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The Biblio File: Library News

The Biblio File
November 28, 2022

Join us this Friday evening, December 2nd at 6:00 for a special evening holiday storytime! Everyone welcome!  We encourage you to wear your fuzzy holiday pjs!

Shop local!  The library will be open on Saturday, December 3rd from 10:00-3:00 during the Pinawa Winter Market.  Come on down to the community centre and browse the always awesome, fully booked venue and stop by the library where we will have new, nearly new and used books for sale.  (Libraries are always fully booked).

The library ghost must have looked outside and decided to sit down for a long read – this time he has chosen an omnibus – K-PAX by Gene Brewer.  “When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. However, this patient is unlike anyone psychiatrist Dr. Gene Brewer has met before. Clever, inscrutable and utterly charismatic, Robert Porter calls himself ‘prot’ and has no traceable background – but he claims that he is an inhabitant of the planet K-PAX, a perfect world without wars, government or religion, and where every being co-exists in harmony. It’s not long before the other patients are hanging on prot’s every word. And even Dr. Brewer starts to find himself convinced…