Rosetown Library: Celebrating another year of stories at the Rosetown Library
By Brittany Booth
Rosetown Librarian
It’s always hard to believe another year has come and gone. But they say time flies when you’re having fun, and we certainly had a busy year here at the Rosetown Library.
As always, we want to thank our patrons and our community for another wonderful year. Support for free public access to information and entertainment is more important now than ever, and we are beyond honoured to provide that service. Happy holidays from your friendly neighbourhood librarians!
Daughter of Genoa by Kat Deveraux (historical fiction)
Anna’s family fled to America years ago, escaping Mussolini’s black shirts when they began rounding up Italian Jews, but Anna stayed behind. Alone and terrified, she meets Father Vittorio, a Jesuit priest who helps her find safety. Soon, Anna is determined to help the priest and his network of ordinary people smuggling Jews out of Italy with her own set of skills: a deft hand at ledgers and forgery. But then Anna finds herself falling in love with another member of the operation, a man known as Mr. X.
The Sea Captain’s Wife by Tilar J. Mazzeo (non-fiction)
Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, had hopes of achieving their dream of building a farm and a family. The price of that freedom was one final, dangerous transit into the most treacherous waters in the world in the summer of 1856. As their ship sailed down the jagged coast of South America, Joshua fell deathly ill. With no obvious option for a new captain, Mary Ann stepped up and convinced the crew to support her—just as they slammed into a gale that would last 18 days.
Needle Lake by Justine Champine (thriller)
Fourteen-year-old Ida was born with a hole in her heart and was forbidden from most activities. One afternoon, Ida’s older cousin, Elna, arrives. Elna is everything Ida is not: confident, glamorous, charismatic. But she doesn’t treat Ida like a fragile child. She isn’t scared off by Ida’s quirks or fixations. Ida is enraptured. Then, on Christmas Eve, a man dies out in the woods, and the two cousins suddenly share a secret beyond the scope of anything Ida has dealt with before.
The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage (adult fiction)
It’s New Year’s Day in Tasmania, and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely—until a helicopter abruptly lands. Out steps her grandmother’s right-hand man, with the news that her father and older brother have been killed in a skiing accident. Lexi’s grandmother happens to be the Queen of England, and in addition to her shock and grief, Lexi must now accept the reality that she is suddenly the next in line for the throne—a role she has publicly disavowed.
Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher (fantasy)
With only a few dollars to her name and her beloved dog, Copper, by her side, Selena flees her past in the city to claim her late aunt’s house in the desert town of Quartz Creek, where there’s beauty in everything. But something lurks beneath the surface—like the desert gods and spirits lingering outside Selena’s house at night, keeping watch. Selena gets the prickly sense that one of them watches too closely and wants something from her she can’t begin to imagine.