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This week’s staff pick is The Alienist by Caleb Carr.  Mystery, murder, mayhem, grit… If you like shows like Gotham, give this a go.  It has a sequel as well, The Angel of Darkness.

“The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or “alienist.” On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan’s infamous brothels.

The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler’s intellect and Moore’s knowledge of New York’s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology– amassing a psychological profile of the man they’re looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before, and will kill again before the hunt is over.

Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian’s exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society’s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.”–Taken from Goodreads.com

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The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon is this week’s Staff Pick. A story of suspense and secrets in a small town with… ghosts?

West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that suddenly proves perilous when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished without a trace. Searching for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea’s diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother’s bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked deeper into the mystery of Sara’s fate, she discovers that she’s not the only person who’s desperately looking for someone that they’ve lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.“–Taken from Goodreads.com


The Winter People: A Novel

Jennifer McMahon

Published: Feb 11, 2014 by Doubleday
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We also have the audiobook.

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Have you come in to see our newest book display: “It’s All Relative : Authors From the Same Family”? If not, you should and take one of our new “We’re Related” staff pick bookmarks while you’re at it.  Stephen King, Faye Kellerman, and more are on this list.  You’ll be surprised by who’s related!

We’ve gotten in a lot of great new titles throughout the library and tons of great new DVDs! If you missed some of your favorite show last season, we may have it, making it easy to catch up way before you can catch up on Netflix.

You can search our catalog anytime, via this link or our homepage!

 

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This week’s Staff Pick is Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.  This children’s/YA read is great for all ages and shows how you can make your own destiny even when you don’t mean to.  Funny and charming, you won’t want to put this down.

Hayao Miyazaki even made an anime version of the book, which we also have at the library.  The movie does differ from the book on several points, so it may be worth checking them both out.

“Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl’s castle. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there’s far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye.”–Taken from Goodreads.com

Find it and it’s movie version in the library!


Howl's Moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones

Published: Apr 15, 2008 by Greenwillow
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It’s safe to say that almost everyone has heard about Neil Gaiman.  He’s written comic books, books, movie scripts, the occasional TV script… and he seems, lately, to be everywhere.  He writes for all levels of readers, and he is quite prolific.  Three of his works are on our Staff Pick Bookmarks so far (Neverwhere, Stardust, and American Gods), and he is a widely respected and wildly popular fantasy author.

So why bring up a man who really doesn’t need any publicity to be a success?  Because he gave a fantastic speech at The Reading Agency‘s annual lecture about how important reading and imagination are. He also discusses how important libraries are, so of course we’re predisposed to like it.  Aside from this however, the speech is about the importance of literacy, imagination, and reading anything and everything which we fully support.  There have been studies that show that reading fiction is good for us, especially children, improving empathy and socializing skills.

If you want to know more about Neil Gaiman, he is all over the internet, and a prodigious Twitter user. You can also check out his pages on Facebook and Goodreads.com.

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