This is What Library Director's Read?
February 2025
The first two have a little fantasy... I haven't quite jumped on the Romantacy train yet.
The Life Impossible features a feel good story about an older woman who is making her way after great loss. There might be something special that needs her help. The Lost Story is a new take on CS Lewis' wardrobe. What if there really was a world behind the wardrobe and what would happen today if 2 boys came back after 6 months lost in better shape than when they left? The Berry Pickers got me curious about the native peoples of Nova Scotia and how they traveled to Maine to pick blueberries and potatoes. How to Solve your Own Murder was a nice British mystery with a twist since the woman murdered has been saving stories and evidence for who might want to kill her for years. Lula Dean has some good laugh out loud moments, but most times it just made you really think about how things are in the world today. Can we all just be nice to each other?
And if you are wondering about the crochet book - I am making some presents for my grandbaby. 
 
Happy Reading!
 
The life impossible / : A Novel
by Matt Haig

When Grace Winters is left a house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, she arrives in Ibiza with no guidebook and no plan, in a novel by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Midnight Library.
The lost story : a novel
by Meg Shaffer

Forced to return to the enchanted world they called home for six months 15 years ago to confront their shared past no matter how traumatic the memories, reclusive artist Rafe and famed missing persons' investigator Jeremy search for their friend Emilie's sister?—?and for everything they've lost.
The berry pickers : a novel
by Amanda Peters

Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed
How to solve your own murder : a novel
by Kristen Perrin

"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the killer"
Lula Dean's little library of banned books : a novel
by Kirsten Miller

When Lula Dean, trying to rid public libraries of“pornographic” books, starts her own lending library in front of her home, Lindsay, the daughter of Lula's arch nemesis, sneaks in nightly, secretly filling it with banned books wrapped in“wholesome” dust jackets, changing the lives of those who borrow them in unexpected ways.
Whimsical stitches : a modern makers book of amigurumi crochet patterns
by Lauren Espy

Provides thirty patterns for amigurumi characters that fall into such categories as the garden, the aquarium, and the farm
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