| Title Subtitle |
Author(s) | Subject | When | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In progress | ||||
| TRAIN
Riding the rails that created the modern world | Tom Zoellner | Travelling on 7 major railways, with history and people | 2017 | Joan |
| Commodore The Amiga Years | Brian Bagnall | 1982 until the end, mostly but not just the Amigas | 2017 | Andrew & Jenn |
| King's Highways & Steam Trains
A Ford Mainline to the Branchlines of Ontario in July 1957 | Ian Wilson | Ontario railway history | 2017 | Me |
| Remember Who You Are
Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind | Daisy Wademan | Inspiration - Professors' advice to their graduates | 2017 | IBM |
| Warped Passages
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions | Lisa Randall | Subatomic particles, hidden multiple dimensions and string theory | 2017- | Wes |
| Code Name Camelot | David Archer | Origin and life of a government assassin | 2018 | Joan |
| On Pause | ||||
| You Are Here
Around the world in 92 minutes Photos from the International Space Station | Chris Hadfield | Photos of earth from space | 2015-17 | Les & Susan |
| Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage*
* The (mostly) true story of the first computer | Sydney Padua | Graphic novel about Ada Lovelace the first programmer and Charles Babbage designer of the first programmable computer | 2015-17 | Craig & Jo |
| Train Master
The railway art of Max Jacquiard | Barrie Sanford | Max Jacquiard's lifelike paintings of Canadian railways | 2015-17 | Joan |
| Read | ||||
| Deception Point | Dan Brown | NASA appears to have found a large meteorite proving extraterestrial life | 2020 | W&W library |
| The SUM of all FEARS | Tom Clancy | Jack Ryan, #2 in the CIA, barely prevents a nuclear war with Russia | 2020 | W&W library |
| The Reckoning | John Grisham | A war hero kills a minister and won't say why | 2020 | W&W library |
| The Alibi | Sandra Brown | The police, district attorney and his assistant investigate the murder of a tycoon. | 2020 | W&W library |
| Deep Freeze
A Virgil Flowers Novel | John Sandford | Officer Virgil Flowers solves two murders, an assault, and an unauthorized product modification | 2020 | W&W library | R.J. Harlick | Haida Matriarch Louise solves a murder and an ancient mystery | 2020 | W&W library |
| Chosen Prey
A Lucas Davenport Novel | John Sandford (John Camp) | US Marshall Davenport pursues a secret photographer who went too far. | 2020 | Joan |
| Golden Prey
A Lucas Davenport Novel | John Sandford (John Camp) | US Marshall Davenport pursues men who robbed drug importers. So do the importers hit team. | 2020 | W&W library |
| The Black Cat Sees His Shadow
Some cats have more than nine lives... A bad Luck Cat Mystery | Kay Finch | An author and her cat help solve a murder. | 2020 | Joan |
| True Blue | David Baldacci | Adventures of an excon former police officer, her lawyer friend and her police chief sister, amid various murders. | 2020 | Community Centre |
| The Twentry-Three
Book three of the Promise Falls Trilogy | Linwood Barclay | Murders and other mysteries in a New York town. | 2020 | Costco |
| Far From True
Book two of the Promise Falls Trilogy | Linwood Barclay | Murders and other mysteries in a New York town. | 2020 | Costco |
| Broken Promise
Book one of the Promise Falls Trilogy | Linwood Barclay | Murders and other mysteries in a New York town. | 2019 | Costco |
| Scarpetta | Patricia Cornwell | Medical examiners, police and others solve a grizzly murder, then more. | 2019 | Roxanne |
| Live to See Tomorrow | Iris Johansen | An FBI agent rescues a kidnapped journalist and battles evil in Tibet. ESP. | 2019 | Roxanne |
| 4th of July | James Patterson
Maxine Paetro |
SFPD Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer solves multiple murders but is sued for $150 million over one incident. | 2019 | Roxanne |
| The Big Bad Wolf | James Patterson | New FBI Agent Alex Cross, who has just started training, is assigned to a high profile kidnapping. And another ... | 2019 | Community Centre |
| Double Blind | Iris Johansen
Roy Johansen |
A formerly blind woman, her friends and the FBI deal with a vicious serial killer and a misbehaving company. | 2019 | Roxanne |
| Memory Man | David Baldacci | A former police detective and private eye's family, friends, coworkers and others are murdered | 2019 | Roxanne |
| 1st To Die | James Patterson | SFPD Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and her two teams solve multiple murders | 2019 | Roxanne |
| The 5th Horseman | James Patterson
Maxine Paetro |
SFPD Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and her team solve multiple murders and a fraud | 2019 | Roxanne |
| Paradox | Catherine Coulter | An escaped mental patient or two, attempted kidnapings, murder, multiple attempted murders, dead bodies in a lake and more | 2019 | Roxanne |
| Celebrity Murders
and Other Nefarious Deeds | Max Haines | Forty-seven fascinating cases of celebrity crime from Canada's own master of mayhem | 2019 | Jim |
| True Crime Stories | Max Haines | Forty-eight tales of murder and mayhem from the author of the popular syndicated column, Crime Flashback | 2019 | Jim |
| Dark Summer | Iris Johansen | People try to save half a dozen special "summer" dogs that are under attack. So are the people. | 2019 | Community Centre |
| The President is Missing | Bill Clinton James Patterson |
Threatened with impeachment or death, with the country threatened with far worse, the US President vanishes. | 2019 | Roxanne |
| Tales of the Black Widowers | Isaac Asimov | A dinner group solves mysteries | 2019 | Jim |
| The Irregulars
Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington | Jennet Conant | Sharing information before and during WW II | 2018-2019 | Joan |
| Die Laughing
Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks | William Novak | Humour | 2019 | Les |
| Commodore A Company on the Edge | Brian Bagnall | Commodore early years | 2017-2018, success and turmoil under Jack Tramiel | loan |
| SF12
New dimensions in science fiction, fantasy, and imaginative writing | Edited by Judith Merril | Stories by Leiber, Delany, Burroughs, Updike, Ballard, Lafferty and others | 2018 | Jim |
| Code Blue
A Nurse's True Story | Barbara Huttmann, R.R. | A middle aged woman trains to be a nurse | 2018 | Jim |
| Try Rebooting Yourself
Dilbert | Scott Adams | Office humour | 2018 | Jim |
| The SPIKE | Arnaud de Borchgrave Robert Moss |
A journalist fights the KGB ploy to destroy the US | 2018 | |
| Budrys' Inferno | Algis Budrys | Science fiction stories | 2018 | Jim |
| Destinies
The Science Fiction Magazine Feb - Mar 1980 Vol 2 No 1 | Edited by James Baen Dickson Card Drake Niven Pohl Watson |
Science fiction, science fact (gravity), L5 Society news, etc | 2018 | Jim |
| Eyes of Prey | John Sandford | Police especially one against a gory serial killer (or two?). | 2018 | Jim |
| Destinies
The Science Fiction Magazine Summer 1980 Vol 2 No 3 | Edited by James Baen Heinlein Ing Benford Niven Pohl Pournelle Robinson Spinrad More! |
Science fiction, science fact, L5 Society news, etc | 2018 | Jim |
| Orbit 1
The best all new SF stories of the year Edited by Damon Knight | Janes Blish Sonya Dorman Kate Wilhelm Tomas Disch Richard McKenna Poul Anderson Allison Rice Keith Roberts Virginia Kidd |
Various 1966 science fiction stories | 2018 | Jim |
| The Best of Amazing
Selected by Joseph Ross | Isaac Asimov Edmond Hamilton Murry Leinster John Wyndham David H Keller Jack Williamson Nelson S Bond Frank Herbert |
Various science fiction stories | 2018 | Jim |
| White Jade
The PROJECT Series - Book 1 A Noah Wolf Thriller | Alex Lukeman | Two people with help avoid a coup d'etat and a major war | 2018 | Joan |
| Murder on the Mind | L L Bartlett | After a mugging causing brain damage a man sees visions leading to solving two murders | 2018 | Joan |
| Babylon 5 Dark Genesis
The Birth of the PSI Corps | J Gregory Keyes | How humans gained PSI and PSI Corps | 2018 | Jim |
| Babylon 5 Thirdspace | Peter David | An ancient ship found in hyperspace causes trouble for Babylon 5 and endangers the galaxy | 2018 | Jim |
| Babylon 5 Book #9 To Dream in the City of Sorrows | Kathryn M. Drennan | Sinclair is appointed Earth Ambassador to Minbari and founds the Rangers | 2018 | Jim |
| Babylon 5 Book #8 Personal Agendas | Al Sarrantonio | Two groups try to rescue G'Kar from torture by the insane Centari emperor | 2018 | Jim |
| Babylon 5 Book #7 The Shadow Within | Jeanne Cavelos | Sheridan's wife investigates a distant ancient dead(?) civilization | 2018 | Jim |
| Babylon 5 Book #6 Betrayals | S.M. Stirling | G'Kar and Londo are swindled, the Centari and Narn negotiate a peace while the T'llin are perscuted and revolt | 2018 | Jim |
| Babylon 5 Book #5 The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name | Neal Barrett Jr. | As an immense green "worm" that's not there approaches B5, everyone has nightmares and becomes violent. | 2018 | Jim |
| Babylon 5 Book #4 Clark's Law | Jim Mortimore | An insane alien who kills a human then is mind wiped by an accident is tried for murder and sentenced to death. | 2018 | Jim |
| Babylon 5 Book #3 Blood Oath | John Vornholt | Ambassador G'Kar's life is threatened | 2018 | Jim |
| Shadow Play
Hide Away Night and Day 3 Eve Duncan Novels | Iris Johansen | A trilogy: Identifying a murder victim and rescuing then rerescuing a target, unfortunately with other good people killed. Some supernatural and superpowers. | 2018 | Roxanne |
| The Murder House | James Patterson David Ellis |
Too many grisly killings | 2018 | ? |
| The Wrong Side of Goodbye
A Bosch Novel | Michael Connelly | A part time police detective / part time private eye investigates two important cases | 2018 | Card group |
| The Rim-World Legacy | F A Javor | A roving interstellar photographer is entangled in multiple murders and control of the galaxy | 2018 | Jim |
| Babylon 5 Book #2 Accusations | Lois Tilton | Garibaldi investigates multiple murders; Ivanava uncovers a conspiracy and stops cargo ship raiders | 2018 | Jim |
| Babylon 5 Book #1 Voices | John Vornholt | Psi Talia Winters is accused of murder | 2018 | Jim |
| Night School
A Jack Reacher Novel | Lee Child | A team from US Military Police, FBI, CIA and German police save the world | 2018 | Card Group |
| The Whistler | John Grisham | Corruption in Florida | 2018 | Card Group |
| The Rogue Warrier's Strategy for Success
A Commando's Principles of Winning | Richard Marcinko | How to lead in business, with Seal Team anecdotes | 2018 | Jim |
| Crosstime Traffic | Lawrence Watt-Evans | Science fiction including alternate universes, and fantasy including dragons, trolls and witches | 2018 | Jim |
| The Doomsday Key | James Rollins | Sigma Force and others save the world while solving ancient mysteries | 2018 | Library Sale |
| Never Saw It Coming | Linwood Barclay | Mystery | 2018 | Library Sale |
| Ready to Retire?
What you and Your Spouse Need to Know About the Reality of Retirement | Lyndsay Green | Advice based on interviews and statistics | 2018 | Hampstead House |
| Intrepid's Last Case | William Stevenson | The government coverups of defector Gouzenko, and the KGB agents controlling parts of the Canadian, British and US governments and intelligence agencies. | 2017-2018 | Jim |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Hadden | An autistic boy solves a murder mystery and learns more about his life | 2017 | Jenn |
| The Mistletoe Murder
and other stories | P.D. James | Four short non-obvious mystery stories | 2017 | Joan |
| A Murder of Quality | John Le Carré | Murder in an English public school | 2017 | Library |
| Killarney Provincial Park
Granite Ridge Trail Guide | Friends of Killarney Park |
Trail description and hiking directions | 2017 | Me |
| God
an Autobiography | God | The history of God and his universes, focusing on Earth | 2017 | Les |
| GREECE
With Great Cruises & the Best Islands Ancient Ruins | Beaches | Scenic Villages | Seafood | Fodor's Travel | Travel and tourist information about Greece
(I only read the general, Athens and Corfu sections) |
2017 | Joan |
| Reconstructing Amelia | Kimberly McCreight | A mother learns about her high school daughter's life and death: Was the bullied 15 year old girl's death suicide, an accident or murder? |
2017 | June |
| Blueprints | Barbara Delinski | A mother and daughter hit problems hosting a TV show on the family renovation company's projects |
2017 | Marina Hotel Athens |
| Second Honeymoon | James Patterson and Howard Roughman |
Two FBI agents pursuing two serial killers | 2017 | Folies Hotel Corfu |
| Truth or Die | James Patterson and Howard Roughman |
A man whose reporter girlfriend was killed and the person she was to interview survive and get justice | 2017 | Folies Hotel Corfu |
| Gray Mountain | John Grisham | A lawyer takes a new job in West Virginia coal mining country | 2017 | Folies Hotel Corfu |
| A Delicate Truth | John Le Carré | An antiterrorism mission gone wrong | 2017 | Folies Hotel Corfu |
| The Making of Microsoft
How Bill Gates and His Team Created the World's Most Successful Software Company | Daniel Ichbiah with Susan L Knepper |
The history of Bill Gates, Microsoft and its competitors | 2017 | Jim |
| Shooting the Hippo | Linda McQuaid | How Canadians are manipulated by the rich for their benefit and almost everybody else's loss |
2017 | Jim |
| what if?
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions | Randall Munroe
creator of xkcd |
Smart answers to stupid questions | 2017 | Craig & Jo |
| Rogue Warrior Option Delta | Richard Marcinko John Weisman |
A US Navy Seal's adventures saving the world #7 in a series |
2017 | Jim |
| Rogue Warrior Seal Force Alpha | Richard Marcinko John Weisman |
A US Navy Seal's adventures saving the world #6 in a series |
2017 | Jim |
| Rogue Warrior Designation Gold | Richard Marcinko John Weisman |
A US Navy Seal's adventures saving the world #5 in a series |
2017 | Jim |
| Rogue Warrior Green Team | Richard Marcinko John Weisman |
A US Navy Seal's adventures saving the world #3 in a series |
2017 | Jim |
| Rogue Warrior Red Cell | Richard Marcinko John Weisman |
A US Navy Seal's adventures saving the world #2 in a series, all surprisingly hard to put down |
2017 | Jim |
| Explaining the Inexpicable
The Rodent's Guide to Lawyers | The Rodent | How law firms work | 2017 | Jim |
| Heroic Hoaxes | Andrew Mound | Short descriptions of many hoaxes | 2017 | Jim |
| short Circuits
Thirteen shocking stories by outstanding writers for young adults | edited by Donald R. Gallo |
Mostly ghost stories | 2017 | Jim |
| Year's Best SF
All New Fantastic Stories! | edited by David G Hartwell |
Science fiction novellas and short stories | 2017 | Jim |
| Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway | Dave Barry | USA political humour | 2017 | Jim |
| Model Railroad Planning
2010 | Tony Koester editor |
Planning and designing model railroads, with examples | 2017 | me |
| Freakonomics | Steven Levitt Stephen Dubner | Analyzing various subjects from an economist's point of view | 2017 | Les |
| Super Freakonomics
Global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance | Steven Levitt Stephen Dubner | Analyzing various subjects from an economist's point of view | 2017 | Les |
| User Friendly | Spider Robinson | science fiction stories and articles | 2017 | Jim |
| The Infinity Puzzle
How the hunt to understand the universe led to extraordinary science, high politics, and the Large Hadron Collider | Frank Close | The history and people who figured out subatomic particles and quarks,
written before the predicted Higgs Boson was found in 2016 |
2017 | Craig & Jo |
| The Mind's I
Fantasies and reflections on self and soul | Douglas R Hofstadter Daniel C Dennett |
The mind, the brain, and whether artificial intelligence can be concious and self aware |
2017 | Jim |
| net slaves
Tales of working the web | Bill Lessard Steve Baldwin |
The kinds of people working on the Internet | 2016-17 | Jim |
| Programming for the UNIVAC Fac-tronic System | Remingtron-Rand Eckert-Mauchly Division |
How to program one of the earliest computers (1953, relays and mercury delay line memory) |
2016-17 | Geoff |
| Algorithms to Live By | Brian Christian Tom Griffiths |
Using knowledge from computing and math to make better decisions | 2016 | Craig & Jo |
| Computer Wars
The Fall of IBM and the Future of Global Technology | Charles H Ferguson Charles R Morris |
History of IBM and its competitors (good but with a few errors) |
2016 | Jim |
| My Years with Xerox The billions nobody wanted | John H Dessauer | History of Xerox, the people involved and the invention of modern copying | 2016 | Jim |
| Most Secret War
British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 | R V Jones | British spying and conclusions that helped win WW II, very interesting | 2015 | Wes |
| How's That Underling Thing Working Out For You? Dilbert | Scott Adams | Graphic office humour | 2016 | Craig & Jo |
| The Railway Beat
A century of Canadian Pacific Police Services | David Lawrence Jones | Stories and photos of the Canadian Pacific Police Services | 2015 | Joan |
| The Fugitive Game
online with Kevin Mitnick the inside story of the great cyberchase | Kevin Mitnick | Crimes and eventually capture of a most wanted hacker | ~2012 | Joan |
| DRUCKER
the practice of management | Peter F Drucker | How to manage a business | ~2010 | Jim |
| Title |
|---|
| Regularly |
| Analog
Science Fiction Science Fact (mostly inherited back issues) |
| Amazing
Fantasy and Science Fiction (inherited back issues) |
| Model Railroader |
| Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette |
| Occasionally |
| Railway Model Craftsman |
| Classic Trains |
| Trains |
| Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| Used to Read Regularly |
| Toronto Life |
| The Walrus |
| Canadian Railway Modeller |
| Scientific American |
| Popular Science |
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