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
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A magnificent collection of Outlander short fiction--including two never-before-published novellas--featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, from Diana Gabaldon Among the seven spellbinding pieces there is "The...
Perros! Perros! = Dogs! Dogs!
Guy, Ginger Foglesong.
Paper Book
Perro grande. Perro chico. Big dog. Little dog. Perro rápido. Perro lento. Fast dog. Slow dog. ¡Muchos perros! Lots of dogs! Ladrando. Barking. Brincando. Jumping. ¿Adónde van Where...
Ida B : --and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world
Hannigan, Katherine.
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling debut novel from acclaimed children's author Katherine Hannigan is both very funny and extraordinarily moving. Who is Ida B. Applewood? She is a fourth grader like no other, living a life like no other, with a voice like no other, and her story will resonate...
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...
The Center for Cartoon Studies presents 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...
The destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president
Millard, Candice.
Paper Book
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the...
The circle of Ceridwen
Randolph, Octavia
Paper Book
Young women with courage. Swords with names. Vikings with tattoos. Warfare. Passion. Survival. Sheep. And Other Good Things...It is the year 871, when England was Angle-Land. Of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, five have fallen to the invading Vikings. No trait is more valued than loyalty, and no...

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