New Castle County Staff Picks - August 2023

Updated August 28, 2023
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The door-to-door bookstore : a novel
Henn, Carsten
Ebook
The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life. Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing...
And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
Meacham, Jon
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . Pulitzer Prize-winning biographerJon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how-and why-he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. "Meacham has given us...
Better living through birding : notes from a Black man in the natural world
Cooper, Christian
Audiobook
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up. "Wondrous . . . captivating."--Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize...
The sun walks down
McFarlane, Fiona
Paper Book
Short-Listed for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and Chicago Public Library "The Sun Walks Down is the book I'm...
Strong female character
Brady, Fern
Ebook
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Witty, dry, and gimlet-eyed, this is a necessary corrective in a world where Autistic women are all either written off as quiet and docile, or erased entirely." --Devon Price, Ph.D., author of Unmasking Autism Scottish comedian Fern Brady was told...
The sewing girl's tale : a story of crime and consequences in Revolutionary America
Sweet, John Wood
Paper Book
New York Times Editors' Choice Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Gotham Book Prize Winner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book AwardJournal of the...
The talk
Bell, Darrin
Ebook
Holding pattern
Xie, Jenny
Ebook
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE "There is so much heart in these pages, so much wisdom on how we love. This book had me in its orbit, from beginning to end." - Weike Wang, author of Joan is Okay Holding Pattern. Noun. 1. A state of...
Twelve months and a day
Young, Louisa
Paper Book
A poignant, modern love story about a young widow and widower and the two ghosts that bring them together because although love changes form, it never dies. "Heart-stoppingly romantic."--The Express (UK) Two couples. Four unfinished lives. A love that...
The spectacular : a novel
Davis, Fiona
Ebook
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Magnolia Palace: A thrilling story about love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of dreams, set amidst the glamour and glitz of Radio City Music Hall in its mid-century heyday. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion...

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