2024 April Staff Picks

Check out what we've been reading/watching and loving! We think you'll enjoy them, too.

Updated March 26, 2024
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At home : a short history of private life
Bryson, Bill
Paper Book
In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating...

Stephanie says: Bryson really has a real facility to bring up, perhaps uninteresting, prosaic things and explaining how extraordinary something like a shaker of salt really is. It's a delight to read and I learned a lot!

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Emily Wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries
Fawcett, Heather
Paper Book
'A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic, this book wholly enchanted me' Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Enter the world of the hidden folk - and discover the most whimsical, enchanting and heart-warming tale...

Heather says: This was a really whimsical fantasy very different from other fantasy books I've read in the past. I always love stories that show the darker side of fairies from traditional folklore.

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The frozen river
Lawhon, Ariel
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Helene comes a gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who found herself at the center of a murder trial. Maine, 1789:...

Maria says: I gave this one five stars! An amazing story about women empowerment in historical times.

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A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

Bonnie says: A funny movie about students from a prep school who are accused of being entitled. Nominated for 5 Oscars!

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A Market of Dreams and Destiny
Galey, Trip.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Award. Enter the bazaar of the bizarre--where fate and fortunes are for sale just beneath Covent Garden--in this high-stakes historical fantasy debut set in 19th-century London, perfect for fans of Neverwhere and The Night Circus. Below...

Jessica says: I loved this fast, fun low-stakes fantasy set in an alternate druidic Victorian England!

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Nightwatching
Sierra, Tracy
Paper Book
Spring 2024 Jimmy Fallon Book Club Winner DISCOVER THE THRILLER KEEPING EVERYONE AWAKE 'The most gripping thriller I have ever read' GILLIAN McALLISTER 'Like nothing I've read before. I wolfed it down in two sittings, it's...

Jill says: I loved this intense, pulse pounding thriller about a home invasion.

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The reformatory
Due, Tananarive
Paper Book
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephen Jones as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

Christine says: It was compelling and moving and frightening and honest!

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Three-inch teeth
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts--one animal, one human--in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the fiancee of Joe's daughter. At...

Walt says: It was a bit much, which is good for me!

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What the river knows
Ibañez, Isabel (Novelist)
Paper Book
PRE-ORDER WHERE THE LIBRARY HIDES NOW, THE HUGELY ROMANTIC SEQUEL TO WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS 'BURNING WITH ROMANCE' STEPHANIE GARBER 'ALL THE STARS' HEATHER FAWCETT 'A ROMANTIC, SPELLBINDING ADVENTURE' REBECCA ROSS ...

Jessica says: Magic, mystery, mummies - what more could a reader ask for? I devoured this story in a single day!

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