Biography
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. “I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.” This book is the resulting love letter to life, and a guide to catching more greenlights.
Thriller
Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane. Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. Lila isn't what she seems. A student vanished months ago. Now, Lila's husband, a teacher, is also missing. At first these cases are treated as horrible coincidences until it's discovered that other disappearances have taken place over the years. With the small town in an uproar, everyone is worried about the whereabouts of the beloved teacher. Everyone except Lila, his wife. She's definitely confused about her missing husband but only because she was the last person to see his body, and now it's gone.
Non-Fiction
Let Us Dream by Pope Francis. In the COVID crisis, the Pope saw the cruelty and inequity of our society exposed more vividly than ever before. He also saw, in the resilience, generosity, and creativity of so many people, the means to rescue our society, our economy, and our planet. In direct, powerful prose, Pope Francis urges us not to let the pain be in vain. He offers observations on the value of unconventional thinking, on why we must dramatically increase women’s leadership in the Church and throughout society, on what he learned while scouring the streets of Buenos Aires with garbage-pickers, and much more.
Junior Fiction
Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy by Melissa de la Cruz. Nothing exciting ever happens in Filomena Jefferson-Cho’s small town. Until the day Jack Stalker, one of the heroes from her all-time favourite books, the Never After series, turns up. She must be dreaming! But Jack insists that he’s real, the stories are real, and she must come with him at once. Filomena is thrust into a world of fairies, sorcerers, dragons and slayers, where an evil queen is determined to wipe out the fairy tribes. To save the kingdom, Filomena and her new friends must find the truth behind the tale of the Thirteenth Fairy before it’s too late.
Junior Easy
It’s My Tree written and illustrated by Olivier Tallec. A squirrel decides to keep everyone in the forest away from their favourite tree, their pinecones and their shade, but hasn't thought the plan all the way through! A story about greed. And pinecones.
New books as well from: Stuart Woods, Kate Atkinson, Christina Dodd
