February's title will be "Etta and Otto and Russell and James" by Emma Hooper (rescheduled from January). “Etta’s greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very early one morning, takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best [...]

This month's pick is "The Exiles" by Christina Baker Kline. Books are available for check out at the circulation desk. "A powerful, emotionally resonant novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of four women’s lives—three English convicts and an orphaned Aboriginal girl—in nineteenth-century Australia." (christinabakerkline.com)