2023 Staff Picks – Books for Teens
2023 Staff Picks – Books for Teens WCLS’s Youth Services Team’s absolute favorite YA books that we read this year. We hope you love them as much as we did!
2023 Staff Picks – Books for Early Years
2023 Staff Picks – Books for Early Years Check out these favorites from the WCLS Youth Services Team!
2023 Staff Picks – Books for Kids
2023 Staff Picks – Books for Kids Check out these favorites from the WCLS Youth Services Team!
WCLS Staff Favorites 2023
WCLS Staff Favorites 2023 As 2023 winds down, WCLS staff are looking back at their reading year and picking out their top choices. Take a look at our wide-ranging list of staff picks – maybe you’ll find a new favorite of your own!
Book Buzz: 2023 Literary Gift Guide for All Ages
It may seem strange for a public library system to publish an annual gift guide, but hear us out: All of the books mentioned in the 2023 roundup are gifts, whether you check them out from Whatcom County Library System (WCLS) as a treat for yourself, or purchase them for friends and family. Our … Read more
Ep. 41 WCLS Gift Guide for 2023
Transcript Our WCLS book selectors sit down and discuss several of the books in our Gift Guide publication, available at WCLS library branches. Two conversations, our adult selectors, Lisa Gresham, Mary Kinser and Emma Radosevich discuss their picks and three of our Youth Services selectors, Thom Barthelmas, Theresa Morrison and Tamar Clark talk about their … Read more
Book Buzz: The Wok: Recipes and Techniques
The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt The 2023 winner of the Washington State Book Award for General Nonfiction, J. Kenji López-Alt, is not a flash-in-the-pan. His first book, “The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science,” was a New York Times bestseller and won a 2016 James Beard Foundation Award. In 2020, … Read more
Book Buzz: The Book of (More) Delights
The Book of (More) Delights: Essays by Ross Gay In this sequel to The Book of Delights (2019), Ross Gay is back with even more digressions about delight. This book is the result of Gay’s project to notice and record everyday moments of gratitude for one year, starting in August 2021. As the world opens … Read more
Book Buzz: Congratulations, the Best Is Over!
Congratulations, the Best Is Over!: Essays by R. Eric Thomas In this new collection of laugh-out-loud funny essays, R. Eric Thomas picks up where his last memoir (Here For It, 2020) left off. Newly married and enjoying professional success, Thomas’ life is upended when his husband, a Presbyterian pastor, takes a job in Thomas’ hometown … Read more
A Small Town Holiday Romance
A Small Town Holiday Romance Capture the cozy vibes this holiday season with these novels filled with family, love and small-town charm.