Staff Picks
Stay in touch with the personal favorites of the KDL Staff. Each title is handpicked.
Jo Bannister
Detective Brodie Farrell is enlisted to investigate a brutal attack on a young couple, all while engaged in a hunt across the globe in search of a cure for her son’s brain tumor. By the author of Closer Still and Flawed.
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Suzanne Collins
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through a televised survival competition pitting young people against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place.
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Sharon Creech
A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
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Andrea Cremer
Calla and Ren have been raised knowing it is their destiny to mate with one another and rule over their pack, but when a human boy arrives and vies for Calla’s heart, she is faced with a decision that could change her whole world.
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Tony DiTerlizzi
Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like her, in a story that features “augmented reality” pages, in which readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva Nine’s world.
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Ree Drummond
American blogger and food writer Ree Drummond relates the real life story of how she met and married her “Marlboro Man.” Her stories about her husband, family, and country living paint a warm and touching picture of life on an Oklahoma ranch.
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Tim Gunn
The author draws on examples from his own life, backstage experiences on “Project Runway,” and anecdotes from the fashion world to explain how hard work, creativity, and integrity can help lay the groundwork for success and happiness.
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Rachel Hawkins
After learning that she is capable of dangerous magic, Sophie Mercer goes to England with her father, friend Jenna, and Cal hoping to have her powers removed, but soon she learns that she is being hunted by the Eye—and haunted by Elodie.
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David Jeremiah
A New York Times best-selling author uncovers the Bible’s prophetic clues to the world’s shocking financial future in order to help readers understand and prepare for living in the New Global Economy.
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Stieg Larsson
Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.
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Stephen R. Lawhead
When Kit Livingstone learns that Britain’s “ley lines” are not legends but pathways to other worlds, he’s determined to find a map tattooed on a piece of skin in order to travel to the dangerous realms. But are the intricate codes more than they seem—can they really begin a quest to regain paradise?
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David Levithan
A modern love story told through a series of dictionary-style entries is a sequence of intimate windows into the large and small events that shape the course of a romantic relationship. By the co-author of the best-selling Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
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Mark Logue,Peter Conradi
Presents the life of the Australian speech therapist who helped the English king, George VI, overcome a lifelong speech disorder and become an eloquent leader of his people during the difficult days of World War II.
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Erin McKean
After her grandmother, Mimi, suffers a stroke, Dora finds herself running Mimi’s vintage clothing store, where she begins to fall for Mimi’s cute contractor, Conrad, and discovers a journal where Mimi has written down the stories of dresses in her shop.
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Stef Penney
When her teenage son disappears in the aftermath of a brutal murder, a determined mother sets out from her snow-covered nineteenth-century settlement to find him, an effort that is hampered by vigilante groups and the harrowing forces of nature.
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Matthew Quick
Although Amber Appleton lives in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who helps everyone, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
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Pam Munoz Ryan
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world. Includes author’s note about the poet.
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Edward C. Smith
Ed Smith shows you how to choose the right plants, select containers and tools, care for plants throughout the growing season, control pests without chemicals, and much more. He even includes plans for small-space container gardens that are perfect for urban and suburban gardeners.
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Keith Thomson
Hiding out in Switzerland to avoid criminal charges in America, Charlie and Drummond Clark experiment with treatments to retrieve Drummond’s memory before confronting a formidable CIA case officer to save kidnapped NSA operative Alice Rutherford. By the author of Once a Spy.
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Daisy Whitney
When Alex, a junior at an elite preparatory school, realizes that she may have been the victim of date rape, she confides in her roommates and sister who convince her to seek help from a secret society, the Mockingbirds.
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