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Brooke's Pick: The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Mar 24, 20232 min read

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

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Mar 23, 20232 min read

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

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Mar 17, 20232 min read

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

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Mar 15, 20232 min read

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

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Mar 10, 20232 min read

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

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Mar 6, 20232 min read

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

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Mar 3, 20232 min read

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

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Mar 2, 20231 min read

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

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Feb 24, 20233 min read

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

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Feb 23, 20232 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: Winterland by Rae Meadows

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Feb 16, 20233 min read

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...

Crystal's Pick: Before I Go by Brian Charles

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Feb 15, 20232 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: The Do-Over by Lynn Painter

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Feb 10, 20232 min read

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...

Catherine's Pick: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

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Feb 6, 20232 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: Don't Let in the Cold by Keely Parrack

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Feb 2, 20232 min read

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...

Katie's Pick: Complete Guide to Sleep Care by Kiki Ely

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Jan 31, 20232 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: Lucy Checks In by Dee Ernst

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Jan 25, 20233 min read

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...

Laura's Pick: Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

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Jan 24, 20233 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: Built to Last by Erin Hahn

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Jan 19, 20232 min read

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...

Katina's Pick: None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive by Carolyn Prusa

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Jan 13, 20232 min read

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,...

Brooke's Pick: The Little Book of Rest by Stephanie Thomas

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Jan 9, 20232 min read

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,...

Heather's Pick: On the Corner of Chocolate Avenue by Tziporah Cohen

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Jan 5, 20232 min read

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,...

Van's Pick: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

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Jan 5, 20232 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon

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Jan 4, 20232 min read

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...

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Jan 4, 20231 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

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Oct 12, 20223 min read

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...

Heather's Pick: The Love & Collection by Jenna Evans Welch

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Oct 6, 20221 min read

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,...

Brooke's Pick: The Husbands by Chandler Baker

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Oct 3, 20223 min read

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

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Sep 30, 20221 min read

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

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Sep 29, 20222 min read

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

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Sep 28, 20221 min read

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

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Sep 20, 20222 min read

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

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Sep 16, 20222 min read

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

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Sep 15, 20222 min read

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

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Sep 14, 20222 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe

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Sep 13, 20223 min read

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...

Kathy's Pick: The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

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Sep 12, 20222 min read

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,...

Brooke's Pick: Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen

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Sep 8, 20223 min read

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....

Crystal's Pick: Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen

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Sep 6, 20222 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

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Sep 2, 20222 min read

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...

Catherine's Pick: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Aug 31, 20223 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: Jane Anonymous by Laurie Faria Stolarz

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Aug 26, 20222 min read

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...

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Aug 25, 20222 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: The Seamstress of New Orleans by Diane C. McPhail

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Aug 24, 20222 min read

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...

Laura's Pick: Never Coming Home by Hannah Mary McKinnon

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Aug 18, 20222 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: Too Good to Be True by Carola Lovering

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Aug 12, 20223 min read

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...

Katie's Pick: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Aug 11, 20222 min read

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,...

Brooke's Pick: Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach

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Aug 9, 20222 min read

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...

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Aug 8, 20222 min read

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...

Brooke's Pick: Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Aug 5, 20222 min read

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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Helen's Pick: A Furious Sky by Eric Jay Dolin

Every year from June through November, the eastern and southern coastal regions of the United States brace themselves for another...