Erica's Staff Picks

Erica is an Adult Services Librarian at Southeast Regional. These are some books she enjoyed!

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Book cover for "The hobbit, or, There and back again"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
Book cover for "Good omens"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.
Book cover for "American gods"
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Shadow is a man with a past and wants nothing more now than to live a quiet life with his wife. When his wife is killed in a terrible accident, Shadow flies home for the funeral. As a raging storm rocks the plane, the strange man in the seat next to Shadow introduces himself as Mr. Wednesday. He knows more about Shadow than is possible--and he warns Shadow an even bigger storm is coming.
Book cover for "The alchemist"
Star rating for The alchemist
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
"A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world. Combing magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical...
Book cover for "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court"
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Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
What begins as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grows into a disturbing satire of late 19th century technology and social thought.
Book cover for "The giver"
Star rating for The giver
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
A graphic novel adaptation of Lois Lowry's The giver, a story of a young boy discovering the dark secrets behind his seemingly ideal world.
Book cover for "Like water for chocolate"
Star rating for Like water for chocolate
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother.
Book cover for "The last wish"
Star rating for The last wish
Series:
Witcher novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
Geralt the Witcher--revered and hated--holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in this collection of adventures, the first chapter in Andrzej Sapkowski's groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games. Geralt is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless hunter. Yet he is no ordinary killer....
Book cover for "One hundred years of solitude"
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
Book cover for "The time traveler's wife"
Star rating for The time traveler's wife
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.
Book cover for "Annihilation"
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
Book cover for "Horrorstör"
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Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
"Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjërring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes ... To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of night, they'll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the...