Staff Favourites from 2013: Part 5: The Final Chapter
This is the last installment of our staff recommendations from 2012. Follow the links at the end of the blog post to see the other posts in the series.
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Are You My Mother? : a Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
The follow-up to Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel Fun Home deals with her complex relationship with her mother as Fun Home addressed her father. Funny, moving and insightful into the process of artistic creation.
Luchadoras by Peggy Adam
Adams’ graphic novel Luchadoras focuses a lens on the ongoing violence against women in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez. Raw art and a melodramatic plot overlay complex themes of gender, race and class.
The Song of Roland by Michel Rabagliati
Quebec comic artist Rabagliati tells the story of the death of the family patriarch, in a celebration of a life fully lived.
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Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
This is the tale of two young sisters who learn that their father has gambled away all their wealth and they have been pretty much sold off as wives to American suitors.
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The Phryne Fisher Series by Kerry Greenwood
They are really well-written with an exotic setting (Australia in the last 20s) and a fascinating heroine (Phryne, born poor, now a rich "Honourable," a jazz age free spirit and amateur sleuth).
The first three books in the series have been compiled in a single volume:
Introducing the Honourable Phryne Fisher
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Farthing by Jo Walton
A traditional country house murder with a twist. It's the first volume of an alternative history series that takes place after World War II ended with a peace treaty that handed most of Europe to the Nazis. The whole trilogy is fabulous.
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
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I loved this this book about how people behave at the end of the world. It's a wonderful story about a man who is determined to do the right thing, even though it doesn't seem to matter anymore.
Let's Pretend this Never Happened: a Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
• Audiobook
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
The author describes her memoir as "Little House on the Prairie with more cursing"; I can't write a better summary than that.
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
I knew the story but I'd actually never read the book, although I had played a computer game based on it. Hercule Poirot must solve a murder on a train that has been trapped by a blizzard. It was delightful.
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