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The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts is coming to Sechelt’s Rockwood Centre from Aug. 16 to 19, and you’ll find many of the books by this year’s Festival authors at the Roberts Creek community library in the heart of the Creek. These include Vi by Kim Thuy, The Only Cafe by Linden MacIntyre, Glass Beads by Dawn Dumont, and The White Angel by John MacLachlan Gray. In case these titles have already been checked out, they and all books in our community library can be reserved.

A notable new book at the library this month is Macbeth by crime author Jo Nesbo. Nesbo’s Macbeth is a dark story of crime, guilt and passion set in Scotland in the early 1970s and the latest novel in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, which asks well-known authors to write contemporary fiction based on Shakespeare’s plays.

Other latest fiction titles you’ll also find are: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantell, Full Disclosure by former Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLaughlin, Mrs. Osmond by John Banville, The Last Hours by Manette Walters, and Donna Leon’s The Waters of Eternal Youth.

Current non-fiction reads are Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I was Ready by Meaghan O’Connell, and Grizzlies, Gales and Salmon at a Rivers Inlet Fishing Lodge by Pat Ardley.

Not to be outdone by the latest books for adults is the library’s extensive collection of books for children and junior readers including the Wings of Fire series (Books 1 to 8) by Tuyi T. Sutherland and latest picture book titles including Monkey with a Tool Belt by Chris Monroe, When the Moon Comes by Paul Harbridge, Groundhog Day by Anne Marie Pace, and Nothing Rhymes with Orange by Adam Rex.

The library also has an outstanding selection of used books for sale. Current examples are the 1997 Booker Prize winner The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America, London by Edward Rutherford, 419 by Will Ferguson, and The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Langercrantz. Of course, these might have been snapped up already, but go on in and have a look. The library volunteers will show you where to find the books for sale.

Since Sunday June 24, the Roberts Creek community library has been open four hours on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Other openings include Tuesdays 2 to 8 p.m.; Wednesdays 2 to 6 p.m.; Thursdays 2 to 8 p.m., and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. To join you’ll need proof of address. There is no charge to join. A phone number or email is also required.

If you have Roberts Creek news to report, let me know at creek@coastreporter.net before noon Sundays.