Killers of the Flower Moon was one of the movies nominated for Best Picture at the most recent Academy Awards. It was based on a book of the same name by David Grann which explores and …

In her creative non-fiction book The Matryoshka Memoirs, Sasha Colby tells the story of her grandmother Irina, a young Ukrainian school teacher abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera …

Some Bethel members have been requesting the addition of more large print books to the library’s collection. Three have been added recently. The Little Liar, by Mitch Albom, is a Holocaust story about…

The Gospel of Trees is Apricot Irving’s memoir of growing up on a missionary compound in Haiti. The portrait of her family is honest and compelling. We learn about her father’s passionate work …

Three books about shepherds will be referred to in the worship service this morning. All are available for check out in the Bethel Library. The Shepherd’s Life, by James Rebanks, traces the …

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch is a dystopian saga that takes place in Ireland and provides a frightening look at what can happen when a government with authoritarian tendencies is elected…

You may have seen the popular recent movie The Boys in the Boat, which tells the story of a team of rowers from the United States who head to the Olympics in Nazi Germany in 1936. The movie is …

Carol Penner has just published a beautiful book of meditations called Unburdened. Each of the daily reflections it contains invite readers to hear God’s call to move away from brokenness and…

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride, is a New York Times bestseller set in a dilapidated Pennsylvania neighbourhood called Chicken Hill. It is home to immigrant J…

Oscar-winning movie director Sarah Polley is perhaps best known as the child star in the television series “Road to Avonlea.” There are six essays in her book Run Towards the Danger, and each looks…

Cecil Rosner is the recently retired executive producer of the CBC news program “The Fifth Estate.” He teaches journalism at both the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. In his latest…

Two new books for school-age kids that have been added to the Bethel Library are The Umbrella House by Colleen Nelson, and the graphic novel Silver Wing by Kenneth Oppel. Nelson’s book …

In his collection of short stories titled Pinching Zwieback, Manitoba author Mitch Toews writes about a place called Hartplatz, a small Mennonite community not unlike Steinbach, where Toews grew up…

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is a graphic novel by Kate Beaton that won the 2023 Canada Reads contest. It tells the author’s personal story of her move from Cape Breton Island to Alberta…

Lawrence Klippenstein was a Manitoba historian with a doctoral degree in Russian Mennonite history. He worked for more than two decades as an archivist for MC Canada. His autobiography…

Lisa Sharon Harper spent three decades researching ten generations of her family’s history to write her book Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World and How to Repair It All…

In the book Stuck Together, author J. Nelson Kraybill draws from Scripture, his own life journey, and from the witness of others to show how even small steps of reconciliation can have…

Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus, is about a brilliant chemist, single mother and cooking show hostess who is on a crusade to empower women. Plot-driven and character-rich…

Margaret Atwood is perhaps Canada’s most celebrated and internationally recognized author. Her latest book is a collection of short stories, titled Old Babes in the Wood. Atwood’s stories are…

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish is the author of the book I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey. In January of 2009, his three daughters and his niece were killed when Israeli shells hit their home in Gaza…