Even more Staff Picks for 2010
Here are more reading suggestions from staff members. If you missed the first two installments, click on the links below.
Library Staff Members Choose their Favourite Books of 2010
More Staff Favourites from 2010
Maureen
Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
In a nutshell, she looks at the negative side of the 'new age' positive thinking movement, subjecting the fake 'science' promoted by some of its key figures to the bright light of reason. A much needed (IMHO) counter balance to the ideas promoted in Rhonda Byrne's "The Secret" and works like it.
Jim
Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard by Richard B. Wright 
A believable and compelling story of a woman's life set in Elizabethan England as told from her death-bed. Aerlene Ward recounts the details of her mother's affair with a budding playwright and when she discovers that William Shakespeare is probably her father she sets out to meet him.
Vince
Prospero Lost by L. Jagi Lamplighter
An amusing fantasy of manners following the adventures of Prospero and his children.
The Sisters who Would Be Queen: the Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey by
Leanda De Lisle
A really interesting historical biography of the infamous Grey sisters
Erin
Negative Image by Vicki Delany
The latest in the Molly Smith mysteries. Set in the beautiful town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, Constable Molly Smith and Police Sergeant John Winters are a likeable team that always get their man! 
Hard Magic by Laura Anne Gilman
Bonnie Torres is a wonderful urban fantasy heroine. A recent college grad, she is hired by the PUPI (Private, Unaffiliated, Paranormal Investigations), a CSI team that uses magic to solve crimes.
The White Garden by Stephanie Barron
This fast paced novel grabbed my attention right from the start. Jo Bellamy arrives at Virginia Woolf’s Sissinghurst Castle, and stumbles across a dusty old notebook in a garden shed. This discovery takes us on a race through the world of rare books, where Oxford and Cambridge Professors, will do anything to find undiscovered diaries of literary figures.
Catherine
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
Exquisitely written in elegant prose, it offers poignant insights into the realities of love, marriage, divorce intermingled with wistful recollections of times in the Hague, London and New York, the drifting between past and present flawlessly
executed.
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