Staff Picks

Rose, Pat, Jeanne and Pegi have read the following books and offer them as suggestions for your interest and enjoyment.

Most are new titles but occasionally an old favourite may show up. We also look forward to having you come and talk to us about the selections.

For monthly suggestions and discussion, join Rose's Book Club (meetings are the 4th Thursday of the month from 2-4pm).

Rose’s Picks

• Beastly Things - Donna Leon
• Dancing on Broken Glass -
  Ka Hancock
• Stray Bullets - Robert Rotenberg
• The Placebo Effect - David Rotenberg
• The Winter Palace - Eva Stachniak
• The Dressmaker - Kate Alcott
• All the Flowers in Shanghai - Duncan Jepson
• Death of an Artist - Kate Wilhelm
• Poison Flower - Thomas Perry
• A Thousand Farewells - Nahla Ayed

Pat’s Picks

• Now You See Her - James Patterson
• Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
• OneGood Turn - Kate Atkinson Maggie Sefton Knitting Mysteries - Maggie Sefton
• Ruth Galloway Mysteries -Elly Griffiths
• The Litigators - John Grisham
• The Guily Plea - Robert Rotenberg
• Old City Hall - Robert Rotenberg
• The World of Downton Abbey - Jessica Fellowes

Pegi’s Picks

• Learning - Karen Kingsbury
• A Distant Melody - Sarah Sundin
• Fatal Judgment - Irene Hannon
• A Memory Between Us - Sarah Sundin
• Heat Rises - Richard Castle
• Blue Skies Tomorrow - Sarah Sundin
• Only Time Will Tell - Jeffrey Archer

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Jeanne’s Picks

• Welcome to the Funny Farm - Karen Scalf Linamen
• The Faerie Door - B.E. Maxwell
• Home to Holly Springs - Jan Karon
• Bats at the Beach - Brian Lies
• In the Company of Others - Jan Karon

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents
~ Emilie Buchwald (1994)

A truly great book should be read in youth, again
in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen - morning light, at noon and - moonlight.
~ Robertson Davies