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Libby Book Awards!
March 12th was the first Libby Book Awards! Libby of course is the eBook and eAudiobook reading app that is free to use with a library card! Scroll down to see the award winners and put a copy on hold today!
Winner for Best Adult Fiction
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Honorable Mention:
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Winner for Best Adult Nonfiction
The Wager by David Grann
Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Honorable mention:
What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez
Winner for Best Audiobook
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Winner for Best Debut Author
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
Winner for Best Diverse Author
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
Winner for Best Memoir & Autobiography
Pageboy by Elliot Page
Winner for Best Mystery
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Winner for Best Thriller
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Winner for Best Romance
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn
Honorable mention:
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
Winner for Best Fantasy
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Winner for Best Romantasy
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Winner for Best Science Fiction
System Collapse by Martha Wells
Winner for Best Historical Fiction
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Winner for Best Book Club Pick
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Books Coming to Screens: March 2024
Spaceman of bohemia / Jaroslav Kalfar
Jakub Procházka, orphaned as a boy and raised in the Czech countryside by his grandparents, overcomes his odds to become the country’s first astronaut.
March 1st/ Netflix/ Put on hold
Dune / Frank Herbert
(Dune: Part Two)
Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
March 1st/ Theatres/ Put on hold
Apples never fall/ Liane Moriarty
The Delaney family seems happy but Joy disappears, forcing her husband and four adult children to reassess their family history.
March 14th / Parmount/ Put on hold
Chasing Hillary/ Amy Chozick
(Girls on the Bus)
Four female journalists who follow the every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, finding friendship, love, and a scandal that could take down not just the presidency but our entire democracy along the way.
March 14th / Netflix
Arthur / Mikael Lindnord
An adventure racer adopts a stray dog named Arthur to join him in an epic endurance race.
March 15th / Theatres
Manhunt : the twelve day chase for Lincoln’s killer / James L. Swanson
The aftermath of the first American presidential assassination and the fight to preserve and protect the ideals that were the foundation of Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans.
March 15th / Apple TV
Mr. & Mrs. American Pie / Juliet McDaniel
(Palm Royale)
Chronicles a woman reconstructing her identity in the 1960s after being dismissed by her husband and her entire social circle.
March 20th/ Apple/ Put on hold
The three-body problem / Cixin Liu
It will follow the story of humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization, seeing humanity being vulnerable to the same external threat.
March 21st/ Netflix/ Put on hold
We were the lucky ones / Georgia Hunter
A Jewish family is determined to survive and reunite after being separated in World War II.
March 28th/ Hulu/ Put on hold
A Gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles
A Russian aristocrat is spared from death and placed on house arrest while the Bolshevik Revolution plays out before him.
March 29th/ Showtime/ Put on hold
Black Flies / Shannon Burke
(Asphalt City)
Ollie Cross is a young paramedic assigned to the NYC night shift with an uncompromising and seasoned partner Gene Rutkovsky. Each 911 call is often dangerous and uncertain, putting their lives on the line every day to help others.
March 29th/ Theatres