The Biblio File November 22, 2021 Calling all eBook readers! We are hoping to start our own collection of eBooks at the PPL and would appreciate some input. Please email the library at email@pinawapubliclibrary.com with suggestions for titles, genres, any recommendations and thoughts about what you’d like to see in our collection. Looking for a…
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The Biblio File November 15, 2021 Library patron George Gibson has kindly provided a book review – thank you George! I have just finished reading J. S. Milloy’s A National Crime, 1999. Pinawa Public Library 371.829 MIL. Milloy (Oxford scholar, Professor of History and Native Studies at Trent University) was tasked in 1996 with researching and creating…
The Biblio File: Library News
The Biblio File November 8, 2021 The winner of this year’s Booker Prize is The Promise by Damon Galgut. “The Promise is set in South Africa during the country’s transition out of apartheid, and explores the interconnected relationships between the members of a diminishing white family through the sequential lens of four funerals. The Promise…
Jr. Biblio-file – November 2021
I think it is time we talked about non-fiction books. “They are boring, they are heavy, they have no pictures”. But that isn’t true, is it? Especially when we are talking about non-fiction for kids, and there is a lot of non-fiction for kids! These books are big and bright and colorful, they have lots…
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The Biblio File November 1, 2021 Well look at that – November 1st and it’s winter. Seems like a good day to highlight a few more of our PPL Patron’s Choice book awards, in case you were looking for a reason to stay home and read. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr…
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The Biblio File October 18, 2021 It’s not great outside and you are looking for a reason to stay in. You are feeling creative but not sure what to do. You need to get a few things done but the kids/grand-kids are demanding your immediate attention. What’s the solution to these predicaments? Crafts! The library…
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The Biblio File October 11, 2021 Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone! The library ghost chose Sussex Drive by Linda Svendsen this week. We have to assume he read the whole book cover to cover because there wasn’t a bookmark to be found. “A startingly funny and deeply satisfying satirical novel that makes the Canadian political scene accessible…
October 2021 Jr. BiblioFile
After a busy week we all like to snuggle down with popcorn and watch a good movie, and what makes a better movie than one that was based on a book! It is a common difficulty to get kids of a certain age to like reading. But I have found that having a movie that…
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The Biblio File October 4, 2021 We will be closed on Sunday, October 10th and Monday, October 11th for Thanksgiving. Be sure to stop in this week – you don’t want to run out of reading material over the weekend. Well it looks like fall but still feels like summer – what a perfect combination. …
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The Biblio File September 27, 2021 September 30, 2021 marks the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day gives an opportunity to reflect, to learn about, and to honour the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. The library will be closed on this day. This week the library ghost…