Melissa's Staff Picks

I'm a librarian at Southeast Regional Library, and these are some of my favorite reads! Feel free to email me at melissa.schultz@wakegov.com if you enjoyed one of these books!
 

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1. Dune

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Author:
Herbert, Frank
Series:
Dune novels. Main series volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
Follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny. In the far future, the son of Duke Leto Atreides leads a struggle against the Emperor from the desert planet of Arrakis, where his family has lived in exile for many years at the Emperor's command.

2. Emma

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes.

3. Jane Eyre

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Author:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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The love story of Jane Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her employer, the arrogant, brooding Mr. Rochester, originally published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.

4. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Little Women series volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Description:
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

5. The murder of Roger Ackroyd: a Hercule Poirot mystery

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Author:
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
Series:
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"This is Agatha Christie's masterpiece, and if she never wrote another word, she'd have still gone down as the Queen." –LOUISE PENNY, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Ingenious and unexpected." –NEW YORK TIMES

The official edition of the beloved classic voted by the British Crime Writers' Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time," now featuring a new introduction by

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6. North and South

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Author:
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Mrs. Gaskell portrays industrial conditions in various regions of England in this nineteenth-century psychological novel.

7. Persuasion

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth.

8. Pride and prejudice

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first...

9. A tree grows in Brooklyn

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Author:
Smith, Betty, 1896-1972
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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An autobiographical novel concerning a young daughter of German immigrants growing up in the slums of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the early 20th century.