Staff Picks: November

Jess’s Pick

Rome, 1953: Hal, an itinerant journalist

flailing in the post-war darkness, has

come to the Eternal City to lose himself

and to seek absolution for the thing that

haunts him.

ADAMSTOWN Children's The library book / by Tom Chapin and Michael Mark ; illustrated by Chuck Groenink Chapin, Tom, 1945- author. Book | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 2017 | First edition. Available at ADAMSTOWN Children's Area (E CHAPIN) plus 9 more Request itArea E CHAPIN AVAILABLE

 

Carolyn’s Pick

There are no monsters anymore, or so

the children in the city of Lucille are

taught.  Jam and her best friend, Redemption,

have grown up with this lesson all their life.

But when Jam meets Pet, a creature who

emerges from one of her mother’s paintings ,

she must reconsider what she’s been told.

ADAMSTOWN Children's The library book / by Tom Chapin and Michael Mark ; illustrated by Chuck Groenink Chapin, Tom, 1945- author. Book | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 2017 | First edition. Available at ADAMSTOWN Children's Area (E CHAPIN) plus 9 more Request itArea E CHAPIN AVAILABLE

Martha’s Pick

Mike Rowe’s The Way I Heard It collects

thirty-five fascinating stories “for the

curious mind with a short attention span.”

Five-minute mysteries about people you

know, filled with facts that you didn’t.

ADAMSTOWN Children's The library book / by Tom Chapin and Michael Mark ; illustrated by Chuck Groenink Chapin, Tom, 1945- author. Book | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 2017 | First edition. Available at ADAMSTOWN Children's Area (E CHAPIN) plus 9 more Request itArea E CHAPIN AVAILABLE

 

Sharon’s Pick

Everyone knows the story of Abraham

Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, but few are

aware of the original conspiracy to kill him

four years earlier in 1861, literally on his

way to Washington, DC, for his first

inauguration.

ADAMSTOWN Children's The library book / by Tom Chapin and Michael Mark ; illustrated by Chuck Groenink Chapin, Tom, 1945- author. Book | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 2017 | First edition. Available at ADAMSTOWN Children's Area (E CHAPIN) plus 9 more Request itArea E CHAPIN AVAILABLE