BLOG & STAFF PICKS

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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

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

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

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: The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness

When the Congregation demands she and Matthew test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Oxford scholar and witch, Diana Bishop,...

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Laura

Nov 12, 20242 min read

Catherine's Pick: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Victoria Stewart and her crew sail to the Mariana Trench in the hopes of discovering the fate of the Atargatis, which, along with its...

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Lafourche Parish Public Library

Oct 10, 20242 min read

Brooke's Pick: She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this riveting thriller. I read my first Mary Kubica book nearly a...

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Brooke

Oct 1, 20242 min read

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....

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Brooke

Jul 25, 20242 min read

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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Brittany

Jul 25, 20242 min read

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...

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Brooke

Jun 26, 20242 min read

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...

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Crystal

Jun 18, 20242 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Silence in Her Eyes by Armando Lucas Correa

A young woman with a rare neurological condition is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered. Armando Lucas Correa's new novel The...

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Brooke

Feb 1, 20242 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...

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Laura

Dec 7, 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...

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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...

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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...

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Catherine

Oct 19, 20232 min read

Brooke's Pick: Hayley Aldridge is Still Here by Elissa R. Sloan

A former child star fights the conservatorship that is governing every aspect in her life and uses social media to help in the new novel...

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Brooke

May 18, 20233 min read

Brooke's Pick: Five Survive by Holly Jackson

Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends, but when their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell...

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Brooke

May 4, 20232 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Personal Assistant by Kimberly Belle

A hugely popular blogger, Alex relies on her personal assistant AC to help her manage each day, but when a controversial post goes viral,...

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Brooke

Apr 27, 20232 min read