging with Van
We had an amazing Summer Reading Experience and August finishing up the summer months. September looks like it will be another amazing...
Van
Sep 1, 20233 min read
Brooke's Pick: The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop
Thinking back on a relationship she had with an older man during a life-changing summer in the Greek isles, Rachel begins the question...
Brooke
Aug 24, 20232 min read
August 2023: Blogging with Crystal
WOW! Summer Experience at Lafourche Parish Public Library was AMAZING! We enjoyed seeing so many smiling faces. August is upon us and...
Crystal
Aug 7, 20233 min read
Katina's Pick: Community Board by Tara Conklin
A woman moves back into her parents' empty home after her husband leaves her and spends her days on the town's internet community board...
Katina
Aug 3, 20232 min read
July 2023: Blogging with Dione
Has “Reading Colored Your World” yet? There’s still time to participate in the Summer Experience. Our library branches have lots of...
Dione
Jul 10, 20232 min read
Crystal's Pick: Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas
In 1916 Wallace, Wyoming, schoolteacher Ellen Webster finds purpose in her work as a rancher's wife and in her bonds with other women...
Crystal
Jun 20, 20232 min read
Catherine's Pick: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is the story of Red and Blue. Red is a time-traveling agent in...
Catherine
Jun 16, 20232 min read
Brooke's Pick: The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
In 1956 New York City, Marion Brooks, one of the famous Radio City Rockettes, is unwittingly drawn into the police search for the "Big...
Brooke
Jun 14, 20233 min read
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