January (Member Choice)
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

In Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson, and journalist David Oliver Relin, recount the journey that led Mortenson from a failed 1993 attempt to climb Pakistan's K2, the world's second highest mountain, to successfully establish schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. By replacing guns with pencils, rhetoric with reading, Mortenson combines his unique background with his intimate knowledge of the third-world to promote peace with books, not bombs, and successfully bring education and hope to remote communities in central Asia.

Greg Mortenson will appear at the Salon at Toronto Reference Library on Wednesday January 13, 7 p.m. Tickets to this program are sold out. You can still watch the event via closed-circuit broadcast in the Toronto Reference Library's main floor atrium, free of charge. Book-signing after the event will be open to all.

also available in Large Print

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February
Heaven is Small by Emily Schultz

Heaven is Small is the funny and profound story of Gordon Small, a degree-clutching slacker and failed fiction writer. Gordon is also, we discover in the first paragraph, recently deceased -- "an event he failed to notice." But when Gordon finds himself suddenly employed at the Heaven Book Company, the world's largest romance publisher, he does notice that things are odd.

Special Event: Emily Schultz is our guest blogger for the month of February

March
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

Baking Cakes in Kilgali is set in modern-day Rwanda. Angel Tungaraza – mother, cake baker, keeper of secrets – is a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her.

Special Event: Live Online Chat with Karl Schroeder, Sci-Fi Writer-in-Residence. Wed., March 24, 7-8 pm.

April (Keep Toronto Reading One Book)
More by Austin Clarke

Be part of Toronto's One Book experience by reading Toronto Book Award winner More by Austin Clarke. More is an extraordinary story about oppression, redemption and hope. After Idora Morrison's deadbeat husband abandons her, she does her best to survive against difficult odds. At the news of her son's involvement in gang crime, Idora retreats into a vortex of memory, pain and disappointment that unravels as a riveting dissection of her life as a black immigrant to Toronto.