September 17 2021
September 17, 2021
New Fiction
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid – Reclusive Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant to write her story, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Determined to use this opportunity to jump-start her career, Monique listens in fascination. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to leaving show business in the ‘80s – and, of course, the seven husbands along the way – Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. But as Evelyn’s story nears its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible way.
The Need to Know by Cameron Scott Patterson – Michael Spencer has questions only his birth parents can answer, but his adoption search triggers a ripple along Ottawa’s corridors of absolute power that still shudder at the thought of his birth father, even after all these years. Michael quickly suffers the wrath of a intelligence apparatus so secret he doesn’t even know who he is running from. But he soon discovers he is not alone. His birth father has been watching, a virtual stranger with an inseparable bond, who returns to save the son he has never met. Now the race to save them both begins. And it all started with a dying wish to tell his birthmother she made the right choice.
New Non-Fiction
Things I learned from Falling by Claire Nelson – In 2018, writer Claire Nelson fell 25 feet after wandering off a trail in a remote stretch of Joshua Tree National park. The fall shattered her pelvis, leaving her at the bottom of a canyon, immobile and alone. Claire remained in that same spot for the next four days, surrounded by boulders that muffled her cries for help and exposed her to the merciless California sun above, and whatever lurked in the dark at night. Her rescuers had not expected to find her alive. What led this successful thirty-something to a desert trail on the other side of the globe from her home where no one knew she would be that day? At once the unbelievable story of an impossible event, and the human journey of a young woman wrestling with the agitation of past and anxiety of future.
Glendenning Day by Arnold Tweed, MD – Arnold Tweed was raised on a rural Manitoba farm and considers himself a son of the soil, once removed. His grounding in rural life was solidified by the one-room country schools that he attended for the first seven years of his education. Then, after finishing high school in Killarney, he studied science at Brandon College, graduating in 1959. It was in Brandon where he met Glenyce, and they have now been together over sixty years. Although rural Manitoba beckoned him, he got side-tracked and graduated with an MD from the University of Manitoba in 1964. His medical career has included general practice, emergency medicine, intensive care, and anesthesiology, and has been interspersed with medical research, teaching, and medical administration – and, more recently, writing his memoirs. Dr Tweed has worked on several international projects, and his medical career has carried him to Denmark, New Zealand, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Nepal. He is now retired in Toronto and returns for spiritual renewal every summer to Manitoba, where the county air and rural landscape nurture his reminiscences of boyhood on the farm. His summer home is only a few miles from his last country school, Glendenning No. 552. The school is long gone – only a wrought iron sign marks spot – but the memories are still there. Glendenning Days draws on those memories; it traces his family’s migrations to western Canada and describes his boyhood on the farm, all viewed through a lens coloured by his medical perspective.