- Historical Fiction: The Nightingale Kristen HannahNorthview Golf & Country Club, Surrey, BCCA$3.00
NOTE: This book available at the Surrey Public Library. The holds list is extensive. Please place your holds as soon as possible to ensure you will have time to read the book.
Genre: Historical Fiction, WWII
Book: The Nightingale by Kristin HannahIn love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.
FRANCE, 1939
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.
Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaëtan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21853621-the-nightingale?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=UIg4HkLUsg&rank=1 - Crime/Mystery: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard OsmanNorthview Golf & Country Club, Surrey, BCCA$3.00
This book is available through Surrey Public Libraries. The audiobook version has a long hold/waitlist.
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Fiction
Book: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard OsmanSynopsis: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.
Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?
Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46000520-the-thursday-murder-club?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=30TJPgOEsI&rank=1
- Biography: The Good NeighborThe Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell KingNorthview Golf & Country Club, Surrey, BCCA$3.00
This book is available through Surrey Public Libraries in multiple formats, with only 3 physical book copies available.
Genre: Biography
Book: The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
by Maxwell KingSynopsis: Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their fears, concerns, and questions about the world seriously.
The Good Neighbor, the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, tells the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. Drawing on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, Maxwell King traces Rogers’s personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work, including a surprising decision to walk away from the show to make television for adults, only to return to the neighborhood with increasingly sophisticated episodes, written in collaboration with experts on childhood development. An engaging story, rich in detail, The Good Neighbor is the definitive portrait of a beloved figure, cherished by multiple generations.
Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38656999-the-good-neighbor