BLOG & STAFF PICKS

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Like you, our librarians love to read good books. Discover what we think about the books we've read, and find some new titles to add to your TBR (to be read) pile with our monthly Staff Picks!

Find archived blogs and staff picks at the links below:

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Crystal

Nov 262 min read

Blog

December 2024: Blogging with Crystal

The Christmas season at the library is amazing, spectacular, and fun-filled. In my opinion, it’s just as exciting as Summer Experience...

Crystal

Nov 122 min read

Crystal's Pick: The Secret to Happiness by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Fired from her dream job after making a huge mistake, Callie Dixon lands at her aunt's Cape Cod ice cream shop, hoping that in time,...

Laura

Nov 122 min read

Staff Picks

Laura's Pick: The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness

When the Congregation demands she and Matthew test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Oxford scholar and witch, Diana Bishop,...

Katina

Nov 13 min read

Blog

November 2024: Blogging with Katina

Libraries have a long and storied history of being learning centers for people of all ages. Ours is no different. Part of the Lafourche...

Catherine's Pick: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Oct 102 min read

Staff Picks

Catherine's Pick: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Victoria Stewart and her crew sail to the Mariana Trench in the hopes of discovering the fate of the Atargatis, which, along with its...

Dione's Pick: Into the Fire by Allison Brennan

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Oct 21 min read

Staff Picks

Dione's Pick: Into the Fire by Allison Brennan

Things are heating up in Arizona, in this thrilling novella introducing a page-turning new series by New York Times bestselling author ...

Lafourche Parish Public Library

Oct 12 min read

Blog

October 2024: Blogging with Van

Our library system has some great programming lined up for you in October. In addition to Halloween and Fire Prevention Month, LPPL is...

Brooke

Oct 12 min read

Staff Picks

Brooke's Pick: She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this riveting thriller. I read my first Mary Kubica book nearly a...

Katie

Aug 305 min read

Blog

September 2024: Blogging with Katie

Even though our summer experience program is over, we’re still busy here at LPPL. The fall season is full of engaging programs, all free...

Crystal

Aug 301 min read

Staff Picks

Crystal's Pick: Sweet Jane by Joanne Kukanza Easley

A drunken mother makes childhood ugly. Sweet Jane by Joanne Kukanza Easley was an emotional, coming of age story about healing from past...

Catherine

Aug 302 min read

Staff Picks

Catherine's Pick: Selling the Dream by Jane Marie

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel...

Brittany

Aug 302 min read

Staff Picks

Brittany's Pick: Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Once Upon a Time meets The Office in Hannah Maehrer’s laugh-out-loud viral TikTok series turned novel, about the sunshine assistant to an...

Laura

Aug 122 min read

Staff Picks

Laura's Picks: All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

After a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur...

Brooke

Aug 122 min read

Staff Picks

Brooke's Pick: Look in the Mirror by Catherine Steadman

When her late father leaves her property in the British Virgin Islands--a vacation home she never knew existed, Nina wonders what else he...

Catherine

Aug 12 min read

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August 2024: Blogging with Catherine

This year’s Summer Experience was so much fun! We always love the enthusiasm that our community brings to it. As families and educators...

Van's Pick: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Van

Jul 252 min read

Staff Picks

Van's Pick: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find...

Heather

Jul 252 min read

Staff Picks

Heather's Pick: Art Club by Rashad Doucet

Starting an after-school art club, Dale Donovan, who wants nothing more than to create comics forever, assembles together creative...

Brooke

Jul 252 min read

Staff Picks

Brooke's Pick: The Guests by Margot Hunt

When a Category 5 hurricane is poised to hit their coastal Florida town, the Davies family takes refuge in their waterfront manse....

Brittany

Jul 252 min read

Staff Picks

Brittany's Pick: The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

In 1918, field nurse Laura Iven returns to Belgium to uncover the truth about her brother Freddie's supposed death in combat, while...

Dione

Jul 15 min read

Blog

July 2024: Blogging with Dione

Have you found your summer adventure yet? There’s still time to participate in Lafourche Parish Library’s Summer Experience. You can...

Brooke

Jun 283 min read

Staff Picks

Brooke's Pick: Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

A young woman attempts to navigate adulthood, new motherhood and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world. Rufi Thorpe...

Katina

Jun 282 min read

Staff Picks

Katina's Pick: Cajun Mardi Gras by Dixie Poche

Dive into Cajun Mardi Gras, where the party goes down with a wholly different flourish. People the world over know about Mardi Gras. It’s...

Brooke

Jun 273 min read

Staff Picks

Brooke's Pick: The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird

Set in the glamorous, dizzying world of 1950s Reno, where housewives and movie stars rubbed shoulders at gin-soaked casinos, The...

Katie

Jun 271 min read

Staff Picks

Katie's Pick: Crafting Wizardry by Jody Revenson

Over 250 crafting activities inspired by the Harry Potter films. If you’re a Harry Potter fan like me, Jody Revenson’s book Crafting...