http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10 Bibliothèque publique de Westmount | Westmount Public Library http://www.westlib.org/library/rss/WPL.png http://www.westlib.org/library http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5496 The latest Lady Emily mystery finds the unconventional Victorian lady and her husband, crown agent Colin, investigating crimes on their own doorstep. Only a few weeks after their return to Mayfair, a party is interrupted with news of a scandal, and soon after, they learn of the death of a wealthy businessman in his warehouse. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5496 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5497 When art student Jude Evans disappears on a photographic visit to a derelict Glasgow cinema, her friend Liam enlists the help of his birth mother, forensic scientist Dr. Rhona MacLeod, in his search for her. Visiting other derelict cinemas on Jude’s list, they find clues to her disappearance and to the horrifying secret she may have discovered behind those walls. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5497 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5498 Harold Grasse and Rose, the English girl of the title, are on a quest to find a Dr. Wheeler. Their cross-country trip in a camper van begins in a Washington, D.C., rocked by race riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and ends at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles at the precise moment Robert Kennedy is shot (a mysterious girl in a polka dot dress is in fact part of the conspiracy theories surrounding RFK's death). Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5498 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5499 After losing a leg in an industrial accident, engineer Charlie Neumann is appalled by the lack of technology available for human prostheses. Taking it upon himself to reengineer his prosthetic leg and faced with the incompatibility of his body, he has to decide how far he wants to reengineer his existing parts to fit his new technology. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5499 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5500 In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerizing beauty. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5500 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5501 In a world where one's magical prowess is determined by one's skill with words and ability to spell, Nicodemus is a wizardly apprentice afflicted by a curse that causes him to misspell magical texts. Now, the demon who cursed him has hatched a conspiracy to force Nicodemus to change language and ultimately use it to destroy all human life. Sequel to Spellwright. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5501 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5502 After a candidate for governor is murdered and his estranged wife is arrested for first-degree homicide, journalist Catherine McLeod receives a call from an anonymous woman claiming she saw the real killer leave the scene of the crime but is afraid to confide in the police. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5502 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5503 Samuel Johnson is in trouble. Not only is his eyesight so poor that he mistakenly asks out a letter box on a date, but an angry demon is seeking revenge for Samuel's part in foiling the invasion of Earth by the forces of evil. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5503 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5504 Retirement is not in the cards for Dr. Siri Paiboun after all. He's dragged into one last job for the Laos government: supervising an excavation for the remains of a U.S. fighter pilot who went down in the remote northern Lao jungle ten years earlier. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5504 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5505 Seven deliciously wicked tales featuring seven highly improbable characters, including Donald the Incredibly Hostile Juice Box, Hans the Weird Exchange Student, Brandon the Action Figure with Issues and Kevin the Hobo Minivan with Extremely Low Morals. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5505 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5506 In three ensnaring novellas of consummate artistry and profoundly disquieting perceptions, master storyteller Desai reflects on the transforming power and devastating limitations of art. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5506 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5507 Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2 .Troubled by his friend's possible suicide, the unnamed narrator launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice's life history. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5507 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5508 One Friday, Vancouver lawyer Paul Brenner has dinner with his son, Daniel. They talk about work, health, money, and music, and part ways. The following evening, Paul receives the phone call that is every parent's worst nightmare: Daniel has been killed in Stanley Park. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5508 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5509 The fifth JP Kinkaid caper sees rock band Blacklight gearing up for a major tour after its latest CD goes multiplatinum. Sidetracked by the hoopla and the demands of touring, the band members eventually realize that their shows have been trailing a string of violent murders. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5509 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5511 Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent – from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya – this collection focuses on younger, newer writers, to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5511 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5512 The year is 1912, and Britain is gripped by fear of war with Germany. Leonora Brown is part of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and when trouble flares in the Balkans, she heads to Bulgaria to offer assistance on the battlefield. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5512 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5513 Retired bank worker Larry Dickerson has inherited from his great-great-grandfather a bevy of letters that includes correspondence with nearly all the greatest writers of the Victorian era. He begins corresponding with Stephen Nicholls at Christie's auction house in England to examine what the letters are worth as well as chat about his self-education on the Victorian novel. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5513 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5514 When thousands of shoppers are taken hostage in the middle of a giant shopping mall on Black Friday, it's up to former military sniper Ray Cruz to neutralize the assailants before they begin to empty their automatic weapons – and before the headline-hunting bureaucrats from the state police can bungle matters completely. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5514 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5515 Bertie and Mabel Fischer are teenagers in Juniper, Kentucky during the Depression when their mother dies, leaving them with their stepfather. The sisters are very close, but on the afternoon of Bertie's high-school graduation, Mabel sets in motion events that will change their lives forever. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5515 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5516 In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin – an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women's College – decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully mistaken. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5516 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5517 A series of short stories in graphic novel format follows a group of friends in their twenties as they navigate young adulthood and relationships. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5517 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5518 The Minister for Defense is blown to smithereens in his car on a lonely road in the Brecon Beacons, where he has a weekend hideaway. Detective Inspector Ned Bale is on the crime scene within seconds, but neither he nor forensics can work out how on earth the crime was committed, let alone who did it. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5518 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5519 When a pop diva is brutally attacked minutes before a theatrical performance and the chief suspect is promptly found dead, Detective Peter Diamond uncovers bitter rivalries among the cast and crew and must confront his own mysterious theatre phobia to find the killer. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5519 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5520 When an American visitor is killed at a London flower show, DCI David Brock's crack crew of investigators, including Kathy Kolla, follows a trail of evidence that takes them across the Atlantic to the U.S., where they hope to discover why the seemingly unassuming victim was the target of a cunning and elaborate murder plot. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5520 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5521 Madison, a chubby, 13-year-old outcast, awakes in a cell, realizing she is not only dead but also condemned to hell. As she chronicles her afterlife (assigned to work as a telemarketer), she recalls her life on earth and, in turn, discovers there was more to her death than smoking marijuana. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5521 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5522 When the street children of Ghana begin falling victim to a chain of murders, Inspector Darko Dawson is once again called upon to investigate. Soon he's forced to come to terms with the brutal world of the urban poor, a world in which street children are forced to fight for their very survival. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5522 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5523 Mozart's estranged sister, Madame Maria Anna Berchtold von Sonnenburg, travels to Vienna to investigate the mysterious circumstances of her brother's sudden death. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5523 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5524 When John Frey, sentenced to die for the rape and murder of his girlfriend, succumbs to a fatal heart attack while awaiting execution, prison authorities have no reason to suspect foul play. Little do they know that Frey, with the help of two doctors and a prison guard who believe in his innocence, faked his own demise; Frey is now living a new life in Stockholm as lounge singer John Schwarz. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5524 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5525 In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5525 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5526 The Hallows of Britain are thirteen ancient treasures: mysterious, magical, infinitely powerful, with the potential for great good – or absolute evil. They survive, protected by hereditary Guardians who can trace their lineage back to the age of King Arthur and beyond. And now, someone is gathering them together. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5526 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5527 Mary and Tom never married and their relationship came to an abrupt end when Mary decided to keep their baby. Poor and ostracized, she found refuge in a commune in northern California and raised her daughter, Jane, as best she could. But when Jane is ten years old, Mary decides that it's time for Tom, now a wealthy, charismatic, and quite famous entrepreneur with political aspirations, to help raise his daughter. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5527 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5528 On the first day of spring, a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of massacre when he kills nine of his neighbors in a national park in Alaska. Or did he kill only eight? And if so, who killed the ninth victim – and why? Alaska Aleut Kate Shugak investigates. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5528 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5529 Young writer Rehan Tabassum had a privileged childhood in India as the stepson of a wealthy industrialist. But he has never met his father, powerful businessman Sahil Tabassum. In 2011 he travels to Pakistan's Port bin Qasim to meet the parent and siblings he has never known. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5529 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5530 In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, and against the wishes of his disapproving father, Fingal O'Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine. The sixth book in the Irish country series. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5530 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5531 In 1812, Harriet's newlywed husband, James, departs for Spain to fight Napoleon under Lord Wellington. In London, free-spirited Harriet enjoys unexpected freedoms and gets drawn into a world in transformation, one where gaslight will soon illuminate the city's dark streets. On the continent, James’ experiences in the British campaign are depicted in acute, traumatic detail. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5531 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5532 Half a century after her father's disappearance is compounded by rumors that he was murdered, Jane Weld struggles with her daughter's romance with the son of her father's mistress, a situation that escalates throughout the course of a Scrabble game of unspoken words and secrets. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5532 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5533 Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of an alcoholic and absent father, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina. Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5533 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5534 In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed, a military attaché in Peking. But soon after her arrival, Mary falls into an adulterous affair with a young Japanese nobleman, scandalizing the British community. Fiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5534 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5535 Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder, whose unique combination of character traits and business strategy have driven Amazon to the top of the online retail world. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5535 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5536 Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton," Deng Xiaoping was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late twentieth century. This hefty work assesses his years (1978-92) as China's paramount leader. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5536 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5537 A full-scale biography of the writer, a story worthy of Dickens' own pen: a comedy that turns to tragedy as the very qualities that made him great, his indomitable energy, boldness, imagination, showmanship and enjoyment of fame, finally destroyed him. The man who emerges is one of extraordinary contradictions, whose vices and virtues were intertwined as surely as his life and art. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5537 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5538 From one of the greatest chroniclers of the rock music scene comes the definitive biography of the last sultan of the record business: Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records and the man behind stars from Ray Charles to the Rolling Stones. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5538 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5539 Seven-year-old Georges Prosper Remi, better known as Hergé, first discovered his love of drawing in 1914 when his mother gave him some crayons to stay out of trouble. From this humble beginning emerged the world-renowned comics artist whose Tintin adventures have commanded the attention of generations of readers across the world. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5539 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5540 Actress and human rights activist Judd has recorded her experiences both abroad and at home in journal entries, which she has woven into a highly personal and powerful memoir about change, hope, and human transformation. She also describes her own personal spiritual journey of discovery. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5540 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5541 Based on interviews with some of his closest associates, this portrait of the thirty-fifth president discusses his privileged childhood, military service, struggles with a life-threatening disease, and career in politics. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5541 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5542 In this massive and insightful biography, music critic Riley bravely attempts to come to terms with the mass of contradictions that was John Lennon. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5542 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5543 As chief parliamentary correspondent for CTV News, Craig Oliver is one of Canada's most recognized and respected journalists, a newsman who has reported on the major political figures and news stories of our times with passion, insight, and bracing candour. He brings those same qualities to this many-layered memoir of an extraordinary professional and personal life. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5543 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5544 The former national security advisor and Secretary of State offers the compelling story of her eight years serving at the highest levels of government, including the difficult job she faced in the wake of 9/11. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5544 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5545 Chief Minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politicians, practicing in the wake of Machiavelli. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5545 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5546 After a health scare, an atheist travels the world searching for an experience of the divine, from meditating with Tibetan lamas in Nepal and unblocking his chi in China, to studying the Kabbalah in Israel. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5546 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5547 In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children's author, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner for women's rights. But that spring Constance's entire life was eclipsed by scandal. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5547 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5548 One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified woman of the last century: Wallis Simpson, the enigmatic American divorcee who nearly became Queen of England. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5548 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5549 Wolf, marriage counselor to the stars, frequent Oprah guest, and bestselling self-help author, confesses the startling truth about her own failed marriage. Biography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5549 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5550 Gavin Menzies, the New York Times bestselling author of 1421, uncovers the truth behind the mysterious “lost” city of Atlantis – making the startling claim that the “Atlanteans” discovered America 4,000 years ago and ruled a vast Mediterranean empire that was violently destroyed in 1,500 BC. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5550 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5551 You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you that you're as deluded as the rest of us. But that's OK – delusions keep us sane. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5551 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5552 Why did so many executives and employees of Enron, BP, and subprime lenders pretend that questionable company practices were business as usual? Why do so many pretend not to notice all the signs of a cheating partner? Heffernan explores all the ways we are hardwired to blind ourselves, at our own peril, to information that disturbs our fixed notions about our lives. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5552 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5553 Tauben has pored over historic city maps and directories, sepia coloured photos, brittle newspaper articles and long forgotten anniversary publications to track the locations of Montreal's early synagogues. Her quest results in a fascinating story that describes and defines the social, religious, and economic aspects of a distinct group of people through the architectural traces of its culture. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5553 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5554 Scientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century. To its detractors, L. Ron Hubbard's space-age mysticism is a moneymaking scam and sinister brainwashing cult. But to its adherents, it is humanity's brightest hope. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5554 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5555 Peter C. Newman, Canada's most "cussed and discussed" political journalist, on the death spiral of the Liberal Party. The May 2, 2011 federal election turned Canadian governance upside down and inside out. In his newest and possibly most controversial book, bestselling author Peter C. Newman argues that the Harper majority will alter Canada so much that we may have to change the country's name. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5555 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5556 While many Americans celebrated the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square that led to the ouster of the long-time ruler of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, fewer were aware of the history of unstinting American support to the dictator, which only began to waver as it became clear that his hold on power was becoming increasingly tenuous. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5556 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5557 In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar. Today America is engaged in a new currency war, and this time the consequences will be far worse than those that confronted Nixon. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5557 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5558 Activists striving for any type of social change often find themselves operating on the fringes of legal and social norms. Equally entertaining and informative, the profiles in this highly original book provide a unique lens through which to view deeper questions about the societal structures that are preventing us from attaining a more sustainable world. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5558 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5559 A report on how the Internet is significantly compromising the newspaper, music, and film industries offers advice to media industry insiders on how to use innovative solutions to reclaim profits. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5559 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5560 Grant, a prolific popular science writer, presents a survey of bogus thinking in relation to debates over such major issues as climate change, evolution, the purported link between autism and vaccines, complementary and alternative medicine, and the AIDS epidemic. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5560 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5561 We are living in a Golden Age of physics. With the mind of a scientist and the skill of a journalist, bestselling author and renowned physicist Frank Close gives us an insider's look at one of the most inspiring – and challenging – scientific breakthroughs of our time: the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5561 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5562 Eating a good balanced diet is the single biggest contribution you can make to your own health and that of your family's. Food is a truly empowering force and yet, sadly, many people are both ignorant of its benefits and scared and intimidated of its potential impact. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5562 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5563 In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5563 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5564 Producing food locally makes people healthier, alleviates poverty, creates jobs, and makes cities safer and more beautiful. The Urban Food Revolution is an essential resource for anyone who has lost confidence in the global industrial food system and wants practical advice on how to join the local food revolution. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5564 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5565 From pomegranate soup to saffron ice cream, the subtleties of Persian cuisine and its unique mix of flavours are unlike any other style of cooking. This illustrated cookbook offers an enticing introduction to traditional Persian cuisine through recipes and ingredients accessible to the everyday cook. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5565 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5566 Anthony Wolf applies his philosophy and humor to a wide variety of everyday situations, showing both the way interactions tend to go (not so well) and why, then offers parents a script and guidance on how to achieve the most satisfying outcomes. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5566 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5567 From the bestselling author of Buyology comes a shocking insider's look at how today's global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds, all in service of persuading us to buy. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5567 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5568 Casual wine-drinkers and wine connoisseurs alike will benefit from this insider's guide to finding and enjoying good wine – at a great price. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5568 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5569 There have been many books on the Doors. This is the first to bypass their myth, their mystique, and the death cult of both Jim Morrison and the era he was made to personify, and focus solely on the music. It is a story untold; all these years later, it is a new story. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5569 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5570 From the history of the art form to techniques, and then the films themselves, The Film Book provides an overview of cinematic styles and genres; the industry's greatest and most influential directors, and their key works; as well as looking at filmmaking around the world, from Hollywood to Bollywood. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5570 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5571 The poems in Skullduggery, Asa Boxer's masterful new book, have a simple warning: trust nothing. Like the book's hilarious final poem, which recasts Canada's discovery as a hoax from the Middle Ages, Boxer transforms shortfalls of perception into tour de force performances. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5571 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5572 A handbook offering savvy advice on planning independent travel around the world. Tips include information on choosing a destination, safety and health, and the outrageously confusing world of international airline tickets, fares, and discounts. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5572 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5573 Filled with insight and humor, this dual memoir by Rasia, born in Vilnius, Lithuania (who survived the Holocaust on a false identity), and her daughter Helen, born in Montreal, Canada, examines the long-term implications of being a survivor of the Holocaust and the unique pressures and anxieties the children of survivors inherit from their parents. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5573 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5574 Sicily is the Mediterranean's largest and most mysterious island. Its people, for three thousand years under the thumb of one invader after another, hold tightly onto a culture so unique that they remain emotionally and culturally distinct, and view themselves first as Sicilians, not Italians. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5574 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5575 Born Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst, this is the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5575 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5576 A respected Israeli historian and journalist offers a penetrating and provocative look at how the balance of power in Israel has shifted toward extremism, threatening the prospects for peace and democracy. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5576 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5577 A masterful blend of graphic reporting, illuminating interviews, and insightful analysis, here is the first account of Afghanistan's turbulent recent history by an independent eyewitness. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5577 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5578 Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It was the planet's most elusive secret, the prize coveted above all others. Between 1856 and 1876, six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman accepted the challenge. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5578 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5579 The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas shows how the wildlife and native inhabitants of the new world were understood and documented by a seventeenth-century French Jesuit priest and makes available fundamental documents in the history and visual culture of early North America. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5579 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5580 In the Point St. Charles of the author's childhood people move for one of two reasons: their apartment is on fire, or the rent is due. Starting in 1968, eight-year-old Kathy Dobson shares her early years growing up in Point St. Charles, an industrial slum in Montreal (now in the process of gentrification). Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5580 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5581 Steyn argues that President Barack Obama is a dangerous radical who wants not only big government, but the Europeanization of the United States. He explains how citizens can roll back the liberal establishment and return to fundamental American values. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5581 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5582 Looks at the history of 1920s New York City through anecdotes and profiles of people who personified the decade, including Lucky Luciano, Jimmy Walker, Polly Adler, Arturo Toscanini, Alexander Woollcott, and Dorothy Parker. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5582 http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5583 Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the unconquered, the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus. Nonfiction Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.westlib.org/library/page.cfm?Section_ID=3&Menu_Item_ID=10&Age_Group_ID=6&month=2#5583