Staff Picks December 2025

Jennifer: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

A family lives alone on a remote island. The family are called to action when a battered woman washes ashore. She came here for answers, and now she’s stranded, wondering if she’ll ever get them, growing quickly entangled with this isolated, complicated family. A novel of breathtaking twists, beautiful landscapes disappearing due to climate change and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.

Amee: King Sorrow by Joe Hill

A group of friends summons a dragon to rid themselves of a problem. However, the pact ties each to the dragon with terrible consequences for years. At 800 pages, this fantasy-horror epic is the ultimate curl-up-on-the-couch winter read.

Megan: Peter’s Christmas Gifts by Beatrix Potter

Peter Rabbit and his family are all ready for Christmas. When the gifts they bought for their friends disappear they must figure out how to save Christmas.

Karen: 1923 Season 2 (DVD)

Continuing history of the Dalton Family from Yellowstone. A lot of action.