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Library Corner for the week of August 1, 2022

The Lac du Bonnet Library is running a 50/50 raffle to raise funds, tickets available online at www.lacdubonnetlibrary.ca Or at the library during regular hours. Draw Date is September 1, 2022. Please support your local library!

Check out this week’s featured books!

Crying on the Inside by White Wolf Woman is new to our circulation.  A twelve-year-old girl struggles to understand her mother’s sudden and unexplained disappearance, only to have her heart broken when her mother returns as a cold, indifferent shell of the woman she once was.

The Accomplice is a new mystery by Lisa Lutz.  Everyone has the same questions about best friends Owen and Luna: What binds them together so tightly? Why weren’t they ever a couple? And why do people around them keep turning up dead?

The Broken Bow is a new western by Larry D. Sweazy.  U.S. Marshal Sam “Trusty” Dawson finds himself targeted for vengeance with his face on a wanted poster. Now he’s up against every cutthroat gunslinger willing to put a bullet through his badge for the bounty.

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is new by Rhoda Janzen.  A hilarious and moving memoir–in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron–about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis.

The Palace Papers by Tina Brown is new to our circulation.  The riveting inside story of the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, from the Queen’s tightening grip to the defection of Harry and Meghan.

Borders is a new graphic novel by based on the work of Thomas King.  On a trip to visit his older sister, who moved away from the family home to Salt Lake City, a young boy and his mother are posed a simple question with a not so simple answer. And when border guards will not accept their citizenship, mother and son wind up trapped in an all-too-real limbo between nations that do not recognize who they are.

Goldilocks:  Wanted Dead or Alive is a new graphic novel by Chris Colfer.  When King Charming and his brothers set out to purge the Dwarf Forests of outlaws and rule it themselves, they must face the most feared outlaw, Goldilocks.

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