staff picks

Looking for something new? Your library staff has some advice.

Whether you like fiction or nonfiction, no matter what format appeals to you (print, ebook or audio), your library has something for you.

Fiction

An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones

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One of the questions librarians hear a lot is, “What should I read next?” We all read book reviews but know that our best advice happens when we actually have read the book from cover to cover. I put the call out and the Library Staff responded with the following recommendations from our Overdrive Collection.

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How do you find your next book to read or movie to watch?  You probably get suggestions from friends and family, or some of you may belong to social communities such as Goodreads. Perhaps you have been enticed to try something from Amazon's "recommended for you" list or Netflix's "because you watched..." category.  Well, now's your chance to get recommendations from the Bentley Library staff!

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One of the benefits of working in a library is being surrounded by a staggering number of books and films, and while this does not mean that library staff get to spend our workdays reading and watching movies, most of us are avid consumers of all types of media in our personal lives.  Many of us participate in book clubs, our office conversations often revolve around what we're reading and watching, and we will enthusiastically make book and movie recommendations to anyone who asks. It's in this spirit that we have been adding staff picks boards to ...