At the end of each month, staff from the Airdrie Public Library send the Airdrie City View a small collection of some of the titles available at the library, along with some short synopses. The titles include both adult fiction and non-fiction selections.
Here is the April 2023 submission, showcasing some of the library's books Airdrie readers can enjoy digging into this spring.
Adult Fiction
Dark Angel
John Sandford
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=1&cn=2029207
When a group of hackers threatens to take over the power grid of Minneapolis, the Department of Homeland Security and the NSA team up to prevent the attack.
They need to find out who these dangerous hackers are, and they need to do it quickly. Letty Davenport, the 20-something daughter of Lucas Davenport, is brought on board to go undercover and infiltrate the group.
Posing as a rogue programmer for hire, she and her reluctant partner from the NSA, Rod Baxter, head to Los Angeles to find the illusive group before it is too late.
Camp Zero
Michelle Min Sterling
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=1&cn=1995844
America, 2049: summer temperatures are intolerably high and humans are implanted with a "Flick" at birth, which allows them to remain perpetually online.
When a high-profile client offers Rose a job to secretly monitor the mercurial architect in charge – in return for a home for her displaced mother and herself – she accepts it.
Rose quickly secures the trust of her target; but in the north, she begins to sense a new way forward, and her objective shifts. Through skillfully entwined perspectives, the fate of the Camp and its select inhabitants comes into stunning relief.
Adult Nonfiction
Meal Prep Magic: Time-Saving Tricks for Stress-Free Cooking
Catherine McCord ; Colin Price (Photographer)
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=1&cn=2029212
With Weelicious founder Catherine McCord's step-by-step process, your kitchen will be beautifully organized and fast, healthy family meals will be at your fingertips - starting with 100 of her favourite recipes.
By following McCord's simple strategies for meal prepping, you'll always have food on-hand to enjoy throughout your busy week, limiting your trips to the grocery store, and time spent in the kitchen.
Lost in Cabbagetown: A Memoir of Surviving Boyhood in 1960s Toronto
Terry Burke
https://catalogue.tracpac.ab.ca/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=1&cn=2012399
A poignant memoir of a rough-and-tumble boyhood on the streets of Toronto's Cabbagetown.
When the Burke family left Ireland in 1959, they thought they were leaving the trials and tribulations of the Dublin slums behind. Instead, Molly, Bill, and their nine children found the same poverty and hardship awaiting them in the east end of Toronto.
In this touching memoir, Terry Burke tells a poignant story of hunger, pain, love, and loss, and the enduring bonds of family.
