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As library staff, we are often asked for recommendations. Here are a few books staff members have read and loved; perhaps you will enjoy them too!

	Title	Author	Recommendation
	After River	Donna Milner	Set in the mountains of central B.C. and deals with an American draft dodger who comes into a close knit, farm family's life and affects them in a way that breaks them and changes them forever. Has a good ending though!!! -Jean
	Elizabeth Street	Laurie Fabiano	GREAT book A story of Italian immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century. The story is based on the author's own family history, looking back at her great grandmother's life from the time she spent growing up in southern Italy to her settling in New York's Little Italy where she struggles to raise children and make a better life for her famly. Giovanna, the great-grandmother has to deal with the famously brutal gang of extortionists called the Black Hand, who preyed on the local businesses and shopkeepers. It is a riveting tale, well worth the read to see life as it was during that time and for that culture of people. -Jean
	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	"Bradbury's novel details the eternal war between censorship and freedom of thought and continues to be relevant today more than ever. In Bradbury's future, books are illegal and happily so--citizens are too busy watching their wall-sized televisions and listening to their in-ear "seashell" radios to care about the loss of good literature. Guy Montag begins the novel as a fireman who enforces the temperature of the title--that at which books burn--but then transforms and tries to show his society the mistake of censorship" (Review taken from AudioFile) -Dave
	Far to Go	Alison Pick	Set in Czechoslovakia in 1939 where the Kindertransport plays a part in saving our survivor. This is a compelling novel written about a family torn apart by the tragic events of the Holocaust.  -Harriet
	House Rules	Jodi Picoult	A story about a boy named Jacob Hunt with Asperger's syndrome that enjoys forensics.  He always shows up at crime scenes with suggestions to the crime unit on what they need to do and he’s usually right but when there is a murder in his home town, Jacob is questioned by law enforcement as a suspect.  There are so many twists and turns in this book that you won’t want to put this book down. - Erin
	Light:a novel	Margaret Elphinstone	Set in the early 1800's, this story is about a family that maintains a lighthouse and the surveyors who come to stay with them, surveying the island in order to have a new lighthouse put in.  This is a controversial decision that will affect the lives of the people on the island, and the book tells the political part of the story while also focusing on the characters and their development. - Pam
	Oryx and Crake	Margaret Atwood	Set in the future this book is a look at what might happen in the future and how it will affect the human race. Catastrophic climate change and genetic technology have completely changed the earth. -Janet M.
	Sarah's Key	Tatiana De Rosnay	We learn of the Vel' d'Hiv roundups in France and how our survivor affected the life of someone sixty years later. This is a compelling novel written about a family torn apart by the tragic events of the Holocaust. You will not be able to forget the content of this or "Far to Go". - Harriet
	Still Missing	Chevy Stevens	his is her first book and kept us riveted. We all agreed it was one of the most thrilling new books we have read in a long time. A "can't put down" book. -Kim
	The Five People You Meet in Heaven	Mitch Albom	A story about a man who dies in an amusement park accident, and the five people who guide him to heaven. Everyone should read this book at least once! - Erin
	The Gravesavers	Sheree Fitch	A young adult novel, but still a fantastic read for all ages -Karen M.
	The Help	Kathryn Stockett	This book is set in Mississippi during the early 60's when civil unrest and change are becoming more pronounced. The characters are engaging and real. The story has so many elements - it is sad, funny, frustrating, and triumphant. I didn't want to put it down, but I also didn't want it to end. -Angela & Karen M.
	The Promise of Rain	Donna Milner	Set in Vancouver after WW II. It is the story of a young girl whose mother dies in a mysterious fashion, and whose father, a WWII vet, is remote and distant from his family because of the life he experienced during the war. I loved the author's descriptions of the city, (the smell of hot wet pavement in summer, or sweet Williams in the garden), the delivery men who came to the neighborhoods to sell their wares etc. Having grown up in the city I can tell the author really knows the stuff she is writing about!! -Jean
		Rachel Simon	It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to them that same night, Homan escapes into the darkness, and Lynnie is caught. But before she is forced back into the institution, she whispers two words to Martha: "Hide her." And so begins the 40-year epic journey of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia-lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love. -Karen