Lafourche Parish Public Library
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...
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- 5 days ago
- 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...
40
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- 6 days ago
- 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...
40
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- 7 days ago
- 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...
20
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 20
- 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...
20
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 16
- 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...
20
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 15
- 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...
60
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 14
- 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...
70
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 13
- 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...
50
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 12
- 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,...
20
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 8
- 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....
30
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 6
- 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...
60
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Sep 2
- 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...
40
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 31
- 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...
30
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 26
- 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...
50
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 25
- 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...
80
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 24
- 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...
100
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 18
- 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...
120
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 12
- 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
- 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,...
60
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 9
- 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...
60
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 8
- 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...
90
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 5
- 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...
50
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 4
- 2 min
Crystal's Pick: Friends from Home by Lauryn Chamberlain
Jules O'Brien and Michelle Davis have been best friends since third grade. Now in their midtwenties, the childhood friends live miles and...
70
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Aug 3
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe
A coming-of-age debut about friendship, community and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer....
70
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jul 25
- 2 min
Shannon's Pick: Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett
When death of her half-sister Desiree, a disgraced reality TV star, is ruled an overdose, Lena Scott knows that can't be the case and...
50
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jul 18
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh
A tense and riveting story about the disparate lives that intersect at a women's clinic in Boston, by New York Times bestselling author...
50
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Kathy's Pick: Artistry of Louisiana Decoy Carvers by Harvey J. Lewis
Presents decoys, old and contemporary and made by Louisiana carvers, as museum-quality art. The oldest duck decoys, found in a Nevada...
100
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jun 24
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
After picking up a book from the library, Yvette - who has given up on love - gains the ability to see how other people's romantic...
110
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jun 24
- 2 min
Catherine's Pick: The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Chosen to compete for five spots within The Alexandrian Society, the protectors and benefactors of the world's greatest source of...
120
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jun 21
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: The Queen's Secret by Karen Harper
Endearing herself to the British people with her kindness and strength, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the wife of George VI and mother of a...
70
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jun 17
- 2 min
Heather's Pick: Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma...
120
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jun 16
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
A Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an...
80
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jun 13
- 2 min
Van's Pick: The Art of Bob Mackie by Frank Vlastnik & Laura Ross
The first-ever, comprehensive and authorized showcase of legendary fashion designer Bob Mackie's fabulous life and work, featuring...
50
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jun 8
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: The Pick-Up by Miranda Kenneally
When Mari and her stepsister Sierra share a ride to a music festival with two brothers, T.J. and Tyler, Mari and T.J. are instantly...
50
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jun 7
- 2 min
Laura's Pick: What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
Forced into the witness protection program after being caught in the crosshairs of a drug-trafficking organization, Jason Bennett and his...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jun 3
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Four famous siblings throw an epic end-of-summer party that goes dangerously out of control as secrets and loves that shaped this...
60
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Jun 2
- 3 min
Katie's Pick: King of Flames by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
A forensic autopsy technician wakes up with a mysterious symbol tattooed on her arm and is transported to a mystical realm where she is...
20
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- May 26
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Cover Story by Susan Rigetti
During a summer internship at a magazine, an aspiring writer strikes up a friendship with the contributing editor and enigmatic daughter...
90
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- May 24
- 1 min
Dione's Pick: Maysen Jar Series by Devney Perry
From USA Today bestselling author Devney Perry comes a small town, second chance at love romance series. Sometimes I stumble upon a...
110
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- May 23
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Nanny Needed by Georgina Cross
A young woman takes a job as a nanny for an impossibly wealthy family, thinking she's found her entrée into a better life - only to...
90
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- May 20
- 1 min
Crystal's Pick: Whirlwind by Janet Dailey
One of three sisters who would carry on their family's bull-breeding legacy debuts a promising specimen at a professional bull rider's...
60
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- May 19
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
A perfect couple are not all they seem to be, in a gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling authors of The Wife Between Us....
40
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- May 18
- 2 min
Shannon's Pick: What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin
After serving time for the murder of an Oscar-nominated director when she was still a teen, Kelly Michelle Lund is suspected in another,...
40
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- May 13
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
A mother desperate to save her dying daughter in a world ravaged by climate change joins a hunter-gatherer initiative to test humanity's...
40
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- May 11
- 2 min
Lynette's Pick: Under the Tulip Tree by Michelle Shocklee
Seven years into the Great Depression, Rena is an unemployed newspaper reporter. Eager for any writing job, Rena accepts a position...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- May 10
- 3 min
Brooke's Pick: The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore
Exiled to rural Louisiana in the 1920s after being diagnosed with leprosy, socialite Mirielle, unable to accept her new reality, stays...
120
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- May 9
- 2 min
Laura's Pick: A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
Twenty years after her father was arrested as a serial killer, Louisiana psychologist Chloe Davis becomes alarmed when local teenage...
70
Lafourche Parish Public Library
- May 4
- 2 min
Brooke's Pick: Find Me in Havana by Serena Burdick
This sweeping historical-fiction account of the life of the renowned Cuban actress Estelita Rodriguez and her daughter, Nina Lopez, is...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
- Apr 26
- 2 min
Kathy's Pick: Northwind by Gary Paulsen
When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful...
90
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
