Lafourche Parish Public Library
Brooke's Pick: The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood
The New York Times best-selling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things offers a provocative love story between a tough Kansas woman...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Mar 23
- 2 min
Catherine's Pick: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow
An activist and public intellectual teams up with a professor of comparative archaeology to deliver an account of human history,...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Mar 17
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Seasonal Work: Stories by Laura Lippman
Ever since I've been a child, I have held an affinity for short stories. Unfortunately, I have found more often or not, that I love the...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Mar 15
- 2 min
Van's Pick: The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great lastbattle, and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise. In my...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Mar 10
- 2 min
Katie's Pick: Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night,...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Mar 6
- 2 min
Heather's Pick: This is Your World: The Story of Bob Ross by Sophia Gholz
This official picture book biography of the iconic American painter and TV host shows how he fell in love with painting and wanted to...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Mar 3
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
The epic reimagining of the extraordinary life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress who lived and loved on a grand scale,...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Mar 2
- 1 min
Shannon's Pick: The Unexpected Duchess by Valerie Bowman
To help her painfully shy friend discourage an unwanted suitor, sharp-tongued Lady Lucy Upton engages in a battle of wits with Lord Derek...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her life in Boston was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Feb 23
- 2 min
Kathy's Pick: Tranquility by Tuesday by Laura Vanderkam
Vanderkam states that “Tranquility is the state of being serene and peaceful, of being free from agitation.” This is not to say that...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Feb 16
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: Winterland by Rae Meadows
Soviet Union, 1973: There is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen for the famed USSR gymnastics program. When...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Feb 15
- 2 min
Crystal's Pick: Before I Go by Brian Charles
A year after her husband’s plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean, Abby Gamble knows she needs to start moving beyond her grief. She and...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Feb 10
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: The Do-Over by Lynn Painter
Stuck in some sort of time loop that forces her to live through the worst Valentine's Day EVER over and over again, Emilie Hornby wonders...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Feb 6
- 2 min
Catherine's Pick: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built , bestselling Becky Chambers' delightful new Monk and Robot series, gives us hope for the future. A Psalm...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Feb 2
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Don't Let in the Cold by Keely Parrack
A blackout and a blizzard leave seventeen-year-old Lottie and her new stepsister Jade trapped in an isolated ski cabin in Tahoe, where...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Katie's Pick: Complete Guide to Sleep Care by Kiki Ely
The Complete Guide to Sleep Care provides scores of new tips and tricks to help you achieve better rest. If your New Year’s resolution is...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jan 25
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: Lucy Checks In by Dee Ernst
Lucia Giannetti needs a fresh start. Once the hotel manager of a glamorous NYC hotel and intimately involved with the hotel's owner, Lucy...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jan 24
- 3 min
Laura's Pick: Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Built to Last by Erin Hahn
Erin Hahn's Built to Last is a sparkling second chance romance about owning what you're worth and fighting for the one who got away. As...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jan 13
- 2 min
Katina's Pick: None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive by Carolyn Prusa
Struggling to evacuate Savannah as a Category Four hurricane bears down, Ramona, along with her entourage, navigates police check points,...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jan 9
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: The Little Book of Rest by Stephanie Thomas
If you're like me, you are one of those people who feels they cannot rest until they have maxed out their productivity for the day,...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jan 5
- 2 min
Heather's Pick: On the Corner of Chocolate Avenue by Tziporah Cohen
The story of sweet success behind the Hershey's Kiss! The invention of America's quintessential milk chocolate bar is brought to vivid,...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jan 5
- 2 min
Van's Pick: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jan 4
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon
A British housewife living in a quiet neighborhood becomes obsessed with the former resident of her new house and her seemingly envious...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jan 4
- 1 min
Dione's Pick: Dare Me by Samantha Chase
Dare Me is the first book in The Donovans series by Samantha Chase. Arianna Donovan and Will Jameson have a chance meeting one day far...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Oct 12, 2022
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
College student and psychopath Chloe Sevre is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of a clinical study for...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Oct 6, 2022
- 1 min
Heather's Pick: The Love & Collection by Jenna Evans Welch
From New York Times bestselling author Jenna Evans Welch comes a series of three romances set in the beautiful countrysides of Italy,...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: The Husbands by Chandler Baker
When Nora meets a group of high-powered women whose husbands' are supportive unlike her own, she discovers that the women use an...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
Dione's Pick: Low Carb Yum Cookbooks by Lisa MarcAurele
Incredibly easy recipes from Low Carb Yum, one of the all-time most popular low-carb and keto blogs. Eating healthier is a goal I strive...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 29, 2022
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
After one moment of poor judgment involving her daughter Harriet, Frida Liu falls victim to a host of government officials who will...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 28, 2022
- 1 min
Shannon's Pick: Bittersweet by Susan Cain
Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 20, 2022
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman
A once-promising children’s book writer navigates the humbling realities of middle age and dysfunctional family life while pursuing...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 16, 2022
- 2 min
Katina's Pick: The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 15, 2022
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Lady Sunshine by Amy Mason Doan
Inheriting The Sandcastle - a sprawling estate that was once a gathering place for musicians, artists and free spirits - from her great...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 14, 2022
- 2 min
Laura's Pick: The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden
A recently paroled housemaid takes employment with a family that includes a mercurial wife and a dashing husband, who she finds herself...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 13, 2022
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe
After losing her husband on the RMS Titanic, Madeleine Astor, who is constantly surrounded by scandal, finds her status elevated to that...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
Kathy's Pick: The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible,...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 8, 2022
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
Follows the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise....
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 6, 2022
- 2 min
Crystal's Pick: Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen
Lured into the family business - a private investigation firm - by her supposed-to-be-retired grandfather, Annie McIntyre, while looking...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 2, 2022
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
A Pulitzer Prize-winning doctor, reporter, and author reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina destroyed...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 31, 2022
- 3 min
Catherine's Pick: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The first in a series about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 26, 2022
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Jane Anonymous by Laurie Faria Stolarz
In chapters alternating between "then" and "now," seventeen-year-old Jane Anonymous chronicles the events leading up to her abduction and...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 25, 2022
- 2 min
Van's Pick: Bird Box by Josh Malerman
In Bird Box, brilliantly imaginative debut author Josh Malerman captures an apocalyptic near-future world, where a mother and her two...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 24, 2022
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: The Seamstress of New Orleans by Diane C. McPhail
McPhail entices with the story of two women from different backgrounds who discover common ground in turn of the 20th-century New...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 18, 2022
- 2 min
Laura's Pick: Never Coming Home by Hannah Mary McKinnon
Lucas Forester didn’t hate his wife. Michelle was brilliant, sophisticated and beautiful. Sure, she had extravagant spending habits, that...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 12, 2022
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: Too Good to Be True by Carola Lovering
Accepting the proposal of an older, sophisticated man after a whirlwind courtship, a woman struggling with severe OCD throws herself into...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 11, 2022
- 2 min
Katie's Pick: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Dragged off to a treacherous magical land as retribution for killing a wolf, huntress Feyre learns that her captor is one of the lethal,...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 9, 2022
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach
Opening in the early nineties and charting almost two decades of shared history and missed connections, this is both a breathtaking love...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 8, 2022
- 2 min
Dione's Pick: Nightwork by Nora Roberts
Harry Booth, a clever thief who can't afford to get attached, finds his heart stolen by Miranda Emerson, but must leave her cruelly...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 5, 2022
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron
After taking a thankless job as a temp at a law firm, Cassie Woodson begins reading the personal emails between a partner and his...
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Brooke's Pick: The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood
The New York Times best-selling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things offers a provocative love story between a tough Kansas woman...
Catherine's Pick: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow
An activist and public intellectual teams up with a professor of comparative archaeology to deliver an account of human history,...
Brooke's Pick: Seasonal Work: Stories by Laura Lippman
Ever since I've been a child, I have held an affinity for short stories. Unfortunately, I have found more often or not, that I love the...
Van's Pick: The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great lastbattle, and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise. In my...
Katie's Pick: Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night,...
Heather's Pick: This is Your World: The Story of Bob Ross by Sophia Gholz
This official picture book biography of the iconic American painter and TV host shows how he fell in love with painting and wanted to...
Brooke's Pick: The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
The epic reimagining of the extraordinary life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress who lived and loved on a grand scale,...
Shannon's Pick: The Unexpected Duchess by Valerie Bowman
To help her painfully shy friend discourage an unwanted suitor, sharp-tongued Lady Lucy Upton engages in a battle of wits with Lord Derek...
Brooke's Pick: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her life in Boston was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never...
Kathy's Pick: Tranquility by Tuesday by Laura Vanderkam
Vanderkam states that “Tranquility is the state of being serene and peaceful, of being free from agitation.” This is not to say that...
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