New Castle County Staff Picks - November 2024

Updated October 29, 2024
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Clean : a novel
Trabucco Zerán, Alia
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! FEATURED ON NPR FRESH AIR, NPR WEEKEND EDITION, CBS MORNINGS, AND NBC THE TODAY SHOW "A brilliant literary thriller." - NBC The Today Show "A masterclass in suspense ... Extraordinary...
The Dallergut Dream Department Store
Lee, Miye/ Lee, Sandy Joosun (TRN)
Paper Book
THE #1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD For fans of magical realism and the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi comes this cozy fantasy debut. What if there was a store that sold dreams? Which...
The Ghost Cat
Howard, Alex
Paper Book
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER** A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time, following a cat through his nine lives in Edinburgh, moving through the ever-changing city and meeting its inhabitants over centuries ...
Exposure
Emerson, Ramona
Paper Book
In Gallup, New Mexico, where violent crime is five times the national average, a serial killer is operating unchecked, his targets indigent Natives whose murders are easily disguised as death by exposure on the frigid winter streets. He slips unnoticed through town, hidden in plain sight by his...
See: loss. see also: love : a novel
Tominaga, Yukiko
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2025 PEN Open Book Award * A Martin Cruz Smith Award for Emerging Diverse Voices Finalist in the CALIBA 2024 Golden Poppy Book Awards * "This debut novel breaks all the rules...capturing loss in all its belligerent rage and raw humor." --Oprah Daily * "Full of heart." --...
The museum of failures : a novel
Umrigar, Thrity N.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Space Between Us comes a powerful story about family secrets, a mother's power, and the importance of forgiveness. When Remy Wadia left India for the United States, he carried his resentment of his cold and inscrutable...
The lost dresses of Italy : a novel
McLaughlin, M. A.
Paper Book
Verona, 1947. Textile historian Marianne Baxter comes to post-war Italy with one thing on her mind: three pristine Victorian dresses, once owned by the famous poet Christina Rossetti. Hidden away in a trunk for nearly a century, they were recently discovered at the Fondazione Museo Menigatti and...
Home is where the bodies are
Rose, Jeneva
Paper Book
A New York Times and USA Today bestseller From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn't Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet. After their mother passes, three estranged siblings...
Clear : a novel
Davies, Carys
Paper Book
"Tender, riveting, and inventive is Clear, the newest offering and masterpiece from the brilliant Carys Davies. It will take your breath away...What a thrill." --Sarah Jessica Parker Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, 2024 Bookmark Festival Book...
The book-makers : a history of the book in eighteen lives
Smyth, Adam
Ebook
A scholar and bookmaker "breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life" (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them Books tell all kinds of stories--romances, tragedies, comedies--but if...
Blind Spots : When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
Makary, Marty, M.D.
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay-an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and...
What in the world
Morgan, Leanne
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "This book is the inspirational story that we all need. No one makes me laugh harder than Leanne Morgan!"-Reese Witherspoon The beloved comedy sensation packs a hilarious punch with real talk about what it's like to be a woman today-from rebelling...
The situation room : the inside story of presidents in crisis
Stephanopoulos, George
Paper Book
 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White...

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