2024 April Staff Picks

Check out what we've been reading/watching and loving! We think you'll enjoy them, too.

Updated March 26, 2024
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At home : a short history of private life
Bryson, Bill.
Paper Book
Where 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was a sweeping survey of Earth, the universe and everything, 'At Home' is an inwards look at all human life through a domestic telescope. Because, as Bryson says, our homes aren't refuges from history. They are where history begins and ends.

Stephanie says: Bryson really has a real facility to bring up, perhaps uninteresting, prosaic things and explaining how extraordinary something like a shaker of salt really is. It's a delight to read and I learned a lot!

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Emily Wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries
Fawcett, Heather
Paper Book
'A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic, this book wholly enchanted me' Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Enter the world of the hidden folk - and discover the most whimsical, enchanting and heart-warming tale...

Heather says: This was a really whimsical fantasy very different from other fantasy books I've read in the past. I always love stories that show the darker side of fairies from traditional folklore.

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A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

Bonnie says: A funny movie about students from a prep school who are accused of being entitled. Nominated for 5 Oscars!

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Nightwatching
Sierra, Tracy
Paper Book
There was someone in the house. Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. Then she hears a noise - old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar- it's...

Jill says: I loved this intense, pulse pounding thriller about a home invasion.

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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.

Christine says: It was compelling and moving and frightening and honest!

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Three-inch teeth
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
THE THRILLING NEW YORK TIMES #2 BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM C.J. BOX.Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging killers - one animal, one human - in this riveting adventure from award-winning author C.J. Box.A rogue grizzly bear...

Walt says: It was a bit much, which is good for me!

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A wolf called Romeo
Jans, Nick
Paper Book
A Wolf Called Romeo is the remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska, living on the edges of their community, engaging in an improbable, awe-inspiring inter-species dance and bringing the wild into sharp focus.

Stephanie says: It's really heart warming to read how a single friendly black wolf caused the vast majority of the city to come together in their affection for this amazing creature. I learned a great deal about him, the city and about wolves in general.

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