This Week's Book Picks from Your Local Library

Are you searching for your next favorite book?

Maybe the suggestions from the staff at the  can help. You'll have to wait until Tuesday to check them out, however. All Cuyahoga County Public Library branches are closed for the Memorial Day holiday.

This week’s adult recommendations were written by public services assistant Rachel Vaughn. The teen book recommendation was written by Teen Librarian Diane Wilson.

For adults:

Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy

Jane Howard would like to the “leave the world.” She is plagued with what seems like a never-ending stream of personal, gut-wrenching struggles: a runaway father, several unhealthy failed relationships and financial crisis. But when Jane becomes involved in a missing-child case, her life takes an unexpected turn as she finds purpose in an unlikely place. 

Blackout by Connie Willis

Author Connie Willis just won her seventh Nebula award (awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) with this time-traveling adventure and its sequel, All Clear. In the year 2060, time travel is a tool used to study past world changing events. When three time-traveling historians become stuck in the heat of London’s blitz during World War II, they start to suspect that there is a problem with the previously held theory that time-travel can’t change history. It seems they may have done just that.

For teens: 

Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Princess Benevolence is a princess who was raised with the commoners, and never learned all that a “proper” royal should.  Now that her family has been killed, she is left to the tender mercies of her aunt, the queen.  They clash constantly and when Ben is left locked in her room, she discovers a hidden wizard’s room and artifacts that change her and her world forever. Recommended for grades 6-10.

Note: All branches of the Cuyahoga County Public Library will be closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday for the Memorial Day holiday.