New Castle County Staff Picks - December 2023

Updated November 29, 2023
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The secret hours
Herron, Mick
Paper Book
The leftover woman : a novel
Kwok, Jean
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author comes an evocative family drama and riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women.
A haunting on the hill
Hand, Elizabeth
Paper Book
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar** SIXTY YEARS LATER, HILL HOUSE IS OCCUPIED AGAIN . . . 'Scary and beautifully written, imbued with the same sense of dread and inevitability as...
The Future
Alderman, Naomi.
Paper Book
'Gripping' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A fabulous, witty writer on the digital world' SUNDAY TIMES 'A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it's brilliant and I loved it' LAUREN BEUKES The latest novel from the Women's Prize-winning,...
Absolution
McDermott, Alice
Paper Book
* THE TOP 10 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'One of the finest contemporary novels I've read ... A moral masterpiece' ANN PATCHETT 'Her writing has a luminous kind of clarity, a grace and scope that fills me with wonder' RACHEL JOYCE ...
Bogie & Bacall : the surprising true story of Hollywood's greatest love affair
Mann, William J.
Paper Book
From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story--the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart--capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before. In Bogie & Bacall, William...
Start here : instructions for becoming a better cook
El-Waylly, Sohla
Paper Book
'The perfect companion' Yotam Ottolenghi | Foreword by Samin Nosrat, author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat | A practical, information-packed, and transformative guide to becoming a better cook and conquering the kitchen, this is a must-have masterclass in...
The reformatory : a novel
Due, Tananarive
Paper Book
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephen Jones as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

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