New Castle County Staff Picks - September 2024

Updated August 26, 2024
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Lenny Marks gets away with murder
Mayne, Kerryn
Paper Book
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is...
Wandering Stars : A Novel
Paper Book
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize finalist Tommy Orange's breakout best seller There There--winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, the American Book Award, and one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year--Wandering Stars traces the...
The wishing game : a novel
Shaffer, Meg
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children's author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner's life in this absorbing and whimsical novel....
Ordinary human failings
Nolan, Megan
Paper Book
A Best Book of 2023 in The Times, Sunday Times, i-D, the Guardian When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all- a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk...
The days I loved you most
Neff, Amy
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER  A Today Show Pick "I've never read a story quite like this deeply moving, complex novel." --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author Unforgettable and utterly romantic, The...
Slow dance : a novel
Rowell, Rainbow
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes Slow Dance - her smartest, funniest, most romantic novel yet. "If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is...
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * A New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller * Named a Best Book of 2024 by the Economist, Winnipeg Free Press, and Financial Times * One of Indigo's Top 100 Books of 2024 From the Pulitzer-prize winning,...
The bookshop : a history of the American bookstore
Friss, Evan
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Goodreads Choice Award Winner in History & Biography One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 "A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." --The New York Times...
Entrances and exits
Richards, Michael
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Today Show, The View, and Jesse Watters The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved television characters...
You never know : a memoir
Selleck, Tom
Paper Book
***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own...

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