New Castle County Staff Picks - January 2024

Updated December 21, 2023
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The museum of ordinary people
Gayle, Mike
Paper Book
I am homeless if this is not my home
Moore, Lorrie
Paper Book
From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise.
The lost cause
Doctorow, Cory
Paper Book
It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry people who can't let go?For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial, it's just an overwhelming fact of life. But so are the great...
Death Valley : a novel
Broder, Melissa
Paper Book
'Riotously original ... A triumph' NEW YORK TIMES'A journey unlike any you've read before' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Her most profound book yet ... Surreal, hysterical and beguiling in every sense' GLAMOURThe most profound book yet...
The unmaking of June Farrow : a novel
Young, Adrienne
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Beautiful, atmospheric . . . you must read this book' 5* reader review In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow...
Nineteen steps : a novel
Brown, Millie Bobby
Paper Book
The Sunday Times bestselling debut novel from global star Millie Bobby Brown Love blooms in the darkest days... London, 1942. Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris lives a quiet life in the tight-knit East End...
In memoriam
Winn, Alice
Paper Book
It's 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming...
Wrong place wrong time : a novel
McAllister, Gillian
Paper Book
It's every parent's nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime- murdering a complete stranger. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your teenage boy is in custody and his future lost. That night you fall asleep in...

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