Skip to main content
W
Wright Memorial Public Library
All Lists
Staff Picks
Staff Picks: Feb. 2025
Unpublished
Share
JCPL Staff love these books!
Updated January 31, 2025
Jessamine County Public Library
A list cannot be published until it has at least four items.
List was unpublished.
List was published.
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
Lost you : a novel
Beck, Haylen
Paper Book
A provocative novel of psychological suspense about two women locked in a desperate fight over a child each believes is rightfully hers "Deliciously twisty and seriously dark . . . I couldn't put it down."--Natasha Bell, author of His Perfect Wife
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
A closed and common orbit
Chambers, Becky
Paper Book
National Bestseller! Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! A Publishers Weekly "Best Books of 2017" pick! Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel! Shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award! Winner of the Prix Julia-Verlanger! Embark on...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Ready player two : a novel
Cline, Ernest
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The patient
DeWitt, Jasper
Paper Book
The Silent Patient by way of Stephen King: Parker, a young, overconfident psychiatrist new to his job at a mental asylum, miscalculates catastrophically when he undertakes curing a mysterious and profoundly dangerous patient. In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
A Killer Clue
Gilbert, Victoria
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Anita de Monte laughs last
Gonzalez, Xochitl
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death A Best Book of 2024:...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Unreasonable hospitality : the remarkable power of giving people more than they expect
Guidara, Will
Audiobook
The must-read New York Times bestseller that's redefining hospitality and inspiring readers in every industry. - Featured in FX's The Bear and Showtime's Billions- JP Morgan NextList Pick Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The mercies : a novel
Hargrave, Kiran Millwood
Paper Book
After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable of "a world gone mad" (Adriana Trigiani). Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Shakespeare's champion
Harris, Charlaine.
Paper Book
Shakespeare, Arkansas, is a small town with plenty of secrets, and Lily Bard (Shakespeare's Landlord) just another of its residents with a shadowy past and a desire to live quietly. A cleaning woman and a karate student, Lily reluctantly turns sleuth again when a fellow fitness devotee is found dead...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Translation state
Leckie, Ann
Paper Book
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful novel from a Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author. "There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
How beautiful we were : a novel
Mbue, Imbolo
Paper Book
A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
How to raise the perfect dog : through puppyhood and beyond
Millan, Cesar.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel'sDog Whisperer, the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Dance of thieves
Pearson, Mary
Paper Book
A stunning new young adult adventure set in the kingdoms of the Remnant, by the author of the New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles and the Jenna Fox Chronicles. A formidable outlaw family that claims to be the first among nations. A son destined to...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
If we were villains
Rio, M. L.
Paper Book
"Much like Donna Tartt's The Secret History, M. L. Rio's sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments." --Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
This cursed house
Sandeen, Del
Paper Book
One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of 2024 One of Crime Reads' Best Gothic Novels of 2024 In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth:...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The light eaters : how the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth
Schlanger, Zoe?
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024 * TIME's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 * New York Magazine's 10 Best Books of the Year * Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2024 * Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of the Year * ...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
All systems red
Wells, Martha
Audiobook
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or
log in here.