Staff Favourites from 2012: Part 3
The staff at Toronto Public Library have selected their favourite reading material from 2012.
Diana:
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The Witness by Nora Roberts
• Audiobook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Elizabeth Fitch cuts loose for one night, and much to her regret, finds herself a witness to murder.
Helen:
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The Accident by Linwood Barclay
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
Another twisting nail-biter about a man who refuses to admit his wife’s accident was her fault and instead discovers murder in suburbia.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
A beautiful and funny story in letters about the lives of a community cut off from Britain during WWII and a London journalist who comes to love them.
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and The International Hunt For His Assassin by Hampton Sides
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
Takes you back to 1968 in a gripping, well-documented study of the not well-known beginning of a killer’s plan and the hunt that took place to find him.
I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
An abandoned cell phone creates havoc in the life of Poppy Wyatt as she resorts to hilarious antics in order to keep it.
Jim:
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Age of Hope by David Bergen
• eBook
Compelling story about a woman's life in rural Manitoba.
Canada by Richard Ford
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• Large Print
A story about a 15-year-old boy named Dell Parsons, whose world collapses when his paren'ts are jailed for a bank robbery and he is forced to move across the border and live in a smal town in Saskatchewan. Slow paced and gripping as usual from Richard Ford.
Sutton by J.R. Moehringer
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
A fictionized biography of real-life bank robber Willie "The Actor" Sutton. Sutton was unexpectedly released from prison in 1969 and spent his first day of freedom being driven all over New York City by a newspaper reporter, visiting the places that shaped him during his life. This is Moehringer's fictionalized account of what happened.
Other Diana:
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Among Others by Jo Walton
• eBook
A teenage girl at boarding school in 1979 reflects on events that caused the death of her twin sister at the hands of her crazy but powerful witch mother, while falling in love and reading her way through the canon of science fiction masters of the 1960s and 70s.
Paul:
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Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
A surprisingly fun & engaging book by New York critic and essayist, Jim Holt, that mixes hardcore quantum physics and rigorous theology to try and answer the eternal question of why there is "something rather than nothing" — and very nearly succeeds!
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Great post. Thanks!