Staff Picks

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

Brotherhood in Death By Robb, J. D. 2016-02 - Berkley Books 9780399170898 Check Our Catalog The new novel featuring homicide detective Eve Dallas from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Devoted in Death." "Sometimes brotherhood can be another word for conspiracy. . . ." Dennis Mira just had two unpleasant surprises. First he learned that his cousin Edward was secretly meeting with a real estate agent about their late grandfather's magnificent West …More

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West By McCarthy, Cormac 1992-05 - Vintage Books USA 9780679728757 Check Our Catalog An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where …More

I Am Not Sick I Don't Need Help!: How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment By Amador, Xavier F. 2011-12 - Vida Press 9780967718934 Check Our Catalog Awards: ForeWord Book of the Year Award (2012), IndieFab awards (2012) …More

The Shrunken Head By Oliver, Lauren Author Chester, H. C. Illustrator Lacombe, Benjamin 2015-09 - HarperCollins 9780062270818 Check Our Catalog The book is about, among other things: the strongest boy in the world, a talking cockatoo, a faulty mind reader, a beautiful bearded lady and a nervous magician, an old museum, and a shrunken head. Blessed with extraordinary abilities, orphans Philippa, Sam, and Thomas have grown up happily in Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders. But when a fourth child, Max, a …More

The Dragon of Trelian By Knudsen, Michelle 2009-04 - Candlewick Press (MA) 9780763634551 Check Our Catalog Awards: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (2011) A feisty princess befriends a mage's apprentice and find she's uncannily linked to a dragon, in this suspenseful new middle-grade fantasy by the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Library Lion." …More

The Jobless Future By Aronowitz, Stanley Author Difazio, William 2010-09 - University of Minnesota Press 9780816674510 Check Our Catalog Charting a major change in the nature of paid work in the United States. …More

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life By Lane, Nick 2015-07 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393088816 Check Our Catalog The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a solution to conundrums that have puzzled generations of …More

Cutting for Stone By Verghese, Abraham 2009-02 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780375414497 Check Our Catalog Awards: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (2010), Indies Choice Book Awards (2010) A stunning debut novel from the author of "My Own Country": an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home. …More

The Hundred-Year House By Makkai, Rebecca 2014-07 - Viking 9780525426684 Check Our Catalog The acclaimed author of "The Borrower "returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield. Rebecca Makkai is a writer to watch, as sneakily ambitious as she is unpretentious." Richard Russo Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents …More