In honor of National Library Week, we asked Staff members to pick out some of their favorite books from the past couple of years. We'll be posting picks every day this week. As a bonus, library director Tonia Kestner will have a brief review each day. Enjoy!
Tonia
The Bog Wife by
Kay Chronister
I
really enjoyed The Bog Wife, a haunting and beautifully written
Appalachian tale set in the hills of West Virginia. The story has a dreamlike,
fantastical quality that draws you in from the beginning, but what stuck with
me most was how grounded it is in family—especially the complicated bond
between siblings. The characters are so well-developed that I found myself
deeply invested in each of them as they struggled to navigate the crumbling
world around them.
The
setting—a decaying family mansion near a mysterious bog—is rich with
atmosphere, and the sense of desperation that builds as the expected “bog wife”
fails to appear was both eerie and emotional. I loved how the book explored the
tension between honoring a dark family legacy and trying to carve out your own
path. It doesn’t offer easy answers, and by the end I had more questions than
resolutions—but in a good way. It’s the kind of story that lingers and makes
you think long after it’s over. I keep hoping there will be a sequel, but in
the meantime, this is a great choice for book clubs. There’s so much to unpack
and discuss, and it’s a story that really stays with you.
Candess
The
Inmate by Freida McFadden
The
Burning by Linda Castillo
Counting
Miracles by Nicholas Sparks
Demon
Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
Four
Winds by Kristin Hannah
Michelle
Sound
of Glass by Karen White
Flight
Patterns by Karen White
Taylor N.
Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by
Walela Nehanda (YA)
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