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Muskoka Lakes Public Library June 2022 News
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Author Night Do you like a good thriller novel? How about two?! Join us in discussion with Hannah Mary McKinnon and Katie Tallo, two masters of suspense, via Zoom on June 7 at 7:00 p.m. (Email us to get on the list for the access code: muskokalakes@pclib.ca) Books with signed bookplates will be available for purchase. $15 each or $25 for both. Told with dark wit and a sharply feminist sensibility, Never Coming Home by Hannah Mary McKinnon is a terrifying tale of duplicity that will have you side-eyeing your spouse as you dash to the breathtaking end. Poison Lilies by Katie Tallo: In this eerily riveting thriller--the follow-up to the international bestseller Dark August--Gus Monet becomes dangerously entangled with a powerful family whose wealth and success are built on dark and deadly secrets.
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Coffee Break with Us 10:30 Wednesday, June 1, 2022
It's been a long winter and an even longer two years! Join us outside at the lower level of the library in Port Carling for a casual meet up with staff and friends. The coffee will be on! All welcome! We look forward to seeing you. (Lug-a-mug if you can but paper cups will be available, too.)
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Art on the Shelf This will be fun! Come into the Muskoka Lakes Public Library in Port Carling, register, and pick up a mini-canvas (by June 25). Create a mini-masterpiece and return it to the library by July 15 where it will be displayed within the library stacks for all to hunt for and admire.
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The Restarting Point
by Marci Bolden
"Marketing executive and mother of two, Jade Kelly can now add cancer survivor to her list of successes. But while her life looks good on paper, four months out of treatment, Jade realizes she hardly knows her college-age children and she and her husbandNick are little more than housemates. Determined to start over, Jade schedules a family vacation to a lakefront cabin. When her kids bail and Nick stays home to handle a last minute work crisis, Jade heads to Chammont Point alone, determined to dust herself off and figure out what to do with the rest of her life. While she's away, the life she thought she had unravels. Secrets, lies, and old wounds drive Jade into new adventures and new relationships. With the help of family and new found friends, Jade learns starting over sometimes means finding a brand new restarting point."
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Four treasures of the sky by Jenny ZhangA Chinese girl struggles to find her place in the 1880s American West after being kidnapped and smuggled, working at a calligraphy school and a San Francisco brothel as anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country.
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Storm rising : a thriller
by Chris Hauty
"A mystery from covert agent Hayley Chill's past leads her into the depths of a white supremacy conspiracy that threatens to ignite a second Civil War."
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