All Points West July - August 2024

Recommendations shared by GVPL librarians Megan Clark and Delia Filipescu (and Jason D'Souza!) on CBC Radio's All Points West.

July: Ultimate Cabin Six Pack, six must-read books perfect for your cabin vacation

August: The Power of Translation, books by contemporary international authors at GVPL

Updated September 3, 2024
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War with the evil power master
Montgomery, R. A.
Paper Book
"NEWS ALERT: SUDDEN TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF PLANETS HAEMOG AND AROUTH, SECTOR 31-47-89. EVIL POWER MASTER CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY. He's back And the Evil Power Master is seeking revenge. You are the primary unit commander of the Lacoonian System Rapid Force response team, in charge of protecting all...
Choose your own adventure. Journey under the sea
Gaska, Andrew E. C.
Paper Book
From the hit Choose Your Own Adventure®  novels comes a new adapted graphic novel taking readers on their own visual adventure as a diver and new crew member of the ship Maray, a scientific vessel seeking to solve the mysteries of the ocean. In the newest Choose Your...
Lumberjanes. [Volume one], Beware the kitten holy
Stevenson, Noelle
Paper Book
Friendship to the max! Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five best pals determined to have an awesome summer together...and they're not gonna let any insane quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way! Not only is it the second title launching in our new BOOM! Box imprint but...
The stranger in the woods the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
Finkel, Michael
Paper Book
Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology
Hawk, Shane
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY . BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY . LOCUS AWARD FINALIST A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question- "Are you ready to be un...
Cook it wild : sensational prep-ahead meals for camping, cabins, and the great outdoors
Nuttall-Smith, Chris
Paper Book
In this game-changing camping cookbook, food writer and adventurer Chris Nuttall-Smith introduces an ingenious prep-ahead approach to eating outdoors, with 80 easy-to-make and wildly tasty recipes. "Cook It Wild showed me I can enjoy our incredible planet and still have...
Solenoid
Cărtărescu, Mircea.
Paper Book
WINNER of the Dublin Literary Award 2024 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2022 LONGLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2025 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times,...
Kairos: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
Erpenbeck, Jenny (Y).
Paper Book
From an internationally acclaimed, multi award-winning author: this is a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin during the years before and after the fall of the Wall.
The books of Jacob, or, a fantastic journey across seven borders, five languages, and three major religions, not counting the minor sects
Tokarczuk, Olga
Paper Book
As new ideas-and a new unrest-begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a spell that attracts a fervent following. He reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then...
Not a river
Almada, Selva
Paper Book
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE * It's not a river, it's this river. A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend's teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked stingray, Enero...
Simpatia
Calderon, rodrigo Blanco.
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Rodrigo Blanco Calder n has established himself as one of the great voices of Latin American literature with his debut novel The Night, and his short story collection Sacrifices. Simpatia is a...
Butter
Yuzuki, Asako
Paper Book
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATION WINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025 A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK 'A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'A...
My Armenian Friend
Makine, Andrei.
Paper Book
'Powerful, poignant, perfectly-pitched . . . It's a short tale of great significance. I found it unforgettable. . . a fine piece of writing' Michael Palin In this inspiring story, Andreï Makine looks back on a childhood friendship which changed his life. Set in 1970s Siberia,...
Murakami T : the t-shirts I love
Murakami, Haruki
Paper Book
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet and shares photos of his extensive unique personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world....
Happy people read & drink coffee
Martin-Lugand, Agnès
Paper Book
The international phenomenon described as Under the Tuscan Sun set in Ireland, about a recent widow who moves to the Irish coast and begins a tumultuous but ultimately healing relationship with her neighbor, a brooding Irish photographer. Also out now: the bestselling sequel, Don't...
Anxious people a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and "writer of astonishing depth" (The Washington Times) comes a poignant, charming novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious...
The vegetarian : a novel
Han, Kang
Paper Book
FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "[Han Kang's] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life."--The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...

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