Book People Unite

Categories: Romance , Staff Picks , Horror & Supernatural , Fiction

I was in Joseph Beth a couple of weeks ago, and the staff there made a point of telling me to read an upcoming book they just love:  The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, by Katherine Howe, which will be published in June.  Then I saw the book on our Hot Titles web page, too.   

The Physick Book is an appealing historical/supernatural/romantic story in which a modern student of American colonial history gets more than she bargained for when she starts researching witchcraft accusations in New England.  Because, it seems, one of the witches accused in Salem just might have been guilty after all.  

You can put an advance hold on the book through the Hot Titles page if that sounds intriguing to you.  

But my actual point is this:  the folks at Joseph Beth loved telling me about the book.  I won’t use the word fanatic (hi, Annette!  hi, Barb!), but some people just light up when they talk about a really good read. 

Naturally, you can find many more of those book people here at the library.

There are lots of resources for readers at the library.  Of course there’s this blog and all of the resources on our Books, Music & Movies page.  Not to mention the Books & Reading databases and websites we make available.  (Have you discovered NoveList?)  And new book shelves and genre shelves and “staff picks” sections and displays in all of our agencies. 

But there’s nothing like a personal recommendation.  If you can describe a few books that you really enjoyed, we can help you find more.  There are so many wonderful books, new and old, that go undiscovered.  We’d love to tell you about them. 

So come and talk to us!  (And yes, we have movie and TV and music addicts you can talk to, too.) 

By the way, you can talk to Katherine Howe as well.  Joseph Beth is scheduling an author visit with her in June.