Annual tradition of helping those in need

Photo by Madeleine Langlois

War Memorial Library presents cheque donations to 15 local worthwhile causes.

These monies are the result of careful expenditure by our library volunteers, the dedicated hard work of our amazing Shoppe volunteers who prepare the weekly Saturday morning sale as well as our loyal customers who purchase the donated items at very reasonable prices – true community spirit!

December - Children's Books

Merry Christmas Squirrels! 
Nancy Rose 🍁






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L'Agent Jean!Les Dossiers secret de Moignons   Alex A 🍁
Stilton, Les Olympiques en Danger!   Geronimo Stilton
Pepin le Pingouin   Lucie Papineau 🍁
Martin le pingouin a un nouveau voisin   Yann Walcker
Bird & Squirrel On the Run   James Burks
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #12:The Getaway   Jeff Kinney
Jingle   Gordon Korman
Laugh Out Loud   James Patterson
Big Nate: Say Good-Bye to Dork City   Lincoln Peirce
Who Killed Darius Drake   Rodman Philbrick
Baby-sitters Club#5:Dawn and the Impossible Three   Raina Telegmeir
Prehistoric Life   William Lindsay
Incredible Animals: Eye Opening Photos of Animals   Playbac
Thank You for Being My Friend   Peter Bentley
Olivia and the Fairy Princesses   Ian Falconer
Here Comes T-Rex Cottontail   Lois Gambling
Loretta, Ace Pinky Scout   Keith Graves
Looking for Loons   Jennifer Lloyd 🍁
Spider-Man Ghosts,Ghouls, and the Hobgoblin   Marvel Comics
Carson Crosses Canada   Kass  Reich 🍁
Scaredy Squirrel Has a Birthday Party   Melanie Watt 🍁

December - Teens

Do Beavers Eat Poutine?
H.Becker 🍁







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Beware the Batman   D.C.Comics
Wonder Woman: Love and Murder   D.C.Comics
Christmas in Quebec   Megan Durnford 🍁
Warriors, Power of Three#2: Dark River   Erin Hunter
Warriors, Power of Three #3:Outcast   Erin Hunter
Restart   Gordon Korman
The Female of the Species   Mindy McGinnis
This Darkness Mine   Mindy McGinnis
Kids Book of Canada at War   Elizabeth MacLeod 🍁
Kids Book of Canadian History   Carlotta Hacker

December - Non-Fiction

Nujeen : One Girl's Incredible Journey
Nujeen Mustafa







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The Ghost Orchard   Helen Humphreys 🍁
Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle   Mikael Lindnord
Sweet   Yotam Ottolenghi & Helen Goh
The Simple Bites Kitchen   Aimee Winbush - Bourque 🍁
How to Decorate   Joa Studholme & Charlotte Cosby
Beads in a Necklace   Janice Hamilton 🍁
The Battle of Waterloo   Jeremy Black
The Last Canadian Knight   Gordon Pitts 🍁
Passage Across the Mersey   Robert Bhatia 🍁
Bonnie and her 21 Children   Fred Cappucino 🍁
Lightfoot (Gordon)   Nicholas Jennings 🍁

December - Fiction

The Elephant's Journey
Jose Saramago







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4321   Paul Auster
The Quarry   Iain Banks
Things That Happened Before the Earthquake   Chiara Barzini
The Shopkeeper's Daughter   Lilly Baxter
The Visitors   Catherine Burns
The Last Ballad   Wiley Cash
Christmas at Little Beach Bakery   Jenny Colgan
The Shoe on the Roof   Will Ferguson 🍁
Makitautik   Nicki Garwood 🍁
First Snow, Last Light   Wayne Johnston 🍁
The Missing Place   Sophie Littlefield
The History of Bees   Maja Lunde
The World of Tomorrow   Brendan Matthews
Holly and Ivy   Fern Michaels
Sport of Kings   C.E.Morgan
Little Fires Everywhere   Celeste Ng
The Sympathizer   Viet Thanh Nguyen
The House at the End of Hope Street   Meena van Praag
We All Love the Beautiful Girls   Joanne Proulx
In the Light of What We Know   Zia Haider Rahman
The Golden House   Salman Rushdie
A Reckoning   Linda Spalding 🍁
An Irish Country Practice   Patrick Taylor
Resurrection of Joan Ashby   Cherise Wolas
A Little Life   Hanya Yanagihara

December - Mysteries

A Tapping at My Door
David Jackson







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Death in St Petersburg   Tasha Alexander
On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service   Rhys Bowen
A Shimmer of Hummingbirds   Steve Burrows 🍁
Let the Dead Speak   Jane Casey
Enigma   Catherine Coulter
The Child Finder   Rene Denfield
Murder in a Small Town   Frank Hicks 🍁
Judgment Call   J.A Janice
Never Coming Back   Alison McGhee
Outfoxed   David Rosenfield
The Good Daughter   Karin Slaughter
The Lying Game   Ruth Ware
Wild Orchids   Jude Deveraux
The Fallen   Ace Atkins (Large Print)

December - DVDs

The Durrells in Corfu
Season Two

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

Summertime Christmas

The Write Stuff - Lynne Kutsukake

A third generation Japanese Canadian, Lynne Kutsusake worked as a librarian at the University of Toronto for many years, specialising in Japanese material. Her short fiction has appeared in The Dalhousie Review.
The library has just acquired her first novel, The Translation of Love. This fascinating book is set against the backdrop of post-war Tokyo. A newly repatriated Japanese-Canadian girl helps a classmate find her missing sister. Told through rich, interlocking story lines, The Translation of Love shows how war shapes the lives of the occupiers and the occupied,and how friendship and love transcends culture and borders. For more details click here.

Fine Amnesty until January 7

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - Line of Duty

Line of Duty is an award-winning British police television drama series. It focuses on the anti-corruption unit investigating the police service itself. The library has just acquired the fourth series, which as always is full of plot twists and suspense. The series stars Adrian Dunbar, Martin Compston and Thandie Newton, and is well worth watching. For more details click here.

Murker Ink - Cate Holahan

Cate Holahan is the USA Today Bestselling author of Lies she told, The widower's wife and Dark turns.

An award-winning journalist and former television producer, she has written for Businessweek, The Boston Globe, and The Record newspaper. Her short fiction won first place in the 19th annual Calliope competition, a magazine published by the writer's group of American Mensa.

The library has acquired her most recent novel, Lies she told.  Please use the Suggestion Book at the front desk if you are interested in her previous novels.

Holahan lives in New Jersey with her husband, two daughters and dog Westley.  To visit her online, click here.

November - Non-Fiction

Rachel's Food for Living
Rachel Allen







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In Search of a Better World   Payam Akhavan
Hidden Life of Trees   Peter Wohlleben
Edible Spots & Pots   Stacey Hirvela
Vertical Gardening   Derek Fell
A Bold and Dangerous Family   Caroline Moorehead
Run Hide Repeat   Pauline Dakin
Until I Say Good-Bye   Susan Spencer-Wendel

November - Fiction

Any Dream Will Do
Debbie Macomber







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Mankind and Other Stories of Women   Marianne Ackerman 🍁
Mercy Snow   Tiffany Baker
School of Velocity   Eric Beck Rubin 🍁
This Marlowe   Michelle Butler Hallett 🍁
Kay's Lucky Coin Variety   Ann Y.K.Choi 🍁
The Motorcyclist   George Elliott Clarke 🍁
Black Apple   Joan Crate 🍁
The Cuban Affair   Nelson DeMille
The Vineyard   Maria Duenas
Dinner at the Center of the Earth   Nathan Englander
Leave Me   Gayle Forman
The Rules of Magic   Alice Hoffman
That's My Baby   Frances Itani 🍁
Been in the Storm So Long   Terry Jordan 🍁
The House on Selkirk Avenue   Irena Karafilly 🍁
To Be Where You Are   Jan Karon
The Bloodprint   Ausman Zehanat Khan 🍁
The Translation of Love   Lynne Kutsukake 🍁
The Conjoined   Jen Soofong Lee 🍁
The Crooked Heart of Mercy   Billie Livingston 🍁
The Ninth Hour   Alice McDermott
The Many   Wyl Menmuir
The Burning Girl   Claire Messud
George and Lizzie   Nancy Pearl
Strangers with the Same Dream   Allison Pick 🍁
Principles to Live By   David Adams Richards
Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably   Jill Sexsmith 🍁
House of Spies   Daniel Silva
Night Moves   Richard Van Camp 🍁
Emma in the Night   Wendy Walker
Lost in September   Kathleen Winter 🍁
Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold   Margaret Atwood (Audiobook) 🍁

November - Mysteries

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
Joel Dicker






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The Scarred Woman   Jussi Adler-Olsen
Hide and Seek   M.J.Arlidge
The Winners' Circle   Gail Bowen 🍁
Keep Her Safe   Sophie Hannah
Lies She Told   Cate Holahan
Three Years with the Rat   Jay Hosking
Killing Season   Faye Kellerman
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye   David Lagercrantz
A Legacy of Spies   John LeCarre
Odd Child Out   Gilly MacMillan
Cast Iron   Peter May
All the Missing Girls   Megan Miranda
An Echo of Murder   Anne Perry
A Casualty of War   Charles Todd
Golden Prey   John Sandford ( Large Print )

November - DVDs

Maudie








Click on title for more details:
A Street Cat Named Bob
House of Cards Season Five
Line of Duty Series Four

Holiday Schedule

December Book Sale

The December Book Sale starts at 2:30 pm on Monday, December 4th and runs until Saturday, December 9th. Christmas books are featured.

The Write Stuff - Roz Nay

Roz Nay grew up in England, and studied at Oxford University. She worked as a teacher in the UK and Australia. The library has just acquired a copy of her highly acclaimed first novel, Our Little Secret. Described as compulsive, riveting and suspenseful, Our Little Secret is about a missing woman, a tangled love triangle, the secrets we keep and the secrets we share. Roz now lives in British Columbia with her husband and two children. For more details click here.

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - My Mother and Other Strangers

My Mother and Other Strangers is a 2016 television drama series set in Northern Ireland during the Second World War. It centres on the Coyne family and their neighbours, as they come to terms with the influx of thousands of American serviceman into their small rural community. Compelling weekly stories, incorporating events of the time, focus on the complex love triangle between the mother of the Doyle family, her husband, and a charming American Air Force officer. Click here for more details.

Murder Ink - James Oswald

James Oswald is the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Edinburgh-based Detective Inspector McLean novels, the first two of which were shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Debut Dagger award for best unpublished author.

The library has acquired Dead Men’s Bones, the story about the murder/suicide of a prominent Scottish politician and his family which brings Detective Inspector Tony McLean out to the countryside to investigate. 

Please use the Suggestion Book at the front desk if you would like to read more of his novels. 

In his spare time Oswald farms 350 acres in North East Fife, Scotland, where he raises pedigree Highland cattle and New Zealand Romney sheep. Click here to visit Oswald online.

October - Mysteries

Glass Houses
Louise Penny 🍁







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The Cat Among Us   Louise Carson 🍁
The Kill   Jane Casey
With Malice   Eileen Cook 🍁
The Tooth Tattoo   Peter Lovesey
Devil's Peak   Deon Meyer
Heart of the Hunter   Deon Meyer
Dead Men's Bones   James Oswald
Echoes in Death   J.D.Robb
The Book of Blood and Shadow   Robin Wasserman
Glass Houses   Louise Penny (Audiobook) 🍁

October - DVDs

Grantchester
 Season 3







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My Mother and Other Strangers

October - Fiction

The People at Number 9
Felicity Everett







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A Column of Fire   Ken Follett
Why We Broke Up   Daniel Handler
The Heart of Henry Quantum   Pepper Harding
The Afterlife of Stars   Joseph Kertes 🍁
Read Me Like a Book   Liz Kessler
And the Trees Crept In   Dawn Kurtagich
The Only Cafe   Linden MacIntyre 🍁
Red Hill   Jamie McGuire
Men Without Women   Haruki Murakami
Our Little Secret   Roz Nay
The Only Child   Andrew Pyper 🍁
Daughter of Deep Silence   Carrie Ryan
The Best of Adam Sharp   Graeme Simsion
Kitchens of the Great Midwest   Ryan J.Stradal
Ines of My Soul   Isabel Allende (Large Print)

October - Non-Fiction

Coco Chanel
Justine Picardie







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The Lost Carving   David Esterly
Canada   Mike Myers 🍁
Why Not Me?   Mindy Kaling
Yes Please   Amy Poehler
Russian Tattoo   Elena Gorokhova

October - Children's Books

Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes
Jonathan Auxier 🍁







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Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard   Jonathan Auxier 🍁
Amulet Bk#6: Escape from Lucien   Kazu Kibuishi
Amulet Bk#7: Firelight   Kazu Kibuishi
Seven Wonders #3: The Tomb of Shadows   Peter Lerangis
Big Nate: A Good Old-Fashioned Wedgie   Peirce Lincoln
Dog Man   Dav Pilkey
Dog Man Unleashed   Dav Pilkey
Never Girls #6: The Woods Beyond   Jana Thorpe
Weird Birds   Chris Earley 🍁
Children's Book of Music + CD   Deborah Lock
Chess for Kids   Michael Basman
Thud!   Nick Butterworth
Five Little Fiends   Sarah Dyer
Are you My Mother?   P.D. Eastman
Time to Go Hippo   Bob Hartmann
Duck & Goose Honk!Quack!Boo!   Tad Hills
Pancakes For Supper   Anne Isaacs
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?   Bill Martin
Hugless Douglas   David Melling
Things I Love About Playtime   Tracey Moroney
The Too-Scary Story   Bethanie Deenie Murguia
Bears on Wheels   Stan & Jan Berenstain
Hop on Pop   Dr Seuss
There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom   David Suzuki 🍁
Chase   Linwood Barclay 🍁
Magisterium #1: The Iron Trial   Holly Black
Magisterium #2: The Copper Gauntlet   Holly Black
Magisterium #3: The Bronze Key
Scarlett Epstein Hates it Here   Anna Breslaw
Dreamers Often Lie   Jacqueline West
Ninjago: Build Your Own Adventure   Hannah Dolan
Harry Houdini- Death Defying Showman   Rita Thievon Mullin

Annual Vintage Sale - October 28th

November Book Sale

The November Book Sale starts at 2:30 pm on Monday, November 6th and runs until Saturday, November 11th. Specially priced children's books are featured. 

The Write Stuff - Monia Mazigh

Dr Monia Mazigh is an author and human rights advocat. Born and raised in Tunisia, she emmigrated to Canada in 1991. She holds a PhD in finance from McGill, worked at the University of Ottawa, and stood as an NDP candidate in the 2004 federal election. Dr Mazigh was catapulted onto the world stage in 2002, when she campaigned for the release of her husband, Maher Arar, and then fought to re-establish his reputation.She wrote a book about the ordeal called Hope and Despair.
The library has acquired her second novel, Hope has Two Daughters. It's the story of a mother and daughter, Nadia and Lila. Nadia leaves Tunisia in 1984, and Lila returns in 2010, both times of political revolution.
Dr Mazigh lives in Ottawa with her husband and two children. To read more about her click here

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - Chasing Shadows

Chasing Shadows is a British crime drama folllowing the work of a missing persons unit. Reece Shearsmith plays the socially awkward misfit, Detective Sergeant Sean Stone who would rather work with data than people. He is teamed up with Ruth Hattersley, played by Alex Kingston, who is a born connector able to get on with anyone, but Stone pushes her patience to the limit. Stone's caseload is overwhelming, but his brilliant mind turns out to be perfectly adapted to his new role. The library has the dvd. Click here for more details.

Murder Ink - James Hayman

James Hayman is a transplanted New Yorker. He graduated from Brown and joined a major New York ad agency, eventually becoming creative director on accounts like the US Army, Procter & Gamble, and Lincoln/Mercury. In 2001, he moved to Portland, Maine, with his wife to become a full-time writer.  He has written five novels featuring Portland, Maine detectives Mike McCabe and Maggie Savage, which combined have sold more than half a million copies. 

The Library has acquired his most recent novel, The Girl on the Bridge, as well as Darkness First. Please use the Suggestion Book at the front desk if you would like to read more of his novels.

Click here to visit Hayman online.

September - Audiobooks

A great reckoning 
Penny, Louise 🍁







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Unbroken   Hillenbrand, Laura
Rogue lawyer   Grisham, John
The Tristan betrayal   Ludlum, Robert
The light between oceans   Stedman, M.L.
Red River   Tademy, Lalita
The fix   Baldacci, David
The last mile   Baldacci, David
Alibi   Brown, Sandra
Closed casket   Christie, Agatha
Late show   Connelly, Michael
The narrows Connelly, Michael
Heartbreak Hotel   Kellerman, Jonathan
The black book   Patterson, James
16th seduction   Patterson, James
The nature of the beast   Penny, Louise 🍁

September - Fiction Mystery

The girl on the bridge
James Hayman








The black-eyed blonde   Benjamin Black
Prague nights   Benjamin Black
Y is for yesterday   Sue Grafton
Darkness first   James Hayman
Magpie murders   Anthony Horowitz
The theory of death   Faye Kellerman
Freeze frame   Peter May
Dark Vineyard   Martin Walker
Death in the Dordogne   Martin Walker
Dying season   Martin Walker
Templars' last secret   Martin Walker
In a dark, dark wood   Ruth Ware

September - DVDs

Gifted








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A man called Ove
A united kingdom

September - Fiction

Number 11
Jonathan Coe








New boy   Tracy Chevalier
The bird skinner   Alice Greenway
Camino Island   John Grisham
Exit west   Mohsin Hamid
Her highness, the traitor   Susan Higginbotham
A desperate fortune   Susanna Kearsley
Goodbye, vitamin   Rachel Khong 🍁
Meet me at Beechcomber Bay   Jill Mansell
Hope has two daughters   Monia Mazigh 🍁
The incrementalist   Ian McKercher 🍁
The underling   Ian McKercher 🍁
Lying in wait   Liz Nugent
Unravelling Oliver   Liz Nugent
House of splendid isolation   Edna O'Brien
The breakdown   B.A. Paris
The hatbox letters   Beth Powning 🍁
The coincidence of coconut cake   Amy E. Reichert
The ministry of utmost happiness   Arundhati Roy
Autumn   Ali Smith
Dogs at the perimeter   Madeleine Thien 🍁
Simple recipes   Madeleine Thien 🍁
A gentleman in Moscow   Amor Towles
The Gustav Sonata   Rose Tremain
Crying for the moon   Mary Walsh 🍁
Tin man   Sarah Winman

September - Non-Fiction

Weaponized lies
Daniel J. Levitin 🍁








Poison : An illustrated history   Joel Levy
Secrets from the eating lab   Traci Mann
Across Canada by story   Douglas Gibson 🍁
This is your brain on music   Daniel J. Levitin 🍁
Rock 'N' Radio  Ian Howarth 🍁
Sons and soldiers   Bruce Henderson
Wartime letters home   Lois Macdonald Cooper 🍁
You don't have to say you love me   Sherman Alexie
Where I live now   Sharon Butala 🍁
Wolf   Jim Harrison

September - Junior / Teen Books

Who could that be at this hour?
Lemony Snicket







Super Agent Jon le Bon! #1 : The brain of the apocalypse   Alex A. 🍁
Super Agent Jon le Bon! #2 : Formula V  Alex A. 🍁
The bad guys  Aaron Blabey
A new hope : The princess, the scoundrel and...   Star Wars
Empire strikes back : So you want to be a Jedi?   Star Wars
Dinosaurs in action   Geronimo Stilton
My life as a stuntboy   Janet Tashjian
Canadian Flyer #16 : Arctic storm   Frieda Wishinsky
The finisher   David Baldacci
The swallow : A ghost story   Charis Cotter 🍁
Legend   Marie Lu
Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children   Ransom Riggs
Bone #3 : Eyes of the storm   Jeff Smith
Bone #8 : Treasure hunters   Jeff Smith
Alexandria of Africa   Eric Walters 🍁
Awful Auntie   David Walliams
Grandpa's great escape   David Walliams

September - Livres d'enfants en français

L'agent Jean! #1 : Le cerveau de l'apocalypse   
Alex A. 🍁






L'agent Jean! #3 : Opération moignons   Alex A. 🍁
L'agent Jean! #5 : Le frigo temporel   Alex A. 🍁
Tintin - Le secret de la licorne   Hergé
Amulet #2 : La malédiction du gardien de la pierre   Kibuishi, Kazu
Le ver   Élise Gravel

September - Children's Books

The Zoophabet
Cathryn McNamee 🍁




Norman, speak!   Caroline Adderson
Mr. Tiger goes wild   Peter Brown
Blackie, the horse who stood still   Christopher Cerf
The spider and the fly   Tony DiTerlizzi
Hairy Maclary's showbusiness   Linley Dodd
Mutt dog!   Stephen Michael King
Why should I listen?   Claire Llewellyn
Why should I share?   Claire Llewellyn
The things I love about friends   Tracey Moroney
The things I love about school   Tracey Moroney
Find it and show me   Pat Nicholson 🍁
I don't like spiders but they seem to like me   Pat Nicholson 🍁
A reflection of we   Pat Nicholson 🍁
Sometimes my friends don't look like me...   Pat Nicholson 🍁
Princess and the packet of frozen peas   Tony Wilson

October Book Sale

The October Book Sale starts at 2:30 pm on Monday, October 2nd and runs until Saturday, October 7th.  Cookbooks and sports books are featured.

The Write Stuff - Camille Aubray

Award winning author Camille Aubray studied writing with her mentor Margaret Atwood in Toronto.
Aubray has taught writing at New York University, and written and produced for ABC News, PBS, and A&E. The library has just acquired her first novel Cooking for Picasso. Set on The French Riveira in 1936 (when Pablo Picasso was at a crossroads in his life) and present day New York city, it tells the story of three generations of women and explores the themes of art, culture, cuisine and love. Aubray divides her time between Connecticut and the South of France.
Click here for more details.

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - Mercy Street

Mercy Street is an American period, medical drama television series, created by Lisa Wolfinger and David Zabel. It is set during the Civil War, and follows two volunteer nurses from opposing sides, who work at the Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia. The series was inspired by memoirs and letters from doctors and volunteers who worked there, and prides itself on being historically and medically accurate. Starring McKinley Belcher and Suzanne Bertish, the library has just acquired the first series. Click here for more details.