Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Everyone’s familiar with the fate of the Titanic, but very few have heard of the wreck of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the greatest maritime disaster ever in terms of lives lost on a single vessel. As the Red Army advanced through Prussia in 1945, the desperate Germans planned a naval evacuation of refugees and personnel across... Continue Reading →

Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon

  This tale takes us to the final days of the doomed last flight of the Hindenburg.  Lawhon used the actual ship’s manifest to create the characters and the life aboard the airship and carefully weaves a story that is part historical fiction and part mystery. To this day, no one actually knows for sure... Continue Reading →

The Wars by Timothy Findley

The Wars by Timothy Findley Thunder Bay Public Library (TBPL) is leading a major cultural partnership project to commemorate the centennial of World War One. TBPL is also a partner in the City of the Poppy initiative to mark Thunder Bay’s unique role as the city where the poppy was first adopted as a symbol... Continue Reading →

Peter Straub and the Goods

In need of a really good suspenseful piece of fiction, well then  I have the books for you.  Peter Straub stories are indeed suspenseful mysteries, but I should add that a majority are also downright terrifying.  The first Straub book I had read was Koko which was amazing.  What I didn’t know at the time... Continue Reading →

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