New Castle County Staff Picks - December 2025

Updated November 24, 2025
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New Castle County Staff Picks - December 2025

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The listeners
Stiefvater, Maggie
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER· An Oprah Daily Best Summer Read of 2025 · A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of June "A wonderfully observed--actually, flat-out wonderful--historical novel." --The Wall Street Journal "Richly imagined . . ....
The letter carrier : a novel
Giannone, Francesca
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * What would happen if you finally met your soul mate--but they were married to someone else? In a novel that has become a bestselling phenomenon in Italy, The Letter Carrier shows how a little town in southern Italy might be just like every town-...
The true true story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)
Alameddine, Rabih
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination."--NPR From National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the...
My other heart
Strenner, Emma Nanami
Paper Book
READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY "A mesmerizing novel filled with different types of love and secrets from the past." --Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee A missing child, two girls in...
How to dodge a cannonball : a novel
Dayle, Dennard
Paper Book
A New York Times Editor's Choice Pick How to Dodge a Cannonball is a razor-sharp satire that dives into the heart of the Civil War, hilariously questioning the essence of the fight, not just for territory, but for the soul of America. ...
The great contradiction : the tragic side of the American founding
Ellis, Joseph J.
Paper Book
A major new history from our most trusted voice on the Revolutionary era, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx, and featured in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt,...
Joyride : a memoir
Orlean, Susan
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Brilliant...A high-spirited, exhilarating memoir." --The Wall Street Journal * "In Joyride, the takeaway often has as much to do with the art of living as the art of writing." --Elle * "Wise and exuberant...It's funny, as well. Just...
Writing creativity and soul
Kidd, Sue Monk
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings: an intimate work on the mysteries, frustrations, and triumphs of being a writer, and an instructive guide to awakening the soul. When Sue Monk Kidd...
Book of lives : a memoir of sorts
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * How does the greatest writer of our time tell her own story? NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST "The most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter century-or ever."--...
Black-owned : the revolutionary life of the Black bookstore
Adams, Char
Paper Book
**A November LibraryReads Pick** Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights...
Calling all blessings
Jenkins, Beverly
Paper Book
NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins celebrates her beloved Blessings series with a heartwarming novel set in Henry Adams, Kansas. "If you haven't yet gotten your hands on [this] author's work, you should do so immediately."--Shondaland Tamar July...
The emperor of gladness : a novel
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - A 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction finalistOcean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive ...
Fahrenheit-182 : a memoir
Hoppus, Mark
Paper Book
***The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!*** A smart, funny, and refreshing memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182. This is the story of an angst-filled kid from the desert, navigating the chaos of his parents' bitter...
The Phoenix Pencil Company : a novel
King, Allison
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "The Phoenix Pencil Company is a masterful blending of history, fantasy, and romance that sank into my heart . . . This book had me smiling through my tears." -- Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone Saga In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and...
Saint of the Narrows Street
Boyle, William
Paper Book
As an Italian American family's decades-old secret begins to unravel, they will have to bear the consequences--and face each other--in this thrilling south Brooklyn-set tragic opera of the highest caliber from crime fiction luminary William Boyle. William...
Jump and find joy : embracing change in every season of life
Kotb, Hoda
Paper Book
Hoda Kotb didn't expect to join the Today show at age 44. Or to become a mother at 52. Or to leave Today and embark on a new adventure at 60! Change doesn't always arrive when we expect it, and its effects are anything but predictable. But Hoda believes that the benefits of change can be...
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