Every month our knowledgable and friendly staff pick their favourite new book, ranging in topic from children's books to biography,
adventure to personal development.
Relax in the evening with a good book after a fun filled day in the spectactular Canadian Rockies.
march 2010
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Jenni's Pick:
The Luxe YA NOVEL
by Anna Godbersen
As sumptuous as the cover this is a great drama of the upper-class society of New York, circa 1940. Behind the classy exterior is a world of lies and deceit. Friends backstab, boys are shared and rules are broken. All the shocking secrets of society are revealed in this enthralling tale. Little does everyone know, the “angel” of the town hides some dark secrets. Held in check by the tight expectations of society girls, she cannot reveal how she really feels. But eventually, everything comes out...
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Jocey's Pick:
Swan Thieves
by Elizabeth Kostova
Swan ThievesElizabeth Kostova A brilliant and talented painter named Robert Oliver enters the National Gallery,attempts to destroy a painting called ‘Leda and the Swan’, and then slip into a tortured silence for months. This extraordinary story is narrated almost like a painting itself, with layers of texture, brushwork, and language. The mystery surrounding the silent Oliver only deepens as his obsession with portraiture and a packet of letters written a century before, between a young French Impressionist painter and her mentor, is discovered. Beautiful and haunting, this is by far the best book I've read in the last few years and will fill your creative soul
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Joy's Pick:
Honolulu
by Alan Brennert
A colorful novel describing Hawaii in the early 1900’s. Regret ( her parents wanted a boy)is a young picture bride who leaves Korea to join the husband who has chosen her on this “island paradise”. Having secretly learnt to read she hopes for education and a more valued life. Instead she finds abuse and oppression. The description of Hawaii and the different culture takes us into the homes and traditions and personalities of the Korean culture and the resourcefulness of the picture brides as they turn their back on all that they have known . An interesting historical account of an Island as it grows and transforms and a great tale of one woman who goes against her upbringing to find that she is not Regret but Jin, a successful and loved woman who learns to forgive
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Nina's Pick:
The Chapel at the Edge of the world
by Kirsten McKensie
Rosa and Emilio are childhood sweethearts, but its 1942 and Emilio has to leave to go to war. Far from missing Emilio, Rosa gets caught up in a passionate affair and becomes involved with the Italian Resistance Movement. As more and more Germans occupy Rosa's family hotel her activities fall under suspicion. As time moves on for Rosa, time stands still for Emilio who struggles to cope with his internment as a prisoner of war, first in Africa and later on the remote Orkney island Lamb Holm. This story takes its inspiration from the Italian prisoners of war and the artist Chiocchetti ( the real life Emilio) who together built a chapel on the isolated island giving them hope and inspiration. The chapel still stands and this lovely book released on the 10th anniversary of the artist’s death brings together this unconventional love story where one desperately tries to remember, the other to forget.
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