New Castle County Staff Picks - October 2025

Updated September 26, 2025
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New New Me : A Novel
Oyeyemi, Helen
From the award-winning, bestselling "literary pied piper" (The New York Times Book Review) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird and Gingerbread comes a charmingly surreal novel about self-sabotage, self-deception, self-love--and the many selves inside us sparring for control....
The wrong daughter
Smith, Dandy
Ebook
The battle of the bookshops : a novel
Alexander, Poppy
A charming literary-themed novel about a young woman determined to save her great-aunt's beloved bookshop from extinction by the shiny new competition--which also happens to be run by the handsome son of her family's rivals. The cute, seaside town of Portneath has been the home of...
Bat eater and other names for Cora Zeng
Baker, Kylie Lee
"A compelling, gory, ghostly romp." --Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie "This is what it felt like to live in New York City during lockdown: haunted, absurd, terrifying, ridiculous, and full of hungry ghosts." -...
Deadwood : gold, guns, and greed in the American West
Cozzens, Peter
The true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as "the most diabolical town on earth" and of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane to Al Swearingen and Sheriff Seth Bullock. "In these pungent pages, you can smell the...
Reacher : the stories behind the stories
Child, Lee
Paper Book
Lee Child tells the stories behind the stories from the bestselling Jack Reacher novels. Includes a new, never-before-seen Reacher tale. After making his debut in 1997's The Killing Floor, Jack Reacher has quickly become one of the most popular--and most...
The tell : a memoir
Griffin, Amy (Businesswoman)
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * An astonishing memoir that explores how far we will go to protect ourselves, and the healing made possible when we face our secrets and begin to share our stories "The Tell encourages us to recognize that sometimes...

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