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Apr 20

Welcome to the WPL Readers Advisory Blog!

Dana TLeave a commentAdult Services Department

You probably won’t be surprised to hear this, but most of the staff at the Wheaton Public Library LOVE to read. Knowing this, we’ve wanted to get a staff blog off the ground for awhile now, and the pandemic has Read more

Apr 12

Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides and the Untold Story of America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park by Andy Mulvihill with Jake Rossen

Gretchen MLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Biography, Nonfiction

Action Park is a memoir written by Andy Mulvihill, whose father, Gene, founded the titular amusement park in 1978. Located in New Jersey, Action Park was known for its innovative rides with lax safety standards, and was popularly known by Read more

Mar 22

Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson

Gretchen MLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Fiction, Mystery/Thriller

In Before She Knew Him, artist Hen and her husband Lloyd have just moved to the suburbs to get a new start after her recovery from a manic episode during which she became obsessed with the unsolved murder of a Read more

Mar 08

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Gretchen MLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Fiction, Romance

in The Hating Game, Lucy is the executive assistant to the CEO of a publishing company. When her company merges with another, the heads of both companies are kept on as co-CEOs, and Lucy is forced to start sharing an Read more

Mar 02

Relish by Lucy Knisley

Morgan GLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Biography, Cooking, Graphic Novels, Nonfiction

Lucy Knisley takes us on a tour of her life through her interactions with food. The influences food has had on her life as she grew up. From her mom’s home cooking, to fancy restaurants, hidden bakeries in European cities, Read more

Feb 17

Venus in the Blind Spot by Junji Ito

Morgan GLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Fiction, Graphic Novels

In Junji Ito’s newest collection of graphic short horror stories people mysteriously disappear only to turn up sewn together in massive clusters. A baby cries from within a grave, carried to term by his already dead mother. The Nanzan UFO Read more

Jan 22

Eve Dallas Mystery Series, by J D Robb

Dana TLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Fiction, Mystery/Thriller

Most mystery readers love a good series. It’s fun to get to know a character, while secure in the knowledge that there will be more adventures after you’ve turned the last page. Few series, however, have as many titles to Read more

Nov 17

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

Gretchen MLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Fiction, Romance

In Spoiler Alert, Marcus, star of the fictional hit TV show Gods of the Gates, deals with his frustration with the showrunners by secretly writing and posting fanfiction about his own character. He becomes close to another fanfiction writer, April, Read more

Nov 10

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Gretchen MLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction

Kindred, by classic science fiction author Octavia Butler, is a novel about a Black woman from 1970s Los Angeles who finds herself repeatedly pulled back in time to pre-Civil War Maryland, where she must save the life of her white Read more

Sep 18

Swan: Poems and prose poems by Mary Oliver

Veronica NLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Nonfiction, What We're Readingpoems, poetry

Award-winning American poet Mary Oliver was once the best-selling poet in the United States (that title now belongs to Rumi). Swan: Poems and prose poems was published in 2010, making it one of her more recent works. I don’t just Read more

Sep 18

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the world to find the good death by Caitlin Doughty

Veronica NLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Nonfiction

Mortician Caitlin Doughty does it again with her second book, this time not about cremation, but still about death, don’t worry! In From Here to Eternity, she reviews her experiences in countries around the world, teaching us what she learned Read more

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