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? 'Brilliant and creepy, I wolfed it down! One of my favourite reads of 2025' LISA JEWELL Charlotte's daughter, Stella, is sensitive and brilliant - perhaps even a genius - but after the sudden death of her...
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 a novel
Harman, Sarah
Paper Book
A mom will do anything to save her kid. Anything. "The missing boy is 10-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he's a little shit." Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and...
The strange case of Jane O a novel
Walker, Karen Thompson
Paper Book
In this spellbinding and provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles, a young mother is struck by sudden and puzzling psychological symptoms that illuminate the mysterious dimensions of the human mind--and of love. A...
The sirens' call : how attention became the world's most endangered resource
Hayes, Christopher
Paper Book
A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick 2025 From the New York Timesbestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society. ...
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
"Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won't want to stop." -Oprah Winfrey OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a...

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