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Category: Librarians Choice
Delve into our Collections and discover your next read with curated lists and suggestions from Hamilton City Libraries staff.
Librarian's Choice: Meat Market
Thursday 8 December | Librarians Choice, Young Adult,
Young fans of The Devil Wears Prada would enjoy Meat Market, a stand-alone novel by award-winning YA writer Juno Dawson.
Librarian's Choice: The Secret Bridesmaid
Thursday 22 September | Librarians Choice, Adult Fiction,
A professional bridesmaid, Sophie, is hired for the society wedding of the year...
Librarian's Choice: Stray
Thursday 28 July | Librarians Choice, Adult Fiction, NZ Titles,
Stray is the feature-film debut of Dustin Feneley, and is, in the opinion of David from Hillcrest Library, one of the best New Zealand debuts in a long time.
Librarian's Choice: Twin
Friday 1 April | Adult Fiction, Librarians Choice,
This gripping Norwegian crime drama tells the story of estranged identical twins Eric and Adam, played by Kristofer Hivju (of Game of Thrones fame).
Librarians Choice: Bring Back our Girls
Friday 7 January | Adult Non-Fiction, Librarians Choice,
An astoundingly powerful account of the dramatic rescue of the group of Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped by fundamentalists in 2014.
Librarian's Choice: Seven Sisters Series
Thursday 30 December | Adult Fiction, Librarians Choice,
Lucinda Riley's Seven Sisters series follows a group of sisters as they each explore past connections and identity.
Librarian's Choice: Navigating the Stars
Friday 22 October | Adult Non-Fiction, Librarians Choice, NZ Titles,
This beautifully rendered, oral history retelling, weaves together the history of New Zealand, as known in Maaori traditional narratives.
Librarian's Choice: Peter May's Lewis Trilogy
Friday 27 August | Librarians Choice, Adult Fiction,
Detective Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate a murder on the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of northwest Scotland.
Librarian's Choice: Untamed
Friday 2 July | Adult Non-Fiction, Librarians Choice,
Untamed is mostly a memoir, partly an autobiography, and a little bit of a conversation between author and reader.
Librarian's Choice: Organize Your Way
Friday 19 March | Adult Non-Fiction, Librarians Choice,
Organize Your Way examines different ways of organizing based on your personality type.
Librarian's Choice: The Art of the Pulps
Thursday 11 February | Adult Non-Fiction, Librarians Choice,
The editors of The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History have compiled an impressive and comprehensive collection of American pulp-magazine covers from the earliest examples of the 1890s to the late-1940s.
Librarian's Choice: Convenience Store Woman
Thursday 19 November | Adult Fiction, Librarians Choice,
Convenience Store Woman, written by Sayaka Murata, is a humourous, quirky novel. It follows 36-year-old Japanese woman Keiko Furukura as she navigates her life and her feeling of never truly fitting in.