New Castle County Staff Picks - April 2024

Updated March 26, 2024
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Bullwinkel, Rita.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024 Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, Elle, Vulture, and...
The underground library : a novel
Ryan, Jennifer
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When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community's beloved library in this novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. When the new deputy...
Talking at night
Daverley, Claire
Paper Book
Nostalgic · Intimate · Bittersweet · Romantic · Emotional "A beautifully observed, tender love story with characters you really care about... a bit like Normal People. I devoured it."―Jojo Moyes, New York Times bestselling author of Someone Else's Shoes<...
Leave no trace : a national parks thriller
Landau, A. J.
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The Statue of Liberty is the target of a terrorist attack, the first in a possible series of attacks, in this thrilling series from A. J. Landau, featuring Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service. In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and...
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Bo-reum, Hwang/ Tan, Shanna (TRN)
Paper Book
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell's Pick of the Month * A Bookshop Best Book of the Year So Far The Korean smash hit available for the first...
This other Eden : a novel
Harding, Paul
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Finalist, Booker Prize and National Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted, Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Longlisted, Dublin Literary Award One of Barack Obama's 15 favorite books of 2023 * A New YorkerBest Books of 2023 * An NPR 2023 "Book We Love"...
Kill show : a true crime novel
Sweren-Becker, Daniel
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"Riveting, original, and chillingly plausible, Kill Show is both an urgent reckoning with the ethics of true crime and a tense mystery in its own right. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."--Flynn Berry, Edgar Award-winning author of Northern Spy When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes...
Slow productivity : the lost art of accomplishment without burnout
Newport, Cal
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A New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and IndieBound bestseller "Brilliant and timely" -- Oliver Burkeman ~ Do Fewer Things. Work at a Natural Pace. Obsess over Quality. ~ From the New York Times bestselling...
The return of great powers : Russia, China, and the next world war
Sciutto, Jim
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Instant New York Times Bestseller A Politico Top 10 Book of 2024 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "An absorbing account of 21st-century brinkmanship . . . . one that should be read by every legislator or presidential...
The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade
Durkin, Hannah
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Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors--the last documented survivors...
The fast : the history, science, philosophy, and promise of doing without
Oakes, John G. H.
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With fasting at an all-time high in popularity, here is an enlightening exploration into the history, science, and philosophy behind the practice--essential to many religions and wellness routines. Whether for philosophical, political, or health-related reasons, fasting marks a...
Shakespeare's sisters : how women wrote the Renaissance
Targoff, Ramie
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This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before anyone ever imagined the possibility of "a room of one's own." In an...
3 shades of blue : Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the lost empire of cool
Kaplan, James
Paper Book
The national bestseller! "A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date." --Los Angeles Times From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story...
Rescue story : faith, freedom, and finding my way home
Williams, Zach
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From a hard-rocking life fueled by substance abuse to a hope-filled life of freedom and joy--this is music star Zach Williams's bold and vulnerable story of faith and redemption. Before two-time GRAMMY Award winner Zach Williams penned heartfelt, faith-filled...

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