New Castle County Staff Picks - February 2024

Updated January 29, 2024
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library A Novel
Aoyama, Michiko.
Ebook
For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life. What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to...
Anna O : a novel
Blake, Matthew (Author of Anna O)
Paper Book
For readers of Gillian Flynn and A. J. Finn comes the thriller of the year: the dark and twisty tale of a young woman who commits murder with her eyes wide open and her brain still asleep. THE WORLD WILL KNOW HER NAME What if your nightmares weren't really nightmares at all?<...
The curse of Penryth Hall
Armstrong, Jess
Paper Book
"A delightful debut." -People An atmospheric gothic mystery that beautifully brings the ancient Cornish countryside to life, Armstrong introduces heroine Ruby Vaughn in her Minotaur Books & Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut, The...
Welcome home, stranger : a novel
Christensen, Kate
Paper Book
"Kate Christensen's new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more...
The wildest sun : a novel
Lemmie, Asha
Paper Book
Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie's next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young woman's search for the larger-than-life literary figure she believes to be her father. When tragedy ...
Prophet song
Lynch, Paul
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 * INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize "A prophetic masterpiece." -- Ron Charles, Washington Post On a dark, wet...
Poor deer : a novel
Oshetsky, Claire
Paper Book
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss--and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life--from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire Oshetsky Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for...
The other mothers
Faulkner, Katherine
Paper Book
" The author of the "twisty, fast-paced" (The Sunday Times, London) Greenwich Park returns with a fresh and deftly paced thriller about murder, class, and motherhood in an exclusive London community. When a young nanny is found dead in...
The object at hand : intriguing and inspiring stories from the Smithsonian collections
Py-Lieberman, Beth
Paper Book
From Dorothy's ruby slippers to a speech that saved Teddy Roosevelt from assassination, this authoritative guide delivers in-depth reportage on the history of remarkable objects from the Smithsonian's collections For American history, pop culture, and museum enthusiasts
You'll Do : A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
Zug, Marcia A.
Paper Book
Americans hold marriage in such high esteem that we push people toward it, reward them for taking part in it, and fetishize its benefits to the point that we routinely ignore or excuse bad behavior and societal ills in the name of protecting and promoting it. In eras of slavery and segregation,...
LIV and let die
Shipnuck, Alan
Paper Book
"A terrific history...gossipy as hell...the writing is classic Shipnuck...he will never bore you." --Golf Digest The New York Times bestselling author of Phil and "master of both the art and science of sports journalism" (Sports Illustrated), delves...
The Djinn waits a hundred years
Khan, Shubnum
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE "Rich and swoony...an ambitious delight, with rich characters and some exceptionally lovely writing...This is the start of a major career." -- The New York Times Book Review AN INDIE NEXT PICK A LIBRARY...
The book of animal secrets : nature's lessons for a long and happy life
Agus, David
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The End of Illness comes an ingenious guide to what our fellow animals can teach us about living longer, healthier, happier lives. Mother nature has a lot to teach us, if only we open our eyes. Pigeons and dolphins...
I swear : politics is messier than my minivan
Porter, Katie
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER .A "high-octane, no-bullshit" (The New Republic) memoir about re-energizing our politics and standing up to corporate America-while carting three kids around in a minivan. "Just like her whiteboard schoolings of CEOs, this book showcases...
Around the world in eighty games : from tarot to tic-tac-toe, catan to chutes and ladders, a mathematician unlocks the secrets of the world's greatest games
Du Sautoy, Marcus
Paper Book
A "fun" and "unexpected" (The Economist) global tour of the world's greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them  Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?...
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald : the jazz singer who transformed American song
Tick, Judith
Paper Book
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational...
Break the cycle : a guide to healing intergenerational trauma
Buquae, Mariel
Paper Book
***The Instant National Bestseller*** A Next Big Idea Club must-read title for January 2024 The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma--weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the...
The dictionary people : the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English dictionary
Ogilvie, Sarah
Paper Book
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST * The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. ...

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