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Our pick of the month
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health.Place a hold on Handle with Care in the New Brunswick Public Libraries Online Catalogue.
Reading Guides
Summer Reading Suggestions: Library staff share their favorites for summer 2010
Suggestions for Film Goers : You saw the movie, now read the book.
Suggestions for Vampire Lovers : if you loved the Twilight series, here are some more books you might enjoy.
Bella's Reading List : Have you ever asked yourself: What did Bella read?
Not sure what to read next? Send us an email with your interests and/or favorite authors and we'll pair you up with a new book! mplib@gnb.ca
Past book picks
17 Again, a film directed by Burr Steers. If you somehow had the chance, would you do your life over? Thirty-something Mike O'Donnell would. Then in one mysteriously magical moment, Mike gets his chance. He's suddenly back to Hayden High where he's the star of the basketball team, a total hottie and a classmate to his own teenage kids...which gives Mike a chance to go from not-so-good dad to really cool friend. Zac Efron and Matthew Perry are 17 again and fabulously funny as the younger and older Mike in a good-time time-warp comedy that proves the best year of your life is the one you're living right now.Place a hold on 17 Again in the New Brunswick Public Libraries online catalogue.
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maass is a startling and essential account of the consequences of our addiction to oil. It is a stunning and revealing examination of oil's indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it. Place a hold on Crude World in the New Brunswick Public Libraries online catalogue.
The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan. Cathy Marie Buchanan’s first novel has the wistful tone of a love letter, addressed to a place few people alive today ever knew: Niagara Falls in the years before it became a tacky tourist destination, when it was still the domain of rivermen, daredevils, and lovers. The story begins in 1915, as 17-year-old Bess Heath’s life of privilege is thrown into disarray. After her father loses his job at the Niagara Power Company, Bess returns home to discover him ensconced at the local hotel bar. She also finds her heartbroken sister and her mother, who is scrabbling together an income as a dressmaker. The family’s hope is restored when a wealthy suitor proposes to Bess. But when a mysterious stranger captures Bess’s heart and the falls claim the life of her sister, love and grief make the marriage of convenience impossible. At the centre of the tale is Bess’s battle for faith and hope in a world that God seems to have abandoned – a world in which the First World War immerses young men in unfathomable horror and landscapes like Niagara Falls are ravaged in the service of boundless progress.
Place a hold on The Day the Falls Stood Still in the New Brunswick Public Libraries' catalogue.
Fire by Kristin Cashore. Fire is the last of her kind...It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clingling to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest are filled with spies and thieves. This is where Fire lives, a a girl whose beauty is impossibly irresistible and who can contol the minds of everyone around her.
Place a hold on Fire in the New Brunswick Public Libraries' online catalogue
Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki. In this graphic novel, friendship, love, identity, and a general feeling of isolation in an all-girls private school contribute to Kim Cameron (Skim)'s growing depression.
Place a hold on Skim in the New Brunswick Public Libraries' online catalogue