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May 23rd – Victoria Day
Due to Victoria Day, CELA will be closed on Monday, May 23. Our office will reopen and our Contact Centre services will resume on Tuesday, May 24. Enjoy your holiday!
Recommended
Focus on: New non-fiction for winter!
Wintertime always means an abundance of new non-fiction. Peruse some of the most recently added books:
- Woke up this morning: The definitive oral history of The Sopranos by Michael Imperioli (Arts and entertainment)
- You can't be serious by Kal Penn (Humour, Journals and memoirs)
- Vanderbilt: The rise and fall of an American dynasty by Anderson Cooper (United States history, Biography)
- Unbound: My story of liberation and the birth of the me too movement by Tarana Burke (Women's biography)
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We are what we eat: A slow food manifesto by Alice Waters (Food and drink)
Top 5 Books
Most popular with our readers last month:
- Sea of tranquility: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel Science fiction
- Her Hidden Genius: A Novel by Marie Benedict Historical fiction
- Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley Actors biography
- Run, Rose, run: A novel by Dolly Parton Suspense and thrillers
- State of terror: A novel by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny Suspense and thrillers
Most popular with our readers last month:
- Sea of tranquility: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel Science fiction
- Her Hidden Genius: A Novel by Marie Benedict Historical fiction
- Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley Actors biography
- Run, Rose, run: A novel by Dolly Parton Suspense and thrillers
- State of terror: A novel by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny Suspense and thrillers
Featured on AMI
Join us every other week on AMI between 10:30 and 11am, as we talk about new and notable books!
Recommended reads for Friday May 6th, 2021 are books included in the Festival of Literary Diversity
- The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian
- We two alone: stories by Jack Wang
- Praying to the West by Omar Mouallem
- Coconut (Crow Said Poetry) By Nisha Patel
New to read
Jennifer Robertson was working hard to build a life for herself from the ashes of her first marriage. Still only twenty-six, she swiped right on a dating app and met Gerry Cotten: eccentric but funny and kind, and a bitcoin wizard, who quickly amassed substantial wealth through his company, Quadriga. Then, while the couple was on their honeymoon in India, Gerry fell ill and died in a matter of hours. It turned out that Gerry owed $250 million to Quadriga customers, and all the passwords to his encrypted virtual vaults, hidden on his many laptops, had died with him. Bitcoin Widow is Catch Me If You Can meets a widow betrayed, a life of fairy-tale romance and private jets torched by duplicity, as Jennifer Robertson tries to reset her life in the wake of one of the biggest investment scandals of the digital age.
