Books Librarians Will Be Giving This Year
December 15, 2015
Staff Selections for Readers of Every Age
Books make great Christmas gifts and who better to recommend books to buy than Lackawanna County librarians. We asked staff members from all ten libraries in the System to tell us what books they will be giving this year and we’re happy to share their selections with you.
When you’re in the market for gift books, look no further than Library Express on the upper level at Steamtown Mall. Library Express is not only a library, it’s a bookstore, too – Scranton’s only bookstore, in fact.
So start your shopping by checking out the books Lackawanna County librarians will be giving this year. There’s something here for every reader on your list.
Adult Literature – Fiction & Non-Fiction
50 Years, 50 Moments, Jerry Rice
A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin
A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler
A Window Opens, Elisabeth Egan
All the Stars in the Heavens, Adriana Trigiani
Before I Go, Colleen Oakley
Between The World And Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Christmas Bells, Jennifer Chiavarini
Custer’s Trials, C. J. Stiles
Did You Ever Have a Family? , Bill Clegg
Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson
Girls Waits With Gun, Amy Stewart
Golden Age, Jane Smiley
H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
Hold Still, Sally Mann
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography, Richard Hell
In Death Series, J.D. Robb
Inside the O’Briens , Lisa Genova
Let’s Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain, Alan Light
Letters to Vera, Valdimir Nabokov
M Train, Patti Smith
Miraculous Images of Our Lady, Joan Carroll Cruz
My Kitchen Year, Ruth Reichl
Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
One-Skein Wonders® for Babies: 101 Knitting Projects for Infants & Toddlers, Judith Durant
Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio, Jessica Abel
Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard
Rising Strong, Brene Brown
Rogue Lawyer, John Grisham
Simply Nigella, Nigella Lawson
Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night, Barbara Taylor
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
The Aeronaut’s Windlass, Jim Butcher
The Beatuiful Daughters, Nicole Baart
The Boston Girl, Anita Diament
The Conquering Tide, Ian W. Toll
The Gilded Hour, Sara Donati
The Hands-On Home: A Seasonal Guide to Cooking, Preserving & Natural Homekeeping, Erica Strauss
The Sleeper, Christopher Dickey
The Sound of Glass, Karen White
The Turner House , Angela Flournoy
The Wright Brothers, David McCullough
Thunder and Lightning, Lauren Redniss
War of the Foxes, Richard Siken
Year of Yes, Shonda Rimes
Young Adult Literature
An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Thair
Bone Gap, Laura Ruby
Brown Girl Dreaming, Jaqueline Woodson
Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell
Finding Audrey, Sophie Kinsella
Ink and Bone, Rachel Caine
The Chess Queen Enigma, Colleen Gleason
The Clockwork Scarab, Colleen Gleason
The Spiritglass Charade, Colleen Gleason
Books For Children
Atlas of Adventures,Rachel Williams
Dinoblock, Christopher Franceschelli (for babies)
Everyone Loves Bacon, Kelly DiPucchio
I Used to Be Afraid, Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Interstellar Cinderella, Deborah Underwood
Little Shop of Monsters, R. L. Stine
Naughty Mabel, Nathan Lane
Nooks and Crannies, Jessica Lawson
Shadows of Sherwood,Kekla Magoon
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary, Pablo Hidalgo
The Desperate Dog Writes Again, Eileen Christelow
The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate
The Tale Of Despereaux: Being The Story Of A Mouse, A Princess, Some Soup, And A Spool Of Thread, Kate DiCamillo
The Twelve Days of Christmas in Pennsylvania,Martha Levine
For the Whole Family
The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood, Kathryn Aalto
