Staff Picks

Joanne’s Pick: A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail by Jenna Butler This poetic and thought provoking book is about a couple that buys 160…

Brenda’s Pick: In Other Words by Jumpha Lahiri Jumpha Lahiri, a renowned fiction author, has crafted this non-fiction book. Oddly enough, she wrote it in Italian, her third language. The…

David’s Pick: Dubliners by James Joyce My staff pick is one of the revered texts of literary modernism, we can all agree on that; but is a book that people…

Brenda’s Pick: Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis I was in the middle of another book when I picked up Fifteen Dogs and couldn’t stop reading it. The premise of the…

Becky’s Pick: Beastly Babies by Ellen Jackson Puppies slobber. Kittens spill. Young gorillas can’t sit still. Mamas gobble, mamas cluck. Barnyard babies run amok! In our house, this was not…

Becky’s Pick: Lila by Marilynne Robinson Lila is born into rough life in the 1920s, we meet her cold and lonely as a young child, left outside at night by…

Brenda’s Pick: Finding Vivian Maier (DVD) by John Maloof The story of Vivian Meir is captivating, not only because of her photography but in the way she was discovered. She was…

Brenda’s Pick: GET UP! (CD) What a combination and collaboration of music! When I first listened to this album produced by Ben Harper, who wrote most of the songs, and…

Becky’s Pick: Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes, Little and Big by Pete Seeger (CD) Love banjos and singing funny songs super loud in the car? This might be your next favourite…