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Try these book suggestions by the Library Staff December 2025 |
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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live,
Love, Parent, and Lead
by Brené Brown
From thought leader Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for
the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability. Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Brené Brown PhD, MSW, dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage. Brown explains how vulnerability is both the core of difficult emotions like fear, grief, and disappointment, and the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, empathy, innovation, and creativity. Daring Greatly is a practice and a powerful new vision for letting ourselves be seen.
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My Friends
by Fredrik Backman
Most people don't even notice them--three tiny figures sitting at the
end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in
the world. Most people think it's just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to
find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge
from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing
small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to
get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa's care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she
gets to the painting's birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she'll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don't always take
the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.
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Persuasion
by Jane Austen
Anne Elliot, a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19-year-old, accepts
a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer
Frederick Wentworth. Clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and
no family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter, Anne's snobbish father and her self-involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied
with her choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Even her older friend and mentor,
Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded Anne
to break the engagement, for she, too, felt it was an imprudent match that was beneath her. Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take
out a lease on Kellynch. But Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars, and he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him. He publicly declares that he is ready to marry
any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any appealing young woman
with the exception of Anne Elliot.
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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
by Sophie Elmhirst
The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea:
a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched
to its limits. Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He's a loner, awkward and obsessive; she's charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream - as we all
dream - of running away from it all. What if they quit their jobs, sold
their house, bought a boat, and sailed away? In June 1972, they set
sail. For nearly a year all went well, until deep in the Pacific, a breaching whale knocked a hole in their boat and it sank beneath the waves. What ensues is a jaw-dropping fight to survive on the wild ocean, with little hope of rescue. Alone together for months in a tiny rubber raft, starving and exhausted, Maurice and Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay alive but ways to get along, as their inner demons emerge and their marriage is put to the greatest of tests. Although they could run away from the world, they can't run away from themselves.
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The Wedding People
by Alison Espach
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help us start anew.
It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone
arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold
heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by
everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's
actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming for years--she
hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only
now she's here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have
one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan--which makes
it that much more surprising when the two women can't stop confiding
in each other.
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