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Monthly Staff Picks


Monthly Staff Picks

Each month the library staff will share with you some of their favorite books. Take a look!
Cathy's Pick
Hideaway by Nora Roberts
Hideaway by Nora Roberts
Katie's Pick
Shadow Fallen by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Shadow Fallen by Sherrilyn Kenyon 
Braelyn's Pick
What Happened to You by Bruce D. Perry
What Happened to You by Bruce D. Perry
Diana's Pick
A Perfect Day by Lane Smith
A Perfect Day by Lane Smith

2022 Staff Picks

January
Cathy: 
Before I Saw You by Emily Houghton
Katie: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Braelyn: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Diana: Nibbles the Book Monster by Emma Yarlett

February
Cathy:
Family Reunion by Nancy Thayer
Katie: The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni
Braelyn: Rain by Anders Holmer
Diana: Penguin Love by Selina Yoon

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March
Cathy: The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian
Katie: The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
Braelyn: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Diana: Turtle in a Tree by Neesha Hudson

May
Cathy: 
The Last House on the Street By Diane Chamberlain 
Katie:
Cat Problems by Jory John
Braelyn:
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams 
​Diana:
Memory Jars by Vera Brosgol

July: 
Cathy:
The Selection by Kiera Cass
Katie: Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron by Julia Quinn
Braelyn: Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea by Ben Clanton
Diana: A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel

April
Cathy: Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
Katie: Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard
Braelyn: Poetry An Introduction by John Strachan
Diana: My Friend Earth by Patricia MacLachlan

June
Cathy:
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
Katie:
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
Braelyn:
Little Robot by Ben Hatke
​Diana:
A Good Place by Lucy Cousins

August: 
Cathy: 
Hideaway by Nora Roberts
Katie: Shadow Fallen by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Braelyn: What Happened to You? by Bruce D. Perry
Diana: A Perfect Day by Lane Smith

2021 Staff Picks

January
Cathy:
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
Katie: One by One by Ruth Ware
Braelyn: Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Diana: A Wish to be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe

March
Cathy: The Lies that Bind by Emily Giffin
Katie: A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir
Braelyn: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Diana: Can I Be Your Dog by Troy Cummings

May
Cathy: The Lies You Told by Harriet Tyce
Katie: We Are All The Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin
Braelyn: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
​Diana: Be Kind by Pat Zietlow Miller

July
Cathy: The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
Katie: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Braelyn: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
Diana: The Chicken Who Couldn't by Jan Thomas

September
Cathy: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Katie: Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson
Braelyn: Wings by Shinsuke Tanaka
Diana: Wow! School! by Robert Neubecker

November
Cathy: The Ugly Pumpkin by Dave Horowitz
Katie: The Living and the Lost by Ellen Feldman
Braelyn: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Diana: No Reading Allowed by Raj Haldar

February
Cathy: 
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Katie: How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams
Braelyn: Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls
Diana: Skin Again by Bell Hooks

April
Cathy: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Katie: Stamped by Jason Reynolds
Braelyn: Photographic by Isabel Quintero
Diana: This Beautiful Day by Richard Jackson

June
Cathy: What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Katie: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Braelyn: The (Other) F Word by Angie Manfredi
Diana: What We'll Build by Oliver Jeffers

August
Cathy: 28 Summers by Eliln Hilderbrand
Katie: Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
Braelyn: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Diana: I Am a Story by Dan Yaccarino

October
Cathy:
The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer
Katie: Circe by Madeline Miller
Braelyn: The Witch Doesn't Burn in this One by Amanda Lovelace
Diana: Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell

December
Cathy:
The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss
Katie: Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Braelyn: Winter Dance by Marian Dane Bauer
Diana: A Christmas Wish by Marcus Sedgwick

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