Sweets treats for you (from our heart to yours)

Here are some title recommendations from staff that have made their lives a little sweeter, and now, out of love, they share them with you. 

Click on the book pictures to link to the library catalog! 

Happy Valentines Day!

Lanna -- Athens Public Library

Broken for you - Stephanie Kallos -- best first time book

Miss Julia Speaks her Mind - Ann Ross -- series

The Shaman Laughs - James Doss -- series based on a Native American Shaman mystery

The Ladies of Covington send their Love - Joan Medlicott -- series based on three Ohio ladies

Persuader - Lee Child -- a Jack Reacher novel/series

Relic - Douglas Preston

Bad Faith - Aimee and David Thurlo -- a sister Agatha mystery

Betty -- The Plains Public Library

I enjoy a good mystery series and after living in Alaska I especially like the far north stories. My favorite heroine is Kate Shugak of the Dana Stabenow books. To begin her series start with A Cold Day for Murder. My laugh-out-loud favorite is Breakup.

For another far north writer try William Kent Kruger. His hero lives in Minnesota by the Boundary Waters. You can meet Cork O'Connor in Iron Lake.

Another favorite writer is C J Box who sets his series in the mountains of the west. Begin with Open Season and you may be hooked when you meet his character Joe Pickett. His stand alone book Blue Heaven was also a favorite.

If you need a break from the wilderness settings try David Rosenfelt for an unconventional lawyer who loves his golden retriever. Begin his series with Open and Shut.

If you liked Water for Elephants (which I did) you should pick up Modoc. Don't forget the tissues.

Heather -- Athens Public Library

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a book-lovers adventure.

Possession by A. S. Byatt is a mystery about the love of literature, and a little romance thrown in.

Dog Gone It is a Chet and Bernie mystery told from the dog's (Chet) point of view. Chet loves Bernie and thinks he's the greatest guy, best detective, and smartest guy in the whole world.

Kindred is an absolutely amazing book, a fantasy where a modern black woman keeps getting pulled back to a plantation before the civil war, with a strong relationship between the black wife and white husband.

Mary -- Athens Public Library

Books:
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Open Secrets, short stories by Alice Munro
The World of a Wayward Comic Book Artist, local author/artist Sandy Plunkett
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

anything by Sherman Alexie or Nick Hornby

Comics:
Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts), Gary Larson (Far Side), Jerry Scott (Zits), Harvey Pekar (American Splendor)

Great movies at the library:
Secret Life of Words
The Kids are All Right
The Thin Blue Line
My Architect
The Year My Voice Broke
Brideshead Revisited (older version)

Roxanne -- Coolville Public Library

My two favorite ones are: Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard and Open Season
by Linda Howard. Both are tried and true recommendations here in
Coolville for a pick me up: humor, intrigue, and romance!

Amy -- Athens Public Library

Here are two trilogies I really enjoy.

Nancy Farmer:
Sea of Trolls
Land of Silver Apples
Islands of the Blessed

Ken Oppel:
Airborn
Sky Breaker
Star Climber

I also recommend the classic five book series
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

and

the Joan Aiken series which begins with
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Mary -- Nelsonville Public Library

A Few of Mary's Personal Favorites

Adult Fiction: Persuasion by Jane Austen; PG Wodehouse, all Jeeves and Blandings books

Paranormal: not my usual, but Marta Acosta's Casa Dracula series is fun and so well-written

Mysteries: Ian Sansom's Mobile Library series; Jacqueline Winspeare's Maisie Dobbs series

Young Adult: The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater; just started The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - terrific so far -- DFTBA; almost anything by Joan Bauer; Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film About the Grapes of Wrath by Steven Goldman - this is one of the funniest books I ever read. I read it about once a year.

Junior:  Jeanne Birdsall's series about the Penderwick family; Charlotte's Web by EB White

Easy Readers: favorite new book -- 2012 Caldecott Honor winner Me... Jane by Patrick McDonnell (a picture book about Jane Goodall); One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey; Cynthia Rylant, the Henry and Mudge series and the Mr. Putter and Tabby series.

Non-fiction: anything by John Holt.

CD: anything by The Hotpoint String Band; The Feeling's Back by Chuck Mangione

Marilyn -- Athens Public Library

Cork Boat- John Pollack
Crossing to Safety- Wallace Stegner
anything by Christopher Buckley
My Year of Meats- Ruth Ozeki
Not Buying It- Judith Levine
...and Ladies of the Club- Helen Santmyer
everything by Alexander McCall Smith

Little Heathens- Mildred Kalish