Staff Picks: Oct. 2024

Jessamine County Public Library Staff love these books!

Updated October 17, 2024
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Get a life, Chloe Brown : a novel
Hibbert, Talia
Paper Book
Long live the Pumpkin Queen
Ernshaw, Shea
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Find out what happens after Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in the first book of the hit series that's told from the perspective of Sally, the determined rag doll and love of Jack Skellington! And don't miss the...
Negative cat
Blackall, Sophie
Paper Book
Two-time Caldecott winner Sophie Blackall spins a winning tale about Max, a feline whose behavior doesn't win any raves, except from the boy who believes in him and finds a way to turn a negative into a positive. When a boy is FINALLY allowed to get a cat, he has no doubts about...
Project Hail Mary : a novel
Weir, Andy
Paper Book
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN * Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must...
The rival queens : Catherine de' Medici, her daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the betrayal that ignited a kingdom
Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon
Paper Book
The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is...
Several people are typing : a novel
Kasulke, Calvin
Paper Book
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! * A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. * "An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism." --Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House   Told entirely through clever and...
Starter villain
Scalzi, John
Paper Book
Now a New York Times bestseller! Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher...

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