New Castle County Staff Picks - May 2025

Updated April 25, 2025
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The family recipe : a novel
Huynh, Carolyn
Paper Book
"Delightful....A funny yet poignant tale of one family's search for belonging and understanding." --Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author From the author of the "sharp, smart, and gloriously extra" (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times bestselling...
Johnny Careless a novel
Wade, Kevin
Paper Book
" "A fast-moving classic crime novel" (John Sandford) crafted by the veteran screenwriter and showrunner for the acclaimed police procedural series Blue Bloods, Johnny Careless is Kevin Wade's razor-sharp debut novel. Police Chief Jeep...
Harlem rhapsody
Murray, Victoria Christopher
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! "A gripping narrative, don't miss this historical fiction about the woman who kicked off the Harlem Renaissance."-People Magazine "A page turner and history lesson at once, Harlem Rhapsody reminds us that our...
Happy land
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
Paper Book
A 2026 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom--and her family's ties to it--in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take...
The eights
Miller, Joanna
Paper Book
They knew they were changing history. They didn't know they would change each other. Following the unlikely friendship of four women in the first female class at Oxford, their unshakeable bond in the face of male contempt, and their coming of age in a world...
Audition
Kitamura, Katie M.
Paper Book
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BARACK OBAMA, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE GUARDIAN AND MORE! FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE, THE...
Kills well with others
Raybourn, Deanna
Paper Book
"Much like fine wine, battle-hardened assassins grow better with age."-#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner Four women assassins, senior in status-and in age-sharpen their knives for another bloody good adventure in this riotous follow-up to the New York Times<...
No more tears : the dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Harris, Gardiner
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . An explosive, deeply reported expose of Johnson & Johnson, one of America's oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies-from an award-winning investigative journalist "A damning portrait."-Associated Press "A page-turning...
Raising hare : a memoir
Dalton, Chloe
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE * A fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare.

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