|
Library eReads October 2020 Check out more adult, teen, and juvenile eBooks and eAudiobooks on our website!
|
|
|
|
|
All We Left Behind
by Danielle R. Graham
Vancouver 1941 Sweethearts Hayden and Chidori are in love. But everything changes after Pearl Harbor.
Now seen as the enemy, Chidori and her family are forced into an internment camp. Powerless to help them, Hayden joins the Royal Canadian Air Force to bring about an end to this devastating war.
Can they both survive long enough to be reunited? Or will the war be the only thing to separate their love?
|
|
|
Axiom's End
by Lindsay Ellis
It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact.
Realizing the extent to which both she and the public have been lied to, she finds that the best way for her to uncover the truth is not as a whistleblower like her infamous father, but as an intermediary. Their otherworldly connection will change everything she thought she knew about being human—and could unleash a force more sinister than she ever imagined
Check out this E.T-meets-Transformers alternate history from the popular Youtuber and pop culture critic, Lindsay Ellis, and stay tuned for book #2!
|
|
|
The Finder
by Will Ferguson
The world is filled with wonders, lost objects—all real—all still out there, waiting to be found:
· the missing Fabergé eggs of the Romanov dynasty, worth millions · the last reel of Alfred Hitchcock’s first film · Buddy Holly’s iconic glasses · Muhammad Ali’s Olympic gold medal
How can such cherished objects simply vanish? Where are they hiding? And who on earth might be compelled to uncover them?
Prepare to meet Gaddy Rhodes, a brittle Interpol agent obsessed with tracking “The Finder”—a shadowy figure she believes is collecting lost objects.
|
|
|
The Spinster Diaries
by Gina Fattore
Meet our heroine: A moderately successful TV writer in L.A., who wants her life to be as sunny and perfect as a Hollywood rom-com; instead, she’s a self-described spinster who is swimming in anxiety and just might have a tiny little brain tumor.
So she turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: the eighteenth-century novelist and diarist Frances Burney, who pretty much invented the chick-lit novel and inspired Jane Austen to greatness.
|
|
|
The Subtweet
by Vivek Shraya
When Neela Devaki’s song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukmini’s star rises and Neela’s stagnates, jealousy and self-doubt creep in.
With a single tweet, their friendship implodes, one career is destroyed, and the two women find themselves at the center of an internet firestorm.
|
|
|
Alone: A Love Story
by Michelle Parise
The church wedding, the new house, a beautiful baby … Michelle was sold a dream and bought into it. But one day, nine years in, she wakes up in an empty bed, and The Husband isn't there. Then, he drops The Bomb — he was having an affair with a woman at work.
Adrift and on the edge of forty, Michelle battles the monster she calls Loneliness. Soon she takes a chance on love again with a dashing but complicated man — The Man with the White Shirt.
Uncover a story about falling in and out of love, divorce, single parenthood, and the messy world of dating.
|
|
|
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
by Elizabeth Gilbert
This beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the "strange jewels" that are hidden within each of us.
Whether we are looking to write a book, make art, find new ways to address challenges in our work, embark on a dream long deferred, or simply infuse our everyday lives with more mindfulness and passion, Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy
|
|
|
The Fixed Stars
by Molly Wizenberg
At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew.
Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe.
|
|
|
Like Brothers
by Mark Duplass
Join the critically acclaimed writers, directors, producers and stars of such hit projects as The League, Transparent and The Mindy Project as they share the secrets behind their creative partnership, offering insight into their balance between innovation and commercial viability, the dynamics of the Hollywood machine and the challenges of collaborating professionally with a loved one.
|
|
|
On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus
by David Waltner-Toews
Almost all pandemics and epidemics have been caused by diseases that come to us from animals, including SARS, Ebola, and—now—Covid-19.
Epidemiologist, veterinarian, and ecosystem health specialist, David Waltner-Toews, gathers the latest research to profile dozens of illnesses in On Pandemics. Chapters are broken into short, dynamic explainers, each one tackling a different disease.
|
|
|
The Outside Circle
by Patti Laboucane-Benson
Pete, a young Aboriginal man wrapped up in gang violence, lives with his younger brother, Joey, and his mother who is a heroin addict.
One night, Pete and his mother’s boyfriend, Dennis, get into a big fight, which sends Dennis to the morgue and Pete to jail. Initially, Pete keeps up ties to his crew, until a jail brawl forces him to realize the negative influence he has become on Joey, which encourages him to begin a process of rehabilitation that includes traditional Aboriginal healing circles and ceremonies.
|
|
|
Spellhacker
by M. K. England
In Kyrkarta, magic—known as maz—was once a freely available natural resource. Then an earthquake released a magical plague, killing thousands and opening the door for a greedy corporation to make maz a commodity that’s outrageously expensive. Which is why Diz and her three best friends run a highly lucrative, highly illegal maz siphoning gig on the side.
But when their plan turns up a powerful new strain of maz that (literally) blows up in their faces, they’re driven to unravel a conspiracy at the very center of the spellplague—and possibly save the world.
|
|
|
We were promised spotlights
by Lindsay Sproul
People think Taylor is living the dream, and assume she'll stay in town and have kids with the homecoming king--maybe even be a dental hygienist if she's super ambitious. But Taylor is actually desperate to leave home, and she hates the smell of dentists' offices. Also? She's completely in love with her best friend, Susan.
Senior year is almost over, and everything seems perfect. Now Taylor just has to figure out how to throw it all away.
|
|
|
The Barren Grounds: The Misewa Saga
by David A. Robertson
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom.
|
|
|
One True Way
by Shannon Hitchcock
From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left...
...But as their friendship grows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977 it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
|
|
|
The Whispers
by Greg Howard
Riley has a lot of wishes. He wishes bullies at school would stop picking on him. He wishes Dylan, his 8th grade crush, liked him, and Riley wishes he would stop wetting the bed. But most of all, Riley wishes for his mom to come back home.
Frustrated with the lack of progress in the investigation, Riley decides to take matters into his own hands by finding the "whispers" and asking them to bring his mom back home.
|
|
Contact your librarian for more great ebooks!
|
|
|
If you are having trouble unsubscribing to this newsletter, please contact the Guelph Public Library at 519-824-6220, 100 Norfolk Street Guelph, ON N1H 4J6
|
|
|
|