New Castle County Staff Picks - September 2024

Updated August 26, 2024
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Wandering Stars
Orange, Tommy.
Paper Book
Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also...
Lenny Marks gets away with murder
Mayne, Kerryn
Paper Book
'With Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder, Kerryn Mayne makes a very grand entrance into the Australian literary scene. With humour, heart and characters you come to love, this is a book you will devour now, and keep thinking about later!' Sally Hepworth, author of...
Wishing game, the
Shaffer, Meg
Paper Book
One of the Washington Post's top ten feel-good novels of the year: a perfect gift for book lovers everywhere!During a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy Hart found solace in books, especially Jack Masterson's Clock Island series. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide,...
Ordinary human failings : a novel
Nolan, Megan
Paper Book
A Best Book of 2023 in The Times, Sunday Times, i-D, the Guardian When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all- a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk...
Days i loved you most, the
Neff, Amy
Paper Book
Every great love story deserves a great ending. 'I've never read a story quite like this deeply moving, complex novel' Jodi Picoult, the global bestseller 'An epic love story and a sweeping family saga, The Days I Loved You Most is beautifully...
Slow dance : a novel
Rowell, Rainbow
Paper Book
Everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together - everybody but Shiloh and Cary. Slow Dance follows these star-crossed best friends from their inseparable teen years on the wrong side of the tracks to their far-flung adulthoods - through her marriage and motherhood and...
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
Paper Book
**A Sunday Times Bestseller** The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st...
Becoming earth
Jabr, Ferris
Paper Book
A radically thought-provoking account of a major shift in how we understand our Earth, not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather as a planet that came to life.'Full of achingly beautiful passages, mind-bending conceptual twists, and wonderful characters.' - Ed Yong, author...
Entrances and exits
Richards, Michael
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Today Show, The View, and Jesse Watters The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved television characters...
New Cold Wars: ; China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West
Sanger, David E.
Paper Book
New Cold Wars - the latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon, David E. Sanger - tells the riveting story of America at a crossroads. At the turn of the millennium, the United States was confident that a democratic Russia and a newly...
True to you : a therapist's guide to stop pleasing others and start being yourself
Smith, Dr. Kathleen
Paper Book
'A beautiful blend of storytelling, science and practical tools. Smith uses her expertise to introduce true boundary setting tools to build (and rebuild) our relationships to others and ourselves.' Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play When's...
You never know : a memoir
Selleck, Tom
Paper Book
A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic...

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