New Castle County Staff Picks - April 2024

Updated March 26, 2024
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TURTLE HOUSE
CHURCHILL, AMANDA
"A heartbreakingly resonant debut, The Turtle House is a tender, big-hearted story about women, family, and the complicated history of Texas. These characters, and their tentative, flawed stumblings toward grace, will stay with me."--Elizabeth Wetmore, author of Valentine ...
WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP
BO-REUM,HWANG
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell's Pick of the Month The Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a slice-of-life novel for readers of Matt Haig's The Midnight...
THIS OTHER EDEN
HARDING, PAUL
In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the...
Take what you need : a novel
Novey, Idra
Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Appalachia, Take What You Need traces the parallel lives of Jean, and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter, Leah, who's sought a clean break from her rural childhood. In Leah's urban life with her young family, she's revealed little about Jean, how much she misses...
KILL SHOW
SWEREN-BECKER, DANIEL
"Riveting, original, and chillingly plausible, Kill Show is both an urgent reckoning with the ethics of true crime and a tense mystery in its own right. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."--Flynn Berry, Edgar Award-winning author of Northern Spy When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes...
SLOW PRODUCTIVITY
NEWPORT, CAL
A New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and IndieBound bestseller "Brilliant and timely" -- Oliver Burkeman ~ Do Fewer Things. Work at a Natural Pace. Obsess over Quality. ~ From the New York Times bestselling...
RETURN OF GREAT POWERS
SCIUTTO, JIM
Instant New York Times Bestseller "An absorbing account of 21st-century brinkmanship . . . . one that should be read by every legislator or presidential nominee sufficiently deluded to think that returning America to its isolationist past or making chummy with Putin is a...
FAST
OAKES, JOHN
With fasting at an all-time high in popularity, here is the first deep exploration into the surprising history and science behind the practice--essential to many religions and philosophies. Whether for philosophical, political, or health-related reasons, fasting marks a departure...
PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS
WILKINSON, CRYSTAL
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate of Kentucky."With Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts...

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