Atwater Library and Computer Centre

Atwater Library and Computer Centre The Atwater Library and Computer Centre is a private, non-profit community library, open to the public.

We offer a host of programming and services, including access to books and reference material, innovative digital literacy programs and computer courses, educational presentations and performances, clubs and meeting space for community groups.

THURSDAY, June 4 at 12:30 pm our Lunchtime Series features author MARK ABLEY discussing his new book NUMB with writer Br...
05/29/2026

THURSDAY, June 4 at 12:30 pm our Lunchtime Series features author MARK ABLEY discussing his new book NUMB with writer Bryan Demchinsky.

In his book, Mark Abley explores the idea of numbness in the context of today’s avalanche of shocking, frightening and depressing news.

The event is hybrid and it’s taking place with financial assistance from the Canada Council through The Writers’ Union of Canada.

For in-person attendance, there’s no registration process. It's first come, first seated. Atwater Library’s Adair Auditorium (accessible by elevator).

Publisher Livres Baraka Inc. will be selling copies of the book in our Auditorium.

To REGISTER for the Zoom link, please fill out and submit the online registration form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-hTSkxnCAqPKSdBigc0lMPoJWz89e6drLlv2CcWUoCc/viewform?edit_requested=true

Have a look at these additions to our library collections. FICTION — Rabih Alameddine’s darkly funny account of several ...
05/25/2026

Have a look at these additions to our library collections.

FICTION
— Rabih Alameddine’s darkly funny account of several generations of a Lebanese family; winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction
— a novel about poetry by Scottish poet Sally Evans; the pick for the June 14th session of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal book club
— William Boyd’s well-crafted 2025 international espionage book set in 1963 in which a travel writer cm amateur spy is the hapless hero
— Daniyal Mueenuddin’s vibrant epic about Pakistani society, hailed by The Guardian’s reviewer as “set to be a standout novel of 2026”

NONFICTION
— popular and witty classicist Mary Beard’s latest book on the value of knowing about ancient Greece and Rome, read by the author
— The Broad (Los Angeles) museum’s catalogue for an exhibition of Keith Haring’s exuberant and colourful art by curator Sarah Loyer

DVDs
— Ari Aster’s 2025 neo-Western thriller examining turmoil in a New Mexico town during COVID and the George Floyd protests
— Season 2 of the sci-fi comedy-drama TV series basic on a comics series about an extraterrestrial who crash-lands in Colorado

Link for our catalogue:

https://atwater.insigniails.com/Library/Home

Members can access our eBooks and audiobooks any time at all:

https://atwaterlibrary.overdrive.com/

For information and help:

514-935-7344

[email protected]

Maison Dunham House is our Lunchtime Series topic on THURSDAY, May 28 at 12:30 pm. Patricia Goldman, the Montreal-based ...
05/21/2026

Maison Dunham House is our Lunchtime Series topic on THURSDAY, May 28 at 12:30 pm.

Patricia Goldman, the Montreal-based Director of Admissions and Outreach for Dunham House, is our guest speaker.

Dunham House, located in Dunham in the Eastern Townships, is Quebec’s only English-language residential treatment centre specializing in addiction and concurrent mental health disorders.

There's no registration process for in-person attendance. It's first come, first seated. Atwater Library’s Adair Auditorium (accessible by elevator).

To REGISTER for the Zoom link, please fill out and submit the online registration form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-hTSkxnCAqPKSdBigc0lMPoJWz89e6drLlv2CcWUoCc/viewform?edit_requested=true

Allow yourself to be carried away by these recent additions to the Atwater Library’s collections. FICTION — a perceptive...
05/19/2026

Allow yourself to be carried away by these recent additions to the Atwater Library’s collections.

FICTION
— a perceptive debut by Scott Broker about two long-married q***r men on vacation in a tourist town struggling to navigate life and loss
— immersive historical fiction by Jo Harkin involving conspiracies to unseat King Henry VII of England in the late 15th century
— Canadian Yann Martel’s brilliant new book about a classicist with marital woes discovering a previously unknown account of the Trojan War
— the audiobook of Sayaka Murata’s disturbing tale of an abused Japanese woman trying to survive outside cultural norms; translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, read by Nancy Wu
— the new novel with a new cast of characters from the sublime Elizabeth Strout, creator of Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton

NONFICTION
— Concordia University History Professor Steven High’s analysis of the failures of Bob Rae’s 1990-1995 NDP Ontario government
— Patrick Radden Keefe spellbinding account of a 19-year-old Londoner’s criminal double life and death, and his bereaved parents’ search for the truth

DVD
— the 2025 psychological thriller movie based on Freida McFadden’s bestselling novel, starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried

Link for our catalogue:

https://atwater.insigniails.com/Library/Home

Members can access our eBooks and audiobooks any time at all:

https://atwaterlibrary.overdrive.com/

For information and help:

514-935-7344

[email protected]

These recent additions to the Atwater Library’s collections offer discoveries and delights! FICTION — Tara Gereaux’s n...
05/11/2026

These recent additions to the Atwater Library’s collections offer discoveries and delights!

FICTION
— Tara Gereaux’s novel about a 1940s Saskatchewan Métis woman who “passes” as white and middle-class but at mid-life, reconnects with her Indigenous heritage and finds fulfillment in beadwork
— an enchanting book by Vancouver Island poet and novelist Marilyn Bowering about a young woman on the BC coast coming to terms with her place in the chain of civilization
— Canadian journalist and novelist Karma Brown’s first foray into horror: in the near-future, a pregnant art conservator is confronted by weird happenings apparently emanating from a painting
— the sheep detective story by Leonie Swann that was adapted into a movie with Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson (and flocks of sheep) now playing at the Forum; translated from German by Anthea Bell

NONFICTION
— a positive exploration of tasty non-meat proteins by Bruce Briedrich, founder of the Good Food Institute
— Terry Mosher’s terrific book of cartoons and reminiscences of the 1976 Montreal Olympics and Mayor Jean Drapeau

DVDs
— the 2024 sci-fi TV series set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe 10,000 years before the movies directed by Denis Villeneuve
— Chloé Zhao’s award-winning 2025 film starring Jessie Buckley, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s historical novel about Agnes Hathaway and William Shakespeare grieving the death of their young son

Link for our catalogue:

https://atwater.insigniails.com/Library/Home

Members can access our eBooks and audiobooks any time at all:

https://atwaterlibrary.overdrive.com/

For information and help:

514-935-7344

[email protected]

THURSDAY, May 14 at 12:30 pm at the Atwater Library’s Adair Auditorium and online by Zoom, GUY REX RODGERS is giving a p...
05/08/2026

THURSDAY, May 14 at 12:30 pm at the Atwater Library’s Adair Auditorium and online by Zoom,

GUY REX RODGERS is giving a presentation on his new book about the English-speaking people of Quebec:

What We Choose To Forget: A Quebec Story of Unshared Memories

https://www.whatwechoose.ca/the-book

The book talk is FREE and everyone is welcome.

There's no registration process for in-person attendance. It's first come, first seated. Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Ave. at Tupper St.

To REGISTER for the Zoom link, please fill out and submit the online registration form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-hTSkxnCAqPKSdBigc0lMPoJWz89e6drLlv2CcWUoCc/viewform?edit_requested=true

Financial educator LYNN BENNETT is conducting two useful Financial Literacy information sessions ONLINE this month.– MUT...
05/04/2026

Financial educator LYNN BENNETT is conducting two useful Financial Literacy information sessions ONLINE this month.

– MUTUAL FUNDS and EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS (ETFs) : Wednesday, May 6 – 2:00 to 3:30 pm

– INCOME in RETIREMENT : Wednesday, May 20 – 2:00 to 3:30 pm

Presentation with slides followed by Q&A.

Everyone is welcome.

The Atwater Library Financial Literacy Program is funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage.

To register for the Zoom link, please send an email to:

[email protected].

Here’s a list of books and DVDs our librarians added to our collections in the past week. Hope you’re tempted to check t...
05/04/2026

Here’s a list of books and DVDs our librarians added to our collections in the past week. Hope you’re tempted to check them out!

FICTION
— a feminist reimagining of the myth of Medusa by the gifted writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes
— the 24th instalment of Alexander McCall Smith’s popular series centred on a kind woman who runs a detective agency in Botswana
— James Rollins’s new high-octane thriller set in present-day Europe but rooted in ancient myths and practices
— from award-winning Australian author Charlotte Wood, “an exquisite, wrenching novel of leaving your life behind” — NYT Book Review

NONFICTION
— Pierre-Olivier Ouellet’s bio of Jewish artist William Raphael (1833-1914), tracing his early life in Prussia, his prolific career in Montreal and his legacy
— forestry ecologist Suzanne Simard’s new book in which she calls for more than science to advance conservation and restoration

DVDs
— Season 1 of the British TV series adapted from Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley crime novels
— Josh Safdie’s Oscar-nominated 2025 movie starring Timothée Chalamet as a hustling NYC professional table tennis player in the early 1950s

Link for our catalogue:

https://atwater.insigniails.com/Library/Home

Members can access our eBooks and audiobooks any time at all:

https://atwaterlibrary.overdrive.com/

For information and help:

514-935-7344

[email protected]

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1200 Atwater Avenue
Westmount, QC
H3Z1X4

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 8pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 8pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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