Castlegar & District Public Library
 
March 2023
 

New Community Calendar
 
The Community Calendar is now open to submissions on our website. Businesses, non-profits, and community members looking to promote their events happening in the Castlegar area are welcome to Submit a Community Event to the Calendar!

Questions? 
Call Eleanor at 250-365-3834
Scrabble Club
 
 2nd Wednesday of each month
In the Castlegar Library
3-5 pm 
Join us for Scrabble, other games and good company!
Youth and Adults
 
Programs
 
Programs for children and youth.
 

e-Resources: Free with your Library Card
AutoMate
AutoMate contains repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. New repair procedures, TSBs and updates are added to the product on a regular basis. All of the content in ARRC has been created by ASE certified technicians.
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is EBSCO's interface designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
British Columbia Historical Newspapers
Explore more than 125 years of B.C.'s heritage Online access for anyone in B.C. or the Yukon.
LOTE Online for Kids!
1,750+ digital books for kids in 50+ languages. Also includes activities like colouring pages, spot the difference, word searches and memory games. Accessibility tools available as well as books in sign language. 
 
See all of our online resources from A to Z!
 
New Books
All titles below link directly to our catalogue. 
Fiction
Where the sky begins : a novel
by Rhys Bowen

In 1940 London, during World War II, Josie, with nothing left and nowhere to go, ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host of the survivors of the Blitz, and convinces her to open a tea shop, seeing it as a chance for everyone to begin again.
The Martins
by David Foenkinos
 
Parisian writer lacking inspiration find the heroine of his next novel outside his apartment. Telling the story of octogenarian Madeleine and her family, he finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into theirr lives with unexpected consequences. 
Dead water / : And the Water Shall Call Them Home
by Charlie Fletcher

Community members on a remote island in the Northern Atlantic become infected with a strange disorder that threatens to grow from a minor inconvenience to a nightmarish ordeal that threatens to tear apart the tight-knit community. 
Non-Fiction
Among Silent Echoes : A Memoir of Trauma and Resilience
by Phyllis Dyson

Twenty-five years after her mother's brutal death made the headlines, Phyllis Dyson felt compelled to unearth the truth about her mother's illness. By chronicling the events of her childhood, uncovering family secrets and betrayals and gaining access to government documents, Dyson has captured the heart of her family's tragedy in a debut memoir.
 
Nomad century : how climate migration will reshape our world
by Gaia Vince

Drawing on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, an award-winning science journalist, in this urgent call to action, discusses the underreported, seismic consequences ofclimate change and how it will reshape humanity
How Confidence Works : The New Science of Self-belief, Why Some People Learn It and Others Don't
by Ian Robertson

Confidence lies at the core of what makes things happen. Exploring the science and neuroscience behind confidence that has emerged over the last decade, clinical psychologist and neuroscientist Professor Ian Robertson tells us how confidence plays out in our minds, our brains and indeed our bodies.
DVDs
Bullet Train

Ladybug (Brad Pitt) is an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe-all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives-on the world's fastest train. 
Unforgotten: Season 4

DCI Cassie Stuart and her partner, DI Sunil Sunny Khan, investigate when a dismembered body is found in a scrapyard.
 

 
 
Find all new items HERE.

 
Computers & Printing
Computer and Printing Services
 
Public access computers, photocopying, scanning, WiFi, and copying & printing services available. 
 
The library also has a convenient remote printing service.

Regular Hours
Monday & Tuesday - 10 am - 6 pm
Wednesday & Thursday - 10 am - 8 pm
Friday & Saturday - 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday: Closed  

Castlegar & District Public Library
1005-3rd Street
Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 2A2
250-365-6611

https://castlegar.bc.libraries.coop/