SEEKING

 Anne Toby. SEEKING. First Choice, 2006.

A free book from outside the Bookman, picked up during Xmas shopping. Gifted to a grandmother friend. 

The EDGE of GLORY

 David Adam. THE EDGE OF GLORY. Triangle, 1985.

Prayer in the ancient Celtic tradition. 

HOTLINE

 Dimitri Nasrallah. HOTLINE. Esplanade, 2022.

Book club selection for December. Set in Montreal in 1986, Muna, a Lebanese immigrant with a young son, tries to establish herself in Canada. Grief. Loneliness. Parenting challenges. Employment. And the ghosts of her past. 

PILGRIM

 David Whyte. PILGRIM. Many Rivers, 2019. 

ESSENTIALS

 David WHYTE. ESSENTIALS. Many Rivers, 2021.

A BETTER MAN

 Louise Penny. A BETTER MAN. St. Martin's, 2019.

Armand Gamache has returned to the Surete after being disciplined. He has accepted a demotion and will take over Jean-Guy's Head of Homicide once J=G moves to Paris. In this story, an abused wife drowns in a flooding river and the original charges against the first suspect are dropped. Internal politics, community strengths, the damage done by cruel words. 

DOLLS

 Michael Hiebert. DOLLS. Dangerboy, 2013.

A writer known to local writer friends. Not my usual choice. I have very little experience of YA writing or of YA readers. This story, told in the first person, is about the MC, a girl, learning to identify and use her power. I could not tell whether the vocabulary would always have been approriate for a 12-year-old to use. Once or twice I felt the images would not have come to mind to that MC.  The reverences to spells and witchcraft would interfere in the story's being widely  accepted. Although, granted, Harry Potter still has many reader fans.