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The Snowden Library New Fiction, Nonfiction & YA
April 3rd, 2025 |
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The next conversation: argue less, talk more
by Jefferson Fisher
A trial lawyer provides a three-part communication system—Say it with control, confidence, and to connect—to help readers handle tough situations, assert themselves, set boundaries, and improve relationships by transforming the way you communicate using practical strategies and phrases for difficult conversations.
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How to feed the world: the history and future of food
by Vaclav Smil
A renowned thinker and University of Manitoba professor busts myths as he investigates why the big food-producing countries also have the most undernourished people; why food goes to waste and how to change that; whether the planet could and should go vegan; and how to feed a growing global population without killing the planet.
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More and more and more: an all-consuming history of energy
by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
While sharing the same acute anxiety about the need for a green transition as the rest of us, the author shows how in fact, disastrously, our industrial history has been a symbiosis, with each major energy source feeding off others, and how this continues today as fossil fuel companies invest in renewables—not as a genuine plan, but in order to put off any meaningful change.
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The heat and the fury: on the frontlines of climate violence
by Peter Schwartzstein
A climate security journalist shows how climate change is often the spark that ignites long-smoldering fires—the extra shove that pushes individuals, communities, and nations over the line between frustration and lethal fury as our planet becomes a powder keg.
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A woman among wolves: my journey through forty years of wolf recovery
by Diane K. Boyd
“The Jane Goodall of the wolves” recounts her fearless 40-year journey studying and defending wild wolves in Montana's rugged terrain amidst harsh winters and other threats while advocating for their reintroduction, conservation, and coexistence with the apex predator—humans—offering lessons for wolf management across the globe.
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A lethal legacy: a history of Ireland in 18 murders
by Fin Dwyer
Charts 200 years of Irish history by observing its large scale societal changes through the intimate lens of 18 murders and the communities they altered forever. The author explores an Irish past that looks beyond rulers and battles, and into the lives of everyday people who lived through violent times.
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A history of the world in 6 glasses
by Tom Standage
This offbeat history of the world traces humankind from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the story of six different drinks—beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola—describing their pervasive influence during pivotal eras of world history, from humankind's adoption of agriculture to the advent of globalization.
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Salt Spring has issues: musings from an island you thought you knew by John Bateman - SMUS AuthorSalt Spring Island evokes images of natural beauty, talented artists, and a slower pace. Whatever your notions of this famous island are, cast them aside and immerse yourself in John Bateman’s alternative, yet hilariously accurate, appraisal of “island life.”
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The consequences: stories
by Manuel Muñoz
Set in California's Central Valley in the 1980s, this collection depicts the Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers who are regularly harassed by authorities, as well as the immense challenges faced by their families.
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Walk the blue fields
by Claire Keegan
A woman who wears her long hair loose moves into a house near the Cliffs of Moher and sets fire to its furniture. And in the title story, a priest waits on the altar for a bride and battles, all that wedding day, with his memories of a love affair. In this collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland constantly wrestling with its past.
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So late in the day: stories of women and men
by Claire Keegan
Collects three of the Booker Prize Finalist's stories, newly revised and expanded, that explore the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation, and the looming threat of violence.
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Small ceremonies
by Kyle Edwards
This may be the Tigers' last season at the rink, and Indigenous teen Tommy sees the uncertainty of life in the team's loss; Clinton is trying to avoid Winnipeg's gangs; Floyd is talented yet insecure about being multiracial; and the adults in Tommy's life—his mother; Pete, the Zamboni driver; and elders Maggie and Olga—offer well-intentioned but often misguided support.
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Punished
by Ann-Helén Laestadius
In the 1950s, Sweden forces seven-year-olds Jon-Ante, Else-Maj, Nilsa, Marge, and Anne-Risten to leave their families, Sámi reindeer herders, and attend a “nomad school” where they face abuse from housemother Rita; 30 years later, Rita reappears, a frail old woman, and the former students have neither forgotten nor forgiven her.
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Dream count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Explores the lives of four Nigerian women, each grappling with love, loss, and the complexities of modern life, as they face personal growth, societal expectations, and the pursuit of happiness. By the author of Americanah.
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Twist
by Colum McCann
Irish journalist Anthony Fennell investigates the human cost of fiber-optic cable repair on Africa's west coast, joining a mysterious engineer and freediver as their mission at sea reveals personal and global fractures, forcing them to confront love, loss and the fragile connections that bind them. By the author of Let the Great World Spin.
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Three days in June
by Anne Tyler
As Gail navigates the chaos of her daughter Debbie's wedding preparations—including a job loss, exclusion from family events, and the unexpected arrival of her ex-husband Max—she faces a crisis that threatens the wedding and forces both parents to confront unresolved issues from their past.
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Echo of Worlds
by M. R. Carey
Rupshe, an artificial intelligence, believes the end of the universe is near and assembles a team to search the multiverse for the Mother Mass who can save them all. Second in the Pandominion series following Infinity Gate.
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The sirens
by Emilia Hart
Lucy searches for her missing sister Jess in a modern-day coastal Australian town shrouded in eerie legends, uncovering connections to Jess's adolescent past and twin sisters from 1800 whose haunting ties to the sea ripple across generations. By the author of Weyward.
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The humans
by Matt Haig
Regarding humans unfavourably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there is more to the human race than he suspected and embarking on a darkly comic effort to save humanity from itself.
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Wicked: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
Set in an Oz where a morose Wizard battles suicidal thoughts, the story of the green-skinned Elphaba, otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the West, profiles her as an animal rights activist striving to avenge her beloved sister's death.
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The leap year gene
by Shelley Wood
Kit McKinley inexplicably ages just one year for every four. Her mother Lillian, a botanist, fears that Kit's condition will catch the attention of her fellow suffragettes, who have embraced the eugenics craze sweeping North America targeting unfit, unwed mothers and "defective" children. For decades, Kit and her family keep moving to conceal her secret, but her life keeps intersecting with that of Will Katzen.
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Mrs Van Gogh
by Caroline Cauchi
Eleven years after his death, Vincent Van Gogh's work was exhibited in Paris and his was talent finally recognised; the tireless efforts of one woman had given the world one of its greatest artists. Here is the story of 28-year-old Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger, Vincent's sister-in-law and the keeper of his immense collection of paintings, sketches, and letters.
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The bookbinder
by Pip Williams
As World War I draws the young men of Britain away to fight, Peggy, who works in the bindery at Oxford's university press, sees the possibility of a different future when refugees arrive from Belgium, but as war and illness reshape her world, her love for a Belgian soldier threatens to hold her back. By the author of the Dictionary of Lost Words.
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Historical Mystery & Suspense
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The Paris Express
by Emma Donoghue
Set on a fateful 1895 train journey to Paris, a diverse group of passengers—politicians, a medical student, an inventor, and an anarchist—navigate personal ambitions and hidden motives, culminating in a disaster that will change their lives forever. By the author of The Wonder and Room.
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Dubious allegiance
by Don Gutteridge
In 1837, as tensions between Upper and Lower Canada rise, Lieutenant Marc Edwards senses the threat of assassination, but when a murderer strikes the force of British soldiers he's been assigned to accompany on a journey to Toronto, Edwards realizes that he may have more than one killer to worry about.
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Blackout
by Simon Scarrow
With his future already on the line after refusing to join the Nazi party, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigates a series of grisly murders during the Third Reich's forced nightly blackouts during the brutally cold Berlin winter of 1939. First in a series.
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A deceptive devotion
by Iona Whishaw
As one of the few Russian speakers in Nelson, Lane Winslow is obliged to act as translator and hostess for Countess Orlova, who has tracked her missing brother to the area. When a British agent asks her to be on the lookout for a fleeing Russian defector, Lane, bound by the Wartime Secrets Act, feels conflicted—especially about keeping her fiance, Inspector Darling, in the dark. Sixth in the series.
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The no-girlfriend rule
by Christen Randall
When her boyfriend excludes her from participating in a roleplaying game, high school senior Hollie joins an all-girls group where an in-game romance has the potential to be more than just pretend.
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Ariel crashes a train
by Olivia A. Cole
Fearing her own mind and the violent fantasies she can't stop, Ariel finds herself questioning everything when a summer job at a carnival brings new friends into her world who show her that just because she has OCD, she's not broken—nor is she alone.
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So let them burn
by Kamilah Cole
After her sister Elara forms an unbreakable bond with the enemy, 17-year-old Faron, who once wielded the magic of the gods to save her island from dragon-riding colonizers, must find a way to save her sister and the fate of their world in the face of impossible odds.
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Sunrise on the reaping
by Suzanne Collins
It's the 50th annual Hunger Games, and as the games begin, District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy realizes he's been set up to fail, even though something in him wants to fight, in the second prequel to the Hunger Games series.
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The librarian of Auschwitz
by Antonio Iturbe
A novelized account of the incredible true story of Dita Kraus, a teen girl from Prague who, after being sent to Auschwitz, is chosen to protect the precious eight books prisoners have managed to smuggle into the camp.
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I survived the battle of D-Day, 1944: the graphic novel
by Georgia Ball
With his French village under Nazi control, young Paul Colbert joins a secret resistance after rescuing an American paratrooper and gets his chance to make a difference in the midst of the largest military operation in history.
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