Staff Picks: Jan. 2025

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Updated January 2, 2025
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The water knife
Bacigalupi, Paolo.
Paper Book
Paolo Bacigalupi, New York Times-Bestselling author and National Book Award Finalist, dives once again onto our uncertain future with his first thriller for adults since his multi-award winning debut phenomenon The Windup Girl.   In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona,...
Seven stones to stand or fall a collection of Outlander fiction
Gabaldon, Diana
Paper Book
A magnificent collection of Outlander short fiction - including two never-before-published novellas - featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more! Filling in mesmerizing chapters in the lives of characters readers have followed over the course of thousands of pages,...
Ordinary grace
Krueger, William Kent
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 "That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I...
Annie Sullivan and the trials of Helen Keller
Lambert, Joseph
Paper Book
Helen Keller lost her ability to see and hear before she turned two years old. But in her lifetime, she learned to ride horseback and dance the foxtrot. She graduated from Radcliffe. She became a world famous speaker and author. She befriended Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, and...
Spinning silver
Novik, Naomi
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "One of the year's strongest fantasy novels" (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted.NEBULA AND HUGO AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF PASTE'S...

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