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All of OPL’s staff recommendations in one page. You can browse the different lists based on topics, format or genres, or you can read some of the more detailed blog posts about specific items.

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Stories Cemeteries Tell

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    Somebody Is Walking on your Grave
    My Cemetery Journeys
    Enriquez, Mariana
    2025
    "Cemeteries have great stories and sometimes I steal some for my books. Mariana Enriquez has been fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager. She visits them frequently…
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    Over My Dead Body
    Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries
    Melville, Greg
    2022
    "A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead. The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his…
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    The Caretakers
    War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II
    DeAngelis, Caitlin Galante
    2024
    "The Caretakers tells the powerful and profound story of the British cemetery gardeners who remained at their posts in France during the Nazi invasion of World War II, secretly aiding the French…
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    The Secret Life of A Cemetery
    The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise
    Gallot, Benoît
    2025
    "For Benoît Gallot, Père Lachaise is best explored without a guide: You’re guaranteed to lose your way. You’ll feel as though you’ve stepped out of time, out of Paris, and into another place…
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    Grave
    Meier, Allison C.
    2023
    "Examines the design of the grave and how the ways in which we care for the dead are changing as old systems of burial are seen as expensive and unsustainable while new trends are emerging for people…
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    The Speaking Stone
    Stories Cemeteries Tell
    Griffith, Michael
    2021
    "The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove…

All for One and One for Fall!

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    I Am Not A Costume
    DesJarlait, Maria
    2025
    Ayasha's school is having a costume party and she is so excited! But when Ayasha arrives at school and sees other students wearing fake regalia, she is confused and upset. She doesn't understand why…
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    Paddington's Trick or Treat
    Bond, Michael
    2024
    Paddington Bear is getting ready for a Halloween party, strictly for family only. He can't wait for the party to start - as soon as he gets home from trick or treating! But nothing goes quite to plan…
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    Autumn Story
    Barklem, Jill
    1999
    A well-to-do little mouse, exploring on her own, experiences both pleasant and frightening adventures before she is safely home again.
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    The Leaf Thief
    Hemming, Alice
    2021
    Squirrel enjoys looking at the beautiful, colorful leaves, but everyday more and more disappear which makes him think someone is stealing them. Includes information on seasonal leaf loss in Autumn.
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    The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole
    Heikkilä, Cecilia
    2025
    "Fox and Mole live alone on a headland, in two houses, side by side. Mole is carefree and self-centred. Fox is responsible and self-sacrificing. As autumn draws in, the friends read a spooky story…
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    A Fall Day for Bear
    Becker, Bonny
    2025
    One fall day Bear is getting ready to have a picnic with Mouse. But when it's time to leave together, there is no tap, tap, tapping on Bear's front door. Where is Mouse, small and gray and…

No More People Pleasing! Is It OK? Are You Mad? Sorry!

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    Fawning
    Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves--and How to Find Our Way Back
    Clayton, Ingrid
    2025
    "From a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing fawning, an often-overlooked piece of the fight-flight-freeze reaction to trauma--explaining…
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    Stop People Pleasing
    And Find your Power
    Magee, Hailey
    2024
    "A practical, empathetic, and inspiring guide to breaking people-pleasing patterns that can harm our careers, relationships, physical, and psychic health."--Publisher.
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    The Joy of Saying No
    A Simple Plan to Stop People Pleasing, Reclaim Boundaries, and Say Yes to the Life You Want
    Lue, Natalie
    2022
    "Are you still playing a role you learned in childhood to please others, such as the Good Girl/Boy, the Overachiever, or the Helper? Though these kinds of roles may have gained us attention and…
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    Please Yourself
    How to Stop People-pleasing and Transform the Way You Live
    Turrell, Emma Reed
    2021
    "[The author] presents an alternative to people-pleasing. Through the stories of people-pleasers across all walks of life she offers insights and techniques that will help you understand yourself…

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