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The Snowden Library New Fiction, Nonfiction & YA
May 23rd, 2024 |
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Elemental: how the periodic table can now explain (nearly) everything
by Tim James
A popular science blogger and lecturer offers a quirky guide that shows how the periodic table is relevant to our everyday lives, answering questions you didn't know you wanted to ask, like what is the chemical symbol for a human? And can liquid teleport through walls?
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Pageboy: a memoir
by Elliot Page
The Oscar-nominated Canadian star who, after the success of Juno, became one of the world's most beloved actors, reveals how a burgeoning career became a nightmare of criticism and abuse in Hollywood until he found the courage to step into his true self with defiance, strength, and joy.
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The house of all sorts
by Emily Carr
Before her success as an artist, Emily Carr built a fourplex on Victoria's Simcoe Street, hoping renting out its apartments would earn her a living, but soon found herself shoveling coal and cleaning up other people's messes. First published in 1944, these stories describe those hard-working days and the parade of tenants—young couples, widows, bachelors, and rent evaders—with Carr at her most rueful yet still filled with hope and energy.
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How to win friends & influence people
by Dale Carnegie
First published in 1936, this classic bestseller provides suggestions for successfully dealing with people in both social and business situations.
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Keetsahnak: our missing and murdered Indigenous sisters
by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, Christi Belcourt (editors)
This collective volume both witnesses the significance of the travelling MMIWG2S exhibition Walking With Our Sisters, and creates a model for antiviolence work from an Indigenous perspective. The contributors explore the roots of violence and discuss how it diminishes everyone; acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence; and share stories of resilience, resistance, and activism.
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River meets the sea
by Rachael Moorthy
Traces the dual timelines of Ronny, a white-passing Indigenous foster child in 1940s Vancouver, and Chandra, a Tamil immigrant in the suburbs of Nanaimo in the 1970s. Until their troubled paths inevitably cross, water becomes a haven for both of them—Ronny hearing his lost mother's voice in the surging Stâo:lō River, and Chandra fleeing the pressures to assimilate by swimming in the Salish Sea.
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Outline
by Rachel Cusk
Follows a novelist teaching a creative writing course during an oppressively hot summer in Athens, where the people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, that of a woman learning to face a great loss. First in Cusk's Outline trilogy.
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This summer will be different
by Carley Fortune
When her best friend flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy follows her to Prince Edward Island to help her through her crisis while attempting to resist the man she's never been able to, but his flirtations have been replaced with something new, making her wonder if her heart is safe at all.
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Empire of the sun
by J. G. Ballard
A British boy living in China at the outbreak of World War II is separated from his wealthy parents, forced to forage for survival in Shanghai's foreign quarter, interned in a Japanese prison camp, and, eventually, reunited with his family, in this award-winning novel based on the author's own childhood in occupied China.
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A history of burning
by Janika Oza
Taken from his village in India in 1898 to work on the East African Railway for the British, Pirbhai spends his life reconciling an act he committed to survive that will haunt his family's future.
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Long Island
by Colm Toibin
In 1976 Lindenhurst, Long Island, Ellis Lacey, an Irishwoman in her 40s with no one to rely on in this still-new country, discovers that her husband got a woman pregnant and the woman's husband is refusing to raise it, forcing Ellis to decide what she'll do—and what she won't do. The sequel to Brooklyn.
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The saint of bright doors
by Vajra Chandrasekera
Raised to kill, Fetter, who walked among invisible powers, learned lethal catechism, and gained a knack for keeping secrets, escapes his rural hometown for the big city where every door is laden with potential—and the chance to rewrite the world.
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A game of thrones
by George R. R. Martin
Lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, and all the forces of good and evil prepare for trouble in the land of Winterfell, where summers can last for decades and winters a lifetime. Book one of A Song of Ice and Fire. Also available as an audiobook.
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A clash of kings
by George R. R. Martin
Joffrey ascends the Iron Throne after the death of Robert Baratheon, The Usurper, and chaos reigns as six factions struggle for control of the kingdom. Book two of A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Close to death
by Anthony Horowitz
When Charles Kentworthy is found dead on his doorstep not long after moving his loud, boisterous family into an idyllic gated community, Detective Hawthorne investigates, in the fifth novel of the series following The Twist of a Knife.
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The last murder at the end of the world
by Stuart Turton
On an isolated island where 122 villagers and three scientists live in peaceful harmony, one of the scientists is found brutally murdered, which triggers a security system that gives the islanders only 107 hours to solve the murder or be smothered by the fog that destroyed the planet. By the author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
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Icebreaker
by A. L. Graziadei
Vying for the NHL league's top draft spot, 17-year-old Mickey James and teammate Jaysen Caulfield find their rivalry turning into something more, forcing them both to decide what they really want, and what they are willing to risk for it. 2023 Printz Award honor pick.
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What the river knows
by Isabel Ibañez
Set in 1884, 19-year-old Inez travels from Buenos Aires to Egypt after the sudden death of her parents to uncover the truth about what happened to them, and as she attempts to unravel the mysteries her parents sought, she becomes a pawn in a larger game that threatens her own life. Also available as an audiobook.
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Better than the movies
by Lynn Painter
Enlisting the help of her cute but annoying boy next door in hopes of snagging an unlikely prom date with her crush who has just moved back into town, Liz discovers that she is becoming unexpectedly attracted to her mischievous neighbour. Also available as an ebook.
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101 great science experiments
by Neil Ardley
Describes 101 science experiments and activities that can be done using household items and easily found ingredients.
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Awesome physics experiments for kids
by Erica L. Colón
Outlines experiments using easily available materials that explore such topics as force, buoyancy and flight, solids and liquids, electricity, magnetism, light, heat, and sound.
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