The War Memorial Library in Hudson is a non-profit registered charity providing a subscription library of printed and digital materials, primarily in the English language, to the residents of Hudson, Quebec and surrounding communities.Operated by volunteers, the Library is self-financing through membership fees, donations and fund raising activities. The Library in turn donates, to local charities, funds in excess of its own needs.The building and the Library serve as a memorial to those in Hudson who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Saturday, May 25, 2024

May - Non-Fiction




History of beauty 
Eco, Umberto



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The pruner's bible : a step-by-step guide to pruning every plant in your garden   Bradley, Steve
Angels from the Vatican : the invisible made visible   Duston,Allen
Northern Renaissance art : painting, sculpture, the graphic arts from 1350 to 1575   Snyder, James
Degas   Gordon, Robert
Masterworks on paper from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery 
On ugliness   Eco, Umberto
Andrew Wyeth : the Helga pictures   Wilmerding, John
Monet : a retrospective   Monet, Claude
The treasures of Vincent van Gogh   Homburg, Cornelia
The life and art of Albrecht Dürer   Panofsky, Erwin


May DVDs




Mrs Sidhu Investigates 
Season 1






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Deadwater Fell   Season 1
Suspects   Seasons 1 & 2
Royal Flying Doctor Service   Season 1 

May - Mysteries




The innocents
Atkins, Ace



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The missing witness   Brennan, Allison
It had to be you   Clark, Mary Higgins
Hostage   Crais, Robert
Has anyone seen Charlotte Salter?   French, Nicci
Still see you everywhere   Gardner, Lisa
The mystery writer   Gentill, Sulari
The last word   Griffiths, Elly
Everyone is watching   Gudenkauf, Heather
Darling girls   Hepworth, Sally
Foul play at Seal Bay   Leigh, Judy
The fall   Macmillan, Gilly
A game of lies  Mackintosh, Clare
The drowning isle   McCleave, Simon
Daughter of mine   Miranda, Megan
For our sins   Owsald, James
Owning up   Pelecanos,George P.
Knock knock   Roslund, Anders
The marriage   Slater, K.L.
The magpie tree   Stansfield, Katherine
Twenty-seven minutes   Tate, Ashley 🍁
A gambling man   Baldacci, David  (Large-Print)


May - Fiction





A calamity of souls 
Baldacci, David,





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In the blood   Carr, Jack
Kill for me, kill for you   Cavanagh, Steve
The English wife   Chinn, Adrienne
War lord   Cornwell, Bernard
For the time being   Dillard, Anne
End of story   Finn, A.J.
Good half gone   Fisher, Tarryn
The inheritance   Goodman, Joanna
Happy place   Henry, Emily
The bride test   Hoang, Helen
It starts with us   Hoover, Colleen
It ends with us   Hoover, Colleen
Biography of X   Lacey, Catherine
Secrets of the tulip sisters   Mallery, Susan
The stranger in her house   Marrs, John
The housemaid   McFadden, Freida
The guest   Paris, B.A.
The clinic   Quinn, Cate
All the names   Saramago, Jose
Come with me   Schulman, Helen
This time tomorrow   Straub, Emma
Kiss Carlo   Trigiani, Adriana
The bookbinder   Williams, Pip
The lost bookshop   Woods, Evie
The stranger in the mirror   Constantine, Liv  (Large-Print)
Just like the other girls   Douglas, Claire  (Large-Print)


May - Children's Books





Peirce, Lincoln




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Le cadeau de Mme Beauté   Hargreaves, Roger,
M. Malchance part en vacances   Hargreaves, Roger,
You have to stop this   Bosch, Pseudonymous
This isn't what it looks like   Bosch, Pseudonymous
Diaper överlöde   Kinney, Jeff
Cat Kid Comic Club #2 : Perspectives (graphics)   Pilkey, Dav
Cat Kid Comic Club (graphics)   Pilkey, Dav
First big book of why   Shields, Amy
You are my sunshine   Davis, Jimmie
Cat goes fiddle-i-fee   Galdone, Paul
You hold me up   Gray Smith, Monique
I will always love you   Mayfield, Marilee Joy
Dear Girl   Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
Smidge   Shoshan, Beth
The final gambit   Barnes, Jennifer Lynn
Hunting by stars   Dimaline, Cherie
The summer of broken things   Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Monday, May 20, 2024

June Book Sale

 
The June Book Sale will take place on Monday, June 3rd from 2:30 p.m. till 5:00 p.m., and continue during our opening hours, June 6th to 8th - see times below.

  • Thursday, June 6th         7:00 - 9:00 pm
  • Friday, June 7th             2:30 - 5:00 pm
  • Saturday, June 9th         10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Featured:  Canadiana and summer reading

Remember to also visit our Book Sale Room.  Shelves are restocked weekly – a great selection at great prices!! 

Saturday, April 27, 2024

April - Fiction





The newcomer  
Andrews, Mary Kay





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Little monsters    Brodeur, Adrienne,
Barefoot in the sand   Chamberlin, Holly,
The guest   Cline, Emma
Day   Cunningham, Michael
Before the swallows come back   Curnow, Fiona
Zero hour : a novel from the NUMA files    Cussler, Clive
Boy swallows universe   Dalton, Trent
Plain bad heroines    Danforth, Emily M.
Mercy House   Dillon, Alena
My kind of people   Duffy, Lisa
Time shelter   Gospodinov, Georgi
Slough house   Herron, Mick
Joe Country   Herron, Mick
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop   Bo-Reum, Hwang
The best possible experience   Injam, Nishanth,
What happened to Ruthy Ramirez   Jiminez, Claire
A winter by the sea   Klassen, Julie
Broken vow : a dark mafia romance   Lark, Sophie
Home sickness : stories   Lay, Chih-Ying
Bliss montage   Ma, Ling,
Throne of glass   Maas, Sarah,J
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store   McBride, James
Circle of death   Patterson, James
The girl in the castle   Patterson, James
The Phoenix crown   Quinn, Kate,
Wildwood whispers   Reece, Willa
Ask me anything   Reizin, P. Z
The poppy wife : a novel of the Great War   Scott, Caroline,
Black ice   Thor, Brad,
Rising tiger   Thor, Brad,
Mudflowers   Waterman, Aley 🍁
The orphan collector   Wiseman, Ellen Marie
In the likely event   Yarros, Rebecca
Whiteout / (large-print)   Follett, Ken


April - Non-Fiction




Atomic habits : tiny changes, remarkable results 
Clear, James



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Does coffee cause cancer? : and 8 more myths about the food we eat    Labos, Christopher 🍁
The Gardeners' encyclopedia of plants and flowers    Brickell, Christopher
Guide to ornamental trees and shrubs   Pellerin, Gervais
Great Scoops Recipes from a neighborhood ice cream shop   Haley, Marlene & Amelia Ryan
The book on pie : everything you need to know to bake perfect pies    McDowell, Erin Jeanne
Ormiston, Rosalind The life and works of Michelangelo    Ormiston, Rosalind
USA today : new American art from the Saatchi Gallery   
Giverny the garden of Claude Monet   Perdereau, Brigitte
Drawings of Albrecht Dürer.   Dürer, Albrecht,
Wall and piece   Banksy 
The portfolio book of the impressionists 
Paul-Emile Borduas    Gagnon, François Marc 🍁
Krieghoff    Harper, Russell J. 🍁
Memoirs of an art dealer    Laing, G. Blair, 🍁
Clarence Gagnon : an introduction to his life and art   Newlands, Anne 🍁
McMichael Canadian art collection : one hundred masterworks    Murray, Joan
Alfred Pellan : le rêveur    Pellan, Alfred 🍁
HRH the Prince of Wales watercolours.  Charles
Gainsborough    Vaughan, William
Monet's years at Giverny : beyond Impressionism   Monet, Claude
Vermeer : a view of Delft    Bailey, Anthony
Vermeer and painting in Delft   /Rüger, Axel
Flare magazine presents made in Canada    Adams, Bryan, 🍁
What I know for sure    Winfrey, Oprah
Alone on the ice : the greatest survival story in the history of exploration    Roberts, David,
The class : a memoir of a place, a time, and us    Dryden, Ken 🍁
James Patterson by James Patterson : the stories of my life    Patterson, James,


April - DVDs




Grantchester 
Season 7 




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The split -Season 3
Guilt - Season 2 


April - Mysteries





Death of a spy  
Beaton, M C






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A death in diamonds   Bennett, S J
The proof of the pudding   Bowen, Rhys
Knife Creek   Doiron, Paul
The summer of lies   Douglas, Louis
The hunter   French, Tana
The next accident   Gardner, Lisa
The last sinner   Jackson, Lisa
Taste of blood   LaPlante, Lynda
The missing piece   Lescroart, John T
22 seconds   Patterson, James
Last night   Rice, Luanne
Dirt Creek   Scrivenor, Hayley
Little girl vanished   Swank, Denise Grover
Listen for the lie   Tintera, Amy
Perfect shot    Urszenyi, Steve
City under one roof   Yamashita, Iris
Deadline (large-print)   Brown, Sandra

 

April - Children's Books





Journal d'un chat assassin
Fine,Anne





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Le Cavalier sans tete   Pavenello, Roberto
Livraison speciale!   Banks, Steven
Allons nous baigner!   Feuti,Norm
Qui a fait un trou dans le Rocher- Perce?   Lafrenaye,Mael
Un panda comme les autres   La Boissiere, Emilie
Ali Gatore se prend pour le roi   Walcker,Yann
When I found Grandma   Balasubramaniam, Saumiya
Looking for colors with Lily and Milo   Oud, Pauline
Goodnight,dragons   Roth, Judith L
A boy, a bear,a balloon   Rubiano, Brittany
Love is you & me   Sheehan, Monica
Bink & Gollie, best friends forever   DiCamillo, Kate
Bink & Gollie   Dicamillo, Kate
Mercy Watson thinks like a pig   DiCamillo, Kate
Family, friends and furry creatures (Tom Gates)   Pichon, Liz
Tom Gates : Epic adventure (kind of)   Pichon, Liz
I survived the attack of the grizzlies, 1967   Tarshis, Lauren
I survived the American Revolution, 1776   Tarshis, Lauren
Bugs   Creese, Sarah
Pete the cat : scuba-cat   Dean, James
Pete the cat : Play-ball!   Dean, James
Pete the cat: at the beach      Dean, James
Heartstopper - Vol 3   Oseman, Alice
Heartstopper - Vol 4   Oseman, Alice
When everything feels like the movies   Reid, Raziel
Wolves   Marsh, Laura
Amazing Animal Journeys   O'Donnell, Liam
Weather   Rattini, Kristen Baird

Saturday, April 20, 2024

May Book Sale

 

The May Book Sale will take place on Monday, May 6th from 2:30 p.m. till 5:00 p.m., and continue during our opening hours, May 9th to 11th - see times below.

  • Thursday, May 9th          7:00 - 9:00 pm
  • Friday, May 10th             2:30 - 5:00 pm
  • Saturday, May 11th         10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Featured:  history, biography and reference books

Remember to also visit our Book Sale Room.  Shelves are restocked weekly – a great selection at great prices!! 

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

March - Fiction

 




The light after the war 
Abriel Anita




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The singularities   Banville John
Away from the dead   Bergen David 🍁
Before we were innocent   Berman Ella
The lost chapter   Bishop Caroline 🍁
The House of brides   Cockram Jane
Sword of kings   Cornwell Bernard
The night travellers   Correa Armando Lucas
Recipe for a good life   Crewe Lesley 🍁
The last heir to Blackwood library   Fox Hester
Swan song   Greenberg-Jephcott Kelleigh
The golden doves   Kelly Martha Hall
The women   Hannah Kristin
Black leopard, red wolf   James Marlon
Sex and vanity   Kwan Kevin
Heading over the hill   Leigh Judy
Lost children archive   Luiselli Valeria
The woman on the ledge   Mancini Ruth
Bittersweet   McCullough Colleen
The Housemaid's secret   McFadden Freida
The satsuma complex   Mortimer Bob
A sister in my house   Olsson Linda
Run, Rose,run   Parton Dolly
The berry pickers   Peters Amanda 🍁
How not to die alone   Roper Richard
The bookshop of secrets   Rushmeyer  Mollie
The Paris housekeeper   Ryan Renee
The centre  Siddiqi Ayesha Manazir
Turning Point   Steel Danielle
Royal   Steel Danielle
Let us descend   Ward Jesmyn
Only if you're lucky   Willingham Stacy
Days at the Morisaki bookshop   Yagisawa Satoshi 

March - Mysteries




 Anna O 
Blake, Matthew



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North of Nowhere   Brennan, Alison
Endgame   Cole Daniel
The Heiress   Hawkins Rachel
The Girl by the Bridge   Arnaldur Indridson
The antique hunter's guide to murder   Miller C L
Every man a king   Mosley Walter
Cross down   Patterson James
The Price you pay   Petrie Nicholas
What we buried   Rotenburg Robert
The au pair   Rous Emma
Everyone on this train is a suspect   Stevenson Benjamin

March - Non-Fiction




The doomsday mother: Lori Vallow,Chad Daybell, and the end of the American family 
Glatt John





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Magnolia Table: a collection of recipes for gathering   Gaines Joanna
Homebody: a guide to creating spaces you never want to leave   Gaines Joanna
Splendid and the Vile, A Saga of Churchill, Family and defiance during the blitz   Larson Erik
Prisoners of the castle: an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis fortress prison  Macintyre Ben 
Class: a memoir   Land Stephanie
Taste: my life through food   Tucci Stanley