The War Memorial Library in Hudson is a non-profit registered charity providing a subscription library of printed and digital materials, primarily in the English language, to the residents of Hudson, Quebec and surrounding communities.Operated by volunteers, the Library is self-financing through membership fees, donations and fund raising activities. The Library in turn donates, to local charities, funds in excess of its own needs.The building and the Library serve as a memorial to those in Hudson who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

April - Mysteries









The Fallen
David Baldacci








Click on title for more details:
Death of a Nurse   M.C.Beaton
Killing Floor   Lee Child
If I Die Tonight   Alison Gaylin
The Punishment She Deserves   Elizabeth George
End of Watch   Stephen King
The Girls in the Woods   Camilla Lackberg
Dog On It   Spencer Quinn
Dangerous Crossing   Rachel Rhys
The Dog Walker   Lesley Thomson
The Windermere Witness   Rebecca Tope
Murder at the Brightwell   Ashley Weaver

April - DVDs







Dunkirk









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Broadchurch Season 3
Doc Martin Season 8
Expo 67 Mission Impossible
King Charles 111
Last Tango in Halifax : Holiday Special
Loving Vincent

April - Non-Fiction







100 Things You Will Never Find
 Daniel Smith







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Girls & Sex   Peggy Orenstein
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward   Mark Lukach
America's Test Kitchen Healthy Slow Cooker Revolution
European - Inspired Cuisine   Marcel and Shannon Biro
The Part-Time Vegetarian   Nicola Graimes
Theft by Ending   David Sedaris
The Roads Less Travelled   Graham Nesbitt
Sapper Martin: The Secret Great War Diary   Jack Martin
Feeding My Mother   Jann Arden 🍁
Where I Belong   Alan Doyle
What She Ate   Laura Shapiro

April - Fiction








By Gaslight 
Steven Price 🍁







Click on title for more details:
Bachelor Girl   Kim van Alkemade
The Time in Between   Maria Duenas
The Woman in the Window   A.J.Finn
A Horse Walks into a Bar   David Grossman
Thin Rich Pretty   Beth Harbison
Here's to Us   Elin Hilderbrand
The Break   Marian Keyes
Red Sky in Morning   Paul Lynch
Mrs   Caitlin Macy
The Plantation   Di Morris
One Hit Wonders   Patrick Warner 🍁
Echoes of the Dance   Marcia Willet
Remember   Barbara Taylor Bradford (Large Print)
Origin   Dan Brown (Large Print)

Friday, April 20, 2018

May Book Sale














The May Book Sale starts at 2:30 pm on Monday, May 7th and runs until Saturday, May 12th.  Sports and gardening books are featured.

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Sunday, April 15, 2018

The Write Stuff - Naseem Rakha

Naseem Rahka is a geologist, educator, speaker, and award-winning author and journalist. The library has just acquired her novel The Crying Tree. Set in southern Illinois and central Oregon, it tells the story of a mother who must overcome the hate, grief and secrets that surround the murder of her 15 year old son. And how she defies church and family as she attempts to stop the execution of the man who killed her boy. The Crying Tree has received international acclaim for it's frank examination of crime, punishment, sexual identity and forgiveness, Rahka lives in Oregon with her husband and son. To visit her online click here.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Library - Annual General Meeting


The Annual General Meeting will be held at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, April 25, 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.

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - Delicious

Delicious is a British television drama/black comedy series set in south-east Cornwall about Leo, a celebrity chef. He is married to his beautiful wife Sam and has a successful hotel business, but he is cheating on her with his first wife Gina, from whom he stole many of his recipes. With an excellent cast including Iain Glen as Leo, Emilia Fox as Sam and the wonderful Dawn French as Gina, the library has just acquired the first series. For more details click here.

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Murder Ink - Phonse Jessome


Phonse Jessome is an award-winning Canadian Journalist and bestselling author. He has covered some of the biggest stories in Canada and abroad over the past 35 years. His book Murder at McDonald's was lauded as one of Canada's best true crime titles. Somebody's Daughter takes readers inside the deadly world of human trafficking. Jessome is now taking decades of experience covering crime into the field of crime fiction.  Disposable Souls, which the library recently acquired, is the first in this series.
Jessome lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  To visit him online, click here.

Thursday, March 22, 2018

March - Fiction








How to Stop Time 
Matt Haig







Click on title for more details:
Canadian Shield   Kelley Aitken 🍁
The Boat People   Sharon Bala 🍁
Pillow   Andrew Battershill 🍁
The Night of the Comet   George Bishop
Honolulu   Alan Brennert
The Mercy Journals   Claudia Casper 🍁
The Memento   Christy Ann Conlin 🍁
The Marrow Thieves   Cherie Dimaline 🍁
Becoming Lin   Tricia Dower 🍁
American War   Omar El Akkad
Love Always   Harriet Evans
A Place Called Winter   Patrick Gale
Summer Secrets   Jane Green
How Should a Person Be?   Sheila Heti 🍁
French Coast   Anita Hughes
Ancillary Justice   Ann Leckie
A Splendid Boy   Melanie Martin 🍁
The Disenchanted Widow   Christina McKenna
For the Love of Mary   Christopher Meades 🍁
Torp   Michael Mirolla 🍁
Purge   Sofi Oksanen
Amity   Nasreen Pejvack 🍁
The Painters of Battles   Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Queen of the South   Arturo Perez-Reverte
Death Valley   Susan Perly 🍁
The Crying Tree   Naseem Rakha
Drawing Lessons   Patricia Sands 🍁
Scattered Bones   Maggie Siggins 🍁
Helium   Jaspreet Singh 🍁
Winter   Ali Smith
Love by the Morning Star   Laura L. Sullivan
Max's Folly   Bill Turpin 🍁
City of the Beasts   Isabel Allende (Large Print)
The Known World   Edward Jones (Large Print)
Mine Are Spectacular!   Janice Kaplan (Large Print)
This Time Love   Elizabeth Lowell (Large Print)
The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry   Gabrielle Zevin (Large Print)

March - Mysteries







Dishing the Dirt 
M.C.Beaton








Click on title for more details:
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place   Alan Bradley
Compulsion   Allison Brennan
While the Music Lasts   John Brooke
Two Kinds of Truth   Michael Connelly
Disposable Souls   Phonse Jessome 🍁
The Rage   Gene Kerrigan
Cuba Straits   Randy Wayne White
Gone Tomorrow   Lee Child ( Large Print)
On the Street Where you Live   Mary Higgins Clark  ( Large Print )

March - Non-Fiction







Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food
Gordon Ramsay







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What If?   Randall Munroe
Grow Cook Eat   Willi Galloway
250 Home Preserving Favorites   Yvonne Tremblay 🍁
The Beaver Hall Group 1920s Modernism in Montreal   Jacques E. Des Rochers 🍁
Celebrating Canada   Pete E. Baker 🍁
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo   Amy Schumer
Born to Run   Bruce Springsteen

March - Children's Books






City Dog, Country Frog 
Mo Willems







Click on title for more details:
Rosie Revere, Engineer   Andrea Beaty
Pig the Pug   Aaron Blabey
Bad Kitty Does Not Like Snow   Nick Bruel
Enormous Suitcase   Robert Munsch 🍁
Blackout   John Rocco
Alexis #5: Leon Magrichon   Dominique Demers 🍁
Alexis #6: Alexa Gougougaga   Dominique Demers 🍁
Lili B Brown: Joue a la Coiffeuse   Sally Rippin
Lili B Brown: Le Mechant Garcon   Sally Rippin
Le Monstre du Lac Lac   Geronimo Stilton
Revanche du Club des Salamandres   Tea Stilton
Wishtree   Katherine Applegate
Eleven   Lauren Myracle
Twelve   Lauren Myracle
Dog Man a Tale of Two Kitties   Dav Pilkey
I Survived the American Revolution, 1776   Lauren Tarshis
I Survived Tornado Terror   Lauren Tarshis
Listen to the Wind   Greg Mortenson
Mummies and Pyramids   Sam Taplin
Minerals   Chris and Helen Pellant
Rocks   Chris and Helen Pellant
Animals: A Visual Encyclopedia   Carrie Love
The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket   John Boyne
The Bane Chronicles   Cassandra Clare
29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy   Lemony Snicket
Swords   Ben Boos


Tuesday, March 20, 2018

April Book Sale


















The April Book Sale starts at 2:30 pm on Monday, April 2nd and runs until Saturday, April 7th.  DIY and craft books are featured.