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Adult Services Staff Picks March 2024 |
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Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
by Olivia Ford
Recommended by: Sarah R.
When 77-year-old Jenny Quinn decides to enter a popular British baking show, she has no idea how much her life is going to change. As she bakes, makes new friends, and navigates fame, she is drawn into memories from her past and secrets she can no longer keep. A heartwarming story of taking risks and redemption that brought me to tears (and made me crave dessert).
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Nightwatching
by Tracy Sierra
Recommended by: Sarah L.
A razor-sharp thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by a stranger.
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Say You'll Be Mine
by Naina Kumar
Recommended by: Claire
When Meghna Rama’s best friend and secret crush gets engages, she agrees to let her parents introduce her to a potential match, engineer Karthik Murthy, who offers her a fake engagement.
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World
by Douglas Westerbeke
Recommended by: Sarah V.
Cursed with immortality at nine, but with a requirement that she stays in perpetual motion, Aubry flees Paris and embarks on a century-spanning, globe-trotting odyssey, seeking a cure and discovering a world beyond the boundaries of time and space.
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Starling House
by Alix E. Harrow
Recommended by: Brandee
Eden, Kentucky, is just another bad-luck town known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive 19th century author who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the house--and its last heir, Arthur Starling--go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses, but a job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she's never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a choice: to dig up secrets and confront their fears, or let Eden be taken over by nightmares.
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The Women
by Kristin Hannah
Recommended by: Kelly
In 1965 nursing student Frankie McGrath impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
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Eat, Poop, Die : How Animals Make Our World
by Joe Roman
Recommended by: Sarah S.
Reveals how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying—and how these fundamental functions could help save us from climate catastrophe.
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What an Owl Knows
by Jennifer Ackerman
Recommended by: Lori
Illuminating the rich biology and natural history of owls, the most elusive of birds—and often a symbol of wisdom, knowledge and foresight—the New York Times best-selling author of The Genius of Birds takes us around the globe and through human history to understand the complex nature of these extraordinary creatures.
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