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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:
We always have a good book in hand!
Brittany
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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Katina
Jan 312 min read
Katina's Pick: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the...
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Brooke
Jan 152 min read
Brooke's Pick: A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
Leaving behind her socialite family in Atlanta, Ricki Wilde moves to New York to open a flower shop as the Harlem Renaissance swirls...
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Brooke
Jan 142 min read
Brooke's Pick: Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
Fourteen years after they went their separate ways, 33-year-old Shiloh, a divorced, single mom living back in the same house she grew up...
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Brooke
Jan 132 min read
Brooke's Pick: Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
Every time she meets a new man, Daphne Bell receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it--the exact amount of time they will...
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Brooke
Jan 103 min read
Brooke's Pick: Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
After an accident, a struggling artist realizes it's hard to face your issues when you literally can't recognize faces in this novel...
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Brooke
Jan 93 min read
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...
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Brittany
Jan 71 min read
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)...
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Brooke
Jan 73 min read
Brooke's Pick: This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
When Alice wakes up on her 40th birthday somehow back in 1996 as her 16-year-old self, she finds the biggest surprise is the 49-year-old...
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Brooke
Oct 1, 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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Brittany
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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Brooke
Jun 28, 20243 min read
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...
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Brooke
Jun 26, 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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Crystal
Jun 18, 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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Brittany
Mar 22, 20242 min read
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...
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Katina
Feb 2, 20242 min read
Katina's Pick: The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
The beloved New York Times opinion writer and best-selling author presents this stunning literary devotional that follows the creatures...
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Brooke
Jan 25, 20242 min read
Brooke's Pick: The Good Part by Sophie Cousens
When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and...
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Laura
Dec 7, 20232 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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Katina
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...
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Brooke
Sep 27, 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...
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Brooke
Jun 14, 20233 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...
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Catherine
Apr 4, 20232 min read
Catherine's Pick: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
The much-beloved BookTok sensation from Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes is a novel of high fantasy and low stakes. At the heart of the...
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