Library@EA Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Dynamic, diverse, distinct. Silver Reading School Librarian Shelagh Toonen: SLG Scotland Chair. CILIPS Library & Information Professional of the Year 2018.

The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Brit Bennett
Our Staff Book Group meets today and the September choice is The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. You can escape a town, but you cannot escape blood... https://t.co/TJfoX3QGOo
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
If you could relive one conversation, what would it be? In a Tokyo coffee shop, that's exactly what you can do - as long as you follow strict rules. Very importantly, return before your coffee gets cold. Staff Book Group today: Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. https://t.co/gP5zapfEul
Hardcover, 2020
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II
Michael Rosen
One of the books in our #EmpathyDay book talk is The Missing @MichaelRosenYes. We all listened to Michael Rosen read his poem The Absentees. Powerful. Affecting. All silent as we heard the words. We are using this book for both #EmpathyDay2021 and for #RefugeeWeek2021. https://t.co/3nZQXeAfJ3
Paperback, 2024
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Girl Who Saved Christmas
Matt Haig
Jake and Alex from Bishopmill P7 opened no.8 in our Book Advent Calendar. They shared The Girl Who Saved Christmas by Matt Haig with all the P7s and their teachers. Everyone agreed: this is a cracker 🎁🔰💜. https://t.co/ARnIqv87lx
Paperback, 2018
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Books shared today by Novelties Book Club: 🔖Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir for SF fans. 🔖Cosmology for physics-keen readers. 🔖Berserk if you are mad for Manga. 🔖She Drives Me Crazy for romcom lovers. 🔖Solitaire by Alice Oseman. 🔖The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman https://t.co/fwrWMgC5Tk
Paperback, 2018
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MR Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror
Robert Louis Stevenson
Our staff were gifted books recently and are sharing their views. Mrs McKenzie: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a book I first read many moons ago. Reading it this time made me wonder how I had coped with it as a youngster as it is/
Paperback, 2003
$9.00$4.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ghostlight
Kenneth Oppel
Half-term read no 1: Ghostlight by Kenneth Oppel. 'Rebecca Strand was sixteen the first time she saw her father kill a ghost.' This is a thrill-a-minute, fast-paced great ghost story. It may be included in next month's book talk programme. #Chills #Thrills #Ghostlight. https://t.co/qx3jWXhNvQ
Hardcover, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
When the World Was Ours
Liz Kessler
Our Book of the Month is back on the library desk: When The World Was Ours by Liz Kessler. https://t.co/gqqCrZh2rn
Paperback, 2022
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon
February Book of the Month and recommended by one of our senior pupils: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon. https://t.co/8ogB0PJm3c
Paperback, 2017
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mistletoe and Murder
Robin Stevens
Day 12 of our Book Advent Calendar is Mistletoe and Murder. Relish it with a mince pie & a hot chocolate: the fabulous fifth Murder Most Unladylike mystery by Robin Stevens. Can Daisy and Hazel solve the crime before Christmas Day? 🕵♀️📚🕵♀️ A simply spiffing seasonal story! https://t.co/Hf1gO5D6GO
Paperback, 2019
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book