Book to Screen: Sandman and Paper Girls

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It’s an AMAZING week to be a graphic novel reader because we’re being blessed with two streaming adaptations of two beloved series! Fans of Neil Gaiman have been waiting decades to see the prize-winning Sandman series make a successful move to the big screen, and the stunning sci-fi plot of Brian K. Vaughn’s Paper Girls […]

What’s Hot – A Woman of No Importance

Virginia Hall was rejected from the American war effort because of her gender and her prosthetic leg. Yet somehow she ended up being the first woman deployed in occupied France. She was truly an incredible woman, coordinating resistance from behind enemy lines, refusing orders to evacuate even when her cover was blown. A Woman of […]

Book to Screen: The Gray Man

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Have you been craving a thrilling suspense series to dig into? Or maybe hoping for an action-y movie to energize your weekend watch schedule? If so, you’re in luck! We have news today of an exciting upcoming book-to-screen adaptation that might just be your next favorite read/watch. Learn more about the summary below: ** To those who […]

What’s Hot – This Time Tomorrow

I love a time travel book and am quite excited to read Emma Staub’s This Time Tomorrow. If you could go back and change a moment in your life would you? In this bestseller, Alice gets exactly that opportunity when she wakes up in her 16-year-old body? Will she choose to change the trajectory of […]

Book to Screen: Where the Crawdads Sing

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If you’re a reading fan who’s been conscious at any point for the past couple of years, you almost certainly will recognize Delia Owens’ MASSIVELY bestselling novel Where the Crawdads Sing–and now you’ll be seeing news about the movie everywhere! The film adaptation premiered in theatres on July 15 and it’s likely a movie that […]

What’s Hot – The Paris Apartment

In the mood for a thrilling locked room mystery? You should absolutely check out The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley. Jess’s life is falling apart so she goes to stay with her half-brother in Paris. But when she arrives at his suspiciously nice apartment he’s not there. After days there is no sign of Ben […]

What’s Hot – Book Lovers

An enemies to lovers romance about book lovers, I’m so in! In Book Lovers by Emily Henry, Nora is an avid reader and cutthroat literary agent who is on a sister’s trip to small-town North Caroline. But instead of a romantic meet-cute with a local boy, she keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra an editor she […]

Basically Fan Fiction

CDPL’s May display “Basically Fanfiction” may just be my favorite display that I’ve put together. It allowed me to collect a wide variety of books, many of which were unexpected.  You may be asking yourself, “What is Fanfiction?” For those not familiar with this term, it refers to fictional writing by fans of an already […]

Book Suggestions: The Unexpected

The Bear by Andrew Krivak In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish […]

20 Suggestions for Fans of Heartstopper

Bloom by Kevin Panetta Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band–if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away […]

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