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January 2023 Muskoka Lakes Public Library Newsletter |
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Coffee Break
Please join us for a casual meet up in the library from 10:30 to 11:30 on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. We'll put the tea kettle on, brew a pot or two of coffee, and set out some treats. Let's enjoy conversation and comaraderie as we start a new year! All welcome! |
Book Club
Join us the on second Wednesday of the month at 1:00 p.m. at the Port Carling branch for thought-provoking conversation about the books of the month. Some of you only read fiction. Some prefer non-fiction so, each month, a fiction title and a non-fiction title will be discussed. Not to worry if you aren't able to read both books. Come out anyway and hear about the thoughts and opinions about each of the books! New members are always welcome! |
Friday Games Interested in playing with others in the comfort of the library? Adults, please join us at 1:00 p.m. on Fridays on the lower level of the Port Carling branch library. Mahjongg, Euchre, Scrabble, and other card and board games of interest are played in the Elizabeth H. Glen Heritage Room at the Port Carling branch library in a non-competitive format. For experienced players and those who would like to learn the games. Come solo, with a partner, or team up once here. 705-765-5650 muskokalakes@pclib.ca |
Story Time Pre-school babies and tots, born 2019-2023, and their caregivers are invited to story time on Wednesday mornings. No food is permitted during this time at the library, please. No pre-registration required. Caregivers are required to have a Muskoka Lakes Public Library card in good standing. Please monitor your child's health and remain at home if they are unwell with fever, coughing, runny nose, etc. 10:30 - 11:00 Arrive to free play in the activity room or outside, weather permitting. 11:00 - 11:30 The circle time portion of story time is for active listening, and engagement, for caregivers and the children. |
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Are you up for it?
The reading for this year is Read Around the World! Printed tracking sheets are available at the library or print your own at home! Happy reading travels! |
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The White Hare
by Jane Johnson
"In the far west of Cornwall lies the White Valley, which cuts deeply through bluebell woods down to the sea at White Cove. The valley has a long and bloody history, laced with folklore, and in it sits a house above the beach that has lain neglected since the war. It comes with a reputation and a strange atmosphere, which is why mother and daughter Magdalena and Mila manage to acquire it so cheaply in the fateful summer of 1954. Magda has grand plans to restore the house to its former glory as a venue for glittering parties, where the rich and celebrated gathered for cocktails and for bracing walks along the coast. Her grown daughter, Mila, just wants to escape the scandal in her past and make a safe and happy home for her little girl, Janey, a solitary,precocious child blessed with a vivid imagination, much of which she pours into stories about her magical plush toy, Rabbit. But Janey's rabbit isn't the only magical being around. Legend has it that an enchanted white hare may be seen running through the woods. Is it an ill omen or a blessing? As Mila, her mother, and her young daughter adjust to life in this mysterious place, they will have to reckon with their own pasts and with the secrets that have been haunting the White Valley for decades"
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Four for Fogo Island
by Kevin Major
When Sebastian and Mae arrive at a fabric shop, they discover the owner in a back room, lying in a pool of blood, having been stabbed with a pair of antique quilting scissors. This propels the couple along a sequence of occasionally bizarre investigative paths to track down the killer. Kevin Major is a writer from Newfoundland and this is the fourth in the Sebastian Synard mystery series.
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Precious Little
by Camille Fouillard
One cold February morning in 1992, Anna receives a phone call, a request to work with the Utshimassiu Innu in Labrador to organize a people's inquiry, a self-examination into a house fire that killed six children. Eager to escape a complicated relationship and afraid to face the grief of losing her father, Anna accepts the invitation. She catches a plane, painfully aware that she doesn't have a clue what a people's inquiry might look like, and heads for Nitassinan. This world, with its own language and spirits, is where she's told children die because people do not care for the caribou bones. It is a world where an inquiry becomes a gathering of voices. As the community tells its story-- elders, men, women, and children-- Anna learns to listen deeply to their words, to the land, to the past and the present.
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Thing About Pam :
Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria, follows the stunning twists and turns of this murder case. DVD miniseries.
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