2024 April Staff Picks

Check out what we've been reading/watching and loving! We think you'll enjoy them, too.

Updated March 26, 2024
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LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Gladstone & Oak Lodge Public Libraries
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A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

Bonnie says: A funny movie about students from a prep school who are accused of being entitled. Nominated for 5 Oscars!

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A wolf called Romeo
Jans, Nick
Paper Book
The unlikely true story of a six-year friendship between a wild, oddly gentle black wolf and the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska   No stranger to wildlife, Nick Jans had lived in Alaska for nearly thirty years. But when one evening at twilight a lone black...

Stephanie says: It's really heart warming to read how a single friendly black wolf caused the vast majority of the city to come together in their affection for this amazing creature. I learned a great deal about him, the city and about wolves in general.

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