Marianne Jones was born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where she lives with her husband Reg. Her work has appeared in Room, Wascana Review, Canadian Living, and Reader's Digest, and won awards from the Canadian Authors Association, Writer's Digest, and others. Her as-told-to memoir, The Girl Who Wouldn't Die, won the 2015 Word Alive... Continue Reading →
New and Upcoming Fiction (October 2022)
Click on the title of the book to place a hold! Long Shadows - David Baldacci Memory man FBI agent, Amos Decker, returns in this action-packed thriller to investigate the mysterious and brutal murder of a federal judge and her bodyguard at her home in an exclusive, gated community in Florida. Things are changing for... Continue Reading →
Interview with Nancy Mauro
Nancy Mauro is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel New World Monkeys and The Sugar Thief, a novel about a secret pastry recipe that upends the lives of an entire immigrant family. Nancy grew up in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where her Italian-Canadian family owned the bakery that invented the wildly popular (and equally... Continue Reading →
New and Upcoming Fiction (July 2022)
Click on the title of the book to place a hold! The Life She Had - K.L. Armstrong If someone was threatening your home, how far would you go to protect it? Celeste Turner has a woman living in her shed. A woman who is definitely not supposed to be there. The local police, however,... Continue Reading →
New and Upcoming Fiction (May 2022)
Click on the title of the book to place a hold! Love Marriage - Monica Ali Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father), and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother, Harriet, is a famous feminist. The gulf between families is vast. So, too, is... Continue Reading →
The Book Club Hub – Holocaust Stories (Fiction)
Book clubs offer a great opportunity for friends and book lovers to gather (whether virtually or in person) to catch up and discuss a good book. There’s only two problems with this activity and they seem to come up at every meeting: what book should the group read next and how do you find enough... Continue Reading →
New and Upcoming Fiction (April 2022)
Click on the title of the book to place a hold! Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage - Nancy Atherton It's early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: a newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows, a riverside cottage with a romantic reputation. Will the cottage's... Continue Reading →
New and Upcoming Fiction (March 2022)
Click on the title of the book to place a hold! Dream Town - David Baldacci It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a... Continue Reading →
New and Upcoming Fiction (Jan. 2022)
Click on the title of the book to place a hold! Violeta: A Novel - Isabel Allende 'Violeta' tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the 20th century. From the author of 'A Long Petal of the Sea'. _____________________ The... Continue Reading →
YOUth Review: They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
I’ve heard many good reviews of this book, so I decided to try it out. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same high reviews that were given. They Both Die at the End features two young boys named Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio, who receive a Death-Cast call to give them the news that they will... Continue Reading →