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Hinton Municipal Library and Archives Newsletter open doors open books open minds November 15, 2017
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Festival of Trees November 24 3-5 pm 6-7 pm Get in the holiday spirit! On November 24th the Library will be at Park West Mall. We will be performing Christmas Puppet Shows, Stories, and Songs. Let the little ones enjoy while the adults bid on amazing Christmas Trees!
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Art Display Denise Parent's photography exhibit will be on display at the library throughout November, so make sure you check it out!
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Creativity Corner Tuesday, November 21st 6:30-7:30pm See what you can build! Try your hand at making and testing boats, forts, and more. Children under 7 must bring an adult. Tuesday, November 28th 6:30-7:30pm Make a Lego catapult and see what you can knock down with it! Children under 7 must bring an adult.
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Armchair Travellers There has been a last minute change! Join us for our last Armchair Travellers. November's destination is East Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania. November 22 6:30-8 pm |
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We need to talk : how to have conversations that matter
by Celeste Headlee
The host of the Georgia Public Broadcasting show On Second Thought presents an informative and practical guide to the lost art of conversation, revealing the personal and professional consequences of poor communication skills and how to develop effective, meaningful and respectful conversations that include appropriate listening behaviors.
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Residential Schools and Reconciliation : Canada Confronts Its History
by J. R. Miller
Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling, including official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award winning author J. R. Miller tackles and explains these institutional responses to Canada's residential school legacy. Analysing archival material and interviews with former students, politicians, bureaucrats, church officials, and the Chief Commissioner of the TRC, Miller reveals a major obstacle to achieving reconciliation - the inability of Canadians at large to overcome their flawed, overly positive understanding of their country's history. This unique, timely, and provocative work asks Canadians to accept that the root of the problem was Canadians like them in the past who acquiesced to aggressively assimilative policies.
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The revolution of Marina M.
by Janet Fitch
A young woman of privilege coming of age in 1916 St. Petersburg finds her life and ambitions violently upended by historical events that find her joining the cause for workers' rights, falling in love with a radical poet and navigating devastating betrayals. By the best-selling author of White Oleander. 100,000 first printing.
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The shattered lens : a war photographer's true story of captivity and survival in Syria
by Jonathan Alpeyrie
A harrowing account co-written by a celebrated French-American war journalist who was held hostage by Syrian rebels in 2013 describes how he was betrayed by his fixer and bound, beaten and blindfolded by captors who introduced him to their language and culture, inadvertently helping him discover within himself a faith that helped him to survive.
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The writing desk
by Rachel Hauck
From the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of The Wedding Dress comes a novel of secrets, romance and two women bound together across time by a shared dream.
Tenley and Birdie are from two very different worlds. Yet when Tenley discovers Birdie’s manuscript, their lives intersect. Birdie’s words help Tenley find a way home. Tenley brings Birdie’s writing to the world.
Can two women separated by time help fulfill each other’s destiny?
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