September 2024 staff picks

Amee: Triptych by Karin Slaughter

If you have watched the TV series Will Trent, it is based on Karin Slaughter’s series of the same name. Will Trent, a detective with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who struggles with dyslexia, investigates several murders with connections that match a murder by a recently released prisoner.

Jennifer: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.’ (Barnes and Noble)

Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives, but when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books, and they find themselves transported to a world of wonder.

Megan: The Lumpy, Bumpy Pumpkin by Sydney Hanson

No one wants the lumpy, bumpy pumpkin and it gets left behind in the pumpkin patch. It sits there all alone the rest of fall and winter. The pumpkin is sad. Will it find a friend? Read and find out!

Dawn: Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena.

Who took Avery Wooler? Nothing will prepare you for the truth! I could not put this book down.

Karen: Call the Midwives (television series, available on DVD)

Follows the lives of midwives and nuns who deliver and care for babies in a small English town.