Meet Your Staff – Bennett Martin Public Library

Beginning in February, 2022, individual staff members at the Bennett Martin Public Library downtown have been featured on a special book display at that library location, on a rotating basis. All participating staff are given a two-week period to have a sign up identifying their personal reading interests, and featuring samples (mostly available for checkout) of some of their favorite reads. After the display had been up for several weeks, and we’d had questions from library customers about some of the works that were featured, we decided to put up each staff members’ lists of featured titles as a booklist here on BookGuide.

Some of these Bennett Martin Public Library staff are regular contributors to the Staff Recommendations pages on our readers advisory pages known as BookGuide, and have also previously been featured with individual Reviewer Profiles on BookGuide! For those who have been featured in this way, you’ll find a link here to connect to their full Reviewer Profile, and their reviews of materials for the Staff Recommendations pages on BookGuide, some of which will overlap their recommended reads that are listed on this page!

February 1-12, 2022: LeeAnn S. (Branch Supervisor)

Interests: Dogs, Moscato, Daniel Johns

Recommended Titles:

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February 13-26, 2022: Jen J. (Librarian)

Interests: True Crime, Dill Pickles, History

Reviews on BookGuide by Jen J.

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Hosseini)
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kauer Jaswal (Jaswal)
Different Seasons by Stephen King (King)
Glitter Bomb by Laura Childs (Childs)
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (Follett)
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (Penner)
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (Brooks)
ADULT NON-FICTION
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (364.15 McN)
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule (364.152 Rul)
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides (364.152 Sid)
JUVENILE & YOUNG ADULT
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (j Turnage)
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor (j Connor)
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez (YA PB Perez)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (YA THomas)
Mother Bruce by Ryan Higgins (jP Higgins)
DVDs & CDs
Love Actually (DVD Love)
The Godfather films by Francis Ford Coppola (various call numbers)

February 27-March 12, 2022: Garren H. (Librarian)

Interests: Guitars, Speculative Fiction, Egg Nog

Garren H.’s Reviewer Profile | Reviews on BookGuide by Garren H.

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
Plain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforth (Danforth)
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (Jones)
Outlawed by Anna North (North)
Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown (Brown)
Deal With the Devil by Kit Rocha (Rocha)
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole (Cole)
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (El-Mohtar)
A Princess in Theory: Reluctant Royals by Alyssa Cole (PB Cole)
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (Starling)
Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee (Lee)
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead (Whitehead)
Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews (Andrews)
ADULT NON-FICTION
The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammer for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon (no longer in libraries’ collection)
The Principles of Knitting: Methods and Techniques of Hand Knitting by June Hiatt (746.432 qHia)
Five-ingredient Dinners: 100+ Fast, Flavorful Meals by America’s Test Kitchen (641.55 Ame)
JUVENILE & YOUNG ADULT
I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan (YA Ryan)
Wilder Girl by Rory Power (YA Power)

March 13-26, 2022: Caitlin L. (Librarian)

Interests: Furry Animals (guinea pigs, etc.), Historical Fiction (Maisie Dobbs, Alison Weir, Philippa Gregory), Pagan Mythology (Germanic, Gaelic & Scandinavian)

Reviews on BookGuide by Cait L.

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair (Hoopla E-book and E-audiobook)
A Game of Fate by Scarlett St. Clair (Hoopla E-book and E-audiobook)
Punderworld by Linda Sejic (Hoopla E-comic book)
Captive Queen by Alison Weir (Weir)
The Martian by Andy Weir (Weir)
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (Gregory)
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory (Gregory)
Arcanum Unbound: The Cosmere Collection by Brandon Sanderson (Sanderson)
by Brandon Sanderson (Sanderson)
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (Dick)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Winspear)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Christie)
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett (Follett)
ADULT NON-FICTION & BIOGRAPHIES
Lore Olympus, Vol. 1 by Rachel Smythe (741.5 Smy)
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Biography Hamilton)
JUVENILE & YOUNG ADULT
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (YA Adeyemi)
Sense and Sensibility adapted into Manga format by Stacy King, Jeannie Lee and Tse Po from the novel by Jane Austen (YA PB Austen)
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff (YA PB Cliff)
Goldie Vance, Vol. 1 by Hope Larson and Brittney Williams (YA PB (Graphic Novel) Larson)
Wires and Nerve, Vol. 1 by Marissa Meyer (YA Meyer)
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (YA Clare)
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (YA Aveyard)

March 27-April 9, 2022: Carrie R. (Library Service Associate)

Interests: Fairy Tales, Sports, True Crime Documentaries

Carrie R.’s Reviewer Profile | Reviews on BookGuide by Carrie R.

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
The James Bond series by Ian Fleming (Fleming)
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Brown)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Zusak and YA Zusak)
Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick (Quick)
The Women’s Murder Club series by James Patterson (Patterson)
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell (Rowell)
The Martian by Andy Weir (Weir)
ADULT NON-FICTION
Twelfth Night by Williams Shakespeare (various)
I Will Find You by Joe Kenda (Biography Kenda)
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner (398.2 Gar)
Texts From Jane Eyre by Daniel M. Lavery and Mallory Ortberg (817 Ort)
Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked With Spirits, Wine and Beer by Krystina Castella (641.865 Cas)
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (817 Sed)
Touch Me, I’m Sick by Tom Reynolds (Music 781.586 Rey)
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (Biography Fisher)
Guts by Kristen Johnston (Biography Johnston)
JUVENILE & YOUNG ADULT
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly (YA Donnelly)
Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen by Serena Valentino (and others in the “Villains” series) (YA Valentino)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (YA Collins)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (j Rowling)
Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm (various)
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (j Raskin)
DVDs
The Little Mermaid (DVD j Little), Snow White (DVD j Snow), Robin Hood (DVD j Robin) — all animated films by Disney
Star Wars (6-disc set containing films I-VI) (DVD Star)
Once Upon a Time (season box sets) starring Lana Parrilla (DVD Once)
The West Wing (season box sets) starring Martin Sheen (DVD West)
The Good Place (season box sets) starring Kristen Bell (DVD Good)
Warehouse 13 (season box sets) starring Eddie McClintock (DVD Warehouse)
The Blacklist (season box sets) starring James Spader (DVD Blacklist)
Red starring Bruce Willis (DVD Red)
Now You See Me starring Jesse Eisenberg (DVD Now)

April 10-23, 2022: Rio B. (Library Service Supervisor)

Interests: Science, Knitting, Coffee

Rio B.’s Reviewer Profile | Reviews on BookGuide by Rio B.

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (McQuiston)
The works of Kristen Ashley
The works of Terry Pratchett
The works of Anne McCaffrey
The works of Tamora Pierce
The works of Mercedes Lackey
The works of Mariana Zapata
The works of Laurell K. Hamilton
The works of Naomi Novik
The works of Thea Harrison
The works of Brene Brown
The works of Patricia Briggs
The works of Ilona Andrews
The works of Martha Wells
The works of Kelley Armstrong
The works of Lilith Saintcrow
The works of Anne Bishop
The works of Jennifer Estep
The works of David Weber
ADULT NON-FICTION & BIOGRAPHIES
Knitting Magic: The Official Harry Potter Knitting Pattern Book by Tanis Gray (746.432 Gra)
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (598.883 Wei)
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear (155.2 Cle)
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski (155.9 Nag)
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg (658.406 Duh)
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (a mostly true memoir) by Jenny Lawson (Biography Lawson)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty (Biography Doughty)
Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science by Erika Englehaupt (500 Eng)
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (I enjoyed this as an E-book on Overdrive, but it’s also a print edition under 576.84 Kol)
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (I enjoyed this as an E-book on Overdrive, but it’s also a print edition under 211.8 Daw)
JUVENILE & YOUNG ADULT
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett (YA Garrett)
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (YA Emezi)

April 24-May 7, 2022: Charlotte M. (Library Service Associate)

Interests: Cats, Quilts, Old Movies

Charlotte M.’s Reviewer Profile | Reviews on BookGuide by Charlotte M.

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
Niceville by Carsten Stroud (Stroud)
The Keep by F. Paul Wilson (Wilson)
Aunt Dimity’s Death by Nancy Atherton (Atherton)
Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown (Brown)
Gone For Good by Harlan Coben (Coben)
The Highwayman by Craig Johnson (Johnson)
Steamboat by Craig Johnson (Johnson)
Dark of the Moon by John Sandford (Sandford)
Fire and Ice by Dana Stabenow (Stabenow)
Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper (Hooper)
Forged in Steele by Maya Banks (Banks)
Whispers in the Dark by Maya Banks (Banks)
All Through the Night by Suzanne Brockmann (Brockmann)
Overcome by Lora Leigh (Leigh)
Caine’s Reckoning by Sara McCarty (McCarty)
I Robot by Isaac Asimov (Asimov)
Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child (Child)
Something Wicked by Sarah Dale (Dale)
Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen R Donaldson (Donaldson)
The Silent Land by Graham Joyce (Joyce)
Dragonflight by Ane McCaffrey (McCaffrey)
Redshirts by John Scalzi (Scalzi)
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (Sloan)
The Martian by Andy Weir (Weir)
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson (Drayson)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Simsion)
ADULT NON-FICTION
Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year by Esme Raji Codell (372.11 Cod)
175 Best Air Fryer Recipes by Camilla V. Saulsbury (641.7 Sau)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy (741.5 Mac)
Death Wins a Goldfish by Brian Rea (741.5 Rea)
Benni Harper’s Quilt Album by Earlene Fowler (746.46 qFow)
Patriotic Quilts by Marianne Fons (746.46 Pat)
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (797.123 Bro)
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson (817 Joh)
Hidden Power by Kati Marton (973 Mar)
AUDIOBOOKS
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (Compact Disc 331.4 Far)
Doing Justice by Preet Bharara (Compact Disc 347.73 Bha)
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman (Compact Disc Gaiman)
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen (Compact Disc Hiaasen)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Shaffer (Compact Disc Shaffer)
JUVENILE AND YOUNG ADULT
Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack (jP Haack)
Papa Do You Love Me? by Barbara Joosse (jP Joosse)
Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen (jP Knudsen)
The Black Stallion and Satan by Walter Farley (j Farley)
The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein (j Grabenstein)
Ungifted by Gordon Korman (j Korman)
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (j Rhodes)
Ghosted by Michael Fry (j Fry)
The Best Man by Richard Peck (j Peck)
DVDs & CDs
The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn (DVD Adventures)
Casablanca Starring Humphrey Bogart (DVD Casablanca)
Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol (DVD Fiddler)
>From the Earth to the Moon based on the book A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin (DVD From)
The Greatest Show on Earth starring Charlton Heston (DVD Greatest)
The Magnificent Seven starring Yul Brynner (DVD Magnificent)
Oklahoma starring Gordon MacRae (DVD Oklahoma)
Star Trek: Discovery starring Sonequa Martin (DVD Star)
Ultimate Manilow by Barry Manilow (Compact Disc 781.63 Man)
The Magnificent Seven (movie soundtrack) by Elmer Bernstein (Compact Disc 782.14 Ber)
Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Compact Disc 782.14 Ham)
Troubadour by George Strait (Compact Disc 781.642 Str)

May 8-21, 2022: Cindy K. (Library Service Associate)

Interests: Dogs, Agatha Christie, Planning Trips I Will Never Take

Cindy K.’s Reviewer Profile | Reviews on BookGuide by Cindy K.

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
And Then There Were None (a.k.a. Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie (Christie)
By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie (Christie)
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (Novik)
>The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Larsson)
Hickory, Dickory, Dock by Agatha Christie (Christie)
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle (Serle)
The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian (Bohjalian)
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (Kelly)
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (Osman)
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (Hannah)
Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom (Albom)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (Owens)
ADULT NON-FICTION & BIOGRAPHIES
Baroque Music for Manuals, volume 3 by S. Drummond Wolff (Music 786.518 qWol)
The Culinary Herbal: Growing and Preserving 97 Flavorful Herbs by Susan Belsinger (641.657 Bel)
Folk Shawls: 25 Knitting Patterns and Tales From Around the World by Cheryl Oberle (746.432 Obe)
Happy Little Accidents: The Wit and Wisdom of Bob Ross by Bob Ross (751.4 Ros)
I Could Pee on This; and Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano (817 Mar)
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (917.98 Kra)
Knitting Over the Edge: Unique Ribs, Cords, Appliqués, Colors, Nouveau: The Second Essential Collection of Decorative Borders by Nicki Epstein (746.432 qEps)
The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie (822.9 Chr)
The New Pie: Modern Techniques for the Classic American Dessert by Chris Taylor (641.865 Tay)
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern (817 Hal)
Square Food Gardening by Mel Bartholomew (635 Bar)
JUVENILE & YOUNG ADULT
The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War and Survival by Amra Sabic-El-Rayness (j Biography Sabic-El-Rayness)
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (j DuPrau)
Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott (j Elliott)
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome (j Cline-Ransome)
>Ghost by Jason Reynolds (j Reynolds)
Helga Makes a Name For Herself by Megan Maynor (jP Maynor)
I Am Not a Chair by Ross Burach (jP Burach)
Isaiah Dunn is My Hero by Kelly J. Baptist (j Baptist)
It’s Not Little Red Riding Hood by Josh Funk (jP Funk)
Just Like That by Gary Schmidt (j Schmidt)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (j Lewis and various others)
No, David by David Shannon (jP Shannon)
The Secret Garden on 81st Street by Noelle Weir (jPB (Series) Weir)
Unwanteds by Lisa McMann (j McMann)
Verdi by Janell Cannon (jP Cannon)
When Stars Are Scattered by Vicotira Jamieson (j Biography Mohamed)
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate (j Applegate)
DVDs & CDs
The Joy of Painting by Bob Ross (DVD 751.45 Ros — also on Hoopla Digital)
Bohemian Rhapsody starring Rami Malek (DVD Bohemian)
The Father Brown series based on the stores by G.K. Chesterton (DVD Father)

May 22-June 4, 2022: Scott C. (Library Service Associate/BookGuide site manager)

Interests: Late 20th century television shows, sci-fi/fantasy, mysteries, micro-histories and biographies

Scott C.’s Reviewer Profile | Reviews on BookGuide by Scott C. | (See a much longer list of Scott’s 5-star LibraryThing rated items, from which this list is pulled)

Recommended Titles: (only those in library collection are hotlinked — try InterLibrary Loan for the rest)

ADULT FICTION
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (series) by Douglas Adams
Dark Signal and Stripped Bare by Shannon Baker
The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories, Kindred Spirits, Moloka’i, Palisades Park, and Time and Chance by Alan Brennert
Startide Rising and others in the Uplift series by David Brin
And Then There Were None, and Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
The Late Show and others in the Renee Ballard series by Michael Connelly
The Captain’s Daughter, Vendetta, Knight Life, and Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David
The Kolchak Papers: Grave Secrets by Mark Dawidziak
The Wounded Sky, The Romulan Way, My Enemy, My Ally, and Doctor’s Orders by Diane Duane
The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison (also the anthologies he edited, Dangerous Visions and Again Dangerous Visions)
How Much for Just the Planet? and The Final Reflection by John M. Ford
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
Libriomancer and the rest in its series by Jim Hines
The Sentence is Death and others in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series (on audio) by Anthony Horowitz
The Devil on My Doorstep and The Green Bottle by Stuart Kaminsky
‘Salem’s Lot, Doctor Sleep, and Later (as an audiobook) by Stephen King
Agent of Change and the rest of the Liaden series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
The IDIC Epidemic, The Vulcan Academy Murders and Metamorphosis by Jean Lorrah
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Dream Park (and its three sequels, including The California Voodoo Game and The Moon Maze Game) by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
His Majesty’s Dragon (and the rest of the Temeraire series) by Naomi Novik
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Dog On It (and the rest of the Chet & Bernie series — on audio) by Spencer Quinn
The Night Stalker by Jeff Rice
Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon, Time Travelers Strictly Cash, and the rest of the Callahan’s books by Spider Robinson
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
All Systems Red and the rest of the Murderbot series by Martha Wells
ADULT NON-FICTION
The Bloom County books of Berkeley Breathed
All About Me by Mel Brooks
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor and Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B-Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
Little Grey Cells and Murder, She Said (quote compilations) by Agatha Christie
So, Anyway by John Cleese
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, and Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia by John Clute
The Columbo Phile, Everything I Need to Know I Learned From the Twilight Zone, and The Night Stalker Companion by Mark Dawidziak
Don’t Panic: The Official Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Companion by Neil Gaiman
A Hummingbird in My House, and Hummingbirds: My Winter Guests by Arnette Heidcamp
The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron and Clint Howard (as an audiobook)
They Died in Vain: Overlook, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery Novels, and Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today’s Mystery Writers by Jim Huang
Chuck Amuck and Chuck Redux by Chuck Jones
Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian J. Jones
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (and his many other microhistories)
The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks (and his other humor books)
The Complete Monty Python: All the Words (in 2 volumes)
The Star Trek Encyclopedia by Michael Okuda (many editions)
Meetings With Remarkable Trees and Remarkable Trees of the World by Thomas Pakenham
Best Easy Day Hikes: Lincoln and Omaha by Michael Ream
This is Jim Rockford: The Rockford Files by Ed Robertson
>The four volumes in The Science Fiction Writing Series
The Humans of New York series by Brandon Stanton
The Star Trek Concordance by Bjo Trimble
JUVENILE & YOUNG ADULT
Return, Quest and Journey by Aaron Becker
Library on Wheels by Sherlee Glenn
The Mother Bruce series of picture books by Ryan Higgins
Bluffton by Matt Phelan
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang
The Ordinary People Change the World series by Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopoulos
The Three Investigators series (43 juvenile or YA mystery novels by a variety of authors)
DVDs & MUSIC CDs
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Babylon 5 (sadly no longer in the libraries’ collection)
Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety and Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks
Castle (except for the final, 7th, season)
Dirty Jobs
Due South (marvelous 1990s series pairing a Chicago detective with a Canadian mountie)
Ellery Queen (short but brilliant one-season series)
Farscape (one of the most fabulous series ever to air on the SciFi channel, before it became the SyFy channel)
Get Smart
The Greatest American Hero (my all-time favorite TV series)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by Peter Jackson
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
The Prisoner (absolutely crazy but brilliant one-season British surreal spy show)
The Rocketeer
The Rockford Files
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (a 1o-episode series plus 20 2-hour TV-movies)
>Star Trek (all variations, but mostly original 1960s Star Trek)
The Twilight Zone (all variations, but mostly the original 1960s B&W, and the 1980s updated version)
For the Love of Spock (documentary)
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (documentary)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Death Star (Star Wars parody/tribute by local musician Curt Bright)
anything by The Beatles
anything by Billy Joel
anything by Chuck Mangione
the soundtracks of John Williams, particularly Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Star Wars films
Summon the Heroes: The Olympics soundtrack album
Broadway musical soundtracks, including Allegiance, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chess, Come From Away, Hadestown, Hamilton, Into the Woods, Les Miserables, Once, Six: The Musical and Monty Python’s Spamalot

June 5-18, 2022: Laura N. (Library Service Associate)

Interests: Falafel, Biking, Soviet History

Reviews on BookGuide by Laura N.

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
Breath, Eyes, Memory and Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
The Goldfinch (book or audiobook) by Donna Tartt
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
BIOGRAPHIES
My Life in France by Julia Child (Biography Child)
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (Biography Noah)
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (Biography Stevenson)
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya Von Bremzen (Biography Von Bremzen)
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (Biography Wilder)
ADULT NON-FICTION
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (307.76 Wil)
>Milk Street Cookish by Christopher Kimball (641.5 Kim)
Midwest Made: Big Bold Baking From the Heartland by Shauna Sever (641.505 Sev)
Feast by Firelight by Emma Frisch (641.578 Fri)
Easy Beans by Jackie Freeman (641.635 Fre)
Mamushka by Olia Hercules (641.594 UkrYh)
Kachka by Bonnie Frumkin Morales (641.594 RusYm)
One Pot: 120+ Easy Meals From Your Skillet, Slow Cooker, Stockpot, and More by Martha Stewart (641.7 Mar)
Perfectly Golden: Adaptable Recipes for Sweet and Simple Treats by Angela Garbacz (641.86 Gar)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (741.5 Sat)
Macramé Décor : 25 Boho-Chic Patterns and Project Ideas by Marchen Art Studio (746.422 Mar)
>Calypso by David Sedaris (817 Sed)
Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick (947.085 Rem)
CDs & DVDs
Evita (Compact Disc 782.14 Evi)
Parks & Recreation (DVD Parks)
Mad Men (DVD Mad)
The Crown (DVD Crown)
Sense and Sensibility (DVD Sense)
The Goldfinch (DVD Goldfinch)
My Brilliant Friend (DVD My)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (DVD Sherlock)
JUVENILE
Marshmallow by Clare Turlay Newberry (jPB Newberry)
The Caiman by Maria Eugenia Manrique (jP Manrique)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (jPB Avi)
When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed (j Biography Mohamed)

June 19-July 2, 2022: Jackie S. (Library Service Associate)

Interests: Running, Medieval Art, Plant-Based Cooking

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
In the Woods by Tana French
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Matrix by Lauren Groff
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Slade House by David Mitchell
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Essen Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Need by Helen Phillips
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by Victoria Schwab
ADULT NON-FICTION & BIOGRAPHIES
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (523.01 Pre)
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (523.01 Tys)
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (590 Nez)
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey (594.38 Bai)
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (641.3 Foe)
Rise and Run: Recipes, Rituals and Runs to Fuel Your Day by Shalene Flanagan (641.52 Fla)
Love and Lemons Everyday: More Than 100 Bright, Plant-Forward Recipes for Every Meal by Jeanine Donofrio (641.563 Don)
Family: New Vegetarian Comfort Food to Nourish Everyday by Hetty McKinnon (641.563 McK)
A Big Important Art Book: (Now With Women): Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists — and Projects to Help You Become One by Danielle Krysa (709.22 Kry)
Mid Century Modern Living: The Mini Modern’s Guide to Pattern and Style by Mark Hampshire (747 Ham)
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson (940.534 Jac)
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (Biography Catherine)
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Biography Macdonald)
>CDs & DVDs
Blue by Joni Mitchell (Compact Disc 781.63 Mit)
Firewatcher’s Daughter by Brandi Carlile (Compact Disc 781.66 Car)
New Pornographers (Compact Disc 781.66 New)
various albums by Sigur Ros (Compact Disc 781.66 Sig)
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou Original Soundtrack by Mark Mothersbaugh (Compact Disc 782.14 Lif)
Planet Earth: The Complete Series (DVD 525.35 Pla)
Downton Abbey (DVD Downton)
Howl’s Moving Castle (DVD j Howl’s)
Moana (DVD j Moana)
>Wolf Children (DVD j Wolf)
Once (DVD Once)
JUVENILE
Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity by Yayoi Kusama (j Biography Kusama)
Women’s Art Work: More Than 30 Female Artists Who Changed the World by Sophia Bennett (j 709.22 Ben)
Pangolina by Jane Goodall (jP Goodall)
The Tale of the Whale by Karen Swann (jP Swann)
A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel (jP Wenzel)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (YA Collins)

July 3-16, 2022: Carrie K. (Library Service Associate)

Interests: Being Home, Making Stuff, Mountain Dew…

Carrie K.’s Reviewer Profile | Reviews on BookGuide by Carrie K.

Recommended Titles:

FUN READS
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall-Smith
The Secret Diary of Hendrick Groene by Hendrick Groene
On the Bright Side by Hendrick Groene
Carrying Albert Home by Homer Hickam
Night Rainbow by Claire King
Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Long Island by Andrea Levy
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window by Jonas Jonasson
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures by Caroline Preston
Gatsby’s Girl by Caroline Preston
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dolly Parton: Songteller, My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton (Music 781.642 Par)
Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles by Rivvy Neshama (204.4 Nes)
Anecdotes of Destiny by Karen Blixen
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
SOCIAL ISSUES
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders by Jennifer Boylan (Biography Boylan)
High Rise Stories: Voices From Chicago Public Housing by Audrey Petty (363.5 Hig)
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker (305.896 Whi)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba (e-Audiobook only)
Simple Times by Amy Sedaris (817 Sed)
What is the What by Dave Eggers
HISTORY
Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy by Judith Blume Fradin (jB Ad2f)
The Middle of Everywhere: The World’s Refugees Come to Our Town by Mary Pipher (325.21 Pip)
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki (973.04 Tak)
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West by Zoya Phan (Biogaphy Phan)
Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1972 by Hugh Mangum and Margaret Sartor (779.12 Sar)
Africa in My Blood by Jane Goodall (B G6155)
The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall (304.2 Goo)
Write to Me: Letters From Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind by Cynthia Grady (j Biography Breed)
Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem (942.1 Mai)
Uncovering the Logic of English: A Commonsense Approach to Reading, Spelling and Literacy by Denise Eide (428.007 Eid)
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (306.362 Mil)
HOBBIES/BUILDING
Building Star Trek (DVD 791.457 StaYb)
Workshop Mastery With Jimmy Diresta: A Guide to Working With Metal, Wood, Plastic and Leather by Jimmy Diresta (620 Dir)
If I Had a Hammer: More Than 100 Easy Fixes and Weekend Projects by Andrea Ridout (643.7 Rid)
Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay (701.85 Fin)
String Frenzy: Strips, Strings and Scrappy Things: 12 More String Quilt Projects by Bonnie K. Hunter (746.46 Hun)
Star Trek Vault: 40 Years From the Archives by Scott Tipton (791.457 qStaT)
Sesame Street Unpaved: Scripts, Stories, Secrets and Songs by David Borgenicht (791.457 qSes)
Cardboard Box Engineering: Cool, Inventive Projects for Tinkerers, Makers and Future Scientists by Jonathan Adolphe (j745.54 Ado)
Vision Box Idea Book: Mixed-Media Projects for Cracking the Life of Your Dreams by Mark Montano (745.59 Mon)
TEXTILES
Labors of Love: America’s Textiles and Needlework, 1650-1930 by Judith Reiter Weissman (746 qWei)
How to Read a Dress by Lydia Edwards (391.2 Edw)
African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent by by John Gillow
Icons of Fashion: The 20th Century by Gerda Buxbaum (391 Bux)
Knitting America: A Glorious Heritage From Warm Socks to High Art by Susan Strawn (746.432 qStr)
How the West Was Worn by Holly George-Warren (391.009 qGeo)
The Folkwear Book of Ethnic Clothing: Easy Ways to Sew and Embellish Fabulous Garments From Around the World by Mary Parker (746.4 qPar)
5000 Years of Textiles by Jennifer Harris (677 Har)
Sasha Dolls Through the Years by Dorisanne Osborn (745.592 qOsb)
The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930s and 1940s and Our World Since Then by Marsha Hunt (746.92 qHun)
Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Claire (677 Stc)
Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine by Roszika Parker
Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (974 Ulr)
KIDS’ BOOKS
Buffalo Bird Girl by S.D. Nelson (j Biography Waheenee)
Bo at Ballard Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill (jPB Hill)
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Kearts (jP Keats/Wonderbook)
Blueberry Patch = Meennunyakaa by Jennifer Leason (jP Leason)
Corduroy by Brian Freeman (jP Freeman)
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales (jP Morales)
Stretchy McHandsome by Judith Byron Schachner (jP Schachner)
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh (j Biography Mendez)
They Call Me Guero: A Border Kid’s Poems by David Bowles (jPB (Non-Fiction) Bowles)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (j 818 Woo)
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson (j Woodson)
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (j Rhodes)
Crow Call by Lois Lowry (jP Lowry)
Sugar Falls: A Residential Schools Story by David Robertson (YA PB (Graphic Novel) Robertson)
De Aqui Como El Coqui by Nomar Perez (j 466.3 Per)
Wonder at the Edge of the World by Nicole Lea Helget (j Helget)
The Matchhbox Diary by Paul Fleischman (jP Fleischman)
Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis (jP Ellis)
All the Places to Love by Patricia Maclachlan (jP Maclachlan)
The Tea Party in the Woods by Akiko Miyakoshi (jP Miyakoshi)
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats the the Creation of The Snowy Day by Andrew Davis Pinkney (j Biography Keats)
A Slip of a Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff (j Giff)
Frida by Jonah Winter (jB K13w)
FAVORITE ILLUSTRATORS
The Scraps Book: Notes From a Colorful Life by Lois Ehlert (j Biography Ehlert)
It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew The Way by Kyo Maclear (j Biography Fujikawa)
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant (j Biography Roget)
Looking Back: A Book of Memories by Lois Lowry (B L9568)
YA BOOKS
A Time of Angels by Karen Hesse (j Hesse)
The Words in My Hands by Asphyxia (YA Asphyxia)
Letters From Rifka by Karen Hesse (j Hesse)
Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore (YA McLemore)
Etiquette and Espionage by Gale Carriger
Cajas de Carton by Francisco Jiminez (j 466.3 Jim)
Clash of Steel by C.B. Lee (YA Lee)
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend From Alaska by Velma Wallis (970.1 Wal)
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis (970.3 AthYw)
Waheenee: An Indian’s Girls Story by Waheenee (970.4 Hid)
Beyond the Orange Shirt Story: A Collection of Stories From Families and Friends of Phyllis Webstad, Before, During and After Their Residential School Experiences by Phyllis Webstad (YA Biography Webstad)
Sister to the Sioux: The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-1891 by Elaine Goodale Eastman (B Ea728g)
Crazy Horse and Custer: Born Enemies by S.D. Nelson (j973.82 Nel)
Fire Light: The Life of Angel de Core, Winnebago Artist by Linda M. Waggoner (Biography Decora)
The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School by Francis la Flesche (Heritage 970.3 Laf)
This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman (974.4 Sil)
Stolen Words by Melanie Florence (jP Florence)
Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary’s Daring Daughter by Katherine Kirkpatrick (jB P298k)
CDs and DVDs
The Librarians (DVD Librarians)
A Call to Spy (DVD Call)
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (DVD Durrell)
In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger (DVD Biography Darger)
Timeless (DVD Timeless)
Schitt’s Creek (DVD Schitt’s)
Around the World in 80 Days (DVD Around)
Life on Mars: The Complete Series (DVD Life)
The Peanut Butter Falcon (DVD Peanut)
The Frankie Drake Mysteries (DVD Frankie)
Emery Blagdon and His Healing Machine (DVD Biography Blagdon)
Small Island (Hoopla Television)
Long Song (DVD Long)
The Wishbone series (DVD j Wishbone)
Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses (DVD j Barbie)
Mulan (DVD YA Mulan)
The Public (DVD Public)
The Best of Blondie (CD 781.66 Blo)
Platinum (CD 781.66 Blo)
The River in Reverse by Elvis Costello (CD 781.66 Cos)
American recordings (series) by Johnny Cash (781.642 Cas)
El Condor Pasa by Indios Paraguayos (CD 781.62 Souc)

July 17-30, 2022: Ali B. (Read Aloud Lincoln)

Interests: Delicious food, strong-willed women, and pop culture

Reviews on BookGuide by Ali B.

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
The Power by Naomi Alderman
With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez
Florida by Lauren Groff
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Space Opera by Catherynne Valente
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
ADULT NON-FICTION
What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer (811 Bae)
A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain (641.59 Bou)
Eat a Peach by David Chang (Biography Chang)
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (Biography Laymon)
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv (155.418 Lou)
Ottolenghi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi (641.595 MidYo)
Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over by Alison Roman (641.5 Rom)
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino (973.93 Tol)
Saga by Brian K. Vaughan (741.5 Vau)
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong (811 Vuo)
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Biography Zauner)

July 31-August 13, 2022: Kim J. (Library Service Associate)

Interests: Classic Literature, Children’s Literature, and Books on Nature

Kim J.’s Reviewer Profile | Reviews on BookGuide by Kim J.

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Hercule Poirot novels/stories of Agatha Christie and the Poirot series starring David Suchet (on DVD)
The Shetland series on DVD based on the novels of Ann Cleeves
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (in book and DVD form)
The Sherlock Holmes novels/stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (and the adaptations on DVD)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester (in book and DVD form)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The series of Poldark novels by Winston Graham (and the two different video adaptations on DVD — 1975-1977, 2015-2019)
The series of Longmire novels by Craig Johnson (and the TV series adapted from them, available on DVD)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (and the movie adapted from it, starring Gregory Peck)
any of the novels by Naomi Novik, including League of Dragons, Uprooted
anything by William Shakespeare, but especially Henry V and Hamlet (in print or on DVD)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
ADULT NON-FICTION
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Berenbaum
Gift of the Deer by Helen Hoover, illustred by Adrian Hoover
Nature I Loved by Bill Geagan
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Singing Wilderness by Sigurd Olson, illustrated by F.L. Jaques
YOUTH MATERIALS
Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Bats at the Library by Brian Lies
Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay
McDuff Saves the Day by Rosemary Wells, illustrated by Susan Jeffers
Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary
Stella’s Skyliner by Rosemary Wells
Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by E.H. Shepard
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne, illustred by E.H. Shepard
You Can Do It, Noisy Nora! by Rosemary Wells

August 14-28, 2022: Sharon S. (Library Service Associate)

Interests: Hiking, Photography, Paper Crafts…

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Thalia: A Texas Trilogy by Larry McMurtry
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
The Babes in the Wood by Ruth Rendell
The Crocodile Bird by Ruth Rendell
Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell
Sandhills Ballad by Ladette Randolph
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Arranged Marriage: Stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Holidays on Ice: With Six New Stories by David Sedaris
ADULT NON-FICTION
The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack by Rick McIntyre
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee
Riding the Bus With My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
Papier-Mâché by Miranda Innes
Texture Effects for Rubber Stamping by Nancy Curry
Art Stamping Workshop: Create Hand-Carved Stamps for Unique Projects on Paper, Fabric, Polymer Clay and More by Gloria Page
Creative Stamping With Mixed Media Techniques by Sherrill Kahn
Layered Impressions: A Poetic Approach to Mixed-Media Painting by Katie Kendrick
The Cuter Book: Felt Mascot by Aronzo Aranzi
Cut and Fold Techniques for Promotional Materials by Paul Jackson
Linda McCartney’s Family Kitchen: Over 90 Plant-Based Recipes to Save the Planet and Nourish the Soul by Linda McCartney
Running With Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Eric Larson
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
Couldn’t Keep it to Myself: Testimonies From Our Imprisoned Sisters by Wally Lamb
BOOKS-ON-CD
Lets Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
MUSIC on CD
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (music from a film by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
American Recordings by Johnny Cash
DVDs
Bull Durham
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Sleepless in Seattle
Ocean’s Eleven
Something’s Gotta Give
The English Patient
Victoria: The Complete First Season

August 29-September 10, 2022: Nancy P. (Library Service Associate)

Interests: Mysteries, Weather, Humor…

Recommended Titles:

JUVENILE FICTION
Count Me In by Varsha Bajaj
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 by Andrea White
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
Refugee by Alan Gratz
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
The Falcon’s Feather by Trudi Strain Trueit
DVDs and AUDIO
Norm of the North directed by Norm Schneider
WALL-E directed by Ben Burtt
The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne
Johnny English starring Rowan Atkinson
The Eyes of Nye: Human Characteristics and Adaptations by Bill Nye
Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention
PICTURE BOOKS
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
A is for Astronaut: Blasting Through the Alphabet by Clayton Anderson
I’m Here by Peter H. Reynolds
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
JUVENILE NON-FICTION
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson
Weather by Lorrie Mack
The Everything Kids Weather Book: From Tornados to Snow Storms, Puzzles Games and Facts That Make the Weather for Kids Fun by Joseph Snedeker
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca
Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age by Cheryl Bardoe
Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologists by Linda Skeers
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
ADULT NON-FICTION
Till Murder Do Us Part: True-Crime Thrilers by James Patterson
Great Plains Weather by Kenneth F. Dewey
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie: A Nebraska Year by Paul Johnsgard
Ashfall Fossil Bed State Historical Park and National Natural Landmark: Present View of an Ancient Past: A Cooperative Project of the University of Nebraska State Museum and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission by Michael Voorhies
Nebraskaland Magazine’s Weather and Climate of Nebraska by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaelogy in Nebraska by Michael Voorhies
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhất Hạnh
ADULT FICTION
Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger
Autopsy by Patricia Cornwell
Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston
The Bone Bed by Patricia Cornwell
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen
The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom

September 11-24, 2022: Diane W. (Heritage Room Librarian)

Interests: Quilts, Mysteries, Nebraska Authors and more…

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Long Call by Ann Cleeves
Pickard County Atlas by Christina Harding Thornton
In Our Lives by Theodore Wheeler
The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
The Overstory by Richard Powers
While the Patient Slept by Mignon Eberhart
In the Woods by Tana French
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Bones of Paradise by Jonis Agee
The Progeny by Tosca Moon Lee
ADULT NON-FICTION
Dragons & Unicorns: A Natural History by Paul Johnsgard and Karin Johnsgard
Amy Butler’s Piece Keeping: 20 Stylings Projects That Celebrate Patchwork by Amy Butler
Wright Morris, Photographs & Words by Wright Morris
This is Your Mind on Plants by Michel Pollan
Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World’s Worse Diseases by Lydia Kang
Black Elk Speaks by Black Elk
Just Kids by Patti Smith
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
The Loren Eiseley Reader by Loren Eiseley
Rock – Tree – Bird by Twyla Hansen
No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas by C.J. Janovy
Keith County Journal by John Janovy Jr.
DVDs
Hamish Macbeth series 1

September 25-October 8, 2022: Traci G. (Assistant Director)

Interests: Comic books, plant-based cooking, horror movies, Sylvia Plath, and pop culture…

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta (Perrotta)
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding (Fielding)
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Hornby)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Burgess)
ADULT NON-FICTION & BIOGRAPHIES & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story by Rick Bragg (Biography Lewis)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962: Transcribed From the Original Manuscripts at Smith College by Sylvia Plath (Biography Plath)
Never Mind the Bollocks: 1977: The Bollocks Diaries by Pat Gilbert (Music 781.66 Sex)
I Can Cook Vegan by Isa Chandra Moskowitz (641.563 Mos)
Y: The Last Man, Book One by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra (741.5 Vau)
Completely Mad: a History of the Comic Book and Magazine by Maria Reidelbach (7415 qRei)
Hark!: a Vagrant by Kate Beaton (741.5 Bea)
Room to Dream by David Lynch (Biography Lynch)
Untypical Girls: Styles and Sounds of the Transatlantic Indie Revolution by Sam Knee (Music 781.66 ne)
Batman: the Killing Joke by Alan Moore (741.5 Moo)
DVDs
X (DVD X)
Nightmare on Elm Street (DVD Nightmare) (the 1984 original, not the remake)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (DVD What)
T2 Trainspotting (DVD T2)
Scream (DVD Scream) (the original 1996 film, not the newer one)
Twin Peaks (DVD Twin)
The Punk Singer: a Documentary Film about Kathleen Hanna (DVD Biography Hanna)

October 9-22, 2022: Cait L. (second turn)

Interests: Furry Animals (guinea pigs, etc.), Historical Fiction (Maisie Dobbs, Alison Weir, Philippa Gregory), Pagan Mythology (Germanic, Gaelic & Scandinavian)

Recommended Titles:

NON-FICTION
This Blessed Earth by Ted Genoways
Churchill’s Band of Brothers by Damien Lewis
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Ulysses S Grant by Ron Chernow
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing by Keith Ammann
HISTORICAL FICTION
The Lady of the Rivers by Phillippa Gregory
The Captive Queen by Alison Weir
The White Queen by Phillippa Gregory
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Lore Olympus Vol 1 by Rachel Smythe
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
DVDs
Little Women with Susan Sarandon
Little Women with Florence Pugh
1917
FANTASY
Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J Maas
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
FOLKLORE-BASED FANTASY
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy Lin
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
SCI-FI
Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman
The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells
MURDER MYSTERY
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

October 23-November 5, 2022: Tara V. (Library Aide)

Interests: Animal Crossing, Knitting, Houseplants…

Recommended Titles:

MUSIC
Harry’s House by Harry Styles
The New Abnormal by The Strokes
Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast
Never for Ever by Kate Bush
Best of Blondie by Blondie
ADULT FICTION
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Heart Stopper Vol. 4 by Alice Oseman
KIDS FICTION
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmens
American Girl Doll Mystery: Intruders at Rivermead Manor by Kathryn Reiss
Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying by Barbara Park
ADULT NON-FICTION
Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Stich ‘n’ Bitch Nation by Debbie Stoller
Gulp by Mary Roach
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley Ford
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny O’Dell
Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
ADULT DVDs
Crazy Rich Asians
Legally Blonde
Glee Season 1
Spencer
KIDS DVDs
Lilo and Stitch
Ratatouille

November 6-19, 2022: Vivian S. (Library Aide)

Interests: True Crime, the Victorian era, anything Harry Potter…

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Emma by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
ADULT NON-FICTION
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
You Will Get Through This Night by Daniel Howell
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
A Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
JUVENILE
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
The Mysterious Benedict Society series by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm by Philip Pullman
DVDs
The Joy Luck Club
The Breakfast Club
Call the Midwife (all seasons)
Outlander (all seasons)
Schitt’$ Creek (all seasons)
The Great (all seasons)

November 20-December 3, 2022: Marcella R. (Library Aide)

Interests: Cats, Historical Fiction, Humor…

Recommended Titles:

FICTION
An Unlikely Suitor by Nancy Moser
The Message on the Quilt by Stephanie Grace Whitson
Paws and Effect by Sofie Kelly
The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
The Cat Who Went Bananas by Lilian Jackson Braun
NON-FICTION
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by Guillaume De Laubier
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras by Claudrena N. Harold
Thieves, Rascals and Sore Losers: The Unsettling History of the Dirty Deals That Helped Settle Nebraska by Marilyn June Coffey
Natural Wonders of the World published by Dorling Kindersley
Overdue: Reckoning With the Public Library by Amanda Oliver
The Little Free Library Book by Margret Aldrich
Penguin the Magpie by Cameron Bloom
Janette Oke: A Heart for the Prairie by Laurel Oke Logan
Look Who’s Laughing: Rib-Tickling Stories of Fun, Faith, Family and Friendship by Ann Spangler
Laughter is the Spice of Life by Beth Ann Patton
Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar
Zoo Nebraska by Carson Vaughn
Miracles From Heaven by Christy Wilson Beam
Man Made Wonders published by Dorling Kindersley
Vertical Gardens by Leigh Clapp and Hattie Klotz
JUVENILE
The Night Gardener by Terry Fan and Eric Fan
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Little Night Cat by Sonja Danowski
The Ostrich and Other Lost Things by Beth Hautala
The Indispensible Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
The Chicken Doesn’t Skate by Gordon Korman
DVDs
Serengeti
Brave
Islands of Wonder

December 4-17, 2022: Jocelyn G. (Interim Library director through December 8th)

Interests: Hiking, Nature and Reading…

Recommended Titles:

NON-FICTION
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (really anything by Bill Bryson, I’ve read most of them)
Into the Woods or Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
The Wolves of Yellowstone by Michael K. Phillips or Death in Yellowstone by Lee H. Whittlesey (or anything about Yellowstone Nationa Park, where I love to visit and hike, before the TV show was a thing)
The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack by Rick McIntyre
Night of the Grizzlies by Jack Olsen
It Happened in Yellowstone: Remarkable Events That Shaped History by Erin H. Turner
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman or any of his audio books
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk by Ben Montgomery
Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie by Paul Johnsgard (or anything by him)
I Promise Not to Suffer by Gail Storey
No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs
K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs
The Push: A Climber’s Search for the Path by Tommy Caldwell (not in libraries’ collection)
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World’s Most Feared Mountain by Jennifer Jordan
Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold
The Brethren by Bob Woodward
Lazy B by Sandra Day O’Connor and H. Alan Day
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories by Laura Shapiro
Assassination Vacation by Kate Vowell
Any yoga books from the 613.7 non-fiction section
FICTION
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Searcher by Tana French (or anything by her, I’ve read them all)
The Carnegies’ Maid by Marie Benedict (or The Mystery of Mrs. Christie)
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (read most of her books too other than the Greek historical fiction, so any of them)
The Nighingale or Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Night Film by Marisha Pessl (or Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (anything by her, I’ve read almost all of them)
1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (YA)

December 18-31, 2022: Ryan W. (New Lincoln City Librairies director starting December 8th)

Interests: not yet provided…

Recommended Titles:

ADULT FICTION
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Andersonville by MacKinley Kantor
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Pet Semetary by Stephen King
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
The Stories of Anton Chekov by Anton Chekov
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Watchers by Dean Koontz
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy by Wilson Rawls
ADULT NON-FICTION & BIOGRAPHIES
Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival by Jeremy Dronfield
The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Lincoln at Cooper Union by Harold Holzer
Poems of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Lauren Hillenbrand
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
YOUTH MATERIALS
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Vining
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Rascal by Sterling North
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak