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While You're Waiting for Hotel Nantucket

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

While you are waiting for Elin Hildebrand's Hotel Nantucket, try Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept.

No, But I Read the Book

Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta

Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta was made into a movie of the same name starring Angelina Jolie and Finn Little in 2021. Hiding a teenage murder witness among a bunch of delinquent kids in a survival-training program in Montana seemed like a good idea. But when two coldblooded killers track him there from Indiana, everyone's life is at grave risk. A fast paced thriller in both formats!

Staff Pick

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves,
A female cop with her first big case,
A brutal murder,
Welcome to…The Thursday Murder Club!
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it’s too late?

Windsor Library Reading Challenge: Read a Book About Your Ancestry

Small World by Jonathan Evison

A train accident reveals the connections among a host of people across race, class, history, and the country in this ambitious epic. Without being simplistic or wearing rose-colored glasses, the author suggests a fresh way of recognizing our relationships without melting-pot clichés. This is a bighearted, widescreen American tale that will make you want to find out more about your own ancestors.

How to be Irish: Uncovering the Curiosities of Irish Behaviour by David Slattery

From the quintessential Irish Mammy to love for all things GAA, the Irish have a particularities – and peculiarities – that make us different from our neighbours. Social anthropologist David Slattery takes us through the rules of being Irish with deadpan humour, from how to approach an Irish wedding or funeral to the Irish attitude to health, business, politics, death, Christmas and being cool. Not only will this book prove instructive to the tourist or foreigner who wants to blend in without a fuss, but the Irish will find it interesting as a mirror to how we are.

The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid-MacKeen

Part reportage, part memoir, The Hundred-Year Walk alternates between Stepan's tale of resilience and Dawn's remarkable journey, giving us a rare firsthand account of the twentieth century's first genocide. It's filled with edge-of-your-seat escapes and accounts of lifesaving kindnesses in the harsh desert. And it's in the desert that Dawn finds the unexpected: the secret to Stepan's survival.