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Pierce County Library shares best books of 2014

Published 1:42 pm Thursday, December 18, 2014

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Looking for last-minute holiday gift ideas? Stacking books to curl up with on rainy days and long winter nights? Experts from Pierce County Library selected their top books for 2014:

Books for Adults

– Best Nonfiction

Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow

Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire by Peter Stark

– Best Fiction

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

– Best Local Nonfiction

Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Molly Wizenberg

– Best Local Fiction

A Sudden Light by Garth Stein

Books for Kids

– Best for Kindergarten though Grade 3

Draw! by Raul Colón

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant

Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World by Steve Jenkins

– Best for Grades 4-6

El Deafo by Cece Bell

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson