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Staff Picks Newsletter October 2025 |
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What to read next? As we head into October, there are more great titles around the corner. Here are some titles our staff enjoyed and thought you might like as well. Whether you stop in the library for a paperback, hardcover, or audiobook, use Libby or hoopla, there is a title for you. |
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Books we enjoyed ... you might too! |
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The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
In 1947, pregnant Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy who, torn apart by betrayal, agrees to help her on her mission.
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The Bewitching
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
While researching a forgotten horror writer, a graduate student uncovers a disturbing link between a vanished schoolgirl, a sinister novel, and her great-grandmother's eerie childhood tales, leading her to suspect that an ancient, malevolent force still lingers in the halls of her university.
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The Business Trip
by Jessie Garcia
On a plane, two women, business traveler Stephanie and abuse survivor Jasmine, unknowingly share a connection as they begin sending identical, increasingly erratic texts about the same man, Trent McCarthy, before both vanish, prompting an urgent investigation into their mysterious disappearance and the sinister manipulations at play.
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The Correspondent : A Novel
by Virginia Evans
At 73, retired lawyer and devoted letter writer Sybil Van Antwerp navigates her daily life and reflects on her past, but when unexpected letters open old wounds, she must confront a painful chapter that reshapes her understanding of herself and her world.
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Doll Bones
by Holly Black
Playing an endless make-believe game about pirates, mermaids and warriors under the rule of a formidable Great Queen china doll, best friends Zach, Poppy and Alice find their bond tested when Zach is compelled to give up their shared adventures and Poppy begins having dreams about the doll. By the co-author of the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles.
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Endling : A Novel
by Maria Reva
"A surrealist novel that chronicles the travails of three Ukrainian women and one extremely endangered snail through the travails of capitalism, foreign invasion, romance, and survival"
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Heartwood : A Novel
by Amity Gaige
"In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie's disappearance may not be accidental."--Provided by publisher
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The Housemaid
by Freida McFadden
"Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don't know who I really am. They don't know what I'm capable of".
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Just One Damned Thing After Another
by Jodi Taylor
Madeleine Maxwell, new recruit to St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, discovers that the society members travel through time to thwart time-traveling terrorists and investigate major historical events. The first in the Chronicles of St. Mary's series.
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The Keeper of Lost Art : A Novel
by Laura Morelli
During World War II in a Tuscan villa, young Stella befriends Sandro, an orphaned artist, as they protect hidden masterpieces like Botticelli's *Primavera* amid family tensions, encroaching German troops, and the mounting peril of war.
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The Man in Black and Other Stories
by Elly Griffiths
From the internationally best-selling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries comes a collection of short stories featuring many characters that readers have come to know and love.
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Nightshade : A Novel
by Michael Connelly
"Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor--a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. At the same time, a report of poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence and danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, Stilwell doggedly works both cases. This is the first in the Detective Stillwell series.
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Open Season
by Jonathan Kellerman
The body of an aspiring actress is found, another victim is shot by a sniper, and then more bodies pile up, and psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide detective Milo Sturgis must face a highly complex killer that will require all their skills to decipher. This is the 40th book in the Alex Delaware series.
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The Satanic Mechanic
by Sally Andrew
When Slimkat the Bushman's life is threatened by an unknown adversary, recipe writer-turned-crimefighter Tannie Maria becomes embroiled in a nature reserve land dispute among Bushmen descendants, diamond miners and cattle companies.
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The Secrets of Secrets : A Novel
by Dan Brown
When Katherine Solomon vanishes and her manuscript disappears following a murder in Prague, symbologist Robert Langdon races across three cities to uncover a hidden truth about consciousness, pursued by ancient myths, secret societies, and a revelation that could upend humanity's understanding of the mind. this is the sixth book in the Robert Langdon (Da Vinci Code) series.
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Serial Killer Support Group
by Saratoga Schaefer
"When Cyra Griffin's younger sister is murdered by a serial killer, Cyra knows better than to expect justice from the hands of the police department...Using insider information (don't ask), Cyra infiltrates a support group for serial killers by pretending to be one herself in the hopes of finding the person who ended her sister's life. Proving herself to them comes at a cost...But the dangerous men in the group aren't the only obstacle in Cyra's path for vengeance, and the further Cyra descends into the deadly world of serial killers, the harder it becomes to hold on to her own humanity"
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So Far Gone : A Novel
by Jess Walter
A reclusive man living off the grid in a remote cabin is forced back into the world when his estranged daughter disappears, leading him, his sharp-tongued ex, and an unstable retired detective on a chaotic search that pits them against a dangerous militia.
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In Stitches : A Memoir
by Anthony Youn
The popular Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery blogger and regular guest on The Rachel Ray Show describes his misfit youth as a nerdy Korean-American student with a misshapen jaw whose life-changing surgery led him to become a successful cosmetic surgeon.
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The Stolen Heir : A Novel of Elfhame
by Holly Black
Hiding in the human world, Suren, the tormented child queen of the Court of Teeth, must guard her heart against a manipulative prince whom she cannot trust when she agrees to join him on a mysterious quest.
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Sweet Heat : A Novel
by Bolu Babalola
Twenty-eight-year-old Kiki dishes out life advice on her podcast, but as she prepares to be Maid of Honor in her best friend's wedding, everything starts to unravel; finding herself face-to-face with Best Man and ex Malakai, they are hell-bent on ignoring their smoldering chemistry.
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Twilight : 20th Anniversary Edition
by Stephenie Meyer
Isabella "Bella" Swan, is a teenage girl who moves to the rainy town of Forks, Washington, and falls in love with the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen. Fall in love with the addictive and suspenseful love story that sparked a literary phenomenon.
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We Used to Live Here : A Novel
by Marcus Kliewer
A young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve, while restoring an old house, answer the door to a man claiming to have lived there years before, which sets in motion a chain of uncanny and inexplicable events leading to Charlie's disappearance and Eve's descent into insanity.
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