Staff Picks: May 2025

Jessamine County Public Library staff love these books!

Updated April 28, 2025
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The Count of Monte Cristo /
Dumas, Alexandre,
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING PIERRE NINEY . Dumas's epic and timeless novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery On the eve of his wedding, a young sailor named Edmond Dant s is wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned for life in the Ch teau d'If, a reputedly...
Act like a lady, think like a lord
Connally, Celeste
Paper Book
Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord, a dazzling first entry in a captivating new Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin from Celeste Connally. London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of...
I cheerfully refuse : a novel
Enger, Leif
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A BARNES & NOBLE BOOK CLUB PICK * A career defining tour-de-force from New York Times bestselling, award-winning and "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) author of Peace Like a River Leif Enger. "A rare, remarkable...
Brooms
Walls, Jasmine
Paper Book
YALSA TOP 10 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS BEST OF THE YEAR: Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Public Library · New York Public Library 3 STARS: ★ PW ★ Booklist &...
The ministry of time
Bradley, Kaliane
Paper Book
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF SUMMER 2024 * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL * WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE<...
Murder at an Irish wedding
O'Connor, Carlene
Paper Book
The O'Sullivan clan of County Cork, Ireland, are thrilled to be catering the matrimonial affairs of a celebrity couple--until a cunning killer turns an Irish wedding into an Irish wake . . . Any wedding is a big deal in the small village of Kilbane--even more so when the bride is...
Notes on an execution :
Kukafka, Danya,
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL * NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR "Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling." --Katie Kitamura...

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