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The Guest List

April 4, 2022 by Andrea Leave a Comment

The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Format: Book
Who’s it for: Adults

On a rocky remote island off the coast of Ireland, guest gather at the most talked about wedding of the year. A top magazine editor and a TV heartthrob are going to be married, and everyone wants to attend the high profile and glamourous wedding. As the guests arrive from the mainland so do the secrets and the scandals. The perfect couple may not be as perfect as they appear and one by one the guests begin to reveal their troubling pasts with the bride and groom to be.

On a stormy night, as the guests toast with champagne, the power goes out and the guests are left in the dark. In the distance, a scream can be heard and a body is discovered. Suddenly, every guest has become a suspect, and it’s up to the reader to fit the clues together to find out who the killer is and why?

Reminiscent of an Agatha Christie novel, The Guest List is a true Whodunnit. Clues are given, secrets disclosed and the reader begins guessing who the killer is and what was the motive. The Guest List is a gripping and fun read with interesting characters against a dramatic, almost sinister, island backdrop. The Guest List is an irresistible and binge worthy suspense, just waiting to be checked out!  Find The Guest List in the catalog.

Filed Under: Recommended for Adults Tagged With: Fiction, Mystery

The Silent Patient

March 21, 2022 by Andrea Leave a Comment

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Format: Book
Whose it for: Adults

Alicia and Gabriel Berenson lives seem perfect. She is a famous painter and he a top photographer. They are wealthy, beautiful and very much in love, yet one evening, Alicia kills Gabriel and then becomes selectively mute. The case becomes an instant sensation with everyone following it in the tabloids and wondering why she killed her husband and if she will ever speak again. Alicia is tried and convicted of murder and sent to a secure mental facility where she eventually meets Theo Faber. Theo is a psychotherapist who takes Alicia as a patient and becomes obsessed with getting her to speak and finding answers to the crime. Theo has clues to Alicia’s thoughts through her art work and uses it to unlock the mystery of that fateful night.

The Silent Patient is a dark and gripping thriller that hooks the reader and doesn’t let go until the remarkable ending. Find The Silent Patient in the catalog.

Filed Under: Recommended for Adults Tagged With: Mystery, Psychological Thriller

The Last Thing He Told Me

March 9, 2022 by Andrea Leave a Comment

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Format: Book
Whose it for: Adults

Hold on to your hat…this is a quick binge reading book if ever there was one! The Last Thing He Told Me begins with Hannah Hall waiting for her husband, Owen, to return from work. As she’s making dinner she hears a knock at her door and a young girl from the school where Owen teaches hands her a note from Owen. The note says “PROTECT HER”. Hannah immediately knows that the ‘her’ she needs to protect is Owen’s teenage daughter Bailey, her step daughter.  Hannah and Bailey have always had a difficult relationship and Bailey barely acknowledges Hannah, but Hannah loves Bailey and loves Owen that she must figure this out and try to protect her family. Hannah doesn’t know where her husband is, if he will ever return or why Bailey needs protecting. As Hannah asks questions and traces Owen’s past, she begins to discover that Owen was not the man she thought she knew. She also begins to believe that she may never see her husband again, and the future they dreamed about may never happen. Hannah must build a new life for her and for Bailey and at all costs, protect Bailey as Owen asked.

The Last Thing He Told Me is a thrilling fast paced mystery about intricate lies, fake identities and complex family relationships. Beware, The Last Thing He Told Me grabs you from the first page and is hard to put down so, prepare to devour it in one or two sittings!

Find The Last Thing He Told Me in the catalog.

Filed Under: Recommended for Adults Tagged With: Fiction, Mystery

The Snowy Day

February 23, 2022 by Andrea Leave a Comment

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Format: Picture Book
Whose it’s for: Children

Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal and The Library of Congress’s Books that Shaped America award.

A young boy named Peter awakens to find that while he was sleeping, snow has piled up outside his window. Peter puts on his red snowsuit and heads outside for a winter adventure. Peter makes snow angels, snow balls, and marvelous tracks in the snow. All the things a child would do when their city is blanketed in snow. Young children will relate to Peter and his wintery adventures, where snowbanks seem like like mountains waiting to be climbed, and snow so deep it’s hard for little legs to walk through.  Like Peter’s desire to play with older children, young listeners are reminded that sometimes you are just too small and you’ll have to wait until you get bigger.

While reading The Snowy Day to a child, it’s hard not to reminisce about your own fun childhood memories of playing in the snow. Peter’s adventures are familiar, realistic and oh so charming! Children and adults will appreciate Ezra Jack Keats simple story and beautiful illustrations. Share this story with a child, talk about your own snowy memories and ask them about theirs. Then, on the next snowy day, head outside and have an adventure, just like our beloved protagonist Peter.

In 2020, The New York Public Library announced that The Snowy Day was the most checked out book in the 125 year history of the Library!

In 2017 the U.S. Postal Service issued a collection of Forever stamps featuring four images from The Snowy Day.

 

Find The Snowy Day in the catalog.

Filed Under: Recommended for Kids Tagged With: African American, Award Winner, Bedtime, Caldecott Honor, Picture Book, play, Seasons, snow, snowy, Weather

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