December - Fiction Mystery

The Gang of Four  

Sheila Kindellan-Sheehan 🍁

Foxglove Summer Ben Aaronovitch
Broken Homes Ben Aaronovitch
Moon Over Soho Ben Aaronovitch
Rivers of London Ben Aaronovitch
Whispers Under Ground Ben Aaronovitch

Snow   John Banville

Above the Bay of Angels   Rhys Bowen

Cold As Ice   Allison Brennan

Fortune and Glory   Janet Evanovich

You Betrayed Me   Lisa Jackson

Golden in Death   J.D. Robb

Indulgence in Death   J.D. Robb

Still Here   Amy Stuart

Confessions on the 7:45   Lisa Unger

December - Fiction

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek 

Kim Michele Richardson

The Sellout  Paul Beatty

Stranger in the Lake   Kimberly Belle

The Library of Legends   Janie Chang

Trust Exercise   Susan Choi

A Time for Mercy   John Grisham

In Our Mad and Furious City   Guy Gunaratne

The Last Wife   Karen Hamilton

Warrior of Altaii   Robert Jordan

The Henna Artist   Alka Joshi

The War Widow   Tara Moss 🍁

December - Non Fiction

  

      Buying Guide 2021

      Consumer Reports

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You Are Awesome  Neil Pasricha🍁

December - DVDs

 

The Crown

Season 3

The Americans - Season 5

Bad Education

Call the Midwife - Season 9

Cats

Jack Ryan - Season 2

Reminder: No Book Donations

Given library operations are suspended, no book donations will be accepted until further notice.

November - Non-Fiction

Home Work : A Memoir of My Hollywood Years 
Julie Andrews

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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence   Peter Mayle
Rush to Danger : Medics in the Line of Fire   Ted Barris 🍁
Rising Tides : Reflections for Climate Changing Times  Catriona Sandilands 🍁
War : How Conflict Shaped Us   Margaret MacMillan 🍁

November - Fiction

The Last Train to London 
Meg Waite Clayton

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The Last Romantics   Tara Conklin
The Daughter's Tale   Armando Lucas Correa
North of Boston   Elisabeth Elo
The Lying Life of Adults   Elena Ferrante
The Evening and the Morning   Ken Follett
The World That We Knew   Alice Hoffman
The Last High   Daniel Kalla
Ask Again,Yes   Mary Beth Keane
Consent   Annabel Lyon
The Glass Hotel   Emily St.John Mandel 🍁
Convenience Store Woman   Sayaka Murata
Dear Evelyn   Kathy Page 🍁
A Woman is no Man   Etaf Rum
The German Heiress   Anika Scott
The Woman Before Wallis   Bryn Turnbull 🍁
The President is Missing   Bill Clinton ( Audiobook 7 Discs) 

November - Mysteries

 The Cutting Place  
 Jane Casey

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The Darkest Evening   Ann Cleeves
The Searcher   Tana French
Find Them Dead   Peter James
Lockdown   Peter May
Still Life   Val McDermid
Song for the Dark Times   Ian Rankin

October - Fiction and Non-Fiction

Anxious People 
Fredrik Backman

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American Dirt   Jeanine Cummins
The Pull of the Stars   Emma Donoghue 🍁
Five Little Indians   Michelle Good 🍁
Rabbit Foot Bill   Helen Humphreys 🍁
The Company We Keep   Frances Itani 🍁
The Jane Austen Society   Natalie Jenner 🍁
The Peppermint Tea Chronicles   Alexander McCall Smith
Mayflies   Andrew O'Hagan
The Dilemma   B.A.Paris
The Book of Two Ways   Jodi Picoult
A Thousand Splendid Suns   Khaled Hosseini (Audiobook 5 Discs)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption   Bryan Stevenson
Simply Italian   Michela Chiappa
The Secret   Rhonda Byrne ( Audiobook 4 Discs)

October - Mysteries

 Blame 
 Jeff Abbott

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The Unlocking Season   Gail Bowen 🍁
Troubled Blood   Robert Galbraith
The Gilded Cage   Camilla Lackberg
The End of Her   Shari Lapena 🍁
Broken Ground   Val McDermid
All the Devils Are Here   Louise Penny
Long Shadows   Ian Rankin
The Silent Wife   Karin Slaughter
One by One   Ruth Ware
A Wanted Man   Lee Child (Audiobook 5 Discs)
Life Sentences   Laura Lippman (Audiobook 9 Discs)

September - Mysteries

The Guest List 
Lucy Foley 

The Accident on the A35   Raymond Brunet
Worst Case Scenario   Helen Fitzgerald
Invisible Blood   Maxim Jakubowski
Bury the Lead   Archer Mayor
A Bitter Truth   Charles Todd
A Forgotten Place   Charles Todd

September - Fiction and Non-Fiction

Whistle in the Dark   
Emma Healey

 

Lost Lake   Sarah Addison Allen
All We Left Behind   Danielle R Graham 🍁
The Song of Achilles   Madeline Miller
Hamnet & Judith   Maggie O'Farrell
The Choice   Nicholas Sparks ( Audiobook 4 CDs )
On Immunity   Eula Bliss
Dog Poems   Louise Carson

September - Children's Books

Cat and Dog   

Helen Oswald

Changes for Kit   American Girl ( Valerie Tripp)
Really Truly Ruthie   American Girl (Valerie Tripp)
Kailey   American Girl Today
The Penderwicks at Last   Jeanne Birdsall
Enemies of the Ninja   Julia March 
Ninja Training   Catherine Saunders
Ninja, Go!   Catherine Saunders
Astérix et la Transitalique   Goscinny & Uderzo
A Day at the Zoo
Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I don't)   Barbara Bottner
The Name Jar   Yangsook Choi
That's Not Funny Bunny!   Bethany Rose Hines
Fox Family Adventures   Bobbie Kalman
Blended   Sharon M Draper
HaddiX#1: Among the Hidden   Margaret Peterson
HaddiX#2: Among the Imposters   Margaret Peterson
HaddiX#3: Among the Betrayed   Margaret Peterson
90 Days of Different   Eric Walters 🍁
Safe as Houses   Eric Walters 🍁

Chair Yoga and Meditation

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Adapted Library Services in Times of COVID-19

The library is offering a service of contactless loans to its members, available by appointment only, effective August 8th. 

 

You will be able to:

• return borrowed items in a book drop box
• request available items online via email wmlbookorders@gmail.com
• pick up available items you requested
• by appointment, on Saturday afternoons only, at the time you have been allocated

When should borrowed items be returned?  

On Saturday afternoons, in the drop box located on the front stairs of the library.

 

How to request items remotely?

By email to wmlbookorders@gmail.com.  Make sure you request up to five books and/or four DVDs.  We will do our best to fulfill your order and provide you with a maximum of three books and/or two DVDs requested per order. 

• Click on “Online Search” under WAR MEMORIAL LIBRARY CATALOGUE (right side of this blog page).
• Include the call number of each item, the title as well as the author (if applicable).
• Indicate the time slot of your choice on Saturday.
• early afternoon (noon - 2:00) or mid-afternoon (2:00 - 4:00)
• your time slot will be confirmed by email on Friday
• Submit your order by email to wmlbookorders@gmail.com no later than Tuesday at midnight.
• You must submit your order by Tuesday, August 4th, for the first pick up on Saturday, August 8th.

Library volunteer staff will confirm by email on Friday the time your order will be ready to be picked up on Saturday. 

What to expect during your appointment?

Come to the library at your allocated time.  If you arrive late or miss your appointment, we will have to reschedule your appointment in order to ensure everyone's safety.  Unfortunately, the books will be re-shelved and you will have to resubmit your request.

• Once you arrive at your appointed time, knock on the door and enter the vestibule to alert volunteer staff of your presence.
• You must wear a mask upon entering and use the hand sanitizer on the shelf.
• The volunteer will place your bag on the table located in front of the bay windows.
• Wait until the volunteer indicates you can come through to pick up your bag and exit through the next set of doors to the outside.

Duration of loan period?

The available items you requested will be signed out in your name. 

• Due date is 14 days for books, audiobooks and DVDs.
• Borrowed items can be returned on Saturday afternoons in the drop box located on the front stairs of the library.
• All returned items will be quarantined for 72 hours.
• The library will keep your membership cards to record when items are borrowed and returned.
• If you have not already done so, drop off your library cards on August 1st, between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm, in order to place an order for pick up on August 8th.  Otherwise, you can drop them off on any Saturday.  
• We cannot fulfill an order until we have your cards on file at the library.
•  NOTE: If you still have any outstanding books to be returned, you can deposit them in the drop box on the front stairs when you drop off your library cards on August 1st.

NOTE:  All memberships have been extended by four months.

How is the safety of our patrons and volunteer staff ensured?

• Volunteers will be practicing physical distancing; both patrons and volunteers will be wearing masks. 
• Regular cleaning and handwashing will be routine throughout the library shift.
• We recommend washing your hands after handling library materials.
• The library remains closed to the public. 
• We are unable to accept donations at this time.

July - Fiction & Fiction Mystery

Fiction   

Camino Winds   John Grisham

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Fiction Mystery

A Darkness More Than Night  Michael Connelly

Devil's Code  John Sandford  

Hanged Man's Song  John Sandford

The Night Crew  John Sandford

June - DVDs

Harriet

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1917

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Dark Waters

Howards End

Joker

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

May - DVDs

Call the Midwife   Season 8







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The Durrells in Corfu   Season 4
In the Dark   Season 1
Jojo Rabbit
Little Women
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
The Song of Names
Vera   Season 4

May - Fiction

Grown Ups
Marion Keyes







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Bone Black   Carol Rose Goldeneagle 🍁
The Kingfisher Secret   Anonymous

May - Mysteries

A Dream of Death
Connie Berry







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A Dangerous Man   Robert Crais
Fair Game   Annette Dashofy
The Good Killer   Harry Dolan
The Killing lll   David Hewson
The Museum of Desire   Jonathan Kellerman
Lazarus   Lars Kepler
The July Locks   Phoebe Locke
Cold Bones   David Mark
Scorched Earth   David Mark
Throw Me to the Wolves   Patrick McGuiness
Long Bright River   Liz Moore
Death in the East   Abir Mukherjee
Bury Them Deep   James Oswald
When It's Time for Leaving   Ang Pompano
Crooked River   Douglas Preston
Your Life is Mine   Nathan Ripley 🍁
Blood & Sugar   Laura Shepherd - Robinson
Critical Incidents   Lucie Whitehouse
The Border   Don Winslow

Collecting Items - Saturday, July 4

In our ongoing process of planning for a possible reopening we are reaching out to our members who were unable to return books and DVDs on our two collection days. We are setting up another day to try to collect as many of the remaining items as possible so that we may move forward.

We will again be collecting items on Saturday, July 4, from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm. As before, there will be bags and bins available for you to place your books, DVDs and library cards in outside the library doors.

Thank you.

April - Mysteries

The Third to Die 
Allison Brennan







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Fatal Cajun Festival   Ellen Byron
Perfect Silence   Helen Fields
The Missing Ones   Edwin Hill
Metropolis   Philip Kerr
A Deadly Divide   Ausma Zehanat Khan 🍁
A Matter of Malice   Thomas King 🍁
One Night Gone   Tara Laskowski
Murder Once Removed   S.C.Perkins
Last Day   Luanne Rice
The Murder List   Hank Ryan
Near Enemy   Adam Sternbergh
A Divided Loyalty   Charles Todd
Staging is Murder   Grace Topping
The Resistance Man   Martin Walker

April - Children's Books

The Wizard's Wand 
Geronimo Stilton








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Lift and Look Pirates   Pam Beasant
See Inside Pirate Ships   Rob Lloyd
Chrissa   Mary Casanova
Grace    Mary Casanova

April - Fiction and Non-Fiction

A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself 
William Boyle







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The Escape Room   Megan Goldin
A Small Revolution in Germany   Philip Hensher
The Sparsholt Affair   Alan Hollinghurst
Sleeping Beauties  Stephen King
Longing for Yesterday   Debbie Macomber
Sisters by Choice   Susan Mallery
Saturdays at Noon   Rachel Marks
Strange Hotel   Elmear McBride
The Cockroach   Ian McEwan
Titans   Leila Meacham
Weather   Jenny Offill
Foe   Iain Reid 🍁
Here We Are   Graham Swift
Mum & Dad   Joanna Trollope
The Sad Part Was   Prabda Yoon
The Volunteer   Jack Fairweather
Comfort Food

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March - DVDs

Parasite








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After the War with Hannelore
The Bridge   Series 2
Doc Martin   Series 9
The Good Liar
The Souvenir
Victoria   Season 3

March - Children's Books

Because of the Rabbit 
Cynthia Lord







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Jake and Lily   Jerry Spinelli
The Squirrels who Squabbled   Rachel Bright
The Terrible Horrible Smelly Pirate   Carrie Muller 🍁
Little Bear and the Butterflies   Susan Quinn
Never Enough Hockey   Gilles Tibo
Guardians of Ga'Hoole#3: The Rescue   Katherine Lasky
Guardians of Ga'Hoole#4: The Siege   Katherine Lasky
Almost Identical   Lin Oliver
The Ruby in the Smoke   Philip Pullman
The Shadow in the North   Philip Pullman
The Gossip File   Anna Staniszewski
The Prank List   Anna Staniszewski
The Truth Game   Anna Staniszewski

March - Non-Fiction

Seven Fallen Feathers 
Tanya Talaga








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The Fifth Risk   Michael Lewis
A Caregiver's Guide   Judith McCann-Beranger
Women in Clothes
South and West   Joan Didion
A Very English Scandal   John Preston
Riding the Elephant   Catharine McKenty

March - Fiction

One Way or Another 
Elizabeth Adler






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My Sister the Serial Killer   Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Secret Chord   Geraldine Brooks
The Night Tiger   Yangsze Choo
Future Home of the Living God   Louise Erdich
The Book of Polly   Kathy Hepinstall
The Mirror and the Light   Hilary Mantel
Christmas at the Vinyl Cafe   Stuart McLean 🍁
A Trial in Venice   Roberta Rich 🍁
Three Daughters of Eve   Elif Shafa
The Turn of Midnight   Minette Walters
Reproduction   Ian Williams 🍁
The Swimmer   Joakim Zander
The Stranger Diaries   Elly Griffiths

Library - Annual General Meeting Postponed

The Annual General Meeting is scheduled to be held at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, April 22, at 60 Elm, Hudson, Quebec.

Library members are welcome to attend to vote for the Board of Directors and to get a progress report on library activities.

NOTE:  Given the current guidelines issued by the provincial government regarding COVID-19, this meeting may have to be rescheduled.  We will keep you informed of further developments.

April Book Sale

COVID-19 - Given the guidelines issued by the provincial government, library operations were suspended March 16 until further notice.

Temporarily Closed - No Book Donations

Given library operations are suspended, no book donations will be accepted until further notice.

The Write Stuff - Isabella Hammad

Isabella Hammad was born in London and obtained her undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford University. She also holds an MFA in fiction. She published her first novel The Parisian in 2019 and the library has just acquired a copy. The novel follows a young Palestinian dreamer, Midhat Kamal,who picks his way across a fractured world, ( just after the first world war) from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpelier.The character of Kamal is based on Hammad's great-grandfather. This is an intensely human story set amidst a global conflict, The Parisian is historical fiction with a remarkable contemporary voice. To visit Hammad online click here

Temporarily Closed

Given the guidelines issued by the provincial government regarding COVID-19, we feel it is prudent for the library to remain closed during this worldwide health crisis.  Being many of our patrons and volunteers are in the at-risk population, it is our social responsibility to do our part to follow the guidelines.

Until we resume regular operating hours, no overdue fines will be charged.

Please note the Bunker will also be closed during this period.  

We will keep you updated on developments as circumstances warrant.   

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - Peaky Blinders

Peaky Blinders is a British period crime television series set in Birmingham, England just after the First World War, and follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family. The family is loosely based on a real 19th century youth gang who were active in the city from the 1890s to the early twentieth century. Peaky Blinders has received praise for it's writing, acting, visuals and stylish cinematography. It won best Drama TV Series at the 2018 Bafta awards. It features a stellar cast including, Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory and Paul Anderson, and the library has just acquired the first series.For more details click here.

Murder Ink - Gilly Macmillan

Gilly Macmillan is the internationally bestselling author of five novels. A former art historian and photographer, Gilly studied at Bristol University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Gilly’s novels have appeared on the New York Times, Sunday Times, Globe & Mail and Der Spiegel bestseller lists, been translated into over 20 languages and sold over one million copies worldwide.

The library has all her books in its collection, including her most recent The Nanny.  “In this compulsively readable tale of secrets, lies, and deception, Gilly Macmillan explores the darkest impulses and desires of the human heart. Diabolically clever, The Nanny reminds us that sometimes the truth hurts so much you’d rather hear the lie.”

Macmillan lives in Bristol, UK, with her husband and their three children.  To visit her online, click here.

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February - DVDs

Judy








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The Biggest Little Farm
The French Canadian 🍁
Puss in Boots
Marcella   Season 2
Peaky Blinders   Series 1
Poldark   Season 5
X Company   Season 3

February - Children's Books

Tiger in Trouble
Kelly Milner Halls







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Crocodile Encounters   Brady Barr
Best Babysitters Ever #1   Caroline Cala
Best Babysitters Ever #2   Caroline Cala
Asterix and the Big Fight   Goscinny & Uderzo
Asterix and the Falling Sky   Goscinny & Uderzo
Mr and Mrs Bunny- Detectives Extraordinaire   Polly Horvath 🍁
Dog Diaries: Stubby   Kate Klimo
You are the First Kid on Mars   Patrick O'Brien
Extreme Rainforest   Lucie Parker
You Wouldn't Want to be a Medieval Knight   Fiona Macdonald
Artist to Artist   Fiona Macdonald
The Potty Book for Boys   Alyssa Capucilli
Animals Found in Tropical Forests   Genevieve DeBecker
Animals Found on the Farm   Genevieve DeBecker
Animals Found on the Grassland   Genevieve DeBecker
Mes Questions aux Dinosaures   Julie Bruce
Ou est Max?   Mary Packard
The Marrow Thieves   Cherie Dimaline
The Enemy Above   Michael Spradin
Religion   Myrtle Langley
The Boy's Body Book   Kelli Dunham

February - Non-Fiction

Unfollow 
Megan Phelps-Roper







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The Reinvention of Humanity   Charles King
Tough Love   Susan Rice
Catch and Kill   Ronan Farrow
The Diary of a Bookseller   Shaun Bythell
The 4 Pillar Plan   Rangan Chatterjee
Fly Girls   Keith O'Brian
Into the Planet : My Life as a Cave Diver   Jill Heinerth 🍁
Friends of the Macdonnell-Williamson House   Elizabeth Muir 🍁
Beyond the Trees   Adam Shoalts 🍁
The Unwomanly Face of War   Svetlana Alexievich
Heartbeat of Wounded Knee   David Treur
Can't Hurt Me   David Goggins
We Have Always Been Here   Samra Habib 🍁
The Last Black Unicorn   Tiffany Haddish
Just Boris   Sonia Purnell
Inheritance: A Memoir   Dani Shapiro
From the Ashes   Jesse Thistle 🍁
The Cut Out Girl  Bart Van Es
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister   Jung Chang