Staff Picks
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher
Adult fiction
Picked by Paige
The house doesn't have any doors between rooms, there are no secrets in this house and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don't force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren't evil sorcerers. When her mother unexpectedly moves them into the manor home of a wealthy older Squire and his kind but keen-eyed sister, Hester, Cordelia knows this welcoming pair are to be her mother's next victims. But Cordelia feels at home for the very first time among these people, and as her mother's plans darken, she must decide how to face the woman who raised her to save the people who have become like family.
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Terrible Maps by Michael Howe
Adult non-fiction 912.0207 HOW
Picked by Braden
Ever wondered about the average jean colour across the United States? Or what 'pedestrians' look like in Denmark? What unites Brokenwind, Upton Snodsbury and Crackpot? And have you ever tried to take a train in Antarctica? Well Terrible Maps is the book for you! Put together by the creator behind the tremendously popular social media feed, this is the ultimate humour book for the budding geographer in your life. From countries that eat their national animals to nations that have declared war on birds (and lost), Terrible Maps celebrates pointless cartography in all its glory. Don't leave home without it!
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Slow Dance by Rainbow Powell
Adult fiction
Picked by Lis
Everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together, everybody but Shiloh and Cary. Slow Dance follows these star-crossed best friends from their inseparable teen years on the wrong side of the tracks to their far-flung adulthoods , through her marriage and motherhood and his time in the Navy, as they try to work out what they're actually supposed to be to each other.
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Daughters of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Adult fiction
Picked by Tulip
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters, the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known. Soon she will find herself caught up in an otherworldly war.
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The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness
Adult fiction
Picked by Porsche
Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and answers a message from a great aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It's time you came home, Diana. On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family's dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power, if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it.
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