October 2025 Staff Picks

Updated October 2, 2025
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October 2025 Staff Picks

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Atmosphere : a love story
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
CD
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limit. Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember....
The enemy
Higson, Charlie
Paper Book
In this first book in a series set in post-apocalyptic London, children under the age of sixteen must battle for survival against grown-ups who succumbed to a disease that turned them into flesh-eating monsters. In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone sixteen...
Grit : the power of passion and perseverance
Duckworth, Angela
Paper Book
In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, students, and business people-both seasoned and new-that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit." Why do some...
The heart's invisible furies
Boyne, John
Paper Book
Barbara's Fiction Pick, August 2017 #1 New York Times Bestselling Author SML From the beloved author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas comes a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland. Boyne's most transcendent work...
The Idaho Four An American Tragedy
Patterson, James
Ebook
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! "A mesmerizing read and a great detective story, yet sadly all true... With their book The Idaho Four, James Patterson and Vicky Ward have written perhaps the definitive account of the murders--a disturbing, necessary portrait of a...
Long way down the graphic novel
Reynolds, Jason
Paper Book
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Jason Reynolds's Newbery Honor, Printz Honor, and Coretta Scott King Honor-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel Long Way Down is now a gripping, galvanizing graphic novel, with haunting artwork by Danica...
The third rule of time travel
Fracassi, Philip
Paper Book
Rule One: You can only travel to a point within your lifetime. Rule Two: You can only travel for ninety seconds. Rule Three: You can only observe. The rules cannot be broken.   In this...
Trust
Díaz, Hernán
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE "Buzzy and...
Will's Race for Home
Rhodes, Jewell Parker.
Ebook
A New York Times bestseller! ★ "Rhodes deftly captures a unique ­aspect of this historical event, with a perspective that is ­often under-represented in historical ­fiction. A poignant and honest look at the trials of racism that defined the ­historic land...
The Witchwood Crown Last King of Osten Ard Series, Book 1
Williams, Tad.
Ebook
New York Times-bestselling Tad Williams' ground-breaking epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins an exciting new cycle! * Volume One of The Last King of Osten Ard The Dragonbone Chair, the first volume of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, was published in hardcover in...
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