Here are some of the books and movies library staff enjoyed the most in 2024!
Amanda B, Adult Services:
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen
There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who Profits and Who Pays the Price by Jessie Singer
Robin B, Circulation Services:
Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series by Amanda Flower
As Old As Time by Liz Braswell
Buffalo Fluffalo by Bess Kalb
The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Delicious Dinners: 60 No-Stress, Limited-Mess, Sure-to-Impress Meals by Sophia Kaur
Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged me to Accept His True Nature and Rediscover My Own by Margaret Winslow
Sarah B, Technical Services:
Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp
Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Bouley
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Women (audiobook) by Kristin Hannah
Amy H, Adult Services
Braving the Thin Places: Celtic wisdom to create a space for grace by Julianne Stanz
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
Pieces of April (DVD or kanopy)
Sorry I'm late, I didn't want to come: one introvert's year of saying yes (audiobook on Overdrive/libby and hoopla) by Jessica Pan
Anna H, Children’s Services:
All At Once Upon a Time by Mara Rockliff
A Daughter of Fair Verona by Christina Dodd
Jen H, Shelver:
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Kate H, Library Substitute:
Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Wendy H, Library Substitute:
The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale by Carmen Agra Deedy
A Cyclist's Guide to Crime & Croissants by Ann Claire
Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued by Peter Sis
Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out by Shannon Reed
Cindy K, Circulation Services:
The Brokenwood Mysteries series DVDs
Ferris by Kate DiCamillo
Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy
The mythmakers: the remarkable fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien by John Hendrix
Patricia M, Library Substitute:
James by Percival Everett
The White Countess (DVD)
Sarah M, Administrative Assistant:
The Cold Vanish by Jon Billman
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War by S. C. Gwynne
Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth
Mary O, Children’s Services:
Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1) by Becky Chambers
My Salty Mary (Mary, #3) by Cynthia Hand
To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose
Jim R, Library Director:
After 1177 B. C.: the survival of civilizations by Eric H. Cline
American anarchy: the epic struggle between immigrant radicals and the US government at the dawn of the twentieth century by Michael Willrich
American visions: the united states, 1800-1860 by Edward L. Ayers
Anxiety: a philosophical guide by Samir Chopra
Conspiracy: why the rational believe the irrational by Michael Shermer
Cynthia S, Adult Services:
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (series)
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Kristyn S, Circulation Services:
Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol