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The world that we knew : a novel /[Book Club]

Hoffman, Alice.

In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it's his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked. Lea and Ava travel from Paris, where Lea meets her soulmate, to a convent in western France known for its silver roses; from a school in a mountaintop village where three thousand Jews were saved. Meanwhile, Ettie is in hiding, waiting to become the fighter she's destined to be. What does it mean to lose your mother? How much can one person sacrifice for love? In a world where evil can be found at every turn, we meet remarkable characters that take us on a stunning journey of loss and resistance, the fantastical and the mortal, in a place where all roads lead past the Angel of Death and love is never ending.

Date Published:2019

A ladder to the sky : a novel / [Book Club]

Boyne, John, 1971-

"If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don't even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very early on in his career. A chance encounter in a West Berlin hotel with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann gives him an opportunity to ingratiate himself with someone more powerful. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell. Whether or not he should do so is another matter. Once Maurice has made his name, he sets off in pursuit of other people's stories. He doesn't care where he finds them--or to whom they belong--as long as they help him rise to the top. Stories will make him famous but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse."--

Date Published:2018

Homegoing : [Book Club]]

Gyasi, Yaa,

Date Published:2016

The soul of a woman : on impatient love, long life, and good witches /[Book Club]

Allende, Isabel.

Translation of: Mujeres del alma mía : sobre el amor impaciente, la vida larga y las brujas buenas.

Date Published:2021

A woman is no man : a novel /[Book Club]

Rum, Etaf

Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.

Date Published:2019

The female persuasion : a novel /[Book Club]

Wolitzer, Meg.

To be admired by someone we admire -- we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world. Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer -- madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place -- feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she'd always imagined.

Date Published:2018

The innocents : a novel /[Book Club]

Crummey, Michael, 1965-

A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them.

Date Published:2019

Halfbreed : [Book Club]

Campbell, Maria, 1940-

"Updated and with a new afterword by the author"--Cover. A young Métis woman writes of growing up in northern Saskatchewan as part of a community oppressed by racism and hatred, and of her experiences as a drug addict in the slums of Vancouver, and tells how her Cree great-grandmother gave her the strength to survive.

Date Published:2019

Hundreds and thousands : the journals of Emily Carr/ [Book Club]

Carr, Emily, 1871-1945.

Date Published:2006

Walking with Peety : the dog who saved my life /[Book Club]

O'Grey, Eric.,

"Eric O'Grey was 150 pounds overweight, depressed, and sick. After a lifetime of failed diet attempts, and the onset of type 2 diabetes, O'Grey went to a new doctor, who surprisingly prescribed a shelter dog. And that's when O'Grey met Peety: an overweight, middle-aged, and forgotten dog who, like O'Grey, had seen better days. The two adopted each other and began an incredible journey, forming a bond of unconditional love that forever changed their lives. Over the course of their first year together, O'Grey lost 150 pounds, and Peety lost 25. As a result, O'Grey reversed his diabetes, got off all medication, and became happy and healthy for the first time in his life. He started dating after being alone for fifteen years--and eventually reconnected with the long-lost love of his life. And Peety? His affection would lead the way on the doggie adventure of a lifetime. WALKING WITH PEETY is for anyone who is ready to make a change in his or her life, and for everyone who knows the joy, love, and hope that a dog can inspire. This is more than a tale of mutual rescue. This is an epic story of friendship and strength." --Jacket.

Date Published:2017

Small farm Canada [Magazine]

Library keeps current year plus 3 years.

Date Published:

Maclean's [Magazine]

Library keeps current year plus 1 year.

Date Published:

A knight of the seven kingdoms : Season 1 [DVD].

Set a century before the events of Game of Thrones, this improbable tale centers on the heroic adventures of an unexpected duo – the naïve but courageous knight Ser Duncan the Tall and his diminutive squire Egg. As Dunk sets out to prove himself at the upcoming jousting tournament in Ashford, his chance meeting with the clever and mischievous Egg marks the beginning of their unlikely friendship.

Date Published:2026

DCI Banks : Season 5 [DVD].

A DCI Banks returns for its grittiest season yet with an explosive serial crime story that weaves through all six episodes. When the victim of a frenzied attack is found in woodland, the team wonder if it’s a random killing or related to the location – a shrine to a local girl who recently committed suicide there. But when Banks uncovers a link to local crime boss Steve Richards, he formulates a theory of his own. Elsewhere what starts out as a missing person’s case soon escalates into a kidnap and ransom. And Banks and the team have a painful job finding out how a recent tragedy occurred. While Chief Superintendent Anderson puts pressure on DI Helen Morton to close the case, Banks becomes increasingly certain this is all down to one man – crime boss Steve Richards.

Date Published:2016

DCI Banks : Season 4 [DVD]

English detective DCI Alan Banks returns in this fourth series of the popular crime drama with three new, original stories. In What Will Survive, DCI Banks struggles to cope with the sudden death of his mother, as he investigates the murder of a young Estonian woman and the disappearance of her drug-dependent sister. In Buried, Banks must navigate difficult emotional territory when the body of an eminent lawyer is washed up in an underground river and he suspects a member of her grieving family is responsible for her death. In Ghosts, the body of a university student is found dumped in a ravine. His friends claim he was a model undergraduate, but officers Annie and Ken soon discover that he had a double life manufacturing ecstasy.

Date Published:2015

DCI Banks : Season 3 [DVD].

Will Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot ever get their relationship together? Or will three wrenching crimes and the investigation of Detective Investigator Helen Morton keep them forever out of sync? Welcome back to the hit crime series set in a bucolic Yorkshire town, where you would never expect social workers to abduct a young boy ... never imagine finding a murdered journalist in a holiday chalet ... never dream that the daughter of DCI Banks would be kidnapped. Will his family, his team and his romance survive? br br Don t miss a gripping moment of Season 3, starring Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel), Andrea Lowe (The Tudors, Rescue Me) and Caroline Catz (Doc Martin, Murder in Suburbia).

Date Published:2014

DCI Banks : Season 2 [DVD]

In season two, Banks must deal with dramatic changes to his team as the impossible-to-read Helen Morton (Caroline Catz, Doc Martin) enlists as his new partner. This season, Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother and the inspector himself is linked to a murder. An ordinary accountant is found murdered and his double life is discovered; as Morton closes in on his killer her life is danger. When a teenage girl is found strangled, Banks is certain he’s found her murderer, but can he trust his instincts? Season two of this PBS favorite provides no shortage of twists, turns and shocking revelations by the no-nonsense DCI Banks.

Date Published:2012

DCI Banks : Season 1 [DVD]

Based on the bestselling Inspector Banks novels by Peter Robinson, DCI Banks follows the tenacious Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks (Stephen Tompkinson, Ballykissangel) and his headstrong partner Annie Cabbott (Andrea Lowe, The Tudors) as they attempt to solve three gruesome crimes. Fire engulfs two canal boats in a deliberate act of arson over a million-dollar painting; a woman is found dead on the moors with her throat slashed in a case eerily close to the murder of a young girl in the center of town; and Chief Superintendent Rydell recruits Banks to find his missing teenage daughter. Shocking twists and turns and stunning revelations await the unlikely duo on their path to set things right.

Date Published:2011

Strangers and cousins: a novel : Book Club

Cohen, Leah Hager

"Strangers and Cousins is about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic wedding: a compassionate and entertaining story about family, culture, memory, community, and the permeable lines that define one's tribal identity."--

Date Published:2019

Meet me at the museum : [Book Club]

Youngson, Anne

In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife and his hopes for the future. On an isolated English farm, Tina Hopgood is trapped in a life she doesn't remember choosing. Both believe their love stories are over. Brought together by a shared fascination with the Tollund Man, subject of Seamus Heaney's famous poem, they begin writing letters to one another. And from their vastly different worlds, they find they have more in common than they could have imagined.

Date Published:2018