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Fiction A to Z February 2024 |
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Followed by the lark by Helen Humphreys"Inspired by the letters and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, this moving novel inhabits his life and mind" About the author: Helen Humphreys is the author of four collections of poetry & one previous novel, "Leaving Earth", which won the Toronto Book Award, was a "New York Times" Notable Book, & was published in six languages. |
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| Family Family by Laurie FrankelActress India Allwood -- an adoptive mother of twins -- creates a PR nightmare by saying her latest film gets adoption wrong. A second timeline also shows India in high school, dreaming of Broadway while pregnant with a baby she places for adoption. Other witty novels about complex families: Emma Straub's All Adults Here; Steven Rowley's The Guncle. |
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| Orbital by Samantha HarveyOver the course of 24 hours, six astronauts from five countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, and Russia) navigate life with each other and ponder their pasts and their futures while orbiting earth in a final space station mission. Read-alikes: The Wanderers by Meg Howrey; How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu. |
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| All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-BarlowSunday Forrester, who's autistic, lives with her headstrong 16-year-old daughter in the English Lake District house she grew up in. When a rich London couple move next door, they quickly upend Sunday's careful life and drive a wedge between her and her daughter. Longlisted for the Booker Prize, this thought-provoking own voices book is Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow's first novel. |
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The warm hands of ghosts : a novel
by Katherine Arden
In 1918, field nurse Laura Iven returns to Belgium to uncover the truth about her brother Freddie's supposed death in combat, while Freddie, unable to return to the killing fields, takes refuge with a mysterious man who has the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
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The Hollow Beast by Christophe Bernard"Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge." In 1911, in a hockey game in Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Monti collapses with his head across the goal line, Victor Bradley, referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts. Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls over three generations. It is up to Monti's grandson, Francois, to make sense of the vendetta between Monti and Bradley and, by doing so, change the destiny of their town and everyone who lives there.
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The road from Belhaven
by Margot Livesey
In late-nineteenth-century Scotland, Lizzie Craig, gifted with the ability to see into the future, is courted by Louis, but when she follows him from Belhaven Farm to Glasgow, she learns the limits of his devotion, forcing her to make a terrible mistake until her second sight allows her a second chance.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Caledon Public Library
7 branches to serve you across Caledon 150 Queen St. S., Bolton, ON L7E 1E3 905-857-1400 www.caledon.library.on.ca |
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