Staff Picks: May 2025
Enjoy these Amherst Town Library staff picks!

Amy's Picks
The good part : a novel
by Sophie Cousens

When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and two perfect children, and as she embraces the new relationships and the perks of maturity, she must ask herself some difficult questions.
The Queen : her life
by Andrew Morton

Renowned biographer Andrew Morton takes an in-depth look at Britain's longest reigning monarch, exploring the influence Queen Elizabeth had on both Britain and the rest of the world for much of the last century. From leading a nation struggling to restore itself after the devastation of the Second World War to navigating the divisive political landscape of the present day, Queen Elizabeth was a reluctant but resolute queen. This is the story of a woman of unflagging self-discipline who will long be remembered as mother and grandmother to Great Britain, and one of the greatest sovereigns of the modern era
Someone else's shoes
by Jojo Moyes

When she accidentally takes the wrong gym bag, Sam Kemp tries on a pair of six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes that give her the confidence to change her life, while the shoes' owner tries to cling to her glamorous life after her husband cuts her off. 400,000 first printing.
The sweetest revenge
by Lizzy Dent

Two years after moving to London for a fresh start after one drunken night tanked her rising TV producer career, Amy is finally making a comeback until the ex-boyfriend who wrecked her life is hired as her new boss—and past and present epically, hilariously collide.
Carla's Picks
In five years : a novel
by Rebecca Serle

An ambitious young lawyer on the brink of having it all disregards a vivid dream about how different her life will be in five years, before meeting the man in her vision nearly five years later.
Library girl
by Polly Horvath

Raised by four librarians who found her abandoned as a baby, 11-year-old Essie, longing for more freedom and a friend her own age, gets her wish when she meets a mysterious boy but soon realizes life isn't as perfect as the stories she's grown up with.
Maine : a novel
by J. Courtney Sullivan

Descending on a family beach house won in a bet years earlier, three generations of women gradually impart difficult respective secrets including a pregnancy, a terrible crush and a deeply held resentment for past misdeeds. By the author of the best-selling Commencement.
Julie's Picks
Cold Sassy tree
by Olive Ann Burns

Young Will Tweedy becomes chaperone, co-conspirator, and confidant to his renegade grandpa, E. Rucker Blakeslee, and the old man's young new wife, Miss Love Simpson
It fell from the sky
by Terry Fan

Charging a small fee to see a wondrous object that fell from the sky, Spider wonders what to do when everyone stops showing up, in this whimsical picture book about community, art and the importance of giving back.
The Judge

When his father, the town judge, is suspected of murder, a lawyer returns home to find out the truth and reconnect with his estranged family
The saints of Swallow Hill
by Donna Everhart

In Georgia's Swallow Hill turpentine camp in 1932, Rae Lynn Cobb, disguised as a man, hides out from those who would wrongly accuse her for murdering her husband and struggles to survive harsh, brutal conditions with the help of two individuals with their own tragic pasts. 
Laura's Picks
The evening and the morning
by Ken Follett

A prequel to the best-selling The Pillars of the Earth follows the experiences of a young boatbuilder, a scholarly monk, and a Norman noblewoman against a backdrop of the Viking attacks at the end of the 10th century in England
Foster
by Claire Keegan

An Irish child taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm finds the love and affection she never knew before and begins to thrive in the internationally best-selling novel now available as a standalone book.
What you are looking for is in the library : a novel
by Michiko Aoyama

This tribute to the magic of libraries, friendship and community follows Tokyo's most mysterious librarian, Sayuri Komachi, as she gives her visitors one unexpected book, which has life-altering consequences, giving the borrower the motivation they didn't realize they need to change their life.
Lisa G's Picks
Just the nicest couple
by Mary Kubica

When her husband Jack vanishes without a trace, Nina Hayes will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, which, unbeknownst to her, is inextricably linked to their close friends, who may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing.
Ready player one
by Ernest Cline

Immersing himself in a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
The white queen
by Philippa Gregory

A tale inspired by the War of the Roses follows the conflict from the perspective of Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery. By the a best-selling author.
Meagan's Picks
The mystery of the blue train : a Hercule Poirot mystery
by Agatha Christie

When her aged employer dies, Katherine Gray finds herself in a maelstrom of murder and greed surrounding the famous Heart of Fire ruby
Raquel's Picks
For the last time : a novel
by Heidi Perks

Dark secrets are revealed when a therapist becomes obsessed with her troubled new patients
The last word : a novel
by Taylor Adams

After posting a one-star review for a poorly written—but gruesome—horror novel, Emma Carpenter is dragged into an online argument with the author himself, but when disturbing incidents start happening at night, Emma digs into his life and work, discovering a sadistic man who is capable of anything.
On Golden Pond

Norman Thayer, a cranky but loveable old man, is preoccupied with death, afraid of losing his faculties, and is emotionally distant from his daughter
The plus one : a novel
by Mazey Eddings

Striking a bargain with her childhood enemy to be each other's fake dates to a wedding from hell, Indira finds their fake displays of affection becoming all too real, leaving them both to realize this bad situation is made a little easier with the other around.
Sara M's Picks
The beach at Summerly : a novel
by Beatriz Williams

In 1954, Emilia Winthrop, a professor at Wellesley College, is summoned to CIA headquarters where she's forced to confront the harrowing consequences of the summer she exposed a traitor amongst the New England elite and a choice that could destroy her chance for redemption all over again.
A little ray of sunshine
by Kristan Higgins

A young man shocks his adoptive mother by flying to Cape Cod and walking unannounced into the bookstore owned by his birth mother and her grandfather and surprising them, forcing both women into addressing their assumptions about motherhood.
The magnolia palace : a novel
by Fiona Davis

When mod English model Veronica Weber, while at the Frick museum, chances upon a series of hidden messages, she is led on a hunt that could not only solve her financial woes but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.
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