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Hinton Municipal Library and Archives Newsletter open doors open books open minds
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Library Landscaping Cleanup
Saturday, June 4th & 18th, Event Time
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Do you have a green thumb and like to play in the dirt? We are looking for volunteers to help with our spring cleanup and annual flower planting.
Please call Pam at 780-865-6054 if you are interested in volunteering.
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Summer Reading Programs schedule is coming up soon! Check out our website for details! Registration starts Monday, June 13th!
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Have you been missing the art exhibits while our walls were getting painted? So have we... Check out our new Art Exhibit! Come by the Library between May 20th and June 13th to see "Block Prints" by Margaret Shelton (1915–1984) a Canadian artist who lived most of her life in Alberta. This exhibit is part of the Travelling Exhibition Program (TREX) put together by the Art Gallery of Alberta.
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Baby and Toddler Playdate! Bring your baby and/or toddler and join us on Saturday, June 11th @ 2 pm for sensory play with playdough, shakers, and more at the Library!
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From the Archives Hinton Herald April 16, 1975 Did you know that you can view historical Hinton Newspapers @ your archives? We have copies of Hinton Newspapers from 1955 to last week at the Hinton Coal Branch Archives! Ask archives staff to help you find and view the dates you're interested in.
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Naked money : a revealing look at what it is and why it matters
by Charles J Wheelan
The best-selling author of Naked Statistics and Naked Economics explores the colorful world of money and banking to answer such questions as how money creation is used to counter financial crises, why the shared European currency has caused so much trouble and how Bitcoin will impact the future.
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Morgue : a life in death
by Vincent J. M. Di Maio
An award-winning writer and a renowned pathologist describe the most famous and interesting cases of the doctor's career, including the exhuming of Lee Harvey Oswald and the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
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The first signs : my quest to unlock the mysteries of the world's oldest symbols
by Genevieve Von Petzinger
A renowned archaeologist takes readers on an Indiana Jones-esque adventure from the open-air rock art sites of northern Portugal to a remote cave in Spain as she cracks the code on the first form of graphic communication, in a significant work of evolutionary ancestry that is part travel journal, part popular science and part personal narrative.
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A dream of miracles : an Amish wonders novel
by Ruth Reid
Widow Mattie Diener's son is terribly sick, and she doesn't know why, but when she takes him to the local hospital and finds a city doctor filling in for the usual physician, the doctor accuses Mattie of child abuse because of the boy's mysterious symptoms. Original.
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Katherine of Aragon, the true queen
by Alison Weir
A first entry in a series centering on the six wives of Henry VIII begins with young Katherine of Aragon, who after being widowed from the future King of England marries his brother and shares a happy marriage that is overshadowed by her failure to bear a healthy son and the king's growing obsession with another woman. By the best-selling author of The Marriage Game.
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The Letter
by Kathryn Hughes
The No. 1 Kindle bestseller and word-of-mouth sensation guaranteed to break your heart. If you love Lesley Pearse and Susan Lewis, you will love Kathryn Hughes.
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