Staff Picks

Recommendations from staff members at the Trumbull Library System.

Updated April 10, 2024
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When books went to war the stories that helped us win World War II
Manning, Molly Guptill
Paper Book
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, December 2014When America entered World War II, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books. Outraged librarians sent donated books to our troops. Then the War Department joined the publishing industry in an extraordinary program: 120 million...
This was an accidental find, and those are often the most rewarding. I was completely unaware of the wonderful joint efforts of libraries, the US Government and the publishing industry to bring small paperbacks to troops all over the world, and how much the soldiers treasured these books. - Zdena
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution :
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War   "Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial...

The author writes with such clarity and eloquence. - Paula

Birnam Wood : A Novel
Catton, Eleanor.
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the Kirkus Prize, Orwell Prize, and the Ockham Book Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award CBC Books' #1 Canadian Novel of 2023 Named a Best...
Name of the wind : the Kingkiller chronicle : day one
Rothfuss, Patrick
Paper Book
Discover #1 New York Times-bestselling Patrick Rothfuss' epic fantasy series, The Kingkiller Chronicle. "I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss." --Lin-Manuel Miranda   OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD! DAY ONE: THE NAME OF THE WIND ...

This is the first book in the King Killer Chronicle. The story introduces the main characters, who all have interesting back stories and talents. - Keith

Hench : a novel
Walschots, Natalie Zina
Paper Book
"This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell." -- Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp...

Sometimes you just need a story where the villains win. And the sequel is coming out later this year. - Chelsie

Are you listening? /
Walden, Tillie,
Paper Book
The graphic novel Are You Listening? is an intimate and emotionally soaring story about friendship, grief, and healing from Eisner Award winner Tillie Walden. Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey...

A masterful odyssey of self -discovery with internal monologues and dialogues that compliment the dynamic; and at times, experimental art. - Willy

Strange Sally Diamond
Nugent, Liz.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "One of the best books I've read in a long, long time." --Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Apartment "I loved every damn second of it!" --Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of...

An exceptional, unsettling novel that will evoke strong emotions. - Elise

East of Eden
Steinbeck, John
Paper Book
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of...

An incredible tale of two families whose generational journeys represent the story of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel respectively. The author explores Fate, forgiveness, prejudice, and original sin against the backdrop of the ever evolving Salinas Valley, California. This was my favorite read of the past year. - Willy

Fourth wing /
Yarros, Rebecca.
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times bestseller * TV series in development at MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society * Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 * Apple Best Books of the Year 2023 * Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 * NPR "Books We Love" 2023 * Audible Best Books of...

An exciting tale of a war college filled with intrigue, romance, magic and lots of dragons. - Zdena

This book is exciting, tense, unpredictable, and full of dragons! - Elise

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries : Book One of the Emily Wilde Series
Fawcett, Heather
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this "incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic" (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. "A darkly gorgeous...

Whimsical and "cottagecore-esque." - Katie


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