What Staff is Reading @ BPL
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.
On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him.
And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he’d never uttered: love.
– Random House.ca
What Staff is Reading @ BPL
Spellman Files
By: Lisa Lutz
The Spellman files is the first book in the Izzy Spellman Mysteries. This book is a laugh out loud, great read. Isabel Spellman is a twenty eight year-old who works in the family business: Spellman Investigations. Izzy is part Bridget Jones, part Columbo as she works as a private investigator. With her crazy past of romantic mistakes, excessive drinking and creative vandalism, she excels at her job. The characters in this novel include her bosses, mom and dad, her perfect lawyer brother David, her 14 year-old sister Rae, who likes to do recreational surveillance, and her troubled Uncle Ray, who has many “lost weekends”.
Izzy is a master at spying on everyone, which includes running background checks on her boyfriends. But when her family hires her own sister to spy on Izzy, she is ready to call it quits. Her parents assign her a final case that will change everything.
This novel is a fun read and I would recommend it to everyone.
Happy Mother’s Day Books
Reader’s Advisory has a great book display of fictional Mother’s Day books. These books explore the enduring relationship between Mothers and Daughters. These titles include: For my Daughters by Barbara Delinsky, The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble, The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan and many more.
Evening Author Series
| Join us Wednesday April 29th from 6:00pm – 8:00pm for our Evening Author series with Vicki Delany. |
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| This Eppie Award Winning Author of Whiteout joins us to promote her upcoming release Golddigger. This is Vicki’s first Klondike mystery and we hope you will join us in welcoming this award winning author. |
Fireside Book Club
Join us Monday April 27th at 6:30 for our evening book club. We will be meeting by the first floor fireplace for tea and lively conversation.
This month we will be discussing Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry.
In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: “Martha Jane — better known as Calamity — is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody’’s Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity of Calamity’’s Indian friend No Ears, Annie Oakley’’s shooting match with Lord Windhouveren, and other highlights of the tour, McMurtry turns the story of a band of hardy, irrepressible survivors into an unforgettable portrait of love, fellowship, dreams, and heartbreak. (Chapters.indigo.ca)
Laughter inside every Cover
Check out our Funny Fiction display!
Funny Fiction authors include; Janet Evanovich, Tom Robbins, Carl Hiaasen and many more!
Evening Author Series
| Bill Hunt – Evening Author Series
Wednesday April 8, 6:00pm – 8:00pm |
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Join as as C. W. (Bill) Hunt promotes his latest release Dancing In The Sky at the Belleville Public Library & John M. Parrott Art Gallery. Dancing in the Sky is the first complete telling of the First World War fighter pilot–training initiative established by the British in response to the terrible losses occurring in the skies over Europe in 1916. This program, up and running in under six months despite enormous obstacles, launched Canada into the age of flight ahead of the United States.
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February Fireside Book Club
Join us at the fireside for a lively book discussion group.
On Thursday February 19th at 1:30, we will be discussing The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Then on Monday February 23rd at 6:30, we will be discussing The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.
Children’s Storytime
Children’s storytime starts up again on Monday January 12th.
The winter schedule brings us themes that include Fun in the Snow, Time, Cookies and lots more. Enjoy stories, songs and crafts on Monday’s at 10:00 for 2 year olds, or Wednesdays or Thursdays at 10:00 for 3 to 5 year-olds.
Fireside Book Clubs
Come in out of the cold and join us for a lively discussion at this month’s book club.
On Tuesday January 20th at 1:30, we will be discussing Tomorrow by Graham Swift and on Monday January 26th at 6:30, we will be discussing Pegasus in Flightby Anne McCaffrey.
