New Castle County Staff Picks - September 2024

Updated August 26, 2024
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What You Leave Behind
Morris, Wanda M.
Paper Book
Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who after the mysterious disappearance of a local landowner and the death of his sister just months before, uncovers a conspiracy that dates back to Reconstruction and persists in half the United...
Lenny Marks gets away with murder
Mayne, Kerryn
Paper Book
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is...
Wandering stars
Orange, Tommy
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR * The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York...
The wishing game : a novel
Shaffer, Meg
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children's author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner's life in this absorbing and whimsical novel....
The days I loved you most
Neff, Amy
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER  A Today Show Pick "I've never read a story quite like this deeply moving, complex novel." --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author Unforgettable and utterly romantic, The...
Slow dance : a novel
Rowell, Rainbow
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes Slow Dance - her smartest, funniest, most romantic novel yet. "If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is...
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign...
The lede : dispatches from a life in the press
Trillin, Calvin
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin "The Lede contains...
Gray matters : a biography of brain surgery
Schwartz, Theodore H.
Paper Book
We've all heard the phrase 'it's not brain surgery.' But what exactly is brain surgery? It's a profession that is barely a hundred years old and profoundly connects two human beings, but few know how it works, or its history. How did early neurosurgeons come to understand the human brain - an...
The bookshop : a history of the American bookstore
Friss, Evan
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Goodreads Choice Award Winner in History & Biography One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 "A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." --The New York Times...
Becoming Earth : how our planet came to life
Jabr, Ferris
Paper Book
A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to life. "Glorious . . . full of achingly beautiful passages, mind-bending conceptual...
Entrances and exits
Richards, Michael
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Today Show, The View, and Jesse Watters The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved television characters...
New cold wars : China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West
Sanger, David E.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The fast-paced inside story of America's plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon
True to you : a therapist's guide to stop pleasing others and start being yourself
Smith, Kathleen
Paper Book
A Guide to The Theory and Practice of Creating Authentic Relationships When's the last time you felt as composed as you portray to your boss, family and friends? If there's a discord between the two, you're not alone. Humans are master pretenders--we often seem stronger...
You never know : a memoir
Selleck, Tom
Paper Book
***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own...
Humor me
Shook, Cat
Paper Book
For fans of Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, a hilarious, heartfelt novel about the healing power of female friendship, unexpected love, and stand-up comedy Presley Fry is not amused. She's been an assistant at the Late Night Show for way too long, she's adopted a...

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