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November 2022 MLPL Newsletter |
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Coffee Break with Author J. Patrick Boyer
We have an added bonus for you Tuesday, November 1, 2022. Join us! in the activity room at the Port Carling branch. Come at 10:30 a.m. for coffee, tea, treats, and camaraderie and then enjoy the author talk at 11:00 a.m. No registration required. |
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Creative Kids Art ClubThrough guided art activities, and using a variety of mediums, children aged 9+ are invited to get creative on Saturday mornings at the library in Port Carling. Participants are required to register via phone or email for each session by 4:00 p.m. the previous Wednesday and must have a family member with a in good standing. 705-765-5650. Cost: $0 Our first project will be to create a bat painting! |
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Family Lego Club Families, join other Lego fans at the Port Carling branch Thursdays from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The build challenge will be followed by an opportunity for young participants to talk about their creation to their peers. For families with children ages 4-12. Free pizza dinner in the activity room, funded by the Friends of the Library, following the build time. Limited space. Register by 4:00 p.m. Wednesday. There will be a waitlist so it is imperative for registrants to phone or email if you have signed up but cannot attend. We will not accept messages about events via social media. 705-765-5650 Please do not attend library programs if you or your child are not well.
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Book Club
Join us at 1:00 pm. at the Port Carling branch on the second Wednesday of the month for thought-provoking conversation about the books of the month. Some of you only read fiction. Some prefer non-fiction so, each month, one of each will be discussed but do not worry if you aren't able to read both books, you can come to hear what others thought about each of the books! New members are always welcome! |
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The Mitten Tree
Some very generous, local knitters have donated handknit hats, socks, and mittens to the library for distribution to the community. They are available free of charge at the Port Carling branch. What a great community in which we live! |
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The Attic Child : a novel
by Lola Jaye
"Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn't bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington. As the years pass, he desperately clings on to memories of his family in Africa, even as he struggles to remember his mother's face, and sometimes his real name . . . 1974: Lowra, a young orphan girl born into wealth and privilege whose fortunes have now changed, finds herself trapped in the same attic. Searching for a ray of light in the darkness of the attic, Lowra finds under the floorboards an old-fashioned pen, a porcelain doll, a beaded necklace, and a message carved on the wall, written in an unidentifiable language. Providing comfort for her when all hope is lost, these clues will lead her to uncover the secrets of the attic"
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The Paris Bookseller
by Kerri Maher
Opening her Shakespeare and Company bookstore on a quiet street in 1919 Paris, American Sylvia Beach finds her business becoming a second home for some of the most important writers of the Lost Generation until the Depression causes her to question her promise to honor the life-changing impact of books.
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The Wild Life
by David Gordon
"Expulsed Harvard student and ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe that it turned him to drug and alcohol abuse, Joe Brody is getting his life back together, living with his grandmother in Queens and taking what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his night reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio Caprisi, now head of New York's Italian Mafia, relies on Joe's extra-legal expertise when things get particularly nasty on the streets -- where, in an agreement between Gio and the rest of the city's biggest crime syndicates, it's understood that Joe is the sheriff for an industry that doesn't call the cops. Most recently, New York's criminal underworld has been shaken by the disappearance of its most successful and desirable call girls, vanishing one by one from the brothels where they're employed. As a pattern emerges, what might otherwise appear to be a choice to pursue a new life comes to resemble something more troublesome -- the work of a serial kidnapper -- and when a woman turns up dead, the hunt for the predator behind it all becomes even more urgent. To find the killer, Joe will have to plunge into the seediest fringes of Manhattan and its surrounding boroughs, populated with memorable characters that add humor and heart to this fast-paced caper. There is still sleaze behind the pristine veneer of 21st century New York, and Gordon, whose writing is often compared to Donald E. Westlake and Elmore Leonard, knows all the best places to find it."
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Dark Music
by David Lagercrantz
A street-smart Swedish police officer seeks help from a renowned authority on interrogation techniques to help solve the case of a murdered Afghani asylum-seeker in the new thriller from the author of The Girl in the Spiders Web.
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You Know, Sex : Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things!
by Cory Silverberg
"In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty-hormones, reproduction, and development-but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being. Centering young people's experiences of pressures and joy, risk and reward, and confusion and discovery, there are chapters on body autonomy, disclosure, stigma, harassment, pornography, trauma, masturbation, consent, boundaries and safety in our media-saturated world, puberty and reproduction that includes trans, non-binary, and intersex bodies and experience, and more. Racially and ethnically diverse, inclusive of cross-disability experience, this is a book for every kind of young person and every kind of family. You Know, Sex is the first thoroughly modern sex ed book for every body navigating puberty and adolesence, essential for kids, everyone who knows a kid, and anyone who has ever been a kid"
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The First to Die at the End
by Adam Silvera
With society divided by a new technology claiming to alert people on the day of their death, thousands sign up, and on day one, dozens receive their calls, including two boys destined for love until one receives the first End Day call.
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