Staff Picks

We like to read, and we like to share what we read! This is a list of recent favorites. STAFF PICKS

Guide to Summer Fun This summer, help your kids explore new adventures with Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun. This 350-page resource is filled with activities, including science experiments, crafts, trivia, games and adventures. Encouraging parent participation, the book also helps to create a sense of self-reliance in children who may be used to disappearing behind their electronic toys. With four categories to choose from--You, Home, Society and Adventure--children should have no problem finding something different to do. Parents will enjoy watching as their kids learn to "create instead of consume," while having fun in the process.

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The Aviator's Wife By Benjamin, Melanie 2013-01 - Delacorte Press 9780345528674 Check Our Catalog In the spirit of "Loving Frank" and "The Paris Wife," acclaimed novelist Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. …More

Bad Monkey By Hiaasen, Carl 2013-06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307272591 Check Our Catalog Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of pristine land in Florida--now, in the Bahamas too--get their comeuppance in mordantly ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion. …More

The Art of Thinking Clearly By Dobelli, Rolf Translator Griffin, Nicky 2013-05 - Harper 9780062219688 Check Our Catalog In engaging prose and with practical examples and anecdotes, an eye-opening look at human reasoning and essential reading for anyone with important decisions to make. …More

The Normal Bar: The Surprising Secrets of Happy Couples and What They Reveal about Creating a New Normal in Your Relationship By Northrup, Chrisanna Author Schwartz, Pepper Author Witte, James 2013-02 - Harmony 9780307951632 Check Our Catalog Based on data obtained from nearly 100,000 respondents, here is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to learn the relationship-tested ways couples can achieve satisfaction and contentment in areas such as communication, sex, affection, and financial cooperation. …More

Inferno By Brown, Dan 2013-05 - Doubleday Books 9780385537858 Check Our Catalog In his international blockbusters "The Da Vinci Code," "Angels & Demons," and "The Lost Symbol," Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, he returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date, featuring the Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon. …More

The Family Fang By Wilson, Kevin 2012-04 - Ecco Press 9780061579059 Check Our Catalog With this novel about an oddball family of performance artists, Wilson comes through in a big way, with a funny, poignant, laugh-and-cry-out-loud novel about the art of surviving a masterpiece of dysfunction. …More