I Love To Read Month Staff Picks: Morden and Miami
It's hard to believe that we have reached the last week of I Love To Read Month already. Our last staff picks post features the Morden and Miami branches. As always, to place the book on hold, click on the book title for a link to our catalogue. We hope you've enjoyed seeing what our staff has been reading this month. For more recommendations, come in to one of our branches and talk to our staff.
Morden
By Stephen King
Recommended by Gail-Morden Branch Administrator
When a disease wipes out most of humankind, the survivors gather to create a new society and to battle a force of pure evil in human form unleashed upon the world.
By Michael Connelly
Recommended by Dorothy
Harry Bosch is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Sifting through the clues leads into the dangerous, big business world of pill mills and prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him, and seems to have new evidence to prove it. The two unrelated cases wind around each other like strands of barbed wire.
By Marie Harte
Recommended by Barb
For reporter Avery Dearborn, not every on-camera moment is picture perfect. Take her latest interview: if a nimble passerby hadn't caught her, a leg-obsessed dog would have toppled her to the ground. To make matters worse, her helpful rescuer is none other than her arch nemesis, hunky firefighter Brad Battle. Brad has served Seattle's residents for years, but he's never gone viral for it before. With the city melting over the hot new pair, Brad and Avery are forced to work together on a new livestreaming segment promoting pet adoptions... As anger turns to irresistible attraction, things heat up even more between Brad and Avery. But dodging their past is like playing with fire: if left unchecked, someone is sure to get burned.
By Jennifer Holm
Recommended by Tracy
Sunny Lewin is sent to live with her grandfather for the summer in Florida, where she befriends Buzz, a boy completely obsessed with comic books, and faces the secret behind why she is in Florida in the first place.
By Sara Donati
Recommended by Bonnah
A judge's daughter elopes with a white adventurer in Colonial America. Elizabeth arrived from England to marry a doctor, but is smitten by Nathaniel, a man raised by the Mohawks. The doctor, however, refuses to give her up and pursues them.
By Brandon Sanderson
Recommended by Thomas
Experiencing an epiphany within the most daunting prison of the monstrous Lord Ruler, half-Skaa Kelsier finds himself taking on the powers of a Mistborn, and teams up with ragged orphan Vin in a desperate plot to save their world.
By Ann-Marie MacDonald
Recommended by Sara
Mary Rose MacKinnon--nicknamed MR or "Mister"--is a successful YA author who has made enough from her writing to semi-retire in her early 40s. She lives in a comfortable Toronto neighbourhood with her partner, Hilary, a busy theatre director, and their 2 young children, Matthew and Maggie, trying valiantly and often hilariously to balance her creative pursuits with domestic demands, and the various challenges that (mostly) solo parenting presents. As a child, Mary Rose suffered from an illness, long since cured and "filed separately" in her mind. But as her frustrations mount, she experiences a flare-up of forgotten symptoms which compel her to rethink her memories of her own childhood and her relationship with her parents. With her world threatening to unravel, the spectre of domestic violence raises its head with dangerous implications for her life and that of her own children.
Miami
By Christelle Dabos
Recommended by Raina-Miami Branch Administrator
Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiancé to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world.
Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiancé to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world.
By E.B. White
Recommended by Donna
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
By Marissa Meyer
Recommended by Alyssa
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
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