Rosetown Library: It’s Saskatchewan Archives Week
By Brittany Booth
Rosetown Librarian
February 1 to 7 is Saskatchewan Archives Week. With the Rosetown Archives being housed inside the library, we want to shed some light on the special work these organizations do.
Archives Week began 21 years ago and the Saskatchewan Council for Archives & Archivists keeps it going to this day. Trading cards with photos from archives around the province can be picked up at the library, and curious folks can visit scaa.sk.ca to learn more or keep an eye on the Rosetown Centennial Library Archives Facebook page for some fun pictures and facts about the work small town archivists do.
The Astral Library by Kate Quinn (fantasy). Growing up unloved in the foster care system, Alix has always found refuge in books. While reading in the Boston Public Library, Alix stumbles upon a hidden door that leads her to a secret library. In the Astral Library, you can find a new life inside your favourite book. As Alix befriends the Librarian and prepares for her new life, an enemy emerges who threatens the very foundations of the library.
Her Last Breath by Taylor Adams (mystery). Although they have been drifting apart since high school, Tess finally agrees to go caving with her travel influencer friend Allie. In the depths, Tess and Allie run into a strange man who starts harassing them. When Allie insults him, he retaliates and Tess finds herself trapped underground in a desperate fight for survival. As she recounts the events to a detective, Tess learns that Allie has been lying and the encounter wasn’t as random as she thought.
The Girls Before by Kate Alice Marshall (thriller). Trapped in the dark, running low on food and water, Stranger decides to attempt one last escape from her prison. Meanwhile, Audrey is a search and rescue expert who has never given up searching for her best friend who disappeared as a teenager. When she finds evidence that a teenage runaway might have been held on land by one of the town’s most prominent families, Audrey begins to search through decades of girls who have disappeared before.
Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson (historical fiction). Living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s, Ethel Gathers sets out to find homes for abandoned mixed-race orphans, children of German women and Black American soldiers. In 1948, Ozzie Phillips is stationed in Germany where he meets a local woman who changes his life forever. In 1965, Sophia Clark attends an all-white school in Maryland and learns a secret that will upend everything she knew about herself.
Free Falling by Jill Shalvis (romance). Retired hockey player Caleb Colburn needs this new construction project to go smoothly to prove he’s earned his place in the family business. There’s only one problem. The architect liaison is Emma Sumner, the woman who made his life a living hell in college. Emma’s feelings toward Caleb lean more towards hate, but forced proximity and surprising common ground have these enemies starting to wonder just how fine the line between love and hate is.