Rosetown Library: Explore ancient worlds and new thrills at the Library this month
By Brittany Booth
Calling all ancient history lovers! Our book displays this month centre around the details and intricacies of life in ancient times. From Rome to Mesopotamia, to the Mayans and Egyptians, there are many choices to be had.
Kids can learn about subjects like ancient games and the work of archaeologists in Egypt. For adults, there’s a wide range of topics including politics, religion, art, and the lives of those often forgotten by the annals of history.
An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister (romance). Sadie Shaw and Jonah Fisher have been academic rivals since they first crossed paths as undergrads. Now that a highly coveted teaching opportunity has come up, their rivalry hits epic proportions. When Sadie notices that the job offers partner hire, however, she hatches a plot to get them both the job. All they must do is get legally married.
The Burning Library by Gilly Macmillan (thriller). On a frigid, windswept day in Scotland’s Western Isles, Eleanor Bruton’s body is discovered on the shore, bearing her dark and all-consuming secret: a scrap of fraying embroidery that seems worthless at first glance. For over a century, two rival organizations of women have gone to deadly lengths to secure the valuable artifact in the hopes of finding the original manuscript from which it was torn. Two women now get entangled in that ancient web in an attempt to solve a murder.
The Merge by Grace Walker (sci-fi). Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer’s. Her daughter, Amelia, can’t bear to see her mother’s mind fade. Amelia signs them up to take part in the world’s first experimental merging process for Alzheimer’s patients, in which Laurie’s ailing mind will be transferred into Amelia’s healthy body and their consciousness blended as one. As they prepare to move to The Village, a rehab centre for the merged, they quickly begin to question whether everything is really as it seems.
The Botanist’s Assistant by Peggy Townsend (mystery). Plenty of people consider Margaret Finch odd. But the same attributes that cause her to be labelled eccentric—an obsessive attention to detail and the ability to organize almost anything—make her invaluable in her job as Research Assistant II to a talented botanist. However, these qualities also turn Margaret into a target after a surprising death shakes the small university where she works.
Other People’s Fun by Harriet Lane (adult fiction). Ruth is alone, unnoticed, and at a loss. But luckily, Sookie is back in her life—vivid, self-assured Sookie, who never paid attention to Ruth when they were teenagers, but who now seems to want to be friends. As Ruth is caught up in Sookie’s life, she sees that everything is not as Instagrammable as Sookie would have you believe. As the truth about Sookie becomes clearer, so too does the choice Ruth has to make.