#ShelfLife - January 26, 2018

What a week! We celebrated #LibraryShelfieDay by posting photos of books from our list of Staff Favorites of 2017. Our patrons got in on the fun of recommending their favorite books and we reposted their reviews for My Absolute Darling and Howl's Moving Castle earlier this week.

What are you reading this weekend? Leave us a comment below and your book could be featured on our #ShelfLife feed next week!

Looking for something funny to read this weekend? Check out GOOD OMENS: THE NICE AND ACCURATE PROPHECIES OF AGNES NUTTER, WITCH by Terry Pratchett and @neilhimself. While not new, this book is a perennial favorite among sci-fi and fantasy readers. Those who’ve longed to see this story on the screen will get their wish, as a six-episode miniseries of GOOD OMENS is expected to be released on Amazon Prime Video in 2019. Find this book and other wonderful works of fiction in our list of Staff Favorites of 2017. Simply go to catalog.forsythpl.org and click Reader's Corner - Adults in the left menu, and then click Staff Favorites of 2017. #ShelfLife #FridayReads #WeekendReads #amreading #StaffFavoritesof2017 #ForsythReads #FCPLstories #fiction #scifi #fantasy #sciencefiction #terrypractchett #neilgaiman #goodomens

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From the author of the SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY comes a story about two humans, and two creatures. The humans are Rachel and Wick -- a scavenger and a drug dealer -- both with too many secrets and fears, ready with traps to be set and sprung. The creatures are Mord and Borne -- animal, perhaps plant, maybe Company discard, biotech, cruel experiment, dinner, deity, or source of spare parts. Use your library card to place a hold on BORNE by Jaff VanderMeer at catalog.forsythpl.org. While you're there, click Reader's Corner - Adults in the left menu, and then click Staff Favorites of 2017 to find other wonderful books on our list of Staff Favorites of 2017. #ShelfLife #StaffFavoritesof2017 #ForsythReads #FCPLstories #fiction #amreading #jeffvandermeer #borne #biotech #biotechnology #scifi #sciencefiction #southernreachtrilogy

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Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship Use your library card to place a hold on THE BURNING GIRL by Claire Messud at catalog.forsythpl.org. While you're there, click Reader's Corner - Adults in the left menu, and then click Staff Favorites of 2017 to find other wonderful books on our list of Staff Favorites of 2017. #ShelfLife #StaffFavoritesof2017 #ForsythReads #FCPLstories #fiction #amreading #TheBurningGirl #ClaireMessud #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram

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Today is Library Shelfie Day! We're celebrating with photos of books from our Staff Favorites of 2017 in the stacks! Place a hold on this and other great books in our collection using your library card at catalog.forsythpl.org. PROOFINESS: THE DARK ARTS OF MATHEMATICAL DECEPTION by Charles Seife, the bestselling author of ZERO, shows how mathematical misinformation pervades - and shapes - our daily lives. #LibraryShelfieDay #ShelfLife #StaffFavoritesof2017 #ForsythReads #FCPLstories #ForsythStudies #nonfiction #math #mathematics #politics #science

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Today is Library Shelfie Day! We’re celebrating all day long with photos of books from our Staff Favorites of 2017 in the stacks! Place a hold on this and other great books in our collection using your library card at catalog.forsythpl.org. THE MADWOMAN UPSTAIRS by @cath_lowell is a debut novel about the last remaining descendant of the Brontës who discovers that her recently deceased father has left her a treasure hunt that may lead to the long-rumored secret literary estate. #LibraryShelfieDay #ShelfLife #amreading #librariesofinstagram #bookstagram #StaffFavoritesof2017 #ForsythReads #FCPLstories #fiction #debutnovel #bronte #themadwomanupstairs #catherinelowell

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Today is Library Shelfie Day! We're celebrating all day long with photos of books from our Staff Favorites of 2017 in the stacks! Place a hold and check 'em out with your library card at catalog.forsythpl.org. Can you imagine... a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Read more in Egyptian-Canadian journalist Omar El Akkad's debut novel AMERICAN WAR. #LibraryShelfieDay #ShelfLife #amreading #librariesofinstagram #bookstagram #scifi #sciencefiction #fiction #debutnovel #AmericanWar #omarelakkad #StaffFavoritesof2017 #ForsythReads #FCPLstories

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Looking for a reading recommendation? Check out this quick review of a title from our list of Staff Favorites of 2017! #bookstagram #fcplstories #forsythreads #amreading #shelflife #Repost @fisheyes_and_magpies (@get_repost) ・・・ Amazing book! Intense from the first page to the last. . . . . . #myabsolutedarling #gabrieltallent #librarycheckout #books @forsythpubliclibrary

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you just can’t wait for rocket building at our Aerospace Workshop at the Cumming Library from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 27, check out AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AND THE PRINCIPLES OF FLIGHT by Anne Rooney. At the Aerospace Workshop, members of the Civil Air Patrol Squadron GA160 will talk about flight technology and the function of the Civil Air Patrol, then we’ll build our own air-powered rockets! All ages welcome. No registration required. #ShelfLife #rocketscience #aerospace #engineering #STEAM #STEM #nonfiction #science #EngineeringInAction #AerospaceEngineering #flight

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What a great reading recommendation! For those who prefer comics and graphic novels, there’s a graphic novel version of this book on shelves (and available now!) at the Cumming Library. #Repost @the_reading_kat (@get_repost) ・・・ I just reread *Howl’s Moving Castle* and loved it even more this time! This is such a great story that I found hilarious as well as captivating. #dianawaynejones #howelsmovingcastle #thereadingkat #bookworm #lovetoread

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ohn "Smoke" Conlan uses his supernatural ability to travel outside the walls of a juvenile detention center to clear his name and help his fellow inmates find redemption in HOLDING SMOKE by @ellecosimano. Check out this YA favorite from our Teen collection, then find dozens of other great books on our list of Staff Favorites of 2017. Go to catalog.forsythpl.org, click Reader’s Corner – Adults in the left menu, and then click Staff Favorites of 2017. You can place a hold on any of these books by logging in with your library card account. #ShelfLife #StaffFavoritesof2017 #ForsythReads #FCPLstories #yareads #teenreads #amreading #bookstagram #holdingsmoke #ellecosimano

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