Books at the Bottom of the Stairs
Books that Won’t Crush Your Soul, part 2
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Announcement video
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Recommended books:
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Books mentioned:
The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen
Greymist Fair by Francesca Zappia
Olive at bookolive
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Books mentioned:
Irish Game by Mathew Hart
Library by Mathew Battles
The Oil Man and the Sea by Arno Kopecky
Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow
Lapidarium by Hette Judah
The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchett
Rome, a history in seven invasions by Mathew Kneale
Index, a History of Bookish Adventures….. by Dennis Duncan
The Philosopher’s Stone
The Chamber of Secrets
The Prisoner of Azkabhan
The Goblet of Fire
Thelma
Books mentioned:
The Third Wife of Faraday House by B.R. Myers
Angel at Troublesome Creek by Mignon F. Ballard
Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
Dragon’s Lair by Sharon Kay Penman
Susan Cooper - Dark Tide Rising series
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Writing Magic by Gail Carson Levine
One time by Sharon Creech
The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Crossing Places by Ella Griffiths
On Writing by Stephen King
September = electricity
The Marvels
The Invention oh Hugo Cabret (Caldecott winner, not Newbury)
Answers in the Pages by David Levithan
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
My Murder by Katie Williams
Every Time I go on Vacation Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
Grazie by Lucia Frangioni *****
Mistletoe and Murder by Robin Stevens, book 5 in series
Book Nook, Salmon Arms BC
Entershine, Thunderbay, ON
Pocket Books, Powell River, BC
Black sheep Books, Salt Spring Island, BC
Elizabeth Campbell Books, Kenora, ON
Mill Street Books, Almonte, ON
Books reviewed:
Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
Ladies of the House by Lauren Edmonson
Crossing Places by Ella Griffiths
Love and War in the Appieninnes by Eric Newby
Black Joke by Farley Mowat
Just a Mother by Roy Jacobbson
36 Islands in the Lake District by Robert Twigger
The Road to Lichtfield by Penelope Lively
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
Blood will Out by Jo Tregiarri
Sense and Second degree Murder by Tirza Price
Weyward by Emilia Hart
No Fixed Address by Susan Nielsen (Canadian)
Ogre Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Cranfield by Elizabeth Gaskell
Quiet night think by Gillian Sze (Canadian)
A charm of Goldfinches by Matt Sewell
If I had an old House on the East Coast by Wanda Baxter and Kat Flick Muller (Canadian)
The Merlin Conspiracy by Dianne Wynn’s-Jones
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Becky Smith
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jaqueline Kelly
Books that Don’t Crush Your Soul Part One
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Part Two
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Manslaughter Park by Tirza Price
A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
The Witches of Moonshyne Manor by Bianca Marais
Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard (book three of five)
Jolly foul play by Robin Stevens
The Spy Princess by Sherwood Smith
The Girl in the Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn
One for Sorrow by Mary Downing Hahn
Northwind by Gary Paulson
Into the Bright Open by Cherie Dimaline
Funeral So go for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden (adult)
Booktubers mentioned:
Jolene at Bookworm Adventure Girl
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Sandy at MsReads a lot
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Jac at Spread Book Joy
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Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (Canadian)
Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner
Black Sheep by Georgette Hayer
Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangiovese Mandanna
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Innocents by Micheal Crummy
The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers
Rock, Paper, Scissors by Alice Feeney
The Tattooed Potato and other clues by Ellen Raskin
The Benevolent Society of I’ll-mannered Ladies by Allison Goodman
Beverly Right Here by Kate Dicamillo
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Chatterton Square by E.H. Rose
Dangerous Ages by Rose Macauley
Sally on the Rocks by Winnifred Boggs
O Brave the Music by Dorothy Evelyn-Smith
The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair
My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes
Tea is so Intoxicating by Mary Essex
Which Way by Theodora Benson
Green Grass Running Water by Thomas King (Canadian)
Chatterton Square by E.H. Young
Chill Tidings, Dark Tales of the Christmas Season edited by Tanya Kirk
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
British Library site (still experiencing cyber trouble, so put it on your list to visit later for great book options)
bl.uk
Review of Skull by Jac at Spread Book Joy
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Bookshops and Bonedust by Terry Baldree
Spread Book Joy review
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