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Adult Services Staff Picks July 2025 |
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Godmersham Park
by Gill Hornby
Recommended by: Joanna
A richly imagined novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family, by the #1 International best-selling author of Miss Austen.
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The Jane Austen Society
by Natalie Jenner
Audiobook recommended by: Sarah V.
A group of disparate bibliophiles bands together in the small English village of Chawton in the hopes of restoring the final home of Jane Austen, revealing their respective losses along the way.
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Nettle & Bone
by T. Kingfisher
Recommended by: Brandee
To save her sister and topple a throne, Marra is offered the tools she needs if she completes three seemingly impossible tasks with the help of a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother and an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar.
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A Piece of the World
by Christina Baker Kline
Recommended by: Lori
Tells the story of Christina Olson, who served as the host and inspiration for artist Andrew Wyeth, despite an incapacitating illness. By the New York Times best-selling author of Orphan Train.
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So Far Gone
by Jess Walter
Recommended by: Anna Jayne
A provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
by Brian Goldstone
Recommended by: Sarah R.
The working homeless, trapped by skyrocketing rents and stagnant wages in gentrifying cities, are examined through the lens of five families in Atlanta, showing the human cost of homelessness and revealing the extent and causes of a crisis where housing is treated as a privilege.
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