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Thank you!A great big shout of thanks to the Muskoka Ratepayers' Association for their donation to the library to purchase dyslexic-friendly (decodable) books for children, and resources for parents. The books have been ordered and we are looking forward to their arrival soon! The children's books will be housed within the Easy Reads collection on the lower level and will sport easy to identify spine labels for easy access. Photo: Liz Denyars, of the Muskoka Ratepayers’ Association, presented a donation to Cathy Duck, CEO of Muskoka Lakes Public Library, to support the purchase of a collection of decodable books for young people.
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Northern Spy by Flynn BerryA review by Maggie "Not everything here is black and white, which makes for interesting reading...."
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Hours
PORT CARLING Tuesday 10-5 Wednesday 10-5 Thursday 10-7 Friday 10-5 Saturday 10-3 BALA Tuesday 9-3 Thursday 9-3
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Take & MakeWe love to see pictures of your crafting adventures using our take home kits. Please do send them our way! muskokalakes@pclib.ca We are working on some fun winter-themed kits for you and your kids. Ask for them when you come to the library for your books and videos!
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Author Nights
Many of you have had the opportunity to join our author interviews last year using the Zoom platform. We are pleased to announce that we will continue to partner with other Muskoka libraries to bring you these once-a-month experiences. January's guest has not yet been confirmed so stay tuned for the announcement!
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A Narrow Door
by Joanne Harris
The first headmistress of St. Oswald’s school, now open to girls, fights to keep both her own and the school’s past buried after human remains are found on campus, in the new novel by the author of Chocolat.
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Murder in an Irish pub
by Carlene O'Connor
When competing card sharks stir up Siobhán O'Sullivan's quiet Irish village, a poker tournament turns into a game of Hangman as Eamon Foley is found at the end of a rope in the local pub.
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Home Waltz
by G. A. Grisenthwaite
In 1973, fifteen-year old " Squito" is a mixed-blood boy trying to find his place in a small, mostly Native town. Seen as neither Native or white, Squito often feels out of place and he imagines a short, disastrous life for himself. This is the story of one Indigenous teenager's experience of growing up in a world that doesn't want or trust him.
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Vegan, at times : 120+ recipes for every day or every so often
by Jessica Seinfeld
In this all-new collection of more than 120 easy-to-make and delicious recipes, the #1 New York Times best-selling author shows readers just how easy it is to be a vegan, at times, by cooking flavourful and affordable meals whenever you want.
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Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers
by Mary Roach
A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavours, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.
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Not on My Watch : How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon
by Alexandra Morton
In 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into British Columbia, chasing away the whales Alexandra Morton had dedicated her life to studying. Her fisherman neighbours asked her if she would write letters on their behalf to government explaining the damage the farms were doing to the fisheries, and one thing led to another. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean farm pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising that built around her as ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't obey their own court rulings.
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