New Castle County Staff Picks - February 2024

Updated January 29, 2024
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library A Novel
Aoyama, Michiko.
Paper Book
THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL The Top TenTimesbestseller A TimeMagazine Book of the Year 'An undeniable page-turner' New York Times 'I ADORED this uplifting, hopeful novel ' Daily Mail 'It made...
Anna O
Blake, Matthew
Paper Book
*ANNA O - THE WORLD WILL KNOW HER NAME* _______________________________________________ **SELECTED AS THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH** **AN OBSERVER THRILLER OF THE MONTH** 'Reads like a dream but unsettles like a...
Welcome home, stranger : a novel
Christensen, Kate
Paper Book
"Kate Christensen's new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more...
Prophet song
Lynch, Paul
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE AN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023 A Book of the...
The other mothers : a novel
Faulkner, Katherine
Paper Book
'This is The Undoing meets Big Little Lies. A fast-paced, decadent skewering of upper-middle-class motherhood' ABIGAIL DEAN'The Other Mothers is the elevated, devourable thriller you've been looking for' ASHLEY AUDRAIN'I read this brilliantly plotted,...
The Djinn waits a hundred years
Khan, Shubnum
Paper Book
  'Grand and gorgeous and brave.' New York Times 'Lively, beautiful... A richly imagined coming of age treat.' Daily Mail REBECCA MEETS THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES IN THIS GORGEOUSLY ATMOSPHERIC NOVEL SET ON SOUTH AFRICA'S EASTERN COAST Endlessly playful and...
Around the world in eighty games : from tarot to tic-tac-toe, catan to chutes and ladders, a mathematician unlocks the secrets of the world's greatest games
Du Sautoy, Marcus
Paper Book
'BRILLIANTLY CLEAR AND CAPTIVATING PROSE' STEPHEN FRY A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023 An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them. Where should you move first in Connect 4?...
The dictionary people : the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English dictionary
Ogilvie, Sarah
Paper Book
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor,...

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