Six Libraries. Six Books. One Winner. Come out and support our Simcoe Reads 2024 Champion!
Six Libraries. Six Books. 1 Winner.
Six Simcoe County libraries are squaring off against each other in a cover-to-cover competition this year: Barrie, Essa, Innisfil, Midland, New Tecumseth, and Ramara. Based on Canada Reads, each library has selected a recent Canadian book and a local celebrity champion. It's time to pick your favourite, come enjoy the debate, and vote to decide which book will be crowned the winner.
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This year's event will be hosted by Ramara Public Library and will be held at Udney Community Centre on October 24, 2024 at 6:00pm. Six amazing books with be represented by 6 amazing champions. Come out and enjoy a fun-filled night of book-loving fun where the champions will each defend their books in the hopes of becoming the next Simcoe Reads champion.
The books represented this year are:
The event will take place in person only so come and enjoy a great night!
About Our Champion: Amy Courser
Amy Courser has graciously agreed to be this year's Simcoe Reads champion. Amy is a Ward 4 City Councillor and member of the Barrie Public Library Board.
About Our Simcoe Reads Selection - Mindful of Murder:
Meet Helen Thorpe. She's smart, preternaturally calm, deeply insightful and a freshly trained butler.
On the day she is supposed to start her career as an unusually equanimous domestic professional serving one of the wealthiest families in the world, she is called back to a spiritual retreat where she used to work, the Yatra Institute, on one of British Columbia's gulf islands. The owner of the lodge, Helen's former employer Edna, has died while on a three-month silent self-retreat, leaving Helen instructions to settle her affairs.
But Edna's will is more detailed than most, and getting things in order means Helen must run the retreat for a select group to determine which of Edna's relatives will inherit the institute. Helen's classmates, newly minted butlers themselves, decide they can't let her go it alone and arrive to help Helen pull things off. After all, is there anything three butlers can't handle? As Helen carries out the will's instructions, she begins to think that someone had reason to want Edna dead.
A reluctantly suspicious investigator, Helen and her band of butlers find themselves caught up in the mystery.
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