The library staff LOVES to read, listen, and watch. Here are some of the staff's favorites from 2020. Some titles are new, some are older, but all come highly recommended! If you are looking for more reading ideas, make sure you sign up for NextReads Newsletters!
Amanda - Children's Desk
Dig by A. S. King (audiobook)
A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due
Consent (for kids!) by Rachel Brian
Facts vs Opinions vs Robots by Michael Rex
Amy - 2nd Floor Information Desk
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Wilderness: The Gateway to the Soul by Scott Stillman
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper (audiobook)
Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River by John Hildebrand
Last Tango in Halifax (TV Show)
Bailey - Circulation Desk
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Coyotes of Carthage by Steven Wright
Us (DVD)
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
The Craft Beer Cookbook:100 artisanal recipes for cooking with beer by Jacquelyn Dodd
Cynthia - 2nd Floor Information Desk
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Diane - Children's Desk
Hair Love by Matthew Cherry
The Starry Giraffe by Andy Bergmann
Mouse and Hippo by Mike Twohy
A Piglet Named Mercy by Kate DiCamillo
Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep: A Yarn About Wool by Teri Sloat
Jim - Library Director
The Hardhat Riot : Nixon, New York City, and the dawn of the white working-class revolution by David Paul Kuhn
The Jakarta method : Washington's anticommunist crusade and the mass murder program that shaped our world by Vincent Bevins
These truths : a history of the United States by Jill Lepore
Country Music by Ken Burns (TV Show) and accompanying book
Ring Shout or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times by P. Djeli Clark
Kate - 2nd Floor Information Desk
Perfectly Golden: adaptable recipes for sweet and simple treats by Angela Garbacz
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Cafe by the Sea by Jenny Colgan (audiobook)
Kristyn - Circulation Desk
The Hate U Give (DVD)
The Good Place (TV Show)
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (audiobook)
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
Sarah - Technical Services
The Witches are Coming by Lindy West (audiobook)
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (audiobook)
Untamed by Glennon Doyle (audiobook)
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (audiobook)
The Shadows by Alex North (audiobook)
Sarah - Administrative Assistant
How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The German War by Nicholas Stargardt
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Killer on the Road by Ginger Strand