Camrose Public Library

Hello everyone and welcome to our first installment of our Novel Read Aloud! We will be reading the thrilling mystery novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written by the infamous Agatha Christie. With a new episode and two new chapters released every Friday, tune in as we solve this mystery together!

Want to share your predictions and theories for how the mystery will unfold? If so, then you're in luck as we will be interacting with our listeners and asking you to send us any thoughts you have regarding the novel. We will then discuss some of our favorites in the following episode! More information on this to come in a later episode.

Adult science fiction and fantasy come one and all to Camrose Public Library's very first Book Tasting featuring our eight top recommendations within the genres of science fiction and fantasy! Not a fan of science fiction or fantasy but wanting to dip your toes in the genre? We've got topics you might love! Alongside the blurbs for each book you get who we think will love each book and similar books (if you loved ____ you might like ___).

Here are the books:

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (search.prl.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.4&pos=1&cn=361959)

The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (search.prl.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.4&pos=1&cn=294194)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab (search.prl.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.4&pos=3&cn=399229)

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (Parkland Regional Library System (prl.ab.ca))

The Library of the Unwritten by A. J. Hackwith (search.prl.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.4&pos=1&cn=341979)

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (search.prl.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.4&pos=1&cn=438248)

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (search.prl.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.4&pos=1&cn=408107)

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (search.prl.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.4&pos=1&cn=245214)

We highly recommend looking online for content warnings before picking them up as many of them deal with sensitive subject matter.  

In our Tales and Travels series, we visit a new country each week and discuss one folktale and a little about the origins and culture surrounding it.

This week we are off to Poland, where we will hear the story of Feliks and the Queen Bee or The Gingerbread Bee. Enjoy the story alone, or check out our companion materials. We have a read-along booklet of the folktale and an activity packet that can be downloaded for your enjoyment. A full transcript is also avaible!

Happy travels!