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DVD: The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans tells the tragic (fictional) story of a young couple living on Janus Rock, an island off the coast of Western Australia who find a baby in a rowboat washed near the beach and...
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Under A Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
Under A Painted Sky is a story about friendship, identity and the meaning of family. Set in 1849, it was Chinese-American author Stacey Lee's debut novel in 2016.The day started out like any other for...
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Eliza Rose by Lucy Worsley
Eliza Rose by historian Lucy Worsley tells the terrible story of Katherine Howard, the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII through the eyes of her fictional cousin Eliza Rose Camperdone.Twelve year...
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The Weight of Zero by Karen Fortunati
Seventeen-year-old Catherine Pulaski is struggling mightily with mental illness. She has been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Her troubles began after the death of her beloved grandma when she was...
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Movie: Hidden Figures
The movie Hidden Figures tells the remarkable story of three gifted African-American women mathematicians who made significant contributions to the American space program during a time when segregation...
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The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay
The Orange Grove is an exploration into the ideology of terrorism and its consequences. The novel opens with the bombing of nine year old twins, Amed and Aziz's home in an unnamed country. The bomb...
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Threads by Ami Polonsky
Threads is a parallel narrative, telling the stories of twelve-year-old Clara Clay who lives in Evanston, Illinois with her parents and thirteen-year-old Yuming Niantu who is an orphan in China. Their...
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The Way I Used To Be by Amber Smith
"...It's the first day back from winter break. And I'm trying so hard to just go back to my life. The way it used to be. The way I used to be."The Way I Used To Be is a gritty telling of a young girl's...
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Red Wolf by Jennifer Dance
The novel Red Wolf tells the story of a young Anishnaabe boy who is forced from his home into a residential school and how this changes his life forever. The story is told by two narrators, the boy,...
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Wayfarer by Alexandra Bracken
Wayfarer is the sequel to Bracken's fantasy novel, Passenger about time traveling families in search of a mysterious and powerful astrolabe.Wayfarer continues the storyline at the end of the first...
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Loving vs Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell
Loving vs. Virginia is touted as a "documentary novel" about the famous civil rights case which struck down laws prohibiting interracial marriage in the United States. Mildred Jeter, a young black...
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Bees. A Honeyed History by Wojciech Grajkowski
Bees A Honeyed History is an extraordinary book about all things pertaining to bees.The text was written by Wojciech Grajkowski who was once a researcher at the Institute of Experimental Biology and it...
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The Vimy Oaks. A Journey to Peace by Linda Granfield
The Vimy Oaks: A Journey to Peace tells the remarkable story of Leslie Miller, a Canadian soldier who brought a few acorns from the oak trees at Vimy Ridge back to Canada and how one hundred years...
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Optimists Die First by Susin Nielsen
Sixteen year old Petula De Wilde lives with her mother and father in a four-storey walkup called the Arcadia in Vancouver's West End, B.C. A family tragedy, the death of Petula's little sister Maxine...
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Wait For Me by Caroline Leech
Set in Aberlady, East Lothian Scotland Wait For Me is a tender story about forbidden love during the closing days of World War II.Almost eighteen-year-old Lorna Anderson lives on Craigielaw farm with...
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To Catch A Killer by Sheryl Scarborough
To Catch a Killer is a somewhat predictable murder mystery. Author Sheryl Scarborough is a forensics buff who has incorporated her knowledge into the novel; readers interested in basic forensic science...
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DVD: Lion
Lion brings to the big screen, the remarkable story of Saroo Brierley who was lost at age five, adopted by an Australian couple and who as an adult eventually located his family in India. This...
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Lighter Than Air by Matthew Clark Smith
Lighter Than Air is a picture book about Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to fly in a balloon. Ballooning was a popular craze in eighteenth-century France as man began to look to the heavens and...
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Silent Songbird by Melanie Dickerson
Silent Songbird is the seventh installment Melanie Dickerson's historical fairy-tale romance series, the Hagenheim series. Seventeen year old Evangeline lives in Berkhamsted Castle in Hertfordshire,...
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Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes
Dean Hughes'Soldier Boys is the tragic story of two young men who enlist to fight for their countries in World War II. It is a gritty, realistic account of the horror of war told in alternating...
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