Farewell!

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Our owner has Retired

Our store is now closed

Thanks for 34 wonderful years selling books in Cambridge

After 34 years selling books in Cambridge, John has decided to retire. Anne, John, Kelly, and all the staff, would like to express their appreciation to all their loyal customers and thank everyone for their good wishes for this change in our lives.

One Book, One Community Waterloo Region 2019

The 2019 One Book, One Community selection is The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman. Learn about the author, the book, events, and more at www.oboc.ca

In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility—much like Maggie Hughes’ parents. Maggie’s English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don’t include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie’s heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life ‘back on track’.

Elodie is raised in Quebec’s impoverished orphanage system. It’s a precarious enough existence that takes a tragic turn when Elodie, along with thousands of other orphans in Quebec, is declared mentally ill as the result of a new law that provides more funding to psychiatric hospitals than to orphanages. Bright and determined, Elodie withstands abysmal treatment at the nuns’ hands, finally earning her freedom at seventeen, when she is thrust into an alien, often unnerving world.

Maggie, married to a businessman eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long-lost daughter, finally reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both.