As we wind down 2022, the Winter Haven Public Library is celebrating its most popular items of the year! If you’re looking for reading inspiration for 2023, be sure to add these items to your TBR list. Below, you’ll find the top 10 checkouts for our Adult, Young Adult, and Children’s Collections, as well as…
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Food-Inspired Books
Looking for a new novel to devour? Check out these foodie-based reads! Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala Get cozy with the latest book in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen mystery series by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she…
The Cartographers
Jane’s Pick: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd What a magical little mystery – I loved this book! I had heard good things about it but purposely went into reading it knowing very little about the plot. Quickly, the writing drew me into the mystery – how can I resist historic public libraries, archives, and maps?!?…
15 Must-Reads for Women’s History Month
In honor of Women’s History Month, we have compiled a list of some of our favorite titles in our collection by and about women who have helped shape our history and have paved the way for future generations of women to come. Check out these 15 recommendations and find a new favorite today! The Agitators:…
News of the World
Alberto’s Pick – News of the World directed by Paul Greengrass. In News of the World, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) — a Civil War veteran — travels the U.S. countryside in 1870, reading the latest newspapers to customers who can afford to pay him a dime apiece. On the road, Kidd finds a…
Solutions and Other Problems
Natasha’s Pick: Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh To say this book is an interesting one, isn’t doing it justice. To say that I only loved this book doesn’t even come close. It toes the lines of being a graphic novel and just being a book with lots of illustrations that it sits there with…
Personal Shopper Service
If you do not have a particular title in mind, but are looking for a book or audiobook recommendation, let us help! Visit https://www.mywinterhaven.com/library/personalshopper/ or use the link on the Library’s mobile app to complete a quick survey. Using your answers we will hand-pick some titles just for you! Once you are notified that your…
Cross Her Heart
Sara’s Pick: Cross Her Heart by Meilida Leigh When Bree Taggert was a little girl, her parents were killed in a murder-suicide. She and her siblings survived and she promised her little sister to protect her “cross her heart”. But when she gets a distressed call from her sister, she’s not there to protect her,…
Today I am Carey
Sara’s Pick: Today I am Carey by Martin L. Shoemaker Set in the near future, an android assists Alzheimer’s patient, Mildred, with long term care. He is able to fill in the gaps in her memory of the past and can replicate the appearance and personality of family members so when she asks “Is that…
In Five Years
Sara’s Pick: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Dannie Kohan has a good life. She’s a planner, a lawyer at a top firm in New York, has a boyfriend, soon-to-be fiancé and a wild and crazy best girlfriend, Bella. Dannie knows where she’s going and when and how. Then she has a dream, waking next…
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