Staff Picks: Nov. 2024

Jessamine County Public Library Staff love these books!

Updated October 31, 2024
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The book of unknown Americans : a novel
Henrq̕uez, Cristina
CD
"A triumph of storytelling. Henr quez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long after you've turned the final page." --Ben Fountain,...
The bullet swallower : a novel
Gonzalez James, Elizabeth
CD
Fancy Bear goes phishing : the dark history of the information age, in five extraordinary hacks
Shapiro, Scott
Paper Book
"Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and--for better or worse--necessary reading." --Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to understand...
In the night of memory : a novel
Grover, Linda LeGarde
Paper Book
Winner: Northeastern Minnesota Book Award - Fiction Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association U.P. Notable Book Award​ Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation  When Loretta...
The militia house : a novel
Milas, John
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize Nominated for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Award "An extraordinary novel about the quiet and not so quiet horrors of war." --Roxane Gay Stephen King meets Tim O'Brien in John Milas's...
Virgil Wander
Enger, Leif
Paper Book
The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart Midwestern movie...
The wife upstairs : a novel
McFadden, Freida
Paper Book
Victoria Barnett has it all. A great career as a nurse practitioner. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect--or so it seems. Then she's in a terrible accident... and her life is forever changed.

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