The Biblio File December 13, 2021 Who doesn’t love Top 10 lists? Bookbrowse has doubled that with their “Top 20 Best of the Year,” chosen by their subscribers. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Bewilderment by Richard Powers Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner The Magician by Colm…
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The Biblio File December 6, 2021 Is the winter weather officially here? For those of you that see a temperature below -10 and think it’s time to stay in and read by the fire – here are a few more from our Patron’s Choice Awards: The Iron Rose, the Extraordinary Life of Charlotte Ross, MD…
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Merry Christmas! It is officially December and I know many have been in the Christmas swing for a month already. Your house lights and the tree in your front windows are beautiful. Now comes the (maybe stressful) part of Christmas. The gifts. It is looking like another “interesting” Christmas, with visiting restrictions still in place…
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The Biblio File November 29, 2021 Well, we blinked and now it’s almost December. Here are a few book related activities. A Christmas reading challenge that is meant for kids but could easily be enjoyed by adults! Who doesn’t want to read in a den/fort?? And to get you thinking about the New Year –…
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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…
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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 25, 2021 Take a minute to check out our new online reader advisory magazine – another awesome service offered to the patrons of the PPL. BookBrowse has been providing this curated resource for fiction and non-fiction for more than 2 decades. You can customize your searches by author or title “read-a-likes”,…