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Airdrie Public Library Book Page – June

Every month, staff from the Airdrie Public Library (APL) send the Airdrie City View a selection of titles the library has among its collections, along with brief synopses of each read. Here is the 'Book Page' for June, offering a handful of summer reading options for adults this year.

Every month, staff from the Airdrie Public Library (APL) send the Airdrie City View a selection of titles the library has among its collections, along with brief synopses of each read. Here is the June edition of APL's 'Book Page,' featuring both fiction and non-fiction reads for adults this summer.

Adult Fiction

The Lost Apothecary

Sarah Penner

Description: The lost apothecary

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Hidden in the depths of 18th-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious 12-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries.

The Sanatorium

Sarah Pearse

Description: The sanatorium : a novel

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Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair.

Long plagued by troubling rumours, it has recently been renovated into a lavish hotel. An imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place detective Elin Warner wants to be. But having received an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother's recent engagement, she had no choice but to accept. Elin arrives in the midst of a threatening storm and is immediately on edge.

Adult Non-Fiction

Breath: the New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

Description: Breath : the new science of a lost art

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There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing, and humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Nestor turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head.

How Y’all Doing? : Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

Leslie Jordan

Description: How y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived

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Viral sensation and Emmy Award winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the odd, funny, and unforgettable events in his life in this unmissable essay collection that echoes his droll, irreverent voice.


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