New Castle County Staff Picks - July 2025Unpublished

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This is the story of a love triangle... of sorts. 'I so enjoyed Storybook Ending. It's the perfect balance of cosiness and originality - warm, comforting, with a hilarious mix-up at its heart that I couldn't wait to see unravel' Beth O'Leary, Sunday Times...

What does it mean to call a place home? From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins comes a deeply felt multigenerational family story On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but...

Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it's just been Madeline Hill and her mother on their Tennessee farm. It's mostly okay. Maybe sometimes a bit lonely... Then one day a stranger pulls up in a rental car and informs Madeline that he's her half brother, Reuben, abandoned by their dad...

Incredibly moving, witty and warm, The Boy from the Sea is a story of a family and a town, and the difference the arrival of one child can make. For fans of Kate Atkinson, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Keegan and Jon McGregor. 1973. A baby is found on the beach of a close-knit...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Prepare to meet your next obsession." -- Rebecca Ross, author of Divine Rivals From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes the next big romantasy...

"This beautiful page-turner kept me reading all night." --Janet Skeslien Charles, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library  When a young librarian discovers historic dollhouses in a hidden room, she embarks on an unexpected journey that reveals surprising...

From the author of cult favourite The Wishing Game comes a Narnia-inspired fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobe door . . . you know, just in case.Fifteen years ago, two boys went missing at a state park in West Virginia. Six months later they mysteriously...

His cello made him famous. His father made him a target. "In this perfectly crafted thriller, Slocumb acts as the master conductor, bringing together a twisty plot and gorgeously wrought characters." --The Boston Globe Curtis Wilson is a cello prodigy,...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award-winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape--and...

From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book - which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings -...

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! * #1 Washington Post bestseller! * #1 Indie Bestseller! * USA Today Bestseller! John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the...

In her first book, the popular From the Front Porch podcast host and independent bookstore owner challenges the idea that loud lives are the ones that matter most, reminding us that we don't have to leave the lives we have in order to have the lives of which we've always dreamed.<...

Discover delicious, plant-based Mexican recipes from a Culinary Institute of America-trained Mexican chef. When Dora Ramírez gave up eating animal-based foods, she worried that it meant giving up her favorite Mexican dishes. But once she started reinventing her...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity. Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as...