Staff Picks

February is the month for love Whether you believe that St. Valentine was a priest who flouted the word of Claudius II and performed marriage ceremonies for the men in his army, or that he was perhaps an imprisoned man who sent love letters to his jailor's daughter, let love sweep you away on February 14, Valentine's Day. Don't worry if you need a little help finding your special someone, there are plenty of books at the library to help you find true love. New and worth consideration is Meeting Your Half-Orange: An Utterly Upbeat Guide to Using Dating Optimism to Find Your Perfect Match--filled with juicy details and ideas to help you find your other half so you can celebrate love every day!

At our staff meetings we take a few minutes to talk about the books we are reading. This is a list of recent favorites. STAFF PICKS for February

The Seductive One By Mallery, Susan 2003-11 - Pocket Star Books 0743443969 Check Our Catalog The final novel of Mallery's Marcelli Sisters trilogy features Brenna, the only sister who dreams of running the family's California winery. But taking the helm is more than she bargained for and she soon seeks solace from Nic Giovanni--her family's nemesis. Original. …More

The Marcelli Bride By Mallery, Susan 2006-05 - Pocket Star Books 9780743499576 Check Our Catalog Mallery returns to the idyllic setting of her sensual Marcelli sisters trilogy--California wine country, where love and laughter flow, and where an unlikely couple discovers one thing their hearts hunger for most: a place to call home. Original. …More

South of Broad By Conroy, Pat 2009-08 - Nan A. Talese 9780385413053 Check Our Catalog The one and only Pat Conroy returns with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston, South Carolina, and to lifelong friendship--a long-awaited work from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds. …More

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society By Barrows, Annie Author Shaffer, Mary Ann 2008-07 - Dial Press 9780385340991 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title London, 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of Guernsey during the German occupation, and about a society as extraordinary as its name. …More

Networking for Dummies By Lowe, Doug 2009-12 - For Dummies 9780470534052 Check Our Catalog …More

We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War By Schultz, Robert Author Shell, James 2009-08 - US Naval Institute Press 9781591147787 Check Our Catalog A sailor's extraordinary experiences on an American submarine in the Pacific are candidly reported in this eyewitness account of war from a torpedoman's perspective. Robert Hunt managed to survive twelve consecutive war patrols on the submarine USS Tambor. During the course of the war, Hunt was everywhere that mattered in the Pacific. He stood on the bow of the Tambor as it cruised into Pearl Harbor just days after the devastation of the Japanese air raid, peered through binoculars as his boat shadowed Japanese cruisers at the Battle of Midway, ferried guns and supplies to American guerilla fighters in the Philippines, fired torpedoes that sank vital Japanese shipping, and survived a near-fatal, seventeen-hour depth-charge attack. This WWII torpedoman's account of the war offers the rare perspective of an enlisted seaman that is not available in the more common officer accounts. …More

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home By Janzen, Rhoda 2009-10 - Henry Holt & Company 9780805089257 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title In the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron comes Janze's hilarious and moving memoir about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis. …More

Short Girls By Nguyen, Bich Minh 2009-07 - Viking Books 9780670020812 Check Our Catalog Hailed by the "Chicago Tribune" as a tremendous talent, Nguyen infuses her first novel with humor, compassion, and insight, as she explores the story of estranged sisters and the cultural and family history that binds them. …More

Grandville By Talbot, Bryan 2009-11 - Dark Horse Comics 9781595823977 Check Our Catalog Two hundred years ago, Britain lost the Napoleonic War and fell under the thumb of French domination. Gaining independence after decades of civil disobedience and anarchist bombings, the Socialist Republic of Britain is now a small, unimportant backwater connected by a railway bridge, steam-powered dirigible, and mutual suspicion to France. When a British diplomat is murdered to look like suicide, ferocious Detective-Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard stalks a ruthless murder squad through the heart of a Belle Epoque Paris, the center of the greatest empire in a world of steam-driven hansom cabs, automatons, and flying machines. LeBrock's relentless quest can lead only to death, truth... or war. …More