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Cover to Cover Book Club

Titles for Cumberland's English book club, 2023-2024.

Ottawa Public Library

9 items

  • In May we plunge into the halls of a residential school for the deaf. Through the eyes of Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister…
    Book, 2022New York : Random House, [2022] — NOVIC
  • April brings us to Korea, following one Korean family through the generations. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity.
    Book, 2017New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017. — LEE
  • Legends & Lattes

    a Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes

    Baldree, Travis, 1977-
    March will find us in Thune, where, worn out after decades of mercenary work, Viv, the orc barbarian, decides to hunt for one last treasure before settling down and opening a coffee shop. Unfortunately - or fortunately - her transition to the quiet…
    Book, 2022New York : Tor, aTom Doherty Associates Book, 2022. — BALDR
  • February brings us to Molly Gray, a maid who struggles with social skills and takes comfort in creating order out of chaos. When she finds the body of a wealthy patron in his hotel room, it turns out murder is one mess she cannot clean up on her own.
    Book, 2022New York : Ballantine Books, [2022] — PROSE
  • January brings us to Europe, where Bird and Mimi, an Indigenous couple inspired by a handful of old postcards sent by Uncle Lenny nearly a hundred years before, attempt to trace the steps of Mimi's long-lost uncle and the family medicine bundle he…
    Book, 2020Toronto, Ontario Canada : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2020] — KING
  • Given the chance to undo your regrets, would you do anything differently? In December, follow Nora as she decides which of her possible lives is most worth continuing.
    Book, 2020Toronto, Ontario : Harper Avenue, [2020] — HAIG
  • November brings us to turn-of-the-century America, where Englishwoman Alice Wright evades her new overbearing in-laws by joining the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky.
    Book, 2019[New York] : Viking/Pamela Dorman Books, [2019] — MOYES
  • The Skin We're in

    a Year of Black Resistance and Power

    Cole, Desmond, 1982-
    In October, dive into Cole's personal experiences with the racist practices of the Toronto police force, and the realities of discrimination in Canada.
    Book, 2020[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, [2020] — 305.896071 COLE
  • We kick off September with Henny, who has just "kicked off" unexpectedly, and just as unexpectedly finds herself haunting the charmingly decrepit Pine Away Motel and Cabins where she and her friends worked.
    Book, 2020Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2020] — BIVAL