Staff Picks

Looking for a book you can’t put down? Check out Lisa Unger’s In The Blood.  It’s one of the most talked about books at FCPL this summer.

In this gripping mystery involving family secrets and deadly consequences, a college student with a tragic past offers her services as nanny to a boy with behavioral issues.  The games start off innocent enough but soon intensify into violence that raises questions about who’s really calling the shots.

Alicia Cavitt

Information Specialist

Page Turners

Odd, Weird & Little by Patrick Jennings
Page Turners book discussion group for grades 3-5

Befriending a very strange new student, Toulouse helps outsider Woodrow stand up to the class bullies who have been picking on them both. As Woody says, "It's harder to feel like a weirdo when there's someone who's weirder than you." This is a story of kindness, friendship and tolerance for those who are different.  The alert reader will pick up many clues throughout the story to solve the mystery of who (or more accurately what) is Toulouse.


The Cumming Library will host Page Turners on Thursday, August 28 at 4:30 p.m.  Register here to attend.


Holly Raus
Information Specialist - Youth Services

My Favorite Books of 2014...so far (4th in a Series)

In The Blood by Lisa Unger

The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harrison

Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

It's hard to say which has been my very favorite, but I will say that In the Blood and The Silent Wife both had moments where I had to put the book down because I was so mad at the character or what was revealed was such a surprise and I had to rethink bits and pieces and put them together.

Mendy Gunter
Branch Manager