The Adult Book Group will meet next on Thursday November 15 at 1:30 p.m. We will go back to our regular topic format. We will be discussing our recent favourite reads.
New members are always welcome.
For more information, contact Jill @ 905-563-7014.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Booker Prize Winner - Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel has won the 2012 Book Prize for "Bring Up the Bodies". Mantel also won the Booker for the first book in the series, "Wolf Hall," in
2009. She is the first woman to be a two-time winner of the prize, Britain's most
prestigious award for literary fiction. The winner receives about $80,000.
Place your hold today for this worthy prize-winner!
Place your hold today for this worthy prize-winner!
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Governor General's Award 2012 Shortlist
FICTION
Tamas Dobozy, Siege 13
Robert Hough, Dr. Brinkley’s Tower
Vincent Lam, The Headmaster’s Wager
Carrie Snyder, The Juliet Stories
Linda Spalding, The Purchase
POETRY
Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch
David McGimpsey, Li’l Bastard
A. F. Moritz, The New Measures
Lisa Pasold, Any Bright Horse
James Pollock, Sailing to Babylon
DRAMA
Catherine Banks, It is Solved by Walking
Trina Davies, The Romeo Initiative
Karen Hines, Drama: Pilot Episode
Cathy Ostlere & Dennis Garnhum, Lost: A Memoir
Anusree Roy, Brothel #9
NON-FICTION
Nahlah Ayed, A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring
Carol Bishop-Gwyn, The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca
Wade Davis, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Ross King, Leonardo and the Last Supper
Noah Richler, What We Talk About When We Talk About War
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Giller Short List
Read the finalists for the Giller Prize from your library!
· Nancy Richler for her novel The Imposter Bride, published by
HarperCollins Publishers (in library collection)
· Kim Thúy for her novel Ru, translated by Sheila Fischman,
published by Random House Canada (in library collection)
· Russell
Wangersky for his short
story collection Whirl Away, published by Thomas Allen
Publishers (on order)
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
October Top Ten
Top Ten Adult Fiction
|
Title
|
Author
(normalized)
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Fifty Shades of Grey
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E. L. James
|
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A Wanted Man
|
Lee Child
|
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Where We Belong
|
Emily Griffin
|
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The Casual Vacancy
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J. K. Rowling
|
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Zoo
|
James Patterson
|
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Perfect Hope
|
Nora Roberts
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Fifty
Shades Freed
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|
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Stolen Prey
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John Sandford
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Friends Forever
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Danielle Steel
|
|
The
Vow
|
Kim Carpenter
|
Top Ten DVDs
|
The Hunger Games
|
|
Mirror
Mirror
|
|
Marvel's
the Avengers
|
|
We
Bought a Zoo
|
|
Haywire
|
|
Sherlock
Holmes
|
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Snow
White and the Huntsman
|
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
|
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The
Five Year Engagement
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|
The Vow
|
Thursday, September 6, 2012
September Top Ten
Top 10 Adult Fiction
Fifty shades of grey by E. L. James
Where we belong by Emily Griffin
Fifty shades freed by E. L. James
Friends forever by Danielle Steel
The Vow by Kim Carpenter
Stolen prey by John Sandford
Zoo by James Patterson
Stay close by Harlen Coben
A Dance with dragons by George R. R. Martin
Bloodline by James Rollins
Top 10 Adult DVDs
Mirror Mirror
We bought a zoo
The Hunger games
Sherlock Holmes
Haywire
The Vow
The Lorax
Man on a ledge
War Horse
Safe House
Fifty shades of grey by E. L. James
Where we belong by Emily Griffin
Fifty shades freed by E. L. James
Friends forever by Danielle Steel
The Vow by Kim Carpenter
Stolen prey by John Sandford
Zoo by James Patterson
Stay close by Harlen Coben
A Dance with dragons by George R. R. Martin
Bloodline by James Rollins
Top 10 Adult DVDs
Mirror Mirror
We bought a zoo
The Hunger games
Sherlock Holmes
Haywire
The Vow
The Lorax
Man on a ledge
War Horse
Safe House
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
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