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Fiction
The Spoon Stealer by Lesley Crewe. Emmeline never quite fit in on her family's rural Nova Scotian farm. After suffering multiple losses in the First World War, her family became so heavy with grief, toxicity, and mental illness that Emmeline felt their weight smothering her. And so, she fled across the Atlantic and built her life in England. Now she is retired and making an effort to talk to more humans. When she joins a memoir-writing course at the library, she shares with her classmates and new friends her third-biggest secret: she is a compulsive spoon stealer. When Emmeline unexpectedly inherits the farm she grew up on, she knows she needs to go see the farm and what remains of her family one last time. She arrives like a tornado in their lives, but with her generosity and hard-earned wisdom, she believes that a spoonful—perhaps several spoonfuls—of kindness can set to rights the family so broken by loss and secrecy.
Non Fiction
Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis by Elin Kelsey. Fears about our planet are fuelling an epidemic of despair: adults worry about their children’s future, while many young people believe they have no future at all. As the author argues, this hopelessness is hampering our ability to address the problem we face. Hope Matters breaks through the narrative of doom and gloom to show why evidence-based hope, not fear, is our most powerful tool for change.
Audiobook
The Sentinel (a Jack Reacher novel) by Lee Child and Andrew Child, narrated by Scott Brick. Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along. Not going to happen. The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks. As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them . . . And now Rusty knows he's protected, he's never going to leave the big man's side. Reacher might just have to stick around and find out what the hell's gone wrong . . . and then put it right, like only he can. (Also available in hardcover)
Mini-series DVD
The American Westby Robert Redford and AMC Studios. This mini-series tells the story of the aftermath of the Civil War and how the US transformed into the “land of opportunity” spanning the years 1865 to 1890. Transporting into the violent world of cowboys, Indians, outlaws and lawmen, the story chronicles the personal, little-known stories of Western legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. The series features exclusive interviews with notable names from classic Western films, including Robert Redford, James Caan, Burt Reynolds, Tom Selleck, Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Harmon, Ed Harris and more.
New books as well from: Dean Koontz, Sophie Kinsella, Stuart Woods, Karen Kingsbury, Richard Paul Evans, Nicci French, James Patterson, C. L . Polk, Fannie Flagg, and Lisa Jackson
