Amy Kay
Hooked on Books
L&A libraries staff love books, reading and helping you find your next great read. Here are some of our favourites from last year that you might want to check out.
Patricia’s Picks
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Agreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn’t, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Persephone, a magazine writer, returns to her lake hometown for a funeral and lands straight in to the orbit of her ex- best friend and lover, Sam, and must reconcile the choices she made since their breakup.
Gilt by Jamie Brenner
A luxurious and richly compelling new novel from the acclaimed author of Blush, about a famous family jewelry dynasty and the hidden past that could topple it all.
Jennifer’s Picks
The Myth Of Normal by Gabor Mate
An exploration of how chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise in Western countries. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health?
The Dolphin House by Amy Schulman
In 1965, Cora, a young deaf woman, journeys to St. Thomas where she becomes part of an experiment to teach dolphins human language, and as things progress, Cora forges an extraordinary bond with these creatures until a terrible scandal threatens everything.
The Aquanaut by Dan Santat
With her father lost at sea, Sophie wanders aimlessly around Aqualand, a marine theme park, until an “aquanaut” breaks into the park’s research lab, revealing Aqualand’s dark side and vowing to free the captive marine life with her help.
Marg’s Picks
The Good Women of Safe Harbour by Bobbi French
An engaging novel with an unforgettable main character. Frances Delaney has lived a “small” life, but as she responds to a devastating diagnosis, her rich and moving story unfolds. We learn the secrets of Frances’s past and how she makes peace with those secrets, and we also see how that past shaped the woman she has become. A sensitive portrayal of the end of life that is by turns heartbreaking and hilarious.
The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark
Determined to expose con artist Meg Williams, the woman who upended her life 10 years earlier, for who she really is, Kat Roberts begins to question her long-held assumptions as the two women grow close, leading her to wonder who Meg’s real target is.
The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick
Landing her personal hero and mega-best-selling author Essie Starling as a client, housecleaner Liv Green forms an unlikely friendship with this infamous reclusive, but when Essie suddenly dies, leaving her an astonishing last wish, Liv discovers a connection between them that changes Liv’s own life story forever.
All titles mentioned here are available to borrow at your local branch of the County of Lennox and Addington Libraries or online at www.countylibrary.ca.