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 June 2022 submission, showcasing some of the library's books Airdrie readers can enjoy getting lost in this summer.
Adult Fiction
Run, Rose, Run
Dolly Parton and James Patterson
A young singer-songwriter is determined to do whatever it takes to survive.
Every song tells a story. She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She’s also on the run. Find a future, lose a past.
Nashville is where she’s come to claim her destiny. But it’s also where the darkness she’s fled might find her.
The Maid
Nita Prose
Since her Gran died a few months ago, 25-year-old Molly Gray throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid.
But Molly's orderly life is turned on its head the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself very dead in his bed.
Molly quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle.
Adult Non-Fiction
The Spy Who Knew Too Much: an ex-CIA Officer’s Quest Through a Legacy of Betrayal
Howard Blum
A retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case – and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career – in this compulsive true-life tale of vindication and redemption.
Tennent “Pete” Bagley was once a rising star in America’s spy aristocracy. But the star that burned so brightly exploded when Bagley, who suspected a mole had burrowed deep into the agency’s core, was believed himself to be the mole.
Cabin Fever: the Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic
Michael Smith and Jonathan Franklin
A harrowing narrative of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway – COVID-19 – days before the world shut down in March 2020.
Far from the hot spots, the Zaandam was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina, loaded with 1,200 passengers.
This is a riveting narrative thriller, taking readers behind the scenes of the ship’s complex workings, and below-decks into the personal lives of passengers and crew who were caught unprepared for the ordeal that lay ahead.
