Canadian Public Library Week -- Adult List

Perfect gift for book lovers, writers and your book club Book lovers rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish, Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life through her signature and vibrant illustrations. Readers of Jane Mount's Bibliophile will delight in: • Touring the world's most beautiful bookstores • Testing their knowledge of the written word with quizzes • Finding their next great read in lovingly curated stacks...

The iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead in Agatha Christie's classic mystery, The Body in the Library.

It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains

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It's all paws on deck as a librarian and her rescue cat track down a killer in the newest book in the nationally bestselling Bookmobile Cat Mystery series. Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, cruise around lovely Chilson, Michigan, delivering happiness and good reads in their bookmobile. But the feisty librarian is worried that the bookmobile's future could be uncertain when a new library board chair arrives and doesn't seem too friendly to...

A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.

Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four year old son Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting

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In August of 1939 London prepares for war as Hitler's forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett arrives in the city and what she finds is not what she expected. She winds up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop in London. As the Blitz intensifies, Grace discovers that storytelling unites her community, a force that triumphs over even the darkest nights of the war.

Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. To research this book, Stuart Kells traveled around the world with his young family like modern-day "library tourists." Kells discovered that stories about libraries are stories about people, containing every possible human drama. The Library is a celebration of books as objects,...

When Japanese bombs start to fall over 1937 China, Nanking and her classmates are told to flee. They are entrusted with a 500-year-old collection of folklore and myth that is referred to as the Library of Legends. When one of Nanking's classmates is murdered and another is arrested, she realizes her family secret is putting her life in danger.