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Pub Night Sold Out Friday March 20, 6:30 - 10:30 Our pub trivia night sold out in 2 1/2 hours! Thank you to everyone who purchased a ticket. See you on the 20th with a full wallet! This is a fundraiser folks! If you would like to donate a raffle item for this event, please contact the library.
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Our Math Tutor is Back! Free Math Tutoring on Fridays in March, 3:30 - 5pm Equations and formulas getting the best of you? Head on down to the library for assistance with any level of math from primary to college level. Tutoring by Mr. Chapman.
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Borrow an Electric Guitar Yep, you heard that right. Borrow a guitar from the library. Thanks to a donation, we have an electric guitar to loan. Also available: an amp and music books; everything you need to start living your RocKSTaR dreams!
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Pine Cone Bird Feeder
Thursday, March 26, 3:30 - 4:40pm
Hey kids, treat our local birds this month! Join Brandi Gray to make them a delicious snack. You may stop by for this quick craft anytime between 3:30 and 4:30 but you must register in advance.
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Mandala Design with Brenda
Wednesday, March 18, 7 - 8:30pm
"Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life." - Pema Chodron.
From the sanskrit word for circle, a mandala is a design with repeating shapes. This drawing activity is centering and relaxing. Create your own mandala with instruction by Brenda DeBock. No artisitic ability needed. Some supplies required, please inquire upon registration.
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Using Natural Light in Photographs
Thursday, March 12, 7pm
Lighting is a key factor in creating a successful image. Drop in and learn how you can change the mood of your photo by using natural light in different ways.
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Mother Goose
Tuesday, March 3, 10:30am - 12pm
Have a squealing good time at this Parent Link program for children ages 0-6! Share friendship, fun, rhymes, stories and songs. Provided in partnership with Mayerthorpe Parent Link & FCSS. Snack provided.What's in it for them?
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Death Cafe Tuesday, March 31, 6pm Join us to discuss anything you want to in relation to death and dying, life and living. This is a friendly conversation group but may not be suitable if you are grieving or feel vulnerable about death. We will be discussing the book, Will my Cat Eat my Eyeballs - Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty.
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More Than Genealogy
Wednesdays, 10am - 12pm
Perk up your morning with this sociable group. Join us for light refreshments and fun banter. Get one on one time with a technology savvy volunteer and genealogy techniques and tips.
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Drop in Crochet
Tuesdays, 5 - 6pm
Learn how to crochet, start a new project or have your questions answered. Join fellow fibre fanatics! Instructed by crochet superstar, Sasha Stang.
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Coffee & Coloring for Adults
Monday, March 30, 10:30am - 12pm
Who says coloring is just for kids? Grown ups invited to enjoy coffee, conversations and crayons. Drop in
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Cardboard Construction
Thursday, March 5, 3:30 - 4:40pm
Make a cardboard castle with a working drawbridge using some teamwork, creativity and Make-Do tools and fasteners. Suitable for kids ages 7 and up. Drop in.
Looking for a way to entertain the kids or a fun team building activity for the adults? Borrow a Make-Do set from the library. Excellent for birthday parties or bridal showers!
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Basement Bookers
Thursday, March 26, 7pm
We call it a book club, but it's really just a good time! Plan to drop in and discuss Requiem, by Frances Itani. If you would like to borrow a copy, we can hook you up!
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Register online now by clicking the button or register in person or call the Library at 780-786-2404. (It is not necessary to register for drop in programs)
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Violet Shrink
by Christine Baldacchino
Violet Shrink doesn’t like parties. Or bashes, or gatherings. Lots of people and lots of noise make Violet’s tummy ache and her hands sweat. She would much rather spend time on her own, watching the birds in her backyard, reading comics or listening to music through her purple headphones. The problem is that the whole Shrink family loves parties with loud music and games and dancing.
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The Sea Glass Cottage
by RaeAnne Thayne
The life Olivia Harper always dreamed of isn’t so dreamy these days. The 16-hour work days are unfulfilling and so are things with her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when she hears that her estranged mother, Juliet, has been seriously injured in a car accident, Liv has no choice but to pack up her life and head home to beautiful Cape Sanctuary on the Northern California coast.
It’s just for a few months—that’s what Liv keeps telling herself. But the closer she gets to Cape Sanctuary, the painful memories start flooding back: Natalie, her vibrant, passionate older sister who downward-spiraled into addiction. The fights with her mother who enabled her sister at every turn. The overdose that took Natalie, leaving her now-teenaged daughter, Caitlin, an orphan.
As Liv tries to balance her own needs with those of her injured mother and an obstinate, resentful fifteen-year-old, it becomes clear that all three Harper women have been keeping heartbreaking secrets from one another. And as those secrets are revealed, Liv, Juliet, and Caitlin will see that it’s never too late—or too early—to heal family wounds and find forgiveness.
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The Keto Comfort Food Diet
by Rocco DiSpirito
The #1 New York Times bestselling author and celebrity chef shows you how to lose weight by eating gourmet, keto versions of the comfort foods you love. Rocco DiSpirito has made a career out of transforming people's lives without sacrificing taste. Now, Rocco tackles the ketogenic diet with the most effective and delicious version of the diet to date. Using a four-tier program that can deliver up to a pound a day of weight loss, the diet incorporates meal plans and more than eighty of America's favorite comfort food recipes made over to adhere to keto diet guidelines. You can lose the weight eating the foods you love.
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The Gift of Forgiveness
by Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt
Written with grace and understanding and based on more than twenty in-depth interviews and stories as well as personal reflections from Schwarzenegger Pratt herself, The Gift of Forgiveness is about one of the most difficult challenges in life--learning to forgive. Here, Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt shows us what we can learn from those who have struggled with forgiveness, some still struggling, and others who have been able to forgive what might seem truly unforgivable.
The book features experiences from those well-known and unknown, including Elizabeth Smart, who learned to forgive her captors; Sue Klebold, whose son, Dylan, was one of the Columbine shooters, learning empathy and how to forgive herself; Chris Williams, who forgave the drunken teenager who killed his wife and child; and of course Schwarzenegger Pratt's own challenges and path to forgiveness in her own life. All provide different journeys to forgiveness and the process--sometimes slow and thorny, sometimes almost instantaneous--by which they learned to forgive and let go.
The Gift of Forgiveness is a perfect blend of personal insights, powerful quotations, and hard-won wisdom for those seeking a way to live with greater acceptance, grace, and peace.
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Cross Her Heart
by Melinda Leigh
A homicide detective’s violent family history repeats itself in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of murder, secrets, and retribution. For more than twenty-five years, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert has tucked away the nightmarish childhood memories of her parents’ murder-suicide…Until her younger sister, Erin, is killed in a crime that echoes that tragic night: innocent witnesses and a stormy marriage that ended in gunfire. There’s just one chilling difference. Erin’s husband, Justin, has vanished.
Bree knows how explosive the line between love and hate can be, yet the evidence against her troubled brother-in-law isn’t adding up. Teaming up with Justin’s old friend, former sheriff’s investigator and K-9 handler Matt Flynn, Bree vows to uncover the secrets of her sister’s life and death, as she promised Erin’s children. But as her investigation unfolds, the danger hits close to home. Once again, Bree’s family is caught in a death grip. And this time, it could be fatal for her.
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Mayerthorpe Public Library
Box 810, 4911 52 Street
Mayerthorpe, Alberta T0E 1N0
(780) 786 2404
http://www.mayerthorpelibrary.ab.ca
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