January Book Sale

The January Book Sale starts at 2:30 pm on Monday, January 7th and runs until Saturday, January 12th.  Biographies and history books are featured.

December - DVDs

The Book Club









Crazy Rich Asians
The Greatest Showman
Janet King - Season 2
The Leisure Seeker
X Company - Season 2

December - Non-Fiction

Becoming 
Michelle Obama









The Library Book   Susan Orlean
Girl, Wash Your Face   Rachel Hollis
Juliet's Answer   Glenn Dixon 🍁
Right Here Right Now   Stephen J. Harper 🍁
The Forgotten   Ben Bradlee Jr.
The Spy and the Traitor   Ben Macintyre
Consumer Reports Buying Guide 2019
Atlantic Seafood  Michael Howell 🍁
21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari
Lands of the Lost Borders  Kate Harris
Midnight Light   Dave Bidini 🍁
Unbuttoned : History of Mackenzie King   Christopher Dummitt 🍁
The Stranger in the Woods   Michael Finkel
Inseparable : The Original Siamese Twins   Yunte Huang

December - Fiction

Tilly and the Crazy Eights 
Monique Gray Smith 🍁








The Power   Naomi Alderman

To Love and to Cherish   Lyn Andrews
A Man Called Ove   Fredrik Backman
The Silence of the Girls   Pat Barker
Outline   Rachel Cusk
The Winters   Lisa Gabriele 🍁
The Other Mother   Carol Goodman
The Reckoning   John Grisham
Our Kind of Cruelty   Araminta Hall
Conspirata   Robert Harris
Cleopatra's Shadows   Emily Holleman
Unsheltered   Barbara Kingsolver
The House of Unexpected Sisters   Alexander McCall Smith
The Bookstore   Deborah Meyler
The Perfect Mother   Aimee Molloy
The Tattooist of Auschwitz   Heather Morris
The Burning Chambers   Kate Mosse
Conversations with Friends   Sally Rooney
The Elizas   Sara Shepard
Courtney's War   Wilbur Smith
Every Breath   Nicholas Sparks
All of Us in Our Own Lives   Manjushree Thapa 🍁
A French Wedding   Hannah Tunnicliff
Shadow Music   Julie Garwood (Large Print)
Red Lily   Nora Roberts (Large Print)

December - Mysteries

Kingdom of the Blind
Louise Penny 🍁 









The Dead Ringer   M.C. Beaton
The Wife   Alafair Burke
Zara's Dead   Sharon Butala 🍁
The Glass Room   Ann Cleeves
The Lightkeepers   Abby Geni
The Princeling of Nanjing   Ian Hamilton 🍁
The Hush   John Hart
Absolute Proof   Peter James
Her Darkest Nightmare   Brenda Novak
The Drifter   Nick Petrie
The Sorbonne Affair   Mark Pryor
Beneath the Abbey Wall   A.D. Scott
North Sea Requiem   A.D. Scott
The Low Road   A.D. Scott
A Kind of Grief   A.D. Scott

The Write Stuff - Kenneth Bonert

Kenneth Bonert was was born in Johannesburg in 1972, and he emigrated to Toronto in 1989 with his parents. He studied Journalism at Ryerson University, and went on to work as a reporter for the Globe and Mail. His first award-winning novel The Lion Seeker was published in 2013, and the library has just received a copy of his new novel, The Mandela Plot. Set in South Africa in the late 1980s, as the apartheid regime is coming to an end, it tells the story of a Jewish immigrant family struggling with secrets from the past, as the country is torn apart by political violence. Bonert still lives in Toronto, for more details click here.

Fine Amnesty until January 8

Annual tradition of helping those in need

Photo by Madeleine Langlois

War Memorial Library presents cheque donations to 17 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!

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - Unforgotten

Unforgotten is an award winning, and critically acclaimed British crime drama television series written by Chris Lang. The programme follows two London detectives, DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker), and DCI Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Baskhar) as they solve cold cases of murder and disappearance. The series introduces seemingly unconnected characters, who are gradually revealed to have some connection with the victim. As the murder mystery unfolds, the emotional ramifications of the crime are also explored in the lives of those affected. The library has just acquired the first series. Click here for more details.

Murder Ink - Kate Moretti

Kate Moretti is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels and a novella.  She has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 20 years as a scientist, and has been an avid fiction reader her entire life.

The library acquired her most recent novel In Her Bones -- Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for murdering six women. After a death row conviction and media frenzy, her daughter Edie is just trying to survive out of the spotlight, but has a disturbing secret: an obsession with the families of Lilith's victims. Then one man is found murdered and she becomes the prime suspect.--

Moretti lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.  To visit her online, click here.

November - Audiobooks

The Rules of Magic 
Alice Hoffman





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Margaret Atwood Presents Stories by Canadian Women Authors 🍁
The Bancroft Strategy   Robert Ludlum
One Step Away   Sherryl Woods
Robicheaux   James Lee Burke
Full Wolf Moon   Lincoln Child
Dangerous Minds   Jane Evanovich
Therapy   Jonathan Kellerman
Legacy of Spies   John LeCarre
The Demon Crown   James Rollins
Dishonorable Intentions   Stuart Woods

November - Mysteries

The Cat Vanishes
Louise Carson 🍁








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The Woman in the Woods   John Connolly
Lie to Me   J.T.Ellison
Tear Me Apart   J.T.Ellison
The Witch Elm   Tana French
Lethal White   Robert Galbraith
Agent in Place   Mark Greaney
Aurore   Graham Hurley
Hellbent   Gregg Hurwitz   
Walking Shadows   Faye Kellerman
Now We Are Dead   Stuart MacBride
In Her Bones   Kate Moretti
Haunted   James Patterson
After Anna   Lisa Scottoline
Under My Skin   Lisa Unger
The Late Show   Michael Connelly (Large Print)
Two Kinds of Truth   Michael Connelly (Large Print)
Twisted Prey   John Sandford (Large Print)

November - Fiction

Transcription 
Kate Atkinson








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The Mandela Plot   Kenneth Bonert 🍁
The Empty Throne   Bernard Cornwell
Shadow Tyrants   Clive Cussler
The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers   Terri-Lynne DeFino
Every Note Played   Lisa Genova
In a Cottage in a Wood   Cass Green
The Lieutenant   Kate Grenville
We Were the Lucky Ones   Georgia Hunter
Conqueror Book 5   Conn Iggulden
Empire of Silver Book 4   Conn Iggulden
The Exes' Revenge   Jo Jakeman 🍁
Ashley Bell   Dean Koontz
The Incendiaries   R.O.Kwon
Oogy : The Dog only a Family Could Love   Larry Levin
The Discreet Hero   Mario Vargas Llosa
The Clockmaker's Daughter   Kate Morton
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle   Haruki Murakami
Where the Crawdads Sing   Delia Owens
I Invited Her In   Adele Parks
The Lightkeeper's Daughters   Jean E Pendziwol
A Spark of Light   Jodi Picoult
Shelter in Place   Nora Roberts
The Wildings   Nilanjana Roy
The Fear   C.L.Taylor
Clock Dance   Anne Tyler
See Me   Nicholas Sparks (Large Print)
Two by Two   Nicholas Sparks (Large Print)
The Light Between the Oceans   M.L.Stedman (Large Print)

November - DVDs

The Miniaturist










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Shetland Season Four
Unforgettable
Unforgotten Season One
Victoria Season Two

November - Non-Fiction

The Flame 
Leonard Cohen









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Promise Me, Dad   Joe Biden
Fear : Trump in the White House   Bob Woodward
Kitchen Cabinet Cures
The Cost of Living   Deborah Levy
The Patriarch   David Nasaw

November - Children's Books

5 Minute Star Wars Stories 
Star Wars (Disney)








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Discover Earth   Kate Johnson
Matter and Forces   Kate Johnson
Energy and Electricity   Kate Johnson
The Modern World   Kate Johnson
Ancient Civilizations   Kate Johnson
Little Lucy   Ilene Cooper
Haley and Bix:Late for School   Scott Higgs 🍁
Pinkalicious:Pinkie Promises   Victoria Kann
Pinkalicious:School Rules   Victoria Kann
Fire in the Forest!   Lego City
Spider-Man Versus the Green Goblin   Marvel Comics
Fancy Nancy and the Boy from Paris   Jane O'Connor
Who Would Win? Killer Whale v Great White Shark   Jerry Pallota
Who Would Win? Lion v Tiger   Jerry Pallota
Rainbow Fish: The Dangerous Deep   Marcus Pfister
Splat the Cat Goodnight Sleep Tight   Rob Scotton
Splat the Cat Makes Dad Glad   Rob Scotton
Splat the Cat Splat and Seymour, Best Friends Forever   Rob Scotton
Splat the Cat takes the Cake   Rob Scotton
Splat the Cat with a Bang and a Clang   Rob Scotton
There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Bat   Lucille Colando
There was an Old Lady who Swallowed Some Leaves   Lucille Colando
Olivia Helps With Christmas   Ian Falconer
Little Miss Bossy   Adam Hargreaves
Little Miss Curious   Adam Hargreaves
Mr. Bump   Adam Hargreaves
Mr. Funny   Adam Hargreaves
How to be a baby by Me, The Big Sister   Sally Lloyd-Jones
Have you Filled a Bucket Today?   Carol McCloud
Peanut Butter & Jelly Aliens   Joe McGee
Peace at Last   Jill Murphy
Keeper of the Lost Cities#1   Shannon Messenger
Keeper of the Lost Cities#2: Exile   Shannon Messenger
Keeper of the Lost Cities#3: Everblaze   Shannon Messenger
Boy in the Dress   David Walliams
Do Not Open   John Farndon
Primates   Jim Ottaviani

November - Livres d'enfants en français

Noël de Nicolas 
Tibo, Gilles 🍁







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Le grand livre de l'astronomie   Miles, Lisa et Smith, Alastair

Les dinosaures   Coombes, Rachel et Harris, Nicolas
Les insectes   Beaumont, Émilie
Les tigres   Kalman, Bobbie
Paris sauvage   Dedieu, Thierry
Zak et Zoé : Peur pas peur, j'y vais !   Gravel, François 🍁
Zak et Zoé : À nous deux, barbe-mauve !   Gravel, François 🍁
Zak et Zoé : Une journée de chien   Gravel, François 🍁
Zoélie l'allumette #1 : Le garçon oublié   Potvin, Marie 🍁
Zoélie l'allumette #2 : Le fauteur de troubles   Potvin, Marie 🍁
Arbre aux ballons   Gilman, Phoebe 🍁
Aventures de Cyprienne : Le Cécilia L.   Séguin, Chantal 🍁
Nicolas, roi du filet !   Tibo, Gilles 🍁
Kid Paddle #4 : Full métal casquette   Midam
Bone #4 : Le chasseur de dragons   Smith, Jeff

Holiday Schedule

December Book Sale

The December Book Sale starts at 2:30 pm on Monday, December 3rd and runs until Saturday, December 8th.  Christmas books are featured.

The Write Stuff - Rawi Hage

Rawi Hage is a Lebanese-Canadian writer and photographer based in Montreal. His first two novels, De Niro's Game and Cockroach, were both nominated for the Giller Prize and The Governor General's Literary Award. The Library has just received a copy of his latest award-winning novel, Beirut Hellfire Society. Set in Beirut in the war torn 1970s, it tells the story of Pavlov the son of a dead undertaker, who arranges secret burials for people deemed an outcast because of their atheism or other beliefs.Combining comedy and tragedy it's a brilliant, urgent meditation on what it's like to live through war. Hage lives with his partner the author Madeleine Thien. For more details click here

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - X Company

X Company is a Canadian-Hungarian spy thriller television series, created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern. The series takes place during World War II, and follows five recruits as they are trained as agents at a secret Canadian training facility, Camp X near Lake Ontario east of Toronto, and then sent out into the field in Europe. X Company stars Evelyne Brochu, Jack Lasky and Warren Brown. For more details click here.

Interactive Storytelling - November 9th

Murder Ink - Mindy Mejia

Mindy Mejia was born and raised in a small-town-turned-suburb in the Twin Cities area. She received a BA from the University of Minnesota and an MFA from Hamline University.  Mejia writes what she likes to read: contemporary, plot-driven books that deliver both entertainment and substance. She is the author of The Dragon Keeper and Everything You Want Me To Be (in our collection).  The library has acquired her most recent novel, Leave No Trace, which follows the mysterious disappearance of a boy and his stunning return ten years later.

She lives in the Twin Cities with her husband and two children.  To visit her online, click here.

October - Mysteries

The Killing Habit 
Mark Billingham








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The Clairvoyants   Karen Brown
Wild Fire   Ann Cleeves
Carte Blanche   Jeffrey Deaver
A Willing Murder   Jude Deveraux
Field of Bones   J.A.Jance
I Know You Know   Gilly MacMillan
Leave No Trace   Mindy Mejia
The Room of White Fire   T. Jefferson Parker
Swift Vengeance   T. Jefferson Parker
Fifty Fifty   James Patterson
The Man Who Came Uptown   George Pelecanos
What Remains of Her   Eric Rickstad
Leverage in Death   J.D Robb
Black Diamond   Martin Walker
A Taste for Vengeance   Martin Walker
Dead Ringer   Lisa Scottoline (Large Print)

October - DVDs

Chappaquiddick









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The Crown Series 2
The French Village Series 2
Hillary - Everest and Beyond
Marcella Season 1
Viceroy's House
Wonder
Loch Ness Series 1 ( Blu-Ray )

October - Non-Fiction

Her Again : Becoming Meryl Streep
Michael Schulman








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Red Notice   Bill Browder
Breaking Addiction : a 7-Step Handbook   Lance M Dodes
Without Grain   Hayley Barisa Ryczek
Gluten - Free   Vanessa Weisbord
Bernadin Guide to Preserving
The Art of Preserving   Lisa Atwood
London   Eyewitness
Naples and Pompeii   Knopf
Spain   Eyewitness
China   Damian Harper
Thailand with Side Trips to Cambodia and Laos   Fodor
Walt Disney World   Rona Gindin
Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands   Regis St Louis
Mistress of Paris   Catherine Hewitt

October - Children's Books

Baby Mouse #3: Beach Babe
Jennifer & Matt Holm








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Baby Mouse #3: Queen of the World
Stink #7 : Stink and the Midnight Zombie Walk   Megan McDonald
Squirrels   Justine Ciovacco
I've Lost My Cat    Phillipe Beha 🍁
Ella Sets Sail   Caemela & Steven D'Amico
Mr Mergler, Beethoven and Me   David Gutnick 🍁
I Love You Mommy   Jillian Harker
Fancy Nancy and the Sensational Babysitter   Jane O'Connor
Small Saul   Ashley Spires 🍁
How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow   Monica Sweeney
Star Wars Character Encyclopedia   Star Wars
Time Machine   H.G.Wells
World Religions   Susan Meredith
Crime and Detection   Brian Lane
Canadian Spies   Tom Douglas 🍁

October - Livres d'enfants en français

Méchant minou à l'école
Bruel, Nick








Cliquez sur le titre pour plus de details:
Mercy Watson en balade   DiCamillo, Kate
Winx Club : Le pouvoir de Charmix   Marvaud, Sophie
Winx Club : Le rêve de Musa   Marvaud, Sophie
Winx Club : Le village des mini-fées   Marvaud, Sophie
Beaucoup trop de bagages !   Munsch, Robert 🍁
Petit prince   de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
Secret de l'île des baleines   Stilton, Téa
Trésor du bateau viking   Stilton, Téa
Rock à Raxford !   Stilton, Téa
Nuss en voage   Cittone, Jenny
Nancy et les papillons exquis   O'Connor, Jane
Aventures de Cypriennes : Le géant   Séguin, Chantal
Basile et professeure Boule de poils   Spires, Ashley 🍁
Nicolas joueur étoile   Tibo, Gilles 🍁
Surprise de Nicolas !   Tibo, Gilles 🍁
Teddy Mars : Presque gagnant   Burnham, Molly B.
Journal d'Alice #1   Louis, Sylvie 🍁
Journal d'Alice #2 : Lola Falbala   Louis, Sylvie 🍁
Kid Paddle #1 : Jeux de vilains   Midam
Kid Paddle #12 : Panik Room   Midam
Bone #5 : Le seigneur des marches de l'est   Smith, Jeff
Légendaires #5 : Coeur du passé   Sobral, Patrick
Légendaires #6 : Main du futur   Sobral, Patrick

October - Fiction

The Night Visitor 
Lucy Atkins








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The Forever Summer   Jamie Brenner
Point of Contact   Tom Clancy
French Exit   Patrick DeWitt 🍁

Washington Black   Esi Edugyan 🍁

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock   Imogen Hermes Gowar
Less   Andrew Sean Greer
Beirut Hellfire Society   Rawi Hage 🍁
The Friendly Ones   Philip Hensher
Arranged   Catherine McKenzie 🍁
My Year of Rest and Relaxation   Ottessa Moshfegh
Pretty Little Liars, Vol 1&2   Sara Shepherd
The Christmas Secret   Karen Swan
Women Talking   Miriam Toews 🍁

Annual Vintage Sale - November 3rd

November Book Sale

The November Book Sale starts at 2:30 pm on Monday, November 5th and runs until Saturday, November 10th.  Specially priced children's books are featured.

The Write Stuff - David Bell

David Bell is an award-winning American author. He is an associate professer of English at Western Kentucky University, where he directs an MFA in creative writing. The library has just acquired a copy of his latest novel, Somebody's Daughter : Michael Frazier's ex-wife Erica unexpectedly turns up on his doorstep, and drops a bombshell that her ten year old daughter is missing, and he is the father. Unsure whether this is the truth, but unwilling to leave the girl's fate to chance, Michael has no choice but to follow the elusive trail of the child he has always wanted, but never knew he had. David Bell lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with his wife, writer Molly McCaffrey. To visit him online click here.

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - The Coroner

The Coroner is a BBC drama series created by Sally Abbott, starring Claire Goose as Jane Kennedy, a coroner based in Lighthaven a fictional South Devon coastal town. She works with a Detective Sergeant, Davey Higgins, played by Matt Bardock, who broke her heart when they were childhood sweethearts. They investigate any sudden, violent or unexplained deaths in the town. The library has just acquired the first season. Click here for more details.

Murder Ink - Shari Lapena

Shari Lapena is a Canadian novelist. Lapena worked as a lawyer and as an English teacher before turning to writing fiction. 

An Unwanted Guest is the twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, her suspense debut, and A Stranger in the House, both New York Times and international bestsellers.

About An Unwanted Guest -- A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway . . . but when the storm hits, no one is getting away. --

Lapena lives in Toronto.  To visit her online, click here.

September - Fiction

Suddenly, Love 
Aharon Appelfeld








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Somebody's Daughter   David Bell
Believe Me   JP Delaney
The Bad Daughter   Joy Fielding🍁
Watching You   Lisa Jewell
Burial Rites   Hannah Kent
We Were Liars   E. Lockhart
Martin Sloane   Michael Redhill
The Other Woman   Daniel Silva
The Story Hour   Thrity Umrigar
The Shadows We Mistake for Love   Tom Wayman 🍁
If I Could Tell You   Elizabeth Wilhide

September - Non-Fiction

Oranges and Sunshine 
Margaret Humphreys











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Portugal   Eyewitness Travel
Israel   Fodor's
Israel : the Bradt Travel Guide   Samantha Wilson
Montreal & Quebec   Frommer's
Hemingway in Love : His Own Story     A.E.Hotchner
God & Churchill   Jonathan Sandys
Coastal Lives   Marjorie Simmins 🍁

September - Mysteries

A Noise Downstairs
Linwood Barclay 🍁








Click on title for more details:
The Evil that Men Do   Michael Blair 🍁
The Gifted   Gail Bowen 🍁
Poacher's Road   John Brady
The Word is Murder   Anthony Horowitz
Need You Dead   Peter James
The Book of You   Claire Kendal
An Unwanted Guest   Shari Lapena 🍁
Behind Closed Doors (Beatrice Stubbs )   J.J.Marsh
Count to Ten   James Patterson
Burning Bright   Nick Petrie
Careless Love   Peter Robinson 🍁
The Other Wife   Michael Robotham
Pieces of Her   Karin Slaughter
Still Water   Amy Stuart 🍁
Infamy   Robert K Tanenbaum
The Death of Mrs Westaway   Ruth Ware

September - DVDs

All the Money in the World









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Alias Grace
The Coroner Season One
Darkest Hour
Goodbye Christopher Robin
The Lost City of Z
Murder on the Orient Express
A Place to Call Home Season 5
X Company Season One

October Book Sale

The October Book Sale starts at 2:30 pm on Monday, October 1st and runs until Saturday, October 6th.  Art books are featured.

Meditation Class

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The Write Stuff - Lucy Atkins

Lucy Atkins is an award winning British author and journalist.She has a background in literary and feature journalism, is a book critic for The Sunday Times, and she teaches creative writing. The library has acquired a copy of her second novel, The Other Child. This tense, beautifully written novel, tells the story of Tess, married to Greg a heart surgeon, who relocates to Boston while pregnant with her second child. Winter is coming, she is isolated and is convinced someone is watching the house. Lucy Atkins lives in Oxford with her family. To visit her online click here.