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We’ve got wonderful new books and films to lose yourself in this summer!

FICTION
— Rachel Hochhauser’s debut novel: a delightfully fresh take on the stepmother in the Cinderella folk story in the context of her patriarchal society
— the audiobook of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s magical ode to literature, translated from Spanish by Lucia Graves, narrated by Jonathan Davis; our Book Club’s September title
— No. 36 in John Sanford’s Lucas Davenport thriller series in which a Russian defector and his family are in witness protection in a Midwestern US suburb
— new from Maria Semple: a zany, madcap romcom centred on a well-to-do middle-aged, divorced NYC woman who’s a Stoic philosopher

NONFICTION
— Canadian poet and novelist Marilyn Bowering’s account of her quest to find out about Mary MacLeod, a Scottish Gaelic bard in the 17th century when almost all poets were men
— from Michael Pollan, polymath, journalist and prolific writer about food and plants, a book examining the mysteries of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why

DVDs
— the iconic Men in Black sci-fi comedy films that came out from 1997 to 2012, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones
— a 2024 film starring Saoirse Ronan as a troubled alcohol-addicted young woman who returns home to the Orkney Islands following a turbulent few years in London

Link for our catalogue:

https://atwater.insigniails.com/Library/Home

Members can access our eBooks and audiobooks any time at all:

https://atwaterlibrary.overdrive.com/

For information and help:

514-935-7344

[email protected]

RETIREMENT TRANSITIONS is the topic of next week’s Atwater Library Financial Literacy Program.

Wednesday, June 17 at 2:00 pm, Paulette Blais, Certified Professional Retirement Coach, is conducting an interactive session on transitioning to a fulfilling retirement. Q&A.

Everyone is welcome and it’s free, thanks to funding from the Government of Canada.

You can attend IN PERSON in our Adair Auditorium, which is accessible by elevator. First come, first seated. No advance registration.

Or you can take part ONLINE by Zoom. To REGISTER and get the Zoom link, please send an email to [email protected].

As warm weather beckons and long weekends approach, immerse yourself in these books and films that our librarians recently added to our collections.

FICTION
— a thriller with a cast of writers on a private Scottish island competing for a literary deal; by Evelyn Clarke aka V.E. Schwab and Cat Clarke
— French philosopher and writer Vincent Delecroix’s devastating novel about the 2021 capsizing of a dinghy carrying migrants to England; translated by Helen Stevenson
— the BBC full-cast narration of excerpts from some of Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s most powerful writing with a bonus documentary about her life and career
— Scottish writer Tom Newlands’ debut about the coming of age of a young woman born into hardship, hailed by The Guardian’s reviewer as “exuberantly memorable”

NONFICTION
— the memoir of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who as a teenager was lured and abused by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, published after her death by su***de at age 41
— stories of English-speaking communities of Quebec by Guy Rex Rodgers, documentary film maker, co-founder of QWF and founder of ELAN

DVDs
— the 15-part BBC TV adaptation of Charles Dickens’ great novel with interwoven stories of a protracted legal case about inheritance and the mystery of an orphan’s origins
— Martin Scorsese’s 2023 epic film set in 1920s Oklahoma about the murders of Indigenous people after oil was discovered on tribal land

Link for our catalogue:

https://atwater.insigniails.com/Library/Home

Members can access our eBooks and audiobooks any time at all:

https://atwaterlibrary.overdrive.com/

For information and help:

514-935-7344

[email protected]

Maison Dunham House is our Lunchtime Series topic on THURSDAY, May 28 at 12:30 pm.

Patricia Goldman, the Montreal-based Director of Admissions and Outreach for Dunham House, is our guest speaker.

Dunham House, located in Dunham in the Eastern Townships, is Quebec’s only English-language residential treatment centre specializing in addiction and concurrent mental health disorders.

There's no registration process for in-person attendance. It's first come, first seated. Atwater Library’s Adair Auditorium (accessible by elevator).

To REGISTER for the Zoom link, please fill out and submit the online registration form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-hTSkxnCAqPKSdBigc0lMPoJWz89e6drLlv2CcWUoCc/viewform?edit_requested=true