At the end of each 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 February 2023 submission of the 'APL Book Page,' showcasing some of the library's books Airdrie readers can enjoy getting lost in as they see out the last few winter cold snaps.
Adult Fiction
The House of Eve
Sadeqa Johnson
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=1&cn=2014947
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright.
Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC's elite wealthy Black families, and his parents don't let just anyone into their fold.
Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William's family and grant her the life she's been searching for.
Secretly Yours
Tessa Bailey
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=1&cn=1997469
Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at the age of 14, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family's winery.
Now, the prodigal hottie has returned to their small Napa town. One wine-fuelled girls' night later, Hallie can't shake the sense that she did something reckless – and then she remembers the drunken secret admirer letter she left for Julian.
On sabbatical from his ivy league job, Julian plans to write a novel. But having Hallie gardening right outside his window is the ultimate distraction. Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past.
Even as Julian wonders about this admirer, he's sucked further into Hallie's orbit. But there's something so familiar about her... and her very presence is turning his world upside down.
Adult Nonfiction
Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith From Fear
Jinger Duggar Vuolo with Corey Williams.
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=3&cn=2011446
Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ.
The New Guys : the Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
Meredith Bagby
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=1&cn=2003078
The never-before-told story of NASA's 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space.
With the exclusive participation of the astronauts who were there, this is the thrilling, behind-the-scenes saga of a new generation that transformed space exploration.
