New Castle County Staff Picks - April 2025

Updated March 26, 2025
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Clever little thing
Echlin, Helena
Paper Book
A MOTHER KNOWS HER CHILD BEST. DOESN'T SHE? 'CLEAR YOUR CALENDARS for January. You will be doing nothing but devouring this absolutely breathtaking page-turner of a book. Think THE PUSH - on steroids' Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Oakley, Colleen.
Paper Book
Date night goes off the rails when one unhappy couple find themselves taken hostage by a climate activist group 'Marital discord meets mortal danger in this high-stakes tongue-in-cheek romp' Good Housekeeping 'The true definition of...
All the other mothers hate me
Harman, Sarah.
Paper Book
'SPIKY, WITTY' PANDORA SYKES 'FUNNY, PACY' GUARDIAN 'CHAOTIC, SNARKY, VERY FUNNY' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'AN ABSOLUTELY WILD RIDE' INDEPENDENT A 'HOTTEST, MUST-READ NEW BOOK FOR 2025' IN SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST, INDEPENDENT AND SERVICE95 Maybe having a...
The Strange Case of Jane O.: The extraordinary new novel from the international bestselling author of THE AGE OF MIRACLES
Walker, Karen Thompson.
Paper Book
The bestselling author of THE AGE OF MIRACLES returns with a spellbinding, haunting, beautifully written speculative literary mystery about memory, identity, consciousness, and love.
The Sirens' Call : how attention became the world's most endangered resource
Hayes, Chris.
Paper Book
We all feel it - the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they're us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the...
One life : the true story of Sir Nicholas Winton
Winton, Barbara
Paper Book
The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter. 'Remarkable' - Guardian Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never...
The many lives of Mama Love : a prison journey - to hell and back
Hardin, Lara Love
Paper Book
'Lara Love Hardin shares compelling and important truths in her beautifully told personal story.' PIPER KERMAN, author of the no. 1 New York Times bestseller Orange is the New Black'Thrilling, funny, heartbreaking and moving. I'll return to this book when I need to be reminded...

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