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.