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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!
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Stay in the know with our monthly blog. Our librarians are here to update you on services, events, resources, and more.
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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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Find archived blogs and staff picks at the links below:
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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...
Brooke
Jun 53 min read
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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...
Catherine
Jun 52 min read
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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...
Brooke
Jun 42 min read
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Brooke's Pick: After Oz by Gordon McAlpine
Kansas, 1896. After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes missing. The Gales are terrified the worst has...
Brooke
Jan 93 min read
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Brittany's Pick: The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this warm and wonderful debut fantasy. Tao is a teller of (you guessed it)...
Brittany
Jan 71 min read
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Brooke's Pick: What Mother Won't Tell Me by Ivar Leon Menger
Raised in strict isolation, Juno sets in motion a chain of frightening events when she's spotted by a stranger that makes her realize she...
Brooke
Jan 32 min read
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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,...
Laura
Nov 12, 20242 min read
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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...
Brooke
Oct 1, 20242 min read
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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...
Van
Jul 25, 20242 min read
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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...
Brittany
Jul 25, 20242 min read
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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...
Brooke
Jun 26, 20242 min read
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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...
Brittany
Mar 22, 20242 min read
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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...
Brooke
Feb 1, 20242 min read
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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
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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
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Katie's Pick: The Stolen Heir by Holly Black
Hiding in the human world, Suren, the tormented child queen of the Court of Teeth, must guard her heart against a manipulative prince...
Katie
May 26, 20232 min read
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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...
Brooke
May 4, 20232 min read
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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,...
Brooke
Apr 27, 20232 min read
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