Pride Spring 2023

Recommended Reading Oxford County Library Adult: When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill

The novel focuses on the complicated relationship between Marie Antoine, the wealthy heiress to her father’s Montreal sugar factory, and Sadie Arnett, a clever girl whose family moves to Marie’s neighbourhood. The two girls become fast friends, but then tragedy strikes. In an effort to save the reputations of everyone involved, the two girls are separated. What follows is a telling of the two women’s lives together and apart across time and across a city that loves, hates, and loves to hate them. Teen: As You Walk On By by Julian Winters Theo Wright has it all figured out. His dad has a strategy to get Theo into Duke on an athletic scholarship. But for now, all Theo wants is a perfect prom night. After his best friend Jay dares Theo to prom-pose to his crush at a party, Theo’s ready to take his chances. But when it goes epically wrong, Theo seeks refuge in an empty bedroom and has an existential crisis It is 1952, and Andy Miller has just been fired from the San Francisco police department after being discovered at a gay bar during a raid. With no prospects and lots of time on his hands, Andy is only too happy to accept a strange case: the murder of the matriarch of the famous Lamontaine soap empire, Irene Lamontaine. Irene’s soap recipes are a well guarded secret, but that is not the only secret that is locked away in the family’s enormous estate: Lavender House. Andy is soon plunged into the amazing and treacherous world of Lavender House, where Irene’s mysterious death is only the beginning. He is soon tangled in a game of old money, envy, and sabotage, while he tries to unravel the mysteries around him and discovers that a soap empire can be a dirty business. Young Adult Book: All that’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown Woodstock Public Library Adult Book: Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen In a world where a deadly pathogen has killed most of the population, two boys decide to put their trust in one another and journey together in search of civilization. But both boys

about who he really is with and without his so-called best friend. As the night goes on, Theo finds he’s not as alone as he thinks when, one by one, new classmates join him to avoid who they’re supposed be outside the bedroom door.

have secrets that could threaten their tenuous alliance, and everything they’ve become to each other. Only one thing is certain: they are all that’s left in the world.

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True Confessions From The Ninth Concession By Dan Needles

A crop of antics and pithy observations by Canada’s funniest farmer! Don’t Miss Out!