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Book of the Month – April

At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
In January 1945, when Madeline Hyde and her husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a retired army colonel who is ashamed of his son’s inability to serve, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father’s favor is to succeed where the Colonel very publicly failed – by hunting down the famous Loch Ness monster. Leaving her sheltered world behind, Maddie reluctantly follows Ellis and his best friend, Hank, to a remote village in the Scottish Highlands. Gradually the friendships Maddie forms with the townspeople open her up to a larger world than she knew existed. Maddie begins to see that nothing is as it first appears, and as she embraces a fuller sense of who she might be, she becomes aware not only of darker forces around her but of life’s surprising possibilities.

Book of the Month
Every month we will be featuring a new book to be showcased in our Book of the Month. Staff members and friends will be reading the book and posting their reviews. We’d love to hear what you thought of these books as well. Post your comments and let us know.

At the Water’s Edge is available at London Drugs along with many other great titles and is on sale for the month of April.

Book of the Month – March

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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H.White’s tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White’s struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest.
When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.
‘To train a hawk you must watch it like a hawk, and so gain the ability to predict what it will do next. Eventually you don’t see the hawk’s body language at all. You seem to feel what it feels. The hawk’s apprehension becomes your own. As the days passed and I put myself in the hawk’s wild mind to tame her, my humanity was burning away.’

Book of the Month
Every month we will be featuring a new book to be showcased in our Book of the Month. Staff members and friends will be reading the book and posting their reviews. We’d love to hear what you thought of these books as well. Post your comments and let us know.

H is for Hawk is available at London Drugs along with many other great titles and is on sale for the month of March.

Book of the Month – February

Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can’t get the girl out of her head…
Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal – or worse. But despite her family’s objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home.
Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow’s past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she’s willing to go to help a stranger. What starts as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated.

Reviews
“Pretty Baby is a psychological thriller with lots of twists and turns that leave you guessing right till the end as to what the whole story is behind each of the characters” – Review by Carolynn

“Compelling story written in the views of the 3 main characters – Heidi, her husband Chris and Willow the homeless teen with a new baby. Although disturbing and difficult to read at times, it’s intriguing – you want to find out Willow’s back story and how she came about to be homeless and with child. The chapters are relatively short and alternate between the three main characters, so you want to keep reading to follow up on each of the storylines” – Review by Janice

Book of the Month
Every month we will be featuring a new book to be showcased in our Book of the Month. Staff members and friends will be reading the book and posting their reviews. We’d love to hear what you thought of these book as well. Post your comments and let us know.

Pretty Baby is available at London Drugs along with many other great titles and is on sale for the month of February.

December Book of the Month

The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin
As news items, texts, bills, apps, art and advice flow into our daily lives, we’re expected to make more – and faster – decisions than ever before. Could good, old-fashioned, conscientious organization really be the critical secret to navigating the modern world’s flood of details? As acclaimed cognitive psychologist and bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin shows, the latest neuroscience says yes. In The Organized Mind, Levitin presents recent advances in brain sciences as he revels the key to how leaders in the information age excel – and how any reader can use their practical methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way we organize our homes, workplaces and lives.

Book of the Month
Every month we will be featuring a new book to be showcased in our Book of the Month. Staff members and friends will be reading the book and posting their reviews. We’d love to hear what you thought of these books as well. Post your comments and let us know.

The Organized Mind is available at London Drugs along with many other great titles and is on sale for the month of December.

November Book of the Month

The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter
Jane was fifteen when her life changed forever. In the woods surrounding a Yorkshire country house, she took her eyes off the little girl she was minding and the girl slipped into the trees – never to be seen again.
Now an adult, Jane is obsessed with another disappearance; that of a young woman who walked out of a Victorian lunatic asylum one day in 1877. As Jane pieces together moments in history, forgotten stories emerge – of sibling jealousy, illicit affairs, and tragic death…

Book of the Month
Every month we will be featuring a new book to be showcased in our Book of the Month. Staff members and friends will be reading the book and posting their reviews. We’d love to hear what you thought of these books as well. Post your comments and let us know.

The World Before Us is available at London Drugs along with many other great titles and is on sale for the month of November.

October Book of the Month

Chance Harbor by Holly Robinson
Catherine and Zoe are sisters, but even their mother, Eve admits her daughters are nothing alike. Catherine is calm and responsible. Zoe is passionate and rebellious. Nobody is surprised when Zoe gets pregnant, drops out of college, and spirals into drug addiction.
One Night Catherine gets a call from Zoe’s terrified daughter, Willow, saying her mother has abandoned her in a bus station and disappeared. Eve blames herself, while Catherine, unable to have children, is delighted to raise Willow as her own.
Now, five years later, Eve is grieving her husband’s death and making reluctant plans to sell the family’s beloved summer home on Prince Edward Island. But a series of unexpected revelations will upend the family and rock three generations of women.

Reviews
“An intriguing story about 3 generations of women and their relationship challenges – with each other and the men in their lives. Catherine, the older, responsible sister seems to have the perfect life – good job, great husband and Zoe, the irresponsible, younger sister has had difficulty with addiction and an unplanned pregnancy. The book is full of surprises and a great, easy read. Loved it!” – Review by Janice

Book of the Month
Every month we will be featuring a new book to be showcased in our Book of the Month. Staff members and friends will be reading the book and posting their reviews. We’d love to hear what you thought of these book as well. Post your comments and let us know.

Chance Harbor is available at London Drugs along with many other great titles and is on sale for the month of October.

Book of the Month – September

The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
Alice and her husband, Jake, own a barbecue restaurant in Austin, Texas. Hardworking and popular in their community, they have a loving marriage and thriving business, but Alice still feels that something is missing, lying just beyond reach.

Carla is a strong-willed young girl who’s had to grow up fast, acting as caretaker to her six-year-old brother Junior. Years ago, her mother left the family behind in Honduras to make the arduous, illegal journey to Texas. But when Carla’s grandmother dies and violence in the city escalates, Carla takes fate into her own hands – and with Junior, she joins the thousands of children making their way across Mexico to America, facing great peril for the chance at a better life.

In this elegant novel, the lives of Alice and Carla will intersect in a profound and surprising way.

Reviews
“Enjoyed the book and found Carla’s story especially gripping. A good easy summer read!” – Review by Mary

“These 2 stories are so different from each other that I found that I had more empathy for Carla, the poor 12 year old trying to escape a dire life in her home country than with the comparitively privileged Alice who couldn’t have her own child. Carla’s story was a tragic, but compelling one and I thought the story ended a bit prematurely – I would have liked to read more about how she coped at the end.” – Review by Janice

Book of the Month
Every month we will be featuring a new book to be showcased in our Book of the Month. Staff members and friends will be reading the book and posting their reviews. We’d love to hear what you thought of these book as well. Post your comments and let us know.

The Same Sky is available at London Drugs along with many other great titles and is on sale for the month of September.

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