Hector and Virgil are the kindly and slightly eccentric hosts at a rustic retreat on a beautiful island in British Columbia. The bed and breadfast is the perfect refuge for guests who find that the ratio of books available to time available to read them is terribly skewed. Brief biographical sketches of these bibliophiles alternate with stories from Hector and Virgil on their growing up, their neighbors, the vicissitudes of running a Bed and Breakfast, and, of course, lists of books for various occasions.
Still Life by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec is called to Three Pines, a tiny hamlet south of Montreal, just north of the U.S. border, to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village. First in the Inspector Armand Gamanche mysteries series.
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
Fleeing the law in 1903 after killing her husband, Mary Boulton races toward the mountains while being tormented by visions of the cold-blooded brothers-in-law who pursue her, forcing her to retreat deeper into the wilds of the Western Canada and her own imagination.
Too Much Happiness: stories by Alice Munro
Includes the stories of a grieving mother who is aided by a surprising source, awoman's response to a humiliating seduction, and a nineteenth-century Russian emigre's winter journey to the Riviera.
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates
Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese immigrant growing up in 1950s Ontario, finds herself shouldering the weight of her mother's hopes and dreams as her isolated family attempts to forge a life for themselves in a small town.
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