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Wondering what to do this month? Click on the events listed for more information. See you soon @MLPL! |
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Children and Youth Programs in August @MLPL
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Events and Programs For a Variety of Ages
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Adult Programs
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What else is going on @MLPL?
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Online Silent Auction
Don't miss out! The Friends of the Library's annual silent auction ends August 22nd. Explore the unique items and experiences up for grabs. Place your bids before the clock runs out and support the Muskoka Lakes Public Library. Act fast—check out the auction now and get your bids in before it’s too late!
Community LEGO Build
Come one come all to another community build! A generous family has donated a 905 piece LEGO Technic Bugatti Bolide set to the library and, once again, we are asking for your help! Beginning August 6th, stop by the Port Carling branch and spend a couple of minutes (or a couple of hours) helping us build our masterpiece! The final creation will be displayed for everyone to enjoy, once it's been completed.
Art on the Shelf View all of the wonderful artwork on display at our Port Carling branch, until August 13th. Vote for the Poeple's Choice Award in the Adult category, as well as the Mini Masters.
Story Trails Jaspen Park in Bala
Hanna Park in Port Carling
Port Carling Farmer's Market
Thursdays at Hanna Park, 9 AM - 2 PM |
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by Sally Sutton(Juvenile Board Book)
From the plow that cuts the earth and the harrow that churns the soil to the seed drill that plants the seeds, the sprayer that waters them, the combine harvester that reaps the corn, and the dump cart that brings the tasty load to the truck, there’s plenty of noisy excitement that happens on a farm. And don’t forget the hard-working tractor, which rests when the farm workers take a break and sample the crop! |
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by Amy Tintera(Adult fiction)
After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.
But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast "Listen for the Lie," and its too-good looking host Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy’s murder for the show’s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it.
The truth is out there, if we just listen. |
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by Jennifer Lynn Barnes(Young Adult fiction)
Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year’s game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win.
Some of the players are in it for the money. Some for power. Some for reasons all their own. Every single one of them has secrets. Amidst it all is Grayson Hawthorne, tasked with a vital role in this year’s game. But as tensions rise and the mind-bending challenges push the players to their limits—physically, mentally, and emotionally—it soon becomes clear that not everyone is playing by the rules.
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by Paul Cooper(Adult non-fiction)
Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world. |
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(DVD movie)
After leaving the business one year earlier, battle-scarred stuntman Colt Seavers springs back into action when the star of a big studio movie suddenly disappears. As the mystery surrounding the missing actor deepens, Colt soon finds himself ensnared in a sinister plot that pushes him to the edge of a fall more dangerous than any stunt. |
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Each month we will include a title or two that a staff member has recently read. Yes, we could call it Staff Picks, but where's the alliterative fun in that?
So, without further ado, please enjoyEva's Engaging Editions! |
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by Amor Towles
I’ve had a mixed relationship with this author and I avoided reading The Lincoln Highway for a long time and a few reasons. I found Rules of Civility just so-so and I finally abandoned Gentleman in Moscow, so I wasn't a real fan of Amor Towles and this is a big book. Working in the library, I heard from almost everyone who brought it back how wonderful it is, and so, between books one day I took it home.
A beautiful 'coming of age' story, set in the early 50's, it follows 4 young misfits through a wonderful adventure. The story begins with a warden releasing 18 year old Emmett Watson from a detention centre for involuntary manslaughter. After serving 15 months, Emmett is released on compassionate grounds after the death of their father to care for his younger brother Billy.
Deciding to make a fresh start, Emmett and Billy plan to travel along the Lincoln Highway to California to locate their mother, who abandoned the family years earlier. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York.
The story is a time capture odyssey of one week, with a smooth transition from one chapter to the next as the four main characters narrate in the first person providing the history to their story as they learn to live in the present, deal with the past, and look forward to their future.
The lives of the four males become so entwined and all of them are taken on a different journey and in a direction that has some devastating consequences. The road is perilous, their mission fraught with obstacles and the outcome reflects the tragedy and justice of Greek Mythology – which the book often references.
Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. It's a rare and joyous thing for me to become engaged immediately in a book, and to have it hold me captive through 576 pages...I'm delighted to have had this experience.
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