Staff Favorites
April 2005
The following items are recommended by the staff of the Chelmsford Public Library.
If you click on a highlighted title, it will automatically find the item for you in our catalog.

  FICTION  
  The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day
The Curious Incident of a Dog at Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Pleasure of my Company: A Novel by Steve Martin
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Shopaholic takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
Torpedo Juice by Tim Dorsey
     
  ROMANCE  
 

The Duel by Barbara Metzger
Her Other Thief by Glenda Garland
   
  NON-FICTION
  A Beautiful Child: A True Story of Hope, Horror and Enduring Human Spirit by Matt Birkbeck
Children at War by P.W. Singer
Daughter of the Saints: Growing up in Polygamy by Dorothy Allred Solomon
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
An Innocent, A Broad by Ann Leary
Isaac’s Storm; A Man, A Time and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
War is the Force that Gives us Meaning by Chris Hedges
   
  CHILDREN'S / YOUNG ADULT
  Artemis Fowl Series on Audio books – by Eoin Colfer, read by Nathaniel Parker
Close Kin by Clare B. Dunkle
Down Girl and Sit: Smarter Than Squirrels by Lucy Nolan.
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Postman Always Brings Mice by Holm and Hamel
Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
The Wizard’s Ward by Deborah Hale
Zen Shorts by Jon Muth