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Summer Reads

An ever-increasing list of books that we think are perfect to take on a vacation or even a “stay-cation”. However, these are great to read any time of the year!

The Oxford Widows Murder Club by Bruce Graham

September 10, 2022 by Alison Manley
The Oxford Widows Murder Club is about secrets and what happens when they are and aren’t revealed. How did Earl, that nimble dancer and carver of wooden birds, wind up dead?
Categories Fiction, Summer Reads Tags Humour, murder

State of Terror, by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

August 12, 2022August 2, 2022 by Lisa Timpf
Though State of Terror revolves around a different cast of characters, and different settings, than most of Penny’s other books, many of the core elements that make the Gamache series so appealing remain.
Categories Fiction, Mystery, Summer Reads Tags Hillary Clinton, Louise Penny, political thriller

Everything Turns Away by Michelle Berry

August 12, 2022August 2, 2022 by Carrie Stanton
In this tautly written domestic thriller set in Toronto, Michelle Berry weaves together the story of two couples whose lives are about to be unravelled by the murder of a neighbour, a babysitter who has gone missing and the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Categories Fantasy, Fiction, Summer Reads, Thriller Tags 9/11, Thriller

Mad Honey by Katie Welch

July 4, 2022 by Alison Manley
Mad Honey immerses the reader in a search for truth bounded by the everyday magic of beekeeping, family and finding peace, while asking how much we really understand the natural world.
Categories Creative Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Summer Reads Tags Domestic Life, family, fantasy

Land of the Rock: Talamn an Carraig by Heather Nowlan

July 2, 2022June 27, 2022 by Emma Rhodes
The speaker in the poems that form Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig travels through Newfoundland and Ireland looking for meaning in words, places, and behaviour.
Categories Newfoundland & Labrador, Poetry, Summer Reads Tags Landscape Poetry, Newfoundland, poetry

The Apothecary’s Garden by Jeanette Lynes

July 2, 2022June 26, 2022 by Kate O'Gorman
If you’re looking for romance and whimsy and magic, look no further than Jeanette Lyne’s newest novel. The Apothecary’s Garden offers readers a blossoming escape where magic is real and human interactions are oh, so civil.
Categories Fiction, Historical Fiction, Summer Reads Tags historical fiction, Jeanette Lynes

Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner 

July 2, 2022June 13, 2022 by Claire Bennet
Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world in Bloomsbury Girls.
Categories Fiction, Historical Fiction, Summer Reads Tags bookshop, England, historical fiction, post WWII, women writers

The Sisters Sputnik: A Novel, by Terri Favro

July 2, 2022May 5, 2022 by Lisa Timpf
Ingenious, smoothly written, and funny, at times bitingly so, Terri Favro's The Sisters Sputnik is well worth a read.
Categories Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, Speculative Fiction, Summer Reads Tags alternate timelines, fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, Sputnik Chick, Terri Favro, time travel

The Santa Rosa Trilogy by Wendy McGrath

November 11, 2022May 3, 2022 by Naomi MacKinnon
These three novellas (published by NeWest Press), that make up the Santa Rose Trilogy, are beautiful in every way; to look at, to hold, and to read.
Categories Fiction, Summer Reads

The Barrens: A Novel of Love and Death in the Canadian Arctic by Kurt Johnson and Ellie Johnson

July 2, 2022May 2, 2022 by James M. Fisher
This riveting debut is at once a white-water adventure, coming-of-age novel, and tale of tragic love—and an extraordinary father-daughter collaboration.
Categories Creative Fiction, Fiction, Picks, Summer Reads Tags Arctic, creative fiction, death, LGBTQ2S+, love, survival, TMR Pick

Lyme Disease in Canada by Brian Owens

August 4, 2021 by James M. Fisher
Author Brian Owens looks at the conflicts that exist in recognizing, diagnosing and treating Lyme disease, and the failed human vaccine.
Categories Health, Non-Fiction, Summer Reads Tags #ReadAtlantic, Atlantic Canada, health, Lyme Disease, medicine

The Last Time I Saw Her by Alexandra Harrington

June 11, 2022July 24, 2021 by Claire Bennet
In The Last Time I Saw Her, friends and family are pitted against each other after a tragic accident leaves behind shattered relationships and shocking secrets. A riveting novel by a new voice in teen fiction.
Categories Fiction, Nova Scotia, Summer Reads, Young Adult Tags fiction, nova scotia, summer reads, YA, Young Adult

Supermarket Baby by Susan Flanagan

June 19, 2021 by Stephanie Collins

Who would have thought that a single dose of “cold and sinus” medication and a quick trip to the supermarket would unleash a series of unfortunate events for newly retired, Henry Puddester. The movie-star handsome civil servant just wanted to … Continue reading

Categories Fiction, Humour, Summer Reads Tags Humour, light-hearted, supermarket

Dark August by Katie Tallo

May 13, 2021August 13, 2020 by Ian Colford

At the beginning of Dark August, 20-year-old Augusta “Gus” Monet learns that her great-grandmother Rose has died. The death of her only blood relative galvanizes Gus to take charge of her meandering life. She ditches her petty criminal boyfriend Lars … Continue reading

Categories Fiction, First Book, Mystery, Summer Reads, Suspense, Thriller Tags Mystery, psychological thriller

Summer Feet by Sheree Fitch, Pictures by Carolyn Fisher

July 27, 2020 by Patricia Sandberg

Wherever you are this summer of 2020, with COVID swirling around and many needing comfort, what better than to pick up a book that reminds you of summers past? Sheree Fitch’s delightfully playful language would be a treat to read … Continue reading

Categories Children, Fiction, Picture Book, Summer Reads
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