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Castlegar & District Public Library July 2023 |
BC Summer Reading Club For ages 3-13 |
Registration begins June 20th at 10:30 am |
Sign up for the online reading tracker here. |
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Castlegar Library offers access to ebooks, audiobooks, and digital magazines through Library2go, a province-wide service. Through the Libby app or the Overdrive website, you can download and access a large catalogue of digital content. |
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Cantook Station is a collection of French language eBooks and audiobooks from Canadian and international publishers. It includes popular genre fiction, bestsellers, non-fiction and more. Titles for adults, teens and children. |
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CELA (Centre for Equitable Library Access) Public library service for Canadians with print disabilities. We offer a collection of over 230,000 books, magazines, newspapers and described videos in a choice of formats for people. |
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A library eResource that allows kids to learn a language and connect with books through the magic of storytelling. You can choose from thousands of audio-picture books in 50+ languages, together with English translations. Also includes activities such as colouring pages, spot the difference, word searches, and memory games. Log in with your library card!
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Dawnlands : a novel by Philippa GregoryThe fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in 17th-century England.
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This House Is Not a Home by Katlià After a hunting trip one fall, a family in the far reaches of so-called Canada’s north return to nothing but an empty space where their home once stood. Finding themselves suddenly homeless, they have no choice but to assimilate into settler-colonial society in a mining town that has encroached on their freedom. An intergenerational coming-of-age novel, follows Kǫ̀, a Dene man who grew up entirely on the land before being taken to residential school. When he finally returns home, he struggles to connect with his family: his younger brother whom he has never met, his mother because he has lost his language, and an absent father whose disappearance he is too afraid to question.
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Murder at Black Oaks : a Robin Lockwood novel by Phillip MargolinAfter getting a wrongful conviction overturned for retired DA Francis Hardy, Robin Lockwood is invited to a party at Black Oaks, his home in the Oregon mountains rumored to be cursed, and finds murder in attendance when Hardy is found dead.
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The bird tattoo : a novel by Dunyåa Måikhåa®åilA young Yazidi woman living in the mountain village of Sinjar in northern Iraq finds her life forever changed when her husband goes missing after ISIS infiltrates the area and she is kidnapped and enslaved before escaping her captors and being reunited with some of her family.
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Inspired by radical designer, artist and critic Enzo Mari, this book is a tribute to his simple ideas that challenged the consumerism of the furniture industry. Erik Eje Almqvist unpacks Mari's manifesto of nostalgic longing for a pre-capitalist society where people built the furniture they needed themselves. Using very few tools -- a hammer, nails and boards cut to standard dimensions -- this book explores the techniques and basic methods that will arm any amateur carpenter with skills and inspiration for life. |
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The LEGO story : how a little toy sparked the world's imagination by Jens AndersenThrough interviews with the founding family that still owns the company—and with access to the vast LEGO archive—this definitive story behind one of the most beloved brands on the planet doubles as a cultural history of changing generations' view of childhood and the importance of play.
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Surrender : 40 songs, one story by BonoOne of the music world's most iconic artists writes about his remarkable life for the first time, from his early days growing up in Dublin, to U2's meteoric rise to fame, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty.
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Tsqelmucwâilc : the Kamloops Indian Residential School--resistance and a reckoning by Celia Haig-BrownFeatures the shocking and tragic story of Indigenous erasure and genocide at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada. 'Tsquelmucwilc'' (pronounced cha-CAL-mux-weel) is a Secwepemc phrase loosely translated as ''We return to being human again.'' Tsqelmucwilc is the story of those who survived the Kamloops Indian Residential School, based on the 1988 book Resistance and Renewal, a groundbreaking history of the school - and the first book on residential schools ever published in Canada.
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AnnikaFollows DI Annika Strandhed, head of a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit in Glasgow, Scotland, which investigates seemingly unfathomable murders.
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Magpie murdersWhen she realizes that the final chapter of a mystery writer's latest manuscript is missing and he later turns up dead, editor Susan Ryeland follows clues buried in the text to investigate the author's suspicious death.
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MenuWhen several people travel to an exclusive island restaurant, they discover that the chef has prepared a lavish menu and is also hiding several dark secrets.
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The stolen heir : a novel of Elfhame by Holly BlackHiding in the human world, Suren, the tormented child queen of the Court of Teeth, must guard her heart against a manipulative prince whom she cannot trust when she agrees to join him on a mysterious quest.
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What beauty there is by Cory AndersonLiving in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.
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Regular Hours Monday & Tuesday - 10 am - 6 pm Wednesday & Thursday - 10 am - 8 pm Friday & Saturday - 10 am - 5 pm Sunday: Closed Canada Day Closed: Saturday, July 1 & Monday, July 3 |
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