New Castle County Staff Picks - October 2024

Updated September 27, 2024
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The busy body
Donovan, Kemper
Paper Book
"A delight from start to finish. If you like Agatha Christie, you'll love this." -Alex Michaelides, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient Fans of Veep and readers of Richard Osman, Anthony Horowitz, and Nita Prose will love this intelligent,...
I need you to read this : a novel
Maxwell, Jessa
Paper Book
This "super creepy" (The Washington Post) and "perfectly plotted whodunnit" (Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author) follows an advice columnist searching for answers about her predecessor's murder--from the bestselling author of The Golden Spoon. Years...
The Kamogawa food detectives
Kashiwai, Hisashi
Paper Book
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto...
What time the Sexton's spade doth rust
Bradley, Alan
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers a secret that brings the greatest shock of her life. "I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the best...
That librarian : the fight against book banning in America
Jones, Amanda
Paper Book
"Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she's not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories."--Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards Part memoir,...
I heard there was a secret chord : music as medicine
Levitin, Daniel J.
Paper Book
Music is one of humanity's oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind. In his latest work,...
Hip-hop is history
Questlove
Paper Book
This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop. When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical...
The faculty lounge : a novel
Mathieu, Jennifer
Paper Book
With its ensemble of warm and unforgettable characters, The Faculty Lounge shows readers a different side of school life. It all starts when an elderly substitute teacher at Baldwin High School is found dead in the faculty lounge. After a bit of a stir, life quickly returns to normal-it's not like...

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