2014 – Page 2 – Algonquin Library Adult Services

Upcoming Book Discussions in August

July 18, 2014 Book Clubs

Stop by the Adult Services Desk at the Main Library (Harnish) to pick up your copy today! Spine-crackers Meets the first Friday of each month Friday, August 1st @ 10am (Harnish) The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown When their mother is diagnosed with breast cancer, the Andreas sisters find themselves once again living together under the same roof. How will […]

July 2014 Library Reads List

July 10, 2014 Book Lists

Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! Landline by Rainbow Rowell “Landline explores the delicate balance women make between work and family, considering the tradeoffs and pain. Rowell has a special gift for offering incredible insights into ordinary life. Never heavy-handed, Rowell’s writing is delivered with humor and grace. I finish […]

Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn

July 3, 2014 Book Reviews

Win is away at boarding school. He doesn’t see his family anymore and in chapters that alternate between the present and the past, Win, with the help of new girl Jordan and former friend Lex, works to come to terms with the curse within his bloodline. Kuehn does brilliant things here with voice and plotting. As the reader moves deeper […]

July Book Discussions @ the Library

June 19, 2014 Book Clubs, Book Lists

Stop by the Adult Services Desk at the Main Library (Harnish) to pick up your copy today! * Book Clubbers Meets the first Thursday of each month. Thursday, July 3rd @ 7pm (Harnish) Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Looking back on his college days in Tokyo, Toru recalls his relationships with two very different women against a backgrop of 1960’s […]

June 2014 Library Reads List

June 5, 2014 Book Lists

Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! Elizabeth is Missing: A Novel by Emma Healey “Maude sinks into a confusing world in this gripping psychological mystery written in the voice of an aging woman with Alzheimer’s. She can’t remember what she’s doing or where she is, but she is obsessed with […]

Staff Picks from Adult Services

May 30, 2014 Book Lists, Book Reviews, Staff Reviews

After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story by Michael Hainey Genre: Memoir Michael Hainey has always been haunted by his father’s death. A seasoned journalist like his father before him, he knows intuitively that the facts just don’t add up with the story he was told as a kid. An obituary he discovers as a teenager reveals that his father died […]

June Book Discussions @ the Library

May 23, 2014 Book Clubs, Book Lists

Book ClubbersMeets the first Thursday of each month.Thursday, June 5th @ 7pm (Harnish) Girl in Translation Kwok, Jean When young Kimberly Chang emigrates from Hong Kong with her mother, she uses her “talent for school” to escape the confines of a freezing Brooklyn apartment and the harsh working conditions of a Chinatown sweatshop. Spine-crackers Meets the first Friday of each […]

May 2014 Library Reads List

May 5, 2014 Book Lists, Book Reviews

Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! We Were Liars by E. Lockhart “This brilliant and heartbreaking novel tells the story of a prestigious family living on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Full of love, lies, secrets, no shortage of family dysfunction, and a shocking twist that you […]

Staff Picks from Adult Services

April 29, 2014 Book Lists, Book Reviews, Staff Reviews

Me Before You by JoJo Moyes Realistic Fiction After the restaurant where she works as a waitress closes down, Louisa Clark is left with few job prospects. Desperate for work, Louisa takes a job as a kind of caregiver/companion for Will Trainer, a wealthy quadriplegic has lost the will to live. His bitterness and anger about his condition is often […]

Staff Picks from Youth Services

April 29, 2014 Book Lists

Timmy Faliure #1: Mistakes Were Made by Stephan Pastis Move over Greg Heffley, there’s a new…um…hero in town. Timmy Failure, and his polar bear Total, are the CEO and the assistant of the self-described “best detective agency in town, probably the nation.” But can they solve crimes? This unreliable, self-serving narrator is clueless and funny without trying. Recommended for upper […]