August - Children's Books

Scaredy Squirrel Has a Birthday Party
Melanie Watt 🍁





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The Fish With the Deep Sea smile   Margaret Wise Brown
A Grand Old Tree   Mary Newell DePalma
Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack   Linley Dodd
Hairy Maclary, SIT   Linley Dodd
Ruthie and (Not so ) Teeny Tiny Lie   Laura Rankin
Polar Bear Morning   Lauren Thompson
Justin est Mauvais Perdant   Philippe & Rob Goosens
Justin n'a peur de rien   Philippe & Rob Goosens
Justin raconte des bobards   Philippe & Rob Goosens
The Big Book of Hockey for Kids   Eric Zweig 🍁
Paper Towns   John Green

August - Fiction

A Distant View of Everything
Alexander McCall Smith







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Cooking for Picasso   Camille Aubray
House of Thieves   Charles Belfoure
Bring Her Home   David Bell
The Book of Summer   Michelle Gable
The Identicals   Elin Hilderbrand
Secrets of the Tulip Sisters   Susan Mallery
Do Not Become Alarmed   Maile Meloy
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo   Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Doomsday Equation   Matt Richtel
The Insider Threat   Brad Taylor
Black List   Brad Thor
Cocoa Beach   Beatriz Williams

August - Non-Fiction

Montreal 1909
Robert N. Wilkins 🍁







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Clear Recollections : Memoirs of Percy Nobb   Percy Nobb 🍁
The Promise of Canada   Charlotte Gray 🍁
Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me   Lorina Mapa 🍁
Jane Austen   Carol Shields

August - DVDs

The Zookeeper's Wife








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The Best of Me
Les Choristes - The Chorus
Mercy Street
Call the Midwife Season Six
The Tunnel Season Two

August - Mysteries

Collared
David Rosenfelt








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The Late Show   Michael Connelly
Black Ship   Carola Dunn
Damsel in Distress   Carola Dunn
Fall of a Philanderer   Carola Dunn
A Stain Upon the Land   John Kalbfleisch 🍁
Cross Justice   James Patterson
Never Never   James Patterson
Impact   Douglas Preston
Two Nights   Kathy Reichs
The Intercept   Dick Wolf

Meditation: Food for Thought

Explore and practice mindfulness with a heart centered approach to health, eating and more.

War Memorial Library

On Thursdays from

12:30 - 1:45 PM

for 11 weeks 

starting Sept 28th and ending Dec 7th

$160 (library members);
$175 (non-members)


Milda Graham, Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist (McGill) 
Contact milda2@sympatico.ca or phone 514-296-9369 to register.

September Book Sale

The September Book Sale starts at 2:30 pm on Monday, September 11th and runs until Saturday, September 16th.
Art books are featured.

The Write Stuff - Kerry Clare

Kerry Clare is a National Magazine Award writer, and editor of The M Word:Conversations about Motherhood, which was published to rave reviews in 2014. The library has a copy of her first novel Mitzi Bytes, which tells the story of Sarah, who starts an anonymous blog after a devastating divorce. Fifteen years later and happily remarried, Sarah writes about the experiences and feelings of her family and friends until someone threatens to expose her. Mitzi Bytes examines the bonds of family and friendship. Kerry Clare lives in Toronto with her husband and two daughters.

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - Happy Valley

Happy Valley is a gritty British crime drama set in West Yorkshire in Northern England. It was created and written by Sally Wainwright, and stars Sarah Lancashire and Siobhan Finneran. Sarah Lancashire plays a police sergeant investigating cases, while having to cope with personal tragedy. It has won BAFTA awards for best drama series and best actress (Lancashire), aswell as numerous nominations. The library has both seasons of this brilliant drama.
Click here for more details.

Library Shoppe - Art Sale

Saturday August 5th

10:00 am until 4:00 pm

War Memorial Library - outside on the lawn 

You are invited to come and see, and hopefully purchase, the amazing pieces of art that have been donated to the Shoppe over the last year - original oil paintings and watercolours; limited edition prints, beautifully framed; and many other interesting pieces of artwork by local, Quebec, Canadian and international artists. 
All 'priced to sell' and suitable for all budgets. 

Murder Ink - Becky Masterman

Becky Masterman created her heroine, Brigid Quinn, while working as an editor for a forensic science and law enforcement press. Her debut thriller, Rage Against the Dying, was a finalist for the Edgar Awards and the CWA Gold Dagger, as well as the Macavity, Barry, ITW and Anthony awards.

The Library has the complete Quinn series recently acquiring Volumes 2 and 3, Fear the darkness and Twist of the knife.

Masterman lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband.  Click here to visit her online.