by Tina Chaulk “Tina Chaulk’s first novel… contrasting 22-year-old Lisa’s letters home to her parents in Aspen Cove, Newfoundland, with the everyday reality of her life as a job-hunting university graduate in Toronto. Much of the humour comes from this contrast: Lisa is determined to put the best face on her experiences for the folks […]
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert “In her early thirties, [the author] had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want – husband, country home, successful career – but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she felt consumed by panic and confusion. This … is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of […]
44 Dublin Made Me
by Peter Sheridan “A stirring, funny memoir of life in Dublin recalls the arrival of British television in one family’s home–an event that brings sex, drugs, and the Beatles into an otherwise peaceful Catholic home.” Overview by Google
The Nightingale’s Nest
by Sarah Harrison “The story, set in 1929, is that of Pamela Griffe, a young woman widowed by the Great War, who goes to work for the charming and eccentric art dealer Christopher Jarvis and his wife Amanda. While there she meets John Ashe for whom she also begins to work, part-time. During this period […]
The Island
by Victoria Hislop “The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation’s leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There’s Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to […]
Measure of a Man
by Sidney Poiter The acclaimed actor reveals the passion, spirituality, and intellectual fervor that have driven his life and career, citing the elements of his childhood that gave him his sense of worth and ethics.” Overview by Google
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
by Kim Edwards Kim Edwards’s stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother’s silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one […]
The Kite Runner
by Khalid Hosseini The Kite Runner is Hosseini’s first novel, and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007. It tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who befriends Hassan, the son of his father’s Hazara servant. The story is set against a […]
