Staff Picks: Oct. 2024

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Updated September 27, 2024
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Autumn
Smith, Ali
Paper Book
"The first of four novels in a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn<...
The book of the most precious substance : a novel
Gran, Sara
Paper Book
"""A book with all of life's answers, if only you can find it..."""
Get a life, Chloe Brown
Hibbert, Talia
Paper Book
Long live the Pumpkin Queen
Ernshaw, Shea
Paper Book
On the savage side : a novel
McDaniel, Tiffany
Paper Book
Six women--mothers, daughters, sisters--gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty. ...
Project Hail Mary
Weir, Andy
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RYAN GOSLING AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER LORD AND PHIL MILLER From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this "propulsive" (Entertainment...
Starter villain
Scalzi, John
Paper Book
Sure, I'll join your cult : a memoir of mental illness and the quest to belong anywhere
Bamford, Maria
Paper Book
From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and "laugh-out-loud funny" (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir about show business, mental health, and the...
The traitor Baru Cormorant
Dickinson, Seth
Paper Book
The Traitor Baru Cormorant is the critically-acclaimed debut novel from Seth Dickinson, one of the rising new stars in fantasy. Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up and see red sails on the horizon. The Empire of Masks is coming, armed with...
The witch's daughter
Brackston, Paula.
Paper Book
My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred and eighty-four years. Each new settlement asks for a new journal, and so this Book of Shadows begins... In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches...

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