SLC Library Staff Recommendations 2010

Suburban Library Cooperative - Library Staff Recommendations 2010
HOME Next Page Previous Page Fiction Non-Fiction Children Audio-Visual 2008 List 2005 List 2004 List 2002 List	FICTION The Sugar Queen / Sarah Addison Allen BCD, EB, FIC, LT This is a story of growing up, second chances and having the courage to believe in the magic of your own life. (Kathy from ROG) Sweeping Up Glass / Carolyn Wall LT As if Olivia’s hard Kentucky life raising her grandson, trying to care for her unstable mother and running their small grocery store isn’t stressful enough, her life becomes increasingly complicated as she slowly unravels a horrific town secret buried for over thirty years. (Marilynn form MPL) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie / Alan Bradley BCD, EB, FIC, LT This mystery, set just after World War II, introduces eleven year old Flavia de Luca as the cheeky sleuth of this first in the series. (Kathy from ROG) Flavia is a very engaging, poisonously precocious 11-year-old in 1950 Britain. The author introduces her in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. The sequel is The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag. An upcoming title is A Red Herring without Mustard. These are the best in audio form with the remarkable Jayne Entwistle as the reader. Ms. Entwistle gives true voice to Flavia and I am completely charmed. (Circulation clerk at MTC) Tales of H.P. Lovecraft / H.P. Lovecraft FIC This is a collected works of H.P. Lovecraft, a writer in the same vein as Poe. His stories have influenced writers to this very day. (Blake from CHE) BCD = Book on CD, BLU = Blu-ray Disc, CD = Compact Disc, DVD = Digital Video Disc, EB = eBook, FIC = Fiction, LT = Large Type, MeLCat = MeLCat material, NONFIC = Non-Fiction, PL = Playaway, PS3 = Playstation 3 Game		FICTION Thunder Horse / Peter Bowen EB, FIC One of several books set in Montana featuring Gabriel Du Pre, a part-time cattle inspector and murder mystery sleuth. Unique and fascinating characters will keep readers up late just to see what happens next. (John from CHE) Village of the Ghost Bears: A Novel / Stan Jones FIC State Trooper Nathan Active, a Native American from Chuckchi, Alaska but adopted into the white world of Anchorage, is on the trail of polar bear poachers in Cape Goodwin. A plane crash in the Brooks Range, a body discovered on his camping trip and a cast of native locals make up this exciting story. Mixing Inupiq language, local mythology, Inuit culture and real life adventure, the reader is drawn into the rugged wilderness of Alaska. Journalist and bush pilot Stan Jones is the author of Frozen Sun, Shaman Pass and White Sky, Black Ice in this series. (Cindy from SCS) War for the Oaks / Emma Bull FIC What do 80’s rock ‘n roll and the fae have in common? Eddie McCandry, much to her dismay. When a bad breakup and a late night stroll down Nicollet Mall results in a splitting headache and a face-to-face chat with a gorgeous creature formed purely of water, Eddie’s pretty sure her life can’t get much worse. Oh boy, was she ever wrong! With an overenthusiastic best friend, and an annoyingly charming phouka along for the ride, it’s an unsettling rollercoaster of good times and bad, wild, passionate music, and truths hidden behind truths—all with the fate of Minneapolis at stake. The band seemed like such a good idea at the time. (Jennie from CHE)

FICTION

The Sugar Queen / Sarah Addison Allen
BCD, EB, FIC, LT
This is a story of growing up, second chances and having the courage to believe in the magic of your own life.
(Kathy from ROG)

Sweeping Up Glass / Carolyn Wall
LT
As if Olivia’s hard Kentucky life raising her grandson, trying to care for her unstable mother and running their small grocery store isn’t stressful enough, her life becomes increasingly complicated as she slowly unravels a horrific town secret buried for over thirty years.
(Marilynn form MPL)

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie / Alan Bradley
BCD, EB, FIC, LT
This mystery, set just after World War II, introduces eleven year old Flavia de Luca as the cheeky sleuth of this first in the series.
(Kathy from ROG)

Flavia is a very engaging, poisonously precocious 11-year-old in 1950 Britain. The author introduces her in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. The sequel is The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag. An upcoming title is A Red Herring without Mustard. These are the best in audio form with the remarkable Jayne Entwistle as the reader. Ms. Entwistle gives true voice to Flavia and I am completely charmed.
(Circulation clerk at MTC)

Tales of H.P. Lovecraft / H.P. Lovecraft
FIC
This is a collected works of H.P. Lovecraft, a writer in the same vein as Poe. His stories have influenced writers to this very day.
(Blake from CHE)

BCD = Book on CD, BLU = Blu-ray Disc, CD = Compact Disc, DVD = Digital Video Disc, EB = eBook, FIC = Fiction, LT = Large Type, MeLCat = MeLCat material, NONFIC = Non-Fiction, PL = Playaway, PS3 = Playstation 3 Game

FICTION

Thunder Horse / Peter Bowen
EB, FIC
One of several books set in Montana featuring Gabriel Du Pre, a part-time cattle inspector and murder mystery sleuth. Unique and fascinating characters will keep readers up late just to see what happens next.
(John from CHE)

Village of the Ghost Bears: A Novel / Stan Jones
FIC
State Trooper Nathan Active, a Native American from Chuckchi, Alaska but adopted into the white world of Anchorage, is on the trail of polar bear poachers in Cape Goodwin. A plane crash in the Brooks Range, a body discovered on his camping trip and a cast of native locals make up this exciting story. Mixing Inupiq language, local mythology, Inuit culture and real life adventure, the reader is drawn into the rugged wilderness of Alaska. Journalist and bush pilot Stan Jones is the author of Frozen Sun, Shaman Pass and White Sky, Black Ice in this series.
(Cindy from SCS)

War for the Oaks / Emma Bull
FIC
What do 80’s rock ‘n roll and the fae have in common? Eddie McCandry, much to her dismay. When a bad breakup and a late night stroll down Nicollet Mall results in a splitting headache and a face-to-face chat with a gorgeous creature formed purely of water, Eddie’s pretty sure her life can’t get much worse. Oh boy, was she ever wrong! With an overenthusiastic best friend, and an annoyingly charming phouka along for the ride, it’s an unsettling rollercoaster of good times and bad, wild, passionate music, and truths hidden behind truths—all with the fate of Minneapolis at stake. The band seemed like such a good idea at the time.
(Jennie from CHE)