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Greetings from the Library April 2022
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April 28, 2022 7:00 p.m. Join us for an evening with Kate Quinn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code, as she gives us an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper in The Diamond Eye. Based on a true story. Email us to get the Zoom access code sent to you the day before the event. A reminder that your camera and mic are automatically disabled in our Zoom author events but that you can interact with the author using the Q&A feature of Zoom. Join us! Books with signed bookplate will be available for purchase. $15.
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Should you read it? Find out what this reviewer thinks. This book has been around for a few years already, and has been awarded many accolades, most recently being shortlisted for Canada Reads 2022. Oftentimes novels whose covers are plastered with many awards aren't ones that I gravitate towards, fearing that they'll be too...artsy.
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We get by with a little help from our FriendsHave you got a bit of spare time to share? Consider joining our awesome group of volunteer Friends of the Library group! It's a wonderful way to be involved in the community and to support the library, too. Remember the summer silent auction at the library, and recently online? That's the Friends of the Library that put that on for us all! Our Muskoka Lakes Public Library Friends group was first established to help kick start the building of the 'new' library in the township which was built in Port Carling and officially opened in 2001. The group's membership has ebbed and flowed over the years since it's inception but what has never changed is the support that they give to Muskoka Lakes Public Libraries. We owe them a big debt of gratitude. At this time, we'd like to give a shout out to one long standing member, Peter Hill, who has recently 'retired' from the Friends group. Peter has served the community in many ways including through the Friends of the Library group which he joined in 2015, filling a vacancy left by his wife, Lindsay.
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Indoor Walking For the month of April 2022 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., we have the use of the Bala Community Centre at 1008 Maple Avenue, for indoor walking.Bring your clean shoes and enjoy the indoor, flat, dry surface to get a bit of exercise no matter the weather! Drop in, no registration necessary. Free!
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The Whisper on the Night Wind : the true history of a wilderness legend by Adam ShoaltsSpellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remote Mealy Mountains in central Labrador. Today it is an abandoned ghost town, almost all trace of it swallowed up by dark spruce woods that cloak millions of acres. In the early 1900s, this isolated little settlement was the scene of an extraordinary haunting by large creatures none could identify. Strange tracks were found in the woods. Unearthly cries were heard in the night. Sled dogs went missing. Children reported being stalked by a terrifying grinning animal. Families slept with cabin doors barred and axes and guns at their bedsides. Tales of things that go bump in the night are part of the folklore of the wilderness, told and retold around countless campfires down through the ages. Most are easily dismissed by skeptics. But what happened at Traverspine a hundred years ago was different. The eye-witness accounts were detailed, and those who reported them included no less than three medical doctors and a wildlife biologist. Something really did emerge from the wilderness to haunt the little settlement of Traverspine. Adam Shoalts, decorated modern-day explorer and an expert on wilderness folklore, picks up the trail from a century ago and sets off into the Labrador wild to investigate the tale. It is a spine-tingling adventure, straight from a land steeped in legends and lore, where Vikings wandered a thousand years ago and wolves and bears still roam free. In delving into the dark corners of Canada's wild,The Whisper on the Night Wind combines folklore, history, and adventure into a fascinating saga of exploration.
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Amnesty International Book Club selection 2022 March/April"It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violent timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple syrup camp squat when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: thrumming a steady, silent pulse beneath Christie's effortless sentences and working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. A shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood and blood--and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light"
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Heard It in a Love Song by Tracey Garvis Graves"Layla Hilding is thirty-five and recently divorced. Struggling to break free from the past-her glory days as the lead singer in a band and a ten-year marriage to a man who never put her first-Layla's newly found independence feels a lot like loneliness. Then there's Josh, the single dad whose daughter attends the elementary school where Layla teaches music. Recently separated, he's still processing the end of his twenty-year marriage to his high school sweetheart. He chats with Layla every morning at school and finds himself thinking about her more and more. Equally cautious and confused about dating in a world that favors apps over meeting organically, Layla and Josh decide to be friends with the potential for something more. Sounds sensible and way too simple-but when two people are on the rebound, is it heartbreak or happiness that's a love song away?"
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The Cage : a novel by Bonnie KistlerTwo women—co-workers at an international fashion conglomerate—enter an elevator to take them down from the 30th floor, but only one woman is alive when the doors open in the lobby.
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The White Girl : a novel by Tony Birch'A profound allegory of good and evil, and a deep exploration of human interaction, black and white, alternately beautiful and tender, cruel and unsettling.'-Guardian Australia's leading indigenous storyteller makes his American debut with this immersive and deeply resonant novel, set in the 1960s, that explores the lengths we'll go to save the people we love-an unforgettable story of one native Australian family and the racist government that threatens to separate them. Odette Brown has lived her entire life on the fringes of Deane, a small Australian country town. Dark secrets simmer beneath the surface of Deane-secrets that could explain why Odette's daughter, Lila, left her one-year-old daughter, Sissy, and never came back, or why Sissy has white skin when her family is Aboriginal. For thirteen years, Odette has quietly raised her granddaughter without drawing notice from welfare authorities who remove fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. But the arrival of a new policeman with cruel eyes and a rigid by-the-book attitude throws the Brown women's lives off-kilter. It will take all of Odette's courage and cunning to save Sissy from the authorities, and maybe even lead her to find her daughter. Bolstered by love, smarts, and the strength of their ancestors, Odette and Sissy are an indomitable force, handling threats to their family and their own identities with grace and ingenuity, while never losing hope for themselves and their future. In The White Girl, Miles Franklin Award-nominated author Tony Birch illuminates Australia's devastating post-colonial past-notably the government's racist policy of separating Indigenous children from their families, known today as the Stolen Generations-and introduces a tight-knit group of charming, inspiring characters who remind us of our shared humanity, and that kindness, hope, and love have no limits.
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