Kit or mixed material

Kobo eReader [electronic device] : staff picks, 2019-2023.

Summary:

A selection of 58 fiction and non-fiction staff favourites.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 Kobo Aura HD eReader (6.8" screen) with sleep cover + black zippered sleeve + USB cable with barcode + information sheets (title page, checklist, loan agreement, instructions & tips).

Content descriptions

General Note:

Pick up and return to Sechelt Library only.

Battery charge up to 2 weeks depending on use, USB cable attaches unit to home computer to recharge device.

Replacement cost: 1 Kobo Aura HD reader $160 + sleep cover $25 + black zippered sleeve: $13 + USB cable: $10.

Formatted Contents Note:

2023 Selection: Astra / Cedar Bowers-- A short history of Russia / Mark Galeotti-- Coast growers / John Gleeson-- And by fire / Evie Hawtrey-- The age of wonder: how the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / Richard Holmes-- Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver-- The poisonwood Bible / Barbara Kingsolover-- A house in the sky / Amanda Lindhout-- Looking for Jane / Heather Marshall-- Robotech. The Macross Saga: Battlecry, Vol 1-3 / Jack McKinney-- Finder / Suzanne Palmer-- The drifter / Nick Petrie-- Around the world in 80 trains / Monisha Rajesh-- Jeeves and the King of Clubs / Ben Schott.

2022 Selection: Longbourn / Jo Baker-- The personal librarian / Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray-- Horse / Geraldine Brooks-- Freezing order / Bill Browder-- Murder and Mendelssohn / Kerry Greenwood-- Operation Paperclip: the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America / Annie Jacobsen-- Return to solitude / Grant Lawrence-- State of terror / Louise Penny, Hillary Rodham Clinton-- Miss Graham's Cold War cookbook / Celia Rees-- What I know for sure / Oprah Winfrey.

2021 Selection: If I knew then : finding wisdom in failure and power in aging / Jann Arden-- Following the Curve of time : the legendary M. Wylie Blanchet / Cathy Converse-- Our only home : a climate appeal to the world / Dalai Lama-- Magnolia Bakery handbook / Bobbie Lloyd-- Mudlark : in search of London's past along the River Thames / Lara Maiklem-- Glass hotel / Emily St. John Mandel-- Rock blaster / Henning Mankell-- Nala's world : one man, his rescue cat, and a bike ride around the globe / Dean Nicholson-- Flatshare / Beth O'Leary-- All the devils are here / Louise Penny.

2020 Selection: Scotty : a hockey life like no other / Ken Dryden-- Heart beats in secret / Katie Munnik-- Lost future of Pepperharrow / Natasha Pulley-- Girl with the lower back tattoo / Amy Schumer-- Starlight / Richard Wagamese-- All systems red / Martha Wells-- Dame traveler / Natasia Yakoub.

2019 Selection: Contagious : why things catch on / Jonah Berger-- Lake silence / Anne Bishop-- All the light we cannot see / Anthony Doerr-- The Nightingale / Kristin Hannah-- The comforts of home / Susan Hill-- Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine / Gail Honeyman-- The lost vintage / Ann Mah-- The bookshop of yesterdays / Amy Meyerson-- The watchmaker of Filigree Street / Natasha Pulley-- The huntress / Kate Quinn-- Tortilla Flat / John Steinbeck-- The Upstarts / Brad Stone-- Seven fallen feathers / Tanya Talaga-- The Goldfinch / Donna Tartt-- Women talking / Miriam Toews.