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December 2021 Greetings from the Library |
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Glynis Peters Join us on the Zoom platform on December 4, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. as we chat with historical fiction author, Glynis Peters, who will discuss her latest book, The Red Cross Orphans. Email us for an access code which will be sent out a day before the event. Note that you will not be on camera nor will your mic be active but you will be able to interact with the author via the chat feature of Zoom. No need to dress up or even get out of your pyjamas for this lovely opportunity to chat with the author from her home in England to yours in Canada! |
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Santa story time
Santa is Zooming in to our Muskoka libraries for a story time from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, December 11, 2021! Email us for a Zoom code that will be emailed to you close to the story time date. |
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Amelia's Collection
In 2016, after suffering the devastating loss of their baby girl, the Burgess/Valente family of Bala determined they would honour Amelia Valente by dedicating a book collection for children at the Bala branch of MLPL. Mike and Beth Ann shared their love for reading with their oldest child Oliver over many memorable summer visits to the Bala library. They loved to sit and read together under the trees outside and had looked forward to sharing this love of books and community with Amelia.
Each year in celebration of her birthday, members of the family purchase books and have them “vetted” by Ollie, Rory and Sara, before bringing them to the branch. Over the last five years, the collection has now grown to a full shelf in the Junior section. Each book bears the sticker: “Amelia’s Family hopes you enjoy this book.” We are so grateful for the family’s decision to honour their child by giving forward to other children. |
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Local Women in NeedWe are a drop off location for the Muskoka Shoebox Project and the response has been phenomenal! Thank you! The final day to bring your gift box to the library in Port Carling is December 1, 2021. If you are wondering what is suitable to put in the box and how to prepare your gift box, all information can easily be found on the Shoebox Project website. |
Fingers, Toes, & BelliesWe have a community of knitters who have covered our Christmas tree with handknit mitts, scarves, hats, socks, and slippers, which are free for the taking or, if you choose, drop some money into the donation box for the West Muskoka Food Bank. Come and 'shop' the tree! |
VisionThe Port Carling Lions Club have a box at the library into which you can donate your usable eyeglasses. Collected eyeglasses are sent to an official Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center for processing. There, the glasses are sorted and processed, and distributed to optical missions around the world. Lions help to minimize landfill waste by supporting precious metal reclamation and scrap processing for damaged glasses that are unusable. Win, win! |
A Gift to You
Fine free! We have discontinued collecting fines for most items that come back to the library past the due date. Does this mean that we don't want the items returned on time? Definitely not but we do know that fines can be a barrier to some people enjoying the library. Watch for those automatic emails to help remind you to return your items so that others might enjoy that item, too. And, if you truly are feeling that you should pay fines for your overdue items, we still accept donations at the branches or online! |
New Hours
The library in Port Carling has new, extended hours: Tuesday 10-5 Wednesday 10-5 Thursday 10-7 Friday 10-5 Saturday 10-3 Our library in Bala is open Tuesday and Thursday 9-3 |
More Gifts for You
Our Take & Make kits have been hugely popular with all ages of library users. This month we have a Christmas tree to make out of folded paperback books, a craft to make the cutest of snowy owls out of pinecones, and a kit to celebrate the winter solstice. You just never know what our creative team will come up with next! |
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The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell A review by Eva Moore I love mystery but I can’t handle horror… |
So many new books! Here are but a handful. |
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
by J.B. MacKinnon
In a brilliant work of imaginative non-fiction, prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon asks what would happen--to our economy, our ecology, our products, our selves--if we stopped consuming so much? Is that alternative world one we might actually want to live in? Drawing on experts ranging from economists to climate scientists to corporate CEOs, MacKinnon investigates how living with less would change our planet, our society and ourselves. Along the way, he reveals just how much we stand to gain. Imaginative and inspiring, The Day the World Stops Shopping will empower you to imagine another way.
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Fuzz : When Nature Breaks the Law
by Mary Roach
What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. A witty, often hilarious, always informative, enjoyable read.
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An Irish Country Yuletide
by Patrick Taylor
Doctor Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly is enjoying the caroling and tree-trimming of the Irish holiday season in Ballybucklebo when his black sheep brother returns hoping to reconcile in the latest addition to the series.
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The Bushman’s Lair : On the Trail of the Fugitive of the Shuswap
by Paul Mckendrick
In the summer of 2002, the discovery of a cave on Shuswap Lake in British Columbia by a group of houseboaters made headlines across the country. It had been the hideout of a fugitive known as the Bushman--real name John Bjornstrom--who had been arrested the previous winter after raiding cabins in the area for supplies. Reminiscent of John Vaillant's The Golden Spruce and Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, this fascinating portrait of a far-from-ordinary fugitive makes for a page-turning read.
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Two For The Tablelands
by Kevin Major
Sebastian Synard is back. It's the off-season, and the Newfoundland tour guide introduced in One for the Rock has crossed the island with his spirited teenage son for a weekend exploring the wonders of Gros Morne National Park. But on a hike across the spectacular rockscape of The Tablelands, they discover the half-buried body of a murder victim. Life as a tour guide had its twists and turns, but now Sebastian--with his offhand, Scotch-enriched nature--is crossing a more dangerous landscape, on a path that will leave him face-to-face with a killer.
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