Staff Picks
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Article in Adult Fiction and Adult Nonfiction and Personal Picks categories.
See what staff are reading (and recommending!) and see the young adult librarians' selections.
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Bob Bjoring (Central)
- How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet.
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
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Tim Carrier (Central)
- The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson.
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Anne Chiles (Central)
- And So It Goes by Charles J. Shields.
- Molotov's Magic Lantern by Rachel Polonsky.
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Nancy Cook (Central)
- Vanished by Sheela Chari.
- Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick.
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Meredith Dickens (Gordon)
- Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs by Ken Jennings.
- Embassytown by China Mieville.
- Also see my recommendations on the Gordon Avenue Library staff picks page
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Krista Farrell (Central)
- King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village by Peggielene Bartels.
- Poster: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses by Claire Dederer.
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Noelle Funk (Scottsville)
- The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier.
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt.
- There But for the by Ali Smith.
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Willow Gale (Bookmobile)
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
- Time to Be in Earnest by P. D. James.
- The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart.
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Karen Gillaspie (Central)
- A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison.
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Gary Grant (Albemarle Trustee)
- The Orchard: A Memoir by Adele Crockett Robertson.
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John Halliday (Central)
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner.
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
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Holly Huffman (Greene)
- Mandela's Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage by Richard Stengel.
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.
- Also see my recommendations on the Adult Mystery Series Authors page
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Lindsay Ideson (Northside)
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- This Life is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone by Melissa Coleman.
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen J. Greenblatt.
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Rhonda Johnson (Crozet)
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Kathy Judge (Central)
- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey.
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Jackie Lichtman (Central)
- Selected Stories by Alice Munro.
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Russ Lyttleton (Central)
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough.
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Joyce MacDonald (Central)
- Let's Take the Long Way Home: a Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell.
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Gail Ott (Louisa)
- Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith.
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain.
- The Reservoir by John Milliken Thompson.
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Willoughby Parks (Central)
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua.
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
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Heather Pehnec (Central)
- The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis by Kevin Brockmeier.
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David Plunkett (Central)
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
- The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer.
- The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek.
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Stella Pool (Central)
- World Without End by Ken Follett.
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Ginny Reese (Greene)
- Dragonbreath: Curse of the Were-Wiener by Ursula Vernon.
- Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos.
- The False Friend by Myula Goldberg.
- No Such Thing As Dragons by Philip Reeve.
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Jacqueline Rice (Central)
- Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt.
- Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
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Wendy Saz (Crozet)
- Emily Alone by Stewart O'Nan.
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson.
- Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden.
- The Odds by Stewart O'Nan.
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Linda Smoke (Central)
- The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman.
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Phoebe Anne Tucker (Nelson)
- The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
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Andrea Williams (Central)
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
