🐧 Chill out with cozy reads and cool movies!
You’ve worked hard this semester, so now it’s time to rest and recharge over the holidays, maybe chill out with some new fiction or settle down to watch a movie. Check out our booklists of newly added fiction and graphic novels for inspiration. Take advantage of our subscriptions to Kanopy, Criterion on Demand and ACF streaming to watch classic and popular movies for free.
When the Moon Hatched
The Book of Doors: A Novel
The Lincoln Highway: A Novel
Bewilderment: A Novel
Bride
Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again... Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her. If only he knew how right he was….
Everyone on this Train is a Suspect
When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn’t pan out. The program is a who’s who of crime writing royalty:the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal thriller writer, the literary writer, and the psychological suspense writer. But when one of us is murdered, the remaining authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime. Of course, we should also know how to commit one. How can you find a killer when all the suspects know how to get away with murder?
He Who Drowned the World
Homecoming
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. A phone call summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in hospital. An epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, how we protect the lies we tell, and what it means to come home.
Real Americans
In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than it provides answers. In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home. Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?
Shogun: Part 1
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
Kaiju (Number 8, Volume 4)
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Volume 3)
Delicious in Dungeon (Volume 1)
Lore Olympus (Volume 5)
Mashle: Magic and Muscles (Volume 1)
Can muscles crush magic?! In the magic realm, magic is everything—everyone can use it, and one’s skill determines their social status. Deep in the forest, oblivious to the ways of the world, lives Mash. Thanks to his daily training, he’s become a fitness god. When Mash is discovered, he has no choice but to enroll in magic school, where he must beat the competition without revealing his secret—he can’t use magic!
Nichijou: My Ordinary Life (Volume 1)
In this just-surreal enough take on the "school genre" of manga, a group of friends grapple with all sorts of unexpected situations in their daily lives as high schoolers. The gags, jokes, puns, and haiku keep this series off-kilter even as the cast grow and change. Check it out and meet the new ordinary.
Wind Breaker (Volume 4)
One Piece (Volume 2): Buggy the Clown
Sakamoto Days (Volume 1)
Kill some time with former hit man Taro Sakamoto! Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He’s now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?!
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost. From legendary TMNT co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, get ready for the final story of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles three decades in the making! What terrible events destroyed his family and left New York a crumbling, post-apocalyptic nightmare? All will be revealed in this climactic Turtle tale that sees longtime friends becoming enemies and new allies emerging in the most unexpected places. Can the surviving Turtle triumph?
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UnOrdinary (Volume 2)
Wonka
The Origin of Evil
Marmalade
Baron (Joe Keery) reminisces to his prison cell-mate Otis (Aldis Hodge) about his relationship with Marmalade (Camila Morrone) and their ill-fated bank robbery. Otis has a long history of prison breaks and the two hatch a plan to get out and reunite Baron with Marmalade.
Blue Beetle
An alien relic chooses Jaime Reyes to be its symbiotic host, bestowing the teenager with a suit of armor that's capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero Blue Beetle.
Perfect Days
Late Bloomers
Kung Fu Panda 4
Lies We Tell
In this period drama set in 1864 Ireland, newly-orphaned heiress Maud Ruthyn (Agnes O’Casey) becomes the ward of her notorious uncle, Silas Ruthyn (David Wilmot). Based on the classic gothic mystery novel “Uncle Silas” by Sheridan Le Fanu, the film follows Maud as she grapples with her father’s sudden death and the dark legacy she has inherited. Isolated in her family’s vast estate, she must decide whom to trust among her uncle, his children, and the enigmatic governess, Madame (Grainne Keenan). Directed by Lisa Mulcahy, the story explores Maud’s struggle for autonomy and survival amidst the secrets of her family’s past.
Barbie
A Haunting in Venice
Inside Out 2
Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.
✨ Highlights from the Fall Semester
🖼 Art Exhibit Coming Soon: "Cat's Cradle"
From December 19, 2024 to January 22, 2025, come take a look at the latest TREX art exhibit on the large purple wall at the front of the library. The Travelling Exhibition Program (TREX) by Alberta Foundation for the Arts provides opportunities for residents of Alberta to experience curated art exhibitions in schools, libraries and small galleries throughout the province.
"In the travelling exhibition CAT’S CRADLE work by Alberta artists Sondra Meszaros, Jane Ash Poitras, and Angeline Simon considers the process of photomontage, a collage technique involving the collecting, organizing, arranging and fixing of photographs and other media into new arrangements. While each artist’s photomontage practice is unique, the process allows each of them to luxuriate in the realm of questioning, play, and experiment. Merging media, themes, and timelines into new arrangements, the resulting artwork can be read as attempts to dissect and reveal hidden histories of identity, emotion, social norms, and other cultural-political and spiritual arenas of human life." - TREX Exhibition Statement.
✨ Fun Article
Check out Looking Back: SAIT staff say "sayonara" to the card catalogue system, an article from the SAIT Alumni LINK Magazine, featuring our Acquisitions and Cataloguing Technician, Terrie Findlay.
🎄 Holiday Opening Hours
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.