Every month, staff from the Airdrie Public Library send the Airdrie City View a small collection of some of the titles available at the library, along with some short synopses. The titles include both adult fiction and non-fiction selections.
Here is the August 2022 submission, showcasing some of the library's books Airdrie readers can enjoy reading to cap off summer and as fall gets underway.
Adult Fiction
Every Summer After
Carley Fortune
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=3&cn=1962224
Five summers to fall in love, one moment to fall apart, and a weekend to get it right.
A magazine writer has to make a choice when she returns to the lake she grew up on – and to the man she thought she’d never have to live without – in this sweeping and achingly nostalgic romantic debut.
The It Girl
By Ruth Ware
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=2&cn=1973778
Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, April quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit.
Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends – Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily. By the end of the school, April was dead.
Now, a decade later, the man convicted of killing April has died in prison, but a young journalist presents new evidence that the man may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April's death, she realizes the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide - including a murder.
Adult Non-Fiction
An Immense World: How Animals Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=1&cn=1969101
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.
This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension – the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. Science journalist Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to begin to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us.
The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Peter Zeihan
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=1&cn=1945468
As isolationism and realism become the dominant values of a previously inter-connected world, the logic that motivated international relations and global trade must be re-evaluated.
In this book, Peter Zeihan uses a mixture of geographical knowledge, political history, and sharp analysis to predict the shape of the next 20 years on the world stage.
