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Beans 'n' Books
"The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read
them."
~ Samuel Butler, novelist & satirical author (1835-1902) ~
Sit 'n sip while our staff talk about their favourite books and authors. Each month we explore a different theme. Maximum 25 participants. Please call the host location to pre-register. BnB will return in the fall with more great reads.
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Most Recently 'Talked' Books
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June 2010 Titles - North American Authors |
Previously 'Talked' Books
Ackerman, Diane - The
Zookeeper's Wife: a War Story
Adamson, Gil - The Outlander
Agnello Hornby, Simonetta - The
Almond Picker
Akpan, Uwem - Say You’re One of Them
Akunin, Boris - Sister
Pelagia and the White Bulldog
Albom, Mitch - The
Five People You Meet in Heaven
Ali, Monica - Brick
Lane: a Novel
Anam, Tahmima - A Golden Age
Anderson-Dargatz, Gail - Turtle
Valley
Armstrong, Sally - The
Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor: the First Woman Settler of the Miramichi
Atkinson, Kate - One
Good Turn
Atkinson, Kate - When Will There be Good News?
Atwood, Margaret - Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Badami, Anita Rau - Can
You Hear the Nightbird Call?
Baker, Jacqueline - The
Horseman's Graves
Barbery, Muriel - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barclay, Linwood - Bad
Guys
Barclay, Linwood - Too Close to Home
Barnes, Kim - A
Country Called Home
Bastedo, Jamie - Shield
Country: the Life and Times of the Oldest Piece of the Planet
Bates, Judy Fong - Midnight
at the Dragon Café
Beauchemin, Yves - Charles
the Bold
Berg, Elizabeth - The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: and Other Small Acts of Liberation
Bezmozgis, David - Natasha and Other Stories
Bissoondath, Neil - The Soul of All Great Designs
Blanchard, Melinda - A
Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
Blatchford, Christie - Fifteen
Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New
Canadian Army
Blume, Judy - Summer
Sisters
Blunt, Giles - By
the Time You Read This
Boyden, Joseph - Three
Day Road: a Novel
Bradbury, Ray - We’ll Always Have Paris: Stories
Bradley, Alan - Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Bryson, Bill - The
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Burgess, Anthony - A
Clockwork Orange
Butala, Sharon - Real Life: Short Stories
Capote, Truman - In
Cold Blood: a True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
Card, Orson - Ender's
Game
Chabon, Michael - Gentlemen of the Road
Chatto, James - The
Greek for Love: a Memoir of Corfu
Chevalier, Tracy - Burning
Bright
Choy, Wayson - All
That Matters: a Novel
Clark, Joan - An
Audience of Chairs: a Novel
Cleave, Chris - Little Bee
Coe, Jonathan - The Rain Before It Falls
Coelho, Paolo - The
Alchemist
Cohen, Andrew - The
Unfinished Canadian: the People We Are
Courtemanche, Gil - A
Good Death
Cox, Michael - The
Meaning of Night
Crosby, Ellen - The
Chardonnay Charade: a Wine Country Mystery
Crummey, Michael - Galore
Czajkowski, Chris - Snowshoes
and Spotted Dick: Letters From a Wilderness Dweller
Dai, Sijie - Balzac
and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai, Sijie - Once on a Moonless Night
Dallaire, Roméo - Shake
Hands with the Devil: the Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Davis, Wade - The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
De Bernières, Louis - Captain
Corelli's Mandolin
De los Santos, Marisa - Love
Walked In: a Novel
DeGrace, Anne - Wind
Tails
Delany, Vicki - In
the Shadow of the Glacier
Druett, Joan - Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Dubus, André - House
of Sand and Fog
Echlin, Kim - The Disappeared
Eire, Carlos - Waiting
for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Endicott, Marina - Good to a Fault
Esquivel, Laura - Like
Water for Chocolate: a Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances,
and Home Remedies
Farooki, Roopa - Bitter
Sweets
Ferguson, Will - Spanish
Fly
Fielding, Henry - Tom
Jones
Fielding, Joy - See
Jane Run
Finch, Charles - The September Society
Fiorito, Joe - The
Closer We are to Dying
Fforde, Jasper - The
Eyre Affair
Forster, E. M. - Howard's
End
Fossum, Karin - Calling
Out for You!
Franklin, Ariana - Mistress of the Art of Death
Frazier, Charles - Thirteen
Moons
Fredriksson, Marianne - Two
Women
Galchen, Rivka - Atmospheric
Disturbances: a Novel
Galloway, Steven - The Cellist of Sarajevo
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gardner, Nuala - A
Friend Like Henry
George, Elizabeth - Careless
in Red
Gibb, Camilla - Sweetness
in the Belly
Goldstone, Lawrence - The Anatomy of Deception
Gray, Charlotte - Sisters
in the Wilderness: the Lives of Suzanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill
Greenberg, Peter - The
Complete Travel Detective Bible
Gregory, Philippa - The
Boleyn Inheritance
Gruen, Sara - Water
for Elephants: a Novel
Haddon, Mark - A Spot of Bother
Hamilton, Masha - The
Camel Bookmobile
Heighton, Steven - Afterlands
Hill, Lawrence - The
Book of Negroes
Hillmer, Norman - The
Land Newly Found: Eyewitness Accounts of the Canadian Immigrant Experience
Hopkins, Ellen - Burned
Horn, Mike - Conquering
the Impossible: My 12,000 Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle
Howe, Katherine - The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane: a Novel
Humphreys, C.C. - Absolute
Honour
Humphreys, Helen - Coventry:
a Novel
Ironside, Virginia - No!
I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a Sixtieth Year
Irving, John - The
World According to Garp
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
Jackson, Joshilyn - Gods in Alabama
Jean, Wendy - Unstolen
Jeffries, Roderic - Murder
Delayed
Jordan, Hillary - Mudbound
Kalogridis, Jeanne - I,
Mona Lisa
Kennedy, Dane - The
Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World
Klein, Naomi - The
Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Knighton, Ryan - Cockeyed:
A Memoir
Kostova, Elizabeth - The
Historian: a Novel
Lahiri, Jhumpa - Unaccustomed Earth
Lam, Vincent - Bloodletting
& Miraculous Cures: Stories
Lambert, Shaena - Radiance
Lamott, Anne - Grace
(Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Lansens, Lori - The
Girls
Lansens, Lori - Rush
Home Road
Lawson, Mary - Crow
Lake
Leonard, Elmore - Rum
Punch
Levenson, Thomas - Newton and the Counterfeiter: the Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
Levy, Andrea - Small
Island
Lewis, Stephen - A
Race Against Time
Lewycka, Marina - A
Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
MacDonald, Frank - A
Forest for Calum
MacDonald, Kyle - One
Red Paperclip
MacIntyre, Linden - Causeway:
A Passage From Innocence
Maclear, Kyo - The
Letter Opener
Maguire, Gregory - Mirror, Mirror
McKay, Ami - The
Birth House
MacLeod, Alistair - No
Great Mischief
MacMillan, Margaret - The
Uses and Abuses of History
Malladi, Amulya - The
Mango Season
Manera, Matthew - A
Stone in My Pocket
Mankell, Henning - The
Dogs of Riga: a Kurt Wallander Mystery
Mantel, Hilary - Wolf Hall
Marai, Sandor - Embers
Martin, Steve - Shopgirl
McCartney, Jennifer - Afloat
McCourt, Frank - Teacher
Man: a Memoir
McGoogan, Ken - Lady
Franklin's Revenge: a True Story of Ambition, Obsession, and the Remaking
of Arctic History
McInerney, Monica - The
Alphabet Sisters: a Novel
Mehran, Marsha - Pomegranate
Soup: a Novel
Merullo, Roland - American Savior: a Novel of Divine Politics
Milner, Donna - After River
Mitchell, David - Black
Swan Green: a Novel
Morrissey, Donna - Sylvanus
Now: a Novel
Munro, Alice - The
View from Castle Rock: Stories
Naipaul, V. S. - A
Bend in the River
Naipaul, V. S. - The
Magic Seeds
Navarro, Julia - The
Bible of Clay
Nemat, Marina - Prisoner
of Tehran: a Memoir
Niffenegger, Audrey - The
Time Traveler’s Wife
O’Neill, Heather - Lullabies for Little Criminals
Pamuk, Orhan - The Museum of Innocence
Parrado, Nando - Miracle
in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Pausch, Randy - The
Last Lecture
Pears, Iain - The
Portrait
Penny, Louise - Dead
Cold
Penny, Louise - Still
Life
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo - The
Flanders Panel
Pickett, Rex - Sideways
Picoult, Jodi - My
Sister’s Keeper
Plummer, Christopher - In Spite of Myself: a Memoir
Poliquin, Daniel - A
Secret Between Us
Porter, Anna - Kasztner’s
Train
Pradhan, Monica - Hindi-Bindi
Club
Pullinger, Kate - The Mistress of Nothing
Pyper, Andrew - The Killing Circle
Rabagliati, Michel - Paul
Moves Out
Richardson, C. S. - The End of the Alphabet
Richler, Mordecai - Cocksure:
a Novel
Robinson, Peter - In
a Dry Season
Rotchin, Glen - The
Rent Collector: a Novel
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos - The
Shadow of the Wind
Russo, Richard - Bridge
of Sighs
Russo, Richard - That Old Cape Magic
Sa, Anthony de - Barnacle Love
Sawyer, Robert J. - Hominids
See, Lisa - Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan
Sewell, Kitty - Ice
Trap
Shields, Carol - The
Stone Diaries
Silverwood, John and Jean - Black
Wave
Skvorecky, Josef - An
Inexplicable Story: or the Narrative of Questus Firmus Siculus
Smiley, Jane - A
Thousand Acres
Smolinski , Jill - The
Next Thing on My List: a Novel
Soucy, Gaétan - The
Immaculate Conception
Taylor, Jill Bolte - My
Stroke of Insight: a Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
Taylor, Margie - Displaced
Persons
Terpstra, John - The
Boys, or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter
Thomas, Rosie - Iris
& Ruby
Updike, John - Terrorist
Urquhart, Jane - Map
of Glass
Urquhart, Jane - The
Stone Carvers
Wagamese, Richard - Dream
Wheels
Wagamese, Richard - Ragged Company
Webb, Margaret - Apples to Oysters: a Food Lover’s Tour of Canadian Farms
Wilkins, Charles - Walk
to New York: a Journey Out of the Wilds of Canada
Williams, Glyndwr - Voyages
of Delusion
Winchester, Simon - Krakatoa:
the Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
Winspear, Jacqueline - Among the Mad
Winter, Michael - The
Architects are Here
Wolfe, Inger Ash - The Calling
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