New Castle County Staff Picks - May 2025

Updated April 25, 2025
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Tara, Jane
Paper Book
'Pitch-perfect.' Kathy Lette 'Fresh, funny, smart and warm.' Rachael Johns 'Delightfully original.' Joanna Nell 'Oh, my heart! What a story! I feel so seen.' Josephine Moon 'Clever, layered, funny.' Vanessa McCausland 'Genuinely empowering.' Julietta Henderson 'I...
Happy Land
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
Paper Book
" A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand. Nikki hasn't seen her grandmother in...
The Eights
Miller, Joanna
Paper Book
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world's most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They have come here from all walks of life, and they...
Harriet Tubman : live in concert
Bob, the Drag Queen
Paper Book
From RuPaul's Drag Race winner and host of HBO's We're Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and hip-hop. In an age of miracles where our greatest...
Audition
Kitamura, Katie
Paper Book
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling, young - young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two...
Kills well with others
Raybourn, Deanna
Paper Book
"Much like fine wine, battle-hardened assassins grow better with age."-#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner Four women assassins, senior in status-and in age-sharpen their knives for another bloody good adventure in this riotous follow-up to the New York Times<...
Reset : how to change what's not working
Heath, Dan
Paper Book
Reset will help you get unstuck, shake off old habits, and overcome the inertia of the way things always work. Heath shares a framework, based on research in psychology and hundreds of interviews, to help you vault toward what really matters. Crucially, you can make positive...
No more tears : the dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Harris, Gardiner
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . An explosive, deeply reported expose of Johnson & Johnson, one of America's oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies-from an award-winning investigative journalist "A damning portrait."-Associated Press "A page-turning...
Healing the modern brain : nine tenets to build mental fitness and revitalize your mind
Ramsey, Drew
Paper Book
In this essential guide, the groundbreaking author of Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety and The Happiness Diet explores the ten tenets vital to cultivating Mental Fitness and provides direct, actionable techniques to improve brain function and emotional health. The human...
Raising hare : the heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship
Dalton, Chloe
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION, HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST...
Nine minds : inner lives on the spectrum
Tammet, Daniel
Paper Book
A celebration of neurodiversity - meet nine extraordinary people on the autism spectrum
Yoga fix : functional movement for a pain-free body
Motz, Erin
Paper Book
This is yoga for those who don't know their asana from their elbow. Bad back from sitting at your desk all day? Tech neck from looking at your phone too much? Is your body feeling the strains of modern life? Introducing Yoga Fix: functional yoga for a pain-free...

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