New Castle County Staff Picks - May 2024

Updated April 27, 2024
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Don't turn around : a thriller
Dolan, Harry
Paper Book
The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who seems to choose his victims at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. But what did she really see? When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking...
Supercommunicators : how to unlock the secret language of connection
Duhigg, Charles
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work--and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life "A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might...
The Sicilian inheritance : a novel
Piazza, Jo
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of the NY Post's Best Beach Reads, an US Weekly pick for "mystery novels to read on the beach", a Woman's World "captivating beach read you won't be able to put down this summer" ("a riveting saga"), an Eater food-filled beach...
The mystery writer : a novel
Gentill, Sulari
Paper Book
"A mischievous twist on mystery novels and the people who write them." -- Benjamin Stevenson, author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone and Everyone on the Train is a Suspect There's nothing easier to dismiss than a conspiracy theory--until it turns out to be true From 2023...
A short walk through a wide world : a novel
Westerbeke, Douglas
Paper Book
"Imagine The Life of Pi, The Alchemist, and The Midnight Library rolled into one fantastical fable." --The New York Times Book Review * "An epic adventure...rich with all the possibilities the world can hold." --People NATIONAL BESTSELLER...
You only call when you're in trouble
McCauley, Stephen
Paper Book
"I don't think I will find a book I love more this year." --Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author "Funny, poignant, joyous, explosive, but most of all affirming of our connections to one another. You Only Call When You're in Trouble is a book to...
No one needs to know : a novel
Cameron, Lindsay
Paper Book
When an anonymous neighborhood forum gets hacked, the darkest secrets of New York's wealthiest residents come to light-including some worth killing for-in this gripping suspense novel from the author of Just One Look. "Big Little Lies meets Gossip Girlin...
The trail of lost hearts
Garvis Graves, Tracey
Paper Book
Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn't see coming, and all she wants to do is put the whole heartbreaking mess behind her. No...
Begin Again
Acton, Helly
Paper Book
Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring... Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie...
The Blues Brothers : an epic friendship, the rise of improv, and the making of an American film classic
De Visé, Daniel
Paper Book
The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John...
Grief is for people
Crosley, Sloane
Paper Book
One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: TIME, The Washington Post, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, Paste, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Lit Hub, Real Simple, Nylon, BookPage, The Story Exchange, Sunset, and...
Don't tell anybody the secrets I told you : a memoir
Williams, Lucinda
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs in this "bracingly candid chronicle" (The...
The secret lives of booksellers and librarians : true stories of the magic of reading
Patterson, James
Paper Book
Instant New York Times Bestseller! This "celebration of the world of books" (Kirkus) is "a real page turner!" (Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan) that "feels like a love letter" (USA Today) to booksellers and librarians--as told...
Charlie Hustle : the rise and fall of Pete Rose, and the last glory days of baseball
O'Brien, Keith
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures--baseball immortal Pete Rose--and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century...

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