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Staff Picks

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Teens

  • 2012 to 2013 Rosie Nominees Part 1
  • 2012 to 2013 Rosie Nominees Part 2
  • After the Games: Dystopian Fiction for Hunger Games Fans
  • Dragons!
  • Reads That Rock: Music Across Genres
  • Scary Stories Pt. 1 - There are Monsters and Then There are Monsters
  • Scary Stories Pt. 2 - All Kinds of Darkness
  • Teen Sports Books

Adults

  • 2013 Books to Movies
  • A Celebration of Ireland
  • A Geography of Mysteries
  • A Pirate Life For Me
  • Amazing Feats of Athleticism and Endurance
  • American Civil War
  • American Civil War: The Indiana Home Front
  • American Immigrants Stories: Some Came as Indentured Servants
  • Animal Companions
  • Avalanches, Hurricanes and Blizzards
  • Best Novels of the 20th Century
  • Brrrrr! Non Fiction About Cold Places
  • Changing the World One Step at a Time
  • Christmas Novels
  • Classic Horror Novels
  • Contemporary Short Stores
  • Erotic Fiction
  • Fiction From Across the Pond
  • Friendship: From the Offbeat to the Sublime
  • Graphic Novels 101
  • Graphic Novels for Grownups
  • Green Fiction
  • Growing Up Hard: Memoirs of Poverty During Childhood
  • Hard Hitting Military Science Fiction
  • Hardboiled Detective Fiction
  • I Never Saw That Coming
  • If You Like George R. R. Martin...
  • Imagining the Earth: Nature Poetry that Celebrates Our Planet
  • International Travel Tales
  • Islands: Life Surrounded by Water
  • Library Staff Recommended Books for 2012
  • Love oh Careless Love
  • Maker Books
  • Many Voices, One Story
  • Nature Writing
  • Not for the Faint of Heart
  • Poetry Anthologies: Great Poems to Savor
  • Post Apocalyptic Fiction
  • Sometimes It Is Better to Leave Family Secrets Alone
  • Steam Punk
  • Stories of a river, a home, a station and some cities
  • Tearjerkers
  • Urban Fiction

Children

  • A Field of Sports
  • A World of Fantasy
  • Adoption Books
  • Animals All Around
  • Books About Being Sick
  • Books about Books and Libraries
  • Books About Divorce
  • Bright Beginnings Booklist: Babies (0-23 months)
  • Bright Beginnings Booklist: Preschoolers (4-5 years)
  • Bright Beginnings Booklist: Toddlers (2-3 years)
  • Brothers and Sisters and New Babies
  • Dinosaur Stories
  • Dragon Chapter Books
  • End Of Life
  • Frontier and Pioneer Life
  • Gardening Books for Kids
  • Graphic Novels For Kids
  • Gross-out Reads!
  • Have An Adventure
  • Historical Stories
  • If You Liked Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  • If You Liked Harry Potter
  • It Is A Mystery
  • Laugh along Favorites
  • Not Too Scary Stories
  • Picture Book Mysteries
  • Predictable Books: Chain or Circular Story
  • Predictable Books: Cumulative Story
  • Predictable Books: Familiar Sequence
  • Predictable Books: Pattern Story
  • Predictable Books: Question and Answer
  • Predictable Books: Repetition of Phrase
  • Predictable Books: Rhyme
  • Predictable Books: Songbook
  • Princess Stories
  • Science Fiction
  • Starting School Stories
  • Too-Good-to-Miss Books: Fifth Grade
  • Too-Good-to-Miss Books: First Grade
  • Too-Good-to-Miss Books: Fourth Grade
  • Too-Good-to-Miss Books: Kindergarten
  • Too-Good-to-Miss Books: Second Grade
  • Too-Good-to-Miss Books: Sixth Grade
  • Too-Good-to-Miss Books: Third Grade

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