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Staff Recommended Fall 2024 Did you know we have a fall Reading Challenge going in Beanstack? "Read It!" is simple; you get a sticker just for signing up! Read one book and earn a coupon for a free item from the Book Nook or the Friends Book Sale (October 23-26). Each badge you earn gives you a chance to win a $25 gift card to Park Avenue Pizza, with a new drawing every month. The program ends November 30th, so there's still time to get in on that 90's nostalgia (or just read some good books). |
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What if? 2 : additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions by Randall Munroe; Recommend by JoAnnFilled with crazy science, endless curiosity and the author's signature stick-figure comics, this practical guide for impractical ideas consults the latest research to concisely answer reader's questions, demonstrating you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances. Illustrations.
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The only one left : a novel by Riley Sager; Recommend by KellyIn 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora Hope, helping her write about the events leading up to her family's massacre in 1929 ,and soon discovers this seemingly harmless woman could be far more dangerous than she first thought.
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Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews; Recommend by LisaThe widowed owner of the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel, Traci Eddings has one summer season to restore it to its former glory, but when a tragic death changes everything, she must put wrongs to right, put guilty parties in their place and maybe even find a new romance along the way.
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The wishing game : a novel by Meg Shaffer; Recommend by Madi"A retired bestselling author hosts a one-of-a-kind competition, with high risks and high rewards-giving the winner a chance to change lives. Lucy Hart has come a long way since feeling the cold neglect of her parents, whose attention always centered around her chronically ill sister's needs. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide, Lucy is able to share her love of books with bright, young students, and one in particular, a seven-year-old orphan named Christopher, has her yearning for a family of her own. The Clock Island books were Lucy's passion and refuge as a child, and now she shares them with Christopher, who's become as big of a fan as she ever was. No matter how badly Lucy wants him in her life, even the idea of adopting him seems out of reach without proper funds and stability. Then a blue envelope arrives at her school, inviting Lucy to compete for the one and only copy of Jack Masterson's final novel in the iconic Clock Island series. No one has seen or heard from Jack Masterson in years, but now four diehard Clock Island fans have received the invitation of a lifetime to stay on his private island and compete for the final installment, and un-published manuscript, of the well-loved series. For Lucy, a chance to read the last-ever Clock Island book is a prize worth playing for, but the possibility of winning and securing a better future for her and Christopher means everything. But first, she must contend with opportunists, cheaters, and, perhaps most distressingly, Jack's illustrator and companion on the island, Hugo Reese, whom Lucy has admired since first reading the books as a girl. All the while, the master of ceremonies, the prolific author himself, has his own secrets to keep--and a larger plan in the works that will change everythingfor all of them"
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes; Recommend by NickCharlie Gordon, a youth with limited mental capabilities, along with a laboratory rat named Algernon become the joint objects of a scientific alteration to see if Charlie can become "normal."
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Children of blood and bone by Tomi Adeyemi; Recommend by RachelSeventeen-year-old Zâelie, her brother Tzain, and princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy
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