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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!
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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Brooke
Dec 5, 20233 min read
Brooke's Pick: Once Upon a December by Amy E. Reichert
When Astra Noel Snow and Jack Clausen meet at a one-of-kind Christmas market, they fall in love, but they must decide if this newfound...
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Crystal
Dec 4, 20231 min read
Crystal's Pick: Winds of Change by Jo Grafford
The cowboy bad boy who broke her heart years ago and the career opportunity that offers them a second chance at happily-ever-after? Winds...
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Katie
Dec 1, 20234 min read
December 2023: Blogging with Katie
The year of 2023 has flown by. We at Lafourche Parish Public Libraries would like to say thank you to our communities’ continued support...
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Brooke
Nov 9, 20232 min read
Brooke's Pick: Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle
What’s a girl to do when her Christmas spirit levels are sinking to a disastrous low? Why accidentally conjure the Holiday Spirit in...
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Catherine
Nov 1, 20232 min read
November 2023: Blogging with Catherine
RAWR ... Dinovember @ the Library! This November is Dinovember at the Lafourche Library! Expect to find displays in all our branches and...
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Dione
Oct 24, 20232 min read
Dione's Pick: Code Red by Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills
Mitch Rapp crosses into war-torn Syria at the behest of a powerful crime lord to determine who is manufacturing a highly addictive new...
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Brooke
Oct 19, 20232 min read
Brooke's Pick: With a Kiss We Die by L.R. Dorn
Two college lovers suspected of a brutal double homicide enlist a podcasting crime journalist to proclaim their innocence. L. R. Dorn’s...
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Catherine
Oct 19, 20232 min read
Catherine's Pick: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson journey to unpopulated regions of bracken and fog to solve a mystery at an isolated manor house. The air...
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Brooke
Oct 3, 20232 min read
October 2023: Blogging with Brooke
Pumpkins, potions, and photo ops! Fall, furs, firefighters, Flipster, and frights! It must be October @ Lafourche Parish Public Library!...
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Katina
Oct 3, 20232 min read
Katina's Pick: The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
Tells the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and...
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Brooke
Sep 27, 20232 min read
Brooke's Pick: How Can I Help You? by Laura Sims
Accepting a position at a small-town public library, a recent graduate student and failed novelist discovers a patron dead in the library...
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Van
Sep 26, 20232 min read
Van's Pick: The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
Two English school children share hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is...
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Brooke
Sep 19, 20232 min read
Brooke's Pick: California Golden by Melanie Benjamin
Two teens in 1960s California grapple with the unconventional path of their mother, who defies societal expectations as a talented female...
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Katie
Sep 14, 20232 min read
Katie's Pick: A Dead & Stormy Night by Steffanie Holmes
Book boyfriends may do it better, but they're more trouble than they're worth. A Dead and Stormy Night by Steffanie Holmes is first book...
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Van
Sep 1, 20233 min read
September 2023: Blogging with Van
We had an amazing Summer Reading Experience and August finishing up the summer months. September looks like it will be another amazing...
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Brooke
Aug 24, 20232 min read
Brooke's Pick: The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop
Thinking back on a relationship she had with an older man during a life-changing summer in the Greek isles, Rachel begins the question...
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