What We Read in 2011: Staff Recommendations

Cecelia ~ Children’s Dept

Picture Books:

Where’s Walrus by Stephen A. Savage

Blackout by John Rocco

Chapter Books for Juvenile Readers:

Emerald Atlas by John Stephens

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt

Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

Young Adult:

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Sherri ~ Circulation

Fiction:

Night Road by Kristin Hannah

Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Nonfiction:

The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond

Morgan ~ Children’s Dept

Picture Books:

A Few Blocks by Cybéle Young

Hooray for Amanda and Her Alligator by Mo Willems

I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

Chapter Books for Juvenile Readers:

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznik

Young Adult :

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Where She Went by Gayle Foreman

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Adult Fiction:

Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Dee ~ Circulation

Fiction:

Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

Night Road by Kristin Hannah

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

A Turn in the Road by Debbie Macomber

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Yankee Doodle Dixie by Lisa Patton

Nonfiction:

Spoken From the Heart by Laura Bush

Chrissie ~ Circulation

Young Adult:

Switched by Amanda Hocking

Fiction:

The Alchemaster's Apprentice by Walter Moers

Ghost of a Chance by Simon R. Green 

Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez 
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde

Nonfiction:

Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas

Eric ~ Circulation  
Fiction:
The Ambition by Lee Stroebel
Deadline by Randy Alcorn
The Priest's Graveyard by Ted Dekker

Daniel ~ Young Adult
Young Adult Fiction:
Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi


Adult Fiction: 
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

What the staff is reading...

Me, Michelyn in Adult - reading Fire and Ice by Anne Stuart. The last one in her Ice series that I have not read. I'm enjoying it, but the romance is still not as believable as Bastien and Chloe's in Black Ice.

Kate in the Children's Dept - Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Lori in Teens - reading People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks for the Mt. Laurel Book Club

Katie, Director - reading Ice by Linda Howard. "It was a fairly enjoyable read, but it ended too quickly and it was a bit abrupt. The action and adventure in the novel was fast paced and overall a good way to pass an afternoon. Not her best work, but certainly not her worst."

Dee in Circulation is reading Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes