How to Share an Egg; The Wonder and Women Talking popular among Book Club sets

Administrator | Oct 03, 2025 | Comments 0

While interlibrary loan is on hold due to the postal strike, new book club sets are now available at the County of Prince Edward Public Library.

Interlibrary loan is an Ontario-wide network of libraries who share books. It’s impossible for any one public library to have every book ever published, but as we work together, we’re able to provide access to a wide range of titles.

Our many book clubs also rely on Interlibrary Loan to get multiple copies of a selected title in time to read and discuss it together. These books and other library materials arrive to us by mail, which means that with Canada Post workers on strike (at the time of writing), Interlibrary Loan is temporarily not available. If you have particular titles to request, please hold them until the service is once again available.

In the meantime, book clubs are invited to review the list of book club sets available. These are sets of 10-12 copies of a single title which can be browsed at the Picton Branch Library. On request, sets can also be sent to any branch of the library.

A recently added set, How to Share an Egg by Bonny Reichert has been very popular since the author joined us at the County Library Authors Festival this spring.

A moving culinary memoir about the relationship between food and family–and sustenance and survival–from a chef, award-winning Canadian journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor. When you’re raised by someone who once survived on potato peels and coffee grounds, you develop a pretty healthy respect for food. Bonny Reichert avoided everything to do with the Holocaust until she found herself, in midlife, suddenly typing those words into an article she was writing. The book is her way of telling her father’s story through food and through her experience trying to write about it.

If you saw Emma Donogue when she was in Prince Edward County for the County Adaptation Film Fest, you might be interested in borrowing the book club set of her title The Wonder.

A village in 1850s Ireland is mystified by what appears to be a miracle–a little girl seems to be thriving after months without food. An English nurse and an international journalist try to get to the root of why the child may actually be the victim of murder in this psychological thriller.

Women Talking, by Miriam Toews, is also available as a book club set. This novel, which was adapted into a film, is set over 48 hours in a remote Mennonite community, as women in the community come together to reckon with real assaults, deciding together how to go forward.