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Our Summer Learning program has begun to wind down, but what an exciting summer it has been! Our theme was "Read. Reconnect. Reimagine". Our Summer Learning team planned a fun program that rewarded kids, youth and adults with prizes for making time to Read! Our libraries were wide-open and all services have fully resumed. We were excited to welcome patrons back to Reconnect with us! Library staff organized a wide variety of activities and events that we hoped helped library users of all ages to Reimagine what their library can offer! |
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School Supply Drive Many Middlesex County Library branches are drop-off locations for the Best First Day school supply drive! Needed items include: backpacks, markers, pencil crayons, lunch bags, pencils, pencil cases, water bottle, notebooks, scissors, glue sticks, scientific calculators, binders, and paper. Items can be dropped off until September 2 at the following Middlesex County Library locations: Ailsa Craig, Delaware, Dorchester, Glencoe, Ilderton, Komoka, Lucan, Mt Brydges, Newbury, Parkhill, Thorndale and Wardsville.
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Library Book ClubsInterested in joining a book club? Many of our branches have active book clubs and are welcoming new members! Some clubs may meet in August, and all will be meeting in September. For more information about any of the book clubs listed, contact the hosting library. Ailsa Craig Library: 3rd Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm Dorchester Library: last Thursday of the month at 1:30pm Glencoe Library: last Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm Komoka Library: 2nd Thursday of the month at 6:30pm Lucan Library: 2nd Thursday of the month at 6:30pm Parkhill Library: 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30pm Wardsville Library: 2nd Wednesday of the month at 3:00pm Virtual Book Club (meets on Zoom): 2nd Wednesday of the month at 2:30pm, hosted by Lucan Library staff. |
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Book Club Bags
Are you already in a book club or looking to start your own? We can help with that! Middlesex County Library offers Book Club Bags that are available to all Middlesex County Library card holders. Book Club Bags contain multiple copies of a title and can be reserved in advance. This allows you to plan up to a year of meetings, confident in the fact that the books will be available when you want them. Bags are loaned for an extended period - perfect for groups that meet monthly. |
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Information Centres
Did you know that every Middlesex County Library branch features a Middlesex Family Connections Information Centre? Parents and caregivers can visit the centre at anytime to find information on a variety of topics, including where to access services for families in Middlesex County. If you have questions about any of the materials you find in an information centre, or have more questions, ask a Community Connector! All of our library staff are trained and ready to help. |
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NextReads NextReads newsletters deliver reading recommendations on topics that interest you directly to your inbox. NextReads newsletters are written by the award-winning book experts at NoveList, and then customized for Middlesex County Library patrons by our staff. Newsletters link right back to our online catalogue, making it easy for you to get more information or to place a hold. Middlesex County Library offers 13 different newsletters, with choices for all ages and all interests! |
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NoveList Plus & NoveList K-8
NoveList Plus and NoveList K-8 are online readers' advisory resources with over 200,000 books listed! Use a favorite author or title to discover other authors and titles of that may be of interest or to find "read-a-likes". You can also describe the type of book you would like to read, and NoveList will create a list of recommendations! |
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The End of Your Life Book Club
by Will Schwalbe
The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close. Soon they are reading the same books so they can have something to talk about in the hospital waiting room. The ones they choose range from classic to popular, from fantastic to spiritual, and we hear their passion for reading and their love for each other in their intimate and searching discussions.
A profoundly moving testament to the power of love between a child and parent, and the power of reading in our lives. Adult Nonfiction.
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The Dirty Book Club
by Lisi Harrison
When M.J.'s perfect life takes a turn, she receives an invitation to join a secret book club. Out of curiosity and loneliness, she goes to the meeting and discovers three other women who have been selected by the club's original members—who have suddenly left the country to honor a fifty-year-old pact. Inspired by the novels they read—and the notes passed down by the club's original members—the new members of The Dirty Book Club help each other find the courage to rewrite their own stories and risk it all for a happy ending. A funny, light-hearted story about friendship and deciding what’s best for your personal happiness, career, and romantic relationships. Adult Fiction.
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Book Club / produced by Andrew Duncan, directed by Bill Holderman
Four lifelong female friends find their lives turned upside down when their book club decides to read the infamous "Fifty shades of Grey." From discovering new romance to rekindling old flames, they inspire each other to make their next chapter the best chapter. DVD.
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Banned Book Club
by Hyun Sook Kim
The gripping true story of Hyun Sook Kim's student days in South Korea under the authoritarian regime of the early 1980s. In this charged political climate Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invited her to his reading group, she didn't expect to find herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of an underground banned book club. The dramatic true story of political division, fear-mongering, anti-intellectualism and the relentless rebellion of reading. Young Adult Graphic Novel.
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The Undercover Book List
by Colleen Nelson
An anonymous correspondence between two seventh graders becomes an unlikely friendship after they start leaving notes in a library book. Bookish Jane MacDonald is seeking a new friend after her best friend Sienna moves away; reputed troublemaker Tyson Flamand stumbles upon the note while waiting for detention. Both end up in a race to improve Tyson's grades--and their teachers' understanding of him--so that he can help complete the school team for Jane's cherished Kid Lit Quiz competition and win a trip to the championship in Sienna's new city. Juvenile Fiction.
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The Endangered Species Road Trip: A Summer's Worth of Dingy Motels, Poison Oak, Ravenous Insects, and the Rarest Species in North America by Cameron MacDonaldCrammed into a minivan with wife, toddler, infant, and dog, accompanied by mounds of toys, diapers, tent, sleeping bags, and other paraphernalia, Cameron MacDonald embarks on a road trip of a lifetime to observe North America's rarest species.
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Travels With My Family by Marie-Louise GayFamily vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition -- by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go.
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The Wangs vs. The World by Jade ChangA wealthy but fractured Chinese family loses everything in the financial crisis before embarking on a haphazard but ultimately redemptive journey across America as part of an effort to reclaim ancestral lands in China. A first novel.
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The Long Weekend: A Novel by Gilly MacmillanTraveling to a perfectly isolated retreat in England for a weekend getaway, four women are plunged into a nightmare when they find a note claiming that one of their husbands will be murdered, resulting in the discovery that betrayal comes in many forms.
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