Our wonderful Library Board is sharing their top favorite books. You’ll find classics, favorites you might have read, and a few to add to your TBR (to be read) list. Through December, you’ll find a full display in the Library’s entryway with more of their favorite books!
Deemed unrepentant by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he lives in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold.
During one torturous week, Hank Devereaux, head of the English department at the state university, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, finds his secretary is a better writer than he is, suspects his wife is having an affair, threatens wildfowl, and confronts his father.
Documents the notorious abduction and murder of I.R.A. Troubles victim Jean McConville in 1972 Belfast, exploring how the case reflected the brutal conflicts of Northern Ireland and their ongoing repercussions.
A scientist from Australia and a Nigerian-American art historian become connected by their shared interest in a 19th-century racehorse, one studying its remains, the other uncovering the history of the Black horsemen who were critical to its success.
An orphaned girl is sent to live with her bitter, old grandfather in the Swiss Alps, where the two grow to love each other.
This classic tale is brought to life with beautiful illustrations.
Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama’s home to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life’s inevitable suffering?
After seventeen-year-old Samuel “Sooley” Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America.
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a 19th-century Mississippi River town as he plays hooky on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirate’s treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.
Companies are trying to keep a secret about their hiring process… The career search game has changed. An expert recruiter reveals the science behind finding a new career in today’s market with a step-by-step guide.
Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture, a retired professor who has a crippling bone disease retreats to his ancestral home to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who made her own journey through the West nearly a hundred years before.
The son of an Appalachian teenager uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses in the new novel from the best-selling author of Unsheltered.
Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer, likes to spend her summers carefree. But one summer, when a black man is accused of raping a white woman, Scout’s carefree days come to an end. In the county courtroom, she will join her father in a desperate battle against ignorance and prejudice.
Don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives into a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
A fable about undauntingly following one’s dreams, listening to one’s heart, and reading life’s omens features a dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, this story is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.
Forget the old concept of retirement-there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, or earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, this book is the blueprint.
One night a famous actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time–from the actor’s early days as a film star to twenty years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains–this elegiac novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people.
Gladwell reveals that what we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated than assumed. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, he shows how the difference between good decision-making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can process quickly, but on the few particular details on which we focus.
Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching…
When Gavin Guile– the most powerful man in the world known to all as the Prism–discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he’s willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.
The murder of a world-famous physicist raises fear that the Illuminati are operating again after centuries of silence, and religion professor Robert Langdon is called in to assist with the case.
When the starving French masses rise to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims of their frenzied anger.
Imagine if someone took the same photographic techniques, principles, and tools used by high-end and professional photographers, but applied them to shooting with an iPhone. Imagine the type of images you’d be able to create using those same ideas.
Presents a narrative history of the American National Park System, examining the events and political battles that led to the establishment of each park while profiling each for its unique attributes.
Packed with recommendations of the world’s best places to visit, on and off the beaten path. This book is a joyous, passionate gift for travelers, an around-the-world, continent-by-continent listing of beaches, museums, monuments, islands, inns, restaurants, mountains, and more.
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by politicians and business interests to ensure the city’s growth.
The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened. All the President’s Men is a riveting detective story, capturing the exhilarating rush of the biggest presidential scandal in US history as it unfolded in real-time.
This book is on order and will be in the catalog soon!
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This blog post was created by librarians and board members from Park City Library with the help of information found in NoveList – a database that is free with your library card. NoveList is a comprehensive reading recommendation resource.