What We're Reading

Here's a snapshot of what the library staff is reading.

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Kissing in America By Rabb, Margo 2015-05 - HarperCollins 9780062322371 CHECK CATALOG Awards: Tayshas Reading (2016) Acclaimed writer Margo Rabb's Kissing in America is a wonderful novel about friendship, love, travel, life, hope, poetry, intelligence, and the inner lives of girls, raves internationally bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love). In the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found comfort in reading romance novels 118 of them, to be exact to dull the pain of …More

All the Broken Pieces By Burg, Ann E. 2009-04 - Scholastic Press 9780545080927 CHECK CATALOG Awards: Black-Eyed Susan Award (2011), Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (2010), Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (2012), Charlotte Award (2012), Cybils (2009), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (2011), Georgia Children's Book Award (2012), Golden Sower Award (2013), Grand Canyon Reader Award (2012), Heartland Award (2010), Iowa Teen Award (2012), Jefferson Cup (2010), Land of Enchantment Book Award (2013), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award (2012), Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2011), Sequoyah Book Awards (2012), South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (2012), Texas Lone Star Reading List (2010), Virginia Readers Choice Award (2013), William Allen White Childens Book Award (2012), Young Hoosier Book Award (2012) By turns harrowing, dreamlike, sad, and triumphant, this searing debut novel, written in lucid verse, reveals an unforgettable perspective on the lasting impact of the Vietnam War on its survivors and the healing power of love. …More

Lockwood & Co., Book Four the Creeping Shadow By Stroud, Jonathan 2016-09 - Disney-Hyperion 9781484709672 CHECK CATALOG After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy, Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring herself out to agencies that value her ever-improving skills. One day she is pleasantly surprised by a visit from Lockwood, who tells her he needs a good Listener for a tough assignment. Penelope Fittes, the leader of the giant Fittes Agency wants them--and only them--to locate and remove the …More

The Walk By Evans, Richard Paul 2013-01 - Simon & Schuster 9781439191422 CHECK CATALOG Evans presents the first novel in an inspiring new series about an executive who loses everything and embarks on a walk that takes him across America. …More

The Mistletoe Promise By Evans, Richard Paul 2014-11 - Simon & Schuster 9781476728209 CHECK CATALOG A love story for Christmas from the #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk. Elise Dutton dreads the arrival of another holiday season. Three years earlier, her husband cheated on her with her best friend, resulting in a bitter divorce that left her alone, broken, and distrustful. Then, one November day, a stranger approaches Elise in the mall …More

Orphan Train By Kline, Christina Baker 2013-04 - William Morrow & Company 9780061950728 CHECK CATALOG The author of "Bird in Hand" and "The Way Life Should Be" delivers a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers. …More

Murder, Served Simply By Alan, Isabella 2014-12 - New American Library 9780451413659 CHECK CATALOG Amish quilt shop owner Angie Braddock has a lot on her plate this Christmas. But things only get worse after someone develops a taste for murder Angie's parents are visiting Rolling Brook for Christmas but unfortunately, her ex is joining them. Luckily, Angie has no time to dwell on her romantic troubles as she prepares her store, Running Stitch, for the town's traditional …More

44 Scotland Street By McCall Smith, Alexander Illustrator McIntosh, Iain 2005-06 - Anchor Books 9781400079445 CHECK CATALOG Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith brings all the warmth of his extraordinary No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books and the Sunday Philosophy Club series to this witty novel chronicling the lives of the residents of 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh. Originally serialized in "The Scotsman, 44 Scotland Street is already an international sensation. When twenty-year-old Pat rents a …More

Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart By Doty MD, James 2016-02 - Avery Publishing Group 9781594632983 CHECK CATALOG Extraordinary things happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of …More

Lady Chatterley's Lover By Lawrence, D. H. 1983-11 - Bantam Classics 9780553212624 CHECK CATALOG Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most controversial of Lawrence's books, "Lady Chatterly's Lover joyously affirms the author's vision of …More

The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken: A Vish Puri Mystery By Hall, Tarquin 2012-07 - Simon & Schuster 9781451613155 CHECK CATALOG Hall's irresistible protagonist Vish Puri is an international favorite in a series that "splendidly evokes the color and bustle of Delhi and the tang of contemporary India" ("The Seattle Times"). The spectacularly mustachioed sleuth finds himself facing down his greatest fears in an explosive case involving the Indian and Pakistani mafias. …More