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Where we educate, enrich, and entertain Lafourche Communities.
BLOG & STAFF PICKS
Want the latest and greatest news from your LPPL? Want to read what we are reading? You're in the right place!
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Stay in the know with our monthly blog. Our librarians are here to update you on services, events, resources, and more.
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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!
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Find archived blogs and staff picks at the links below:
We always have a good book in hand!
Dione
May 23, 20242 min read
Dione's Pick: The Cookie That Changed My Life by Nancy Silverton
The eagerly anticipated baking bible from America's most respected authority: 100+ recipes for cookies, cakes, breads, breakfast...
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Brooke
May 20, 20242 min read
Brooke's Pick: The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover
The daughter of a self-help superstar, Audrey is determined to create her own identity and agrees to go on her mother's book tour, hoping...
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Brooke
May 1, 20242 min read
May 2024: Blogging with Brooke
Pack your bags ... we're going on an adventure this summer at your Lafourche Parish Public Library! Our 2024 Summer Experience is headed...
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Crystal
Mar 27, 20242 min read
Crystal's Pick: The Dust Bowl Orphans by Suzette D. Harrison
Grieving the loss of her child, Zoe Edwards, cataloguing old photos for an exhibition, discovers an image of a teenage girl who looks...
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Catherine
Mar 22, 20242 min read
Catherine's Pick: Meet Me By the Fountain by Alexandra Lange
An entertaining and evocative stroll through the rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention of malls, which proved to be a powerful draw for...
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Brittany
Mar 22, 20242 min read
Brittany's Pick: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
A Cambridge professor, scholar and researcher on the study of faeries visits the hardscrabble village of Hransvik where she gets closer...
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Katie
Mar 4, 20241 min read
Katie's Pick: Guarded Treasure by Mae Lovette
Mae Lovette’s debut romance novel, Guarded Treasure, is a steamy opposites attract adventure that I could not put down. Edith Taylor is...
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Shannon
Mar 4, 20241 min read
March 2024: Blogging with Shannon
Did you know that March is one of two months out of the year in which you can have your fines forgiven? Though libraries generally...
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Brooke
Feb 22, 20242 min read
Brooke's Pick: Real Self-Care by Pooja Lakshmin, MD
Packed with actionable strategies to deal with common problems, Real Self-Care is a complete roadmap for women to set boundaries and move...
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Dione
Feb 15, 20242 min read
Dione's Pick: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the...
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Brooke
Feb 5, 20242 min read
Brooke's Pick: The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi
Be productive without sacrificing peace of mind using Lazy Genius principles that help you focus on what really matters and let go of...
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Katina
Feb 2, 20242 min read
Katina's Pick: The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
The beloved New York Times opinion writer and best-selling author presents this stunning literary devotional that follows the creatures...
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Brooke
Feb 1, 20242 min read
Brooke's Pick: The Silence in Her Eyes by Armando Lucas Correa
A young woman with a rare neurological condition is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered. Armando Lucas Correa's new novel The...
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Lafourche Parish Public Library
Jan 31, 20242 min read
February 2024: Blogging with Brittany
Do you love libraries? Of course, you do! You’re not a philistine! Well, as Library Lovers’ Month, February is all about you. We’d love...
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Heather
Jan 31, 20242 min read
Heather's Pick: A Story No One Has Ever Heard Before by Avi Steinberg
Once upon a time there was a story no one has ever heard before, inspired by a carrot on the run, a knight who’d trade his sword for a...
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Brooke
Jan 25, 20242 min read
Brooke's Pick: The Good Part by Sophie Cousens
When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and...
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Van
Jan 24, 20242 min read
Van's Pick: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine,...
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Brooke
Jan 9, 20242 min read
Brooke's Pick: The Second Chance Year by Melissa Wiesner
When her wish to redo her awful year comes true, Sadie Thatcher, with her life in shambles, navigates her second chance, seeing the red...
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Laura
Jan 5, 20242 min read
Laura's Pick: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
From the author of Steve Jobs and other best-selling biographies comes an intimate story of a controversial businessman who helped to...
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Brittany
Jan 2, 20242 min read
Brittany's Pick: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice...
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Laura
Dec 28, 20232 min read
January 2024: Blogging with Laura
Another year has come and gone - it seems like this year just flew by! As always, a lot has happened in our libraries this year....
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Brooke
Dec 19, 20232 min read
Brooke's Pick: The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman
Four friends in NYC hold onto their unconventional Christmas tradition even when their paths diverge - but the changes they fear might be...
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Heather
Dec 19, 20231 min read
Heather's Pick: The Three Little Superpigs: Merry Christmas by Claire Evans
Join the Three Little Superpigs as they head out on a holiday adventure to find Santa! Can the Superpigs save Christmas? The Three...
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Laura
Dec 7, 20232 min read
Laura's Pick: Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena
A father who had been having an affair that just ended badly discovers his difficult daughter unexpectedly home from school and loses his...
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