April 2023 Staff Picks


April 2023 Staff Picks

Last Updated 2023/03/29

Natalie’s Pick : The Girls by Emma Cline Emma Cline’s debut fiction title, The Girls won the 2017 Paris Review Plimpton Prize, and it’s a fascinating read set in 1969


January 2023 Staff Picks

Last Updated 2023/01/27

David’s Pick: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton An astonishing graphic memoir of Beaton’s time working in the Canadian Tar Sands in the early 2000s, which


October 2022 Staff Picks

Last Updated 2022/10/18

Brenda’s Pick: Ride the rising wind: one woman’s journey across Canada by Barbara Bradbury Kingscote The author of this book died in 2019 at the age of 91. The journey


July 2022 Staff Picks

Last Updated 2022/07/15

David’s Pick: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz This lovely duo of books tells the story of angry loner Aristotle and mellow bookworm


May 2022 Staff Picks

Last Updated 2022/05/21

Brenda’s Pick: Between two kingdoms: a memoir of a life interrupted by Suleika Jaouad   Suleika Jaouad’s memoir has two parts: her life in the first “kingdom” was when she


March 2022 Staff Picks

Last Updated 2022/03/10

Brenda’s Pick: A little chaos DVD co-written, directed and starring Alan Rickman A little chaos” is a charming story set during the time of King Louis XIV and the building


January 2022 Staff Picks

Last Updated 2022/01/11

David’s Pick: Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart If you feel you’re ready for a pandemic novel, at least this one is funny. Echoing Boccaccio’s Decameron, a group of friends flee the


October 2021 Staff Picks

Last Updated 2021/10/12

Brenda’s Pick: Ripe Figs: recipes and stories from the eastern Mediterranean by Yasmin Khan This is a gorgeous book about food, people, and recipes and stories about them all. The


August 2021 Staff Picks

Last Updated 2021/07/29

Brenda’s Pick: We are all perfectly fine: a memoir of love, medicine and healing by Jillian Horton M.D.  This memoir winds in and out from within the setting of a meditation


March 2021 Staff Picks

Last Updated 2021/03/06

Brenda’s Pick: The reality bubble by Ziya Tong This book takes aim at humanity’s willful blindness through a series of chapters that create an awareness of wonder and then shows