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Branch Hours Monday: 2:00pm - 5:00pm Tuesday: 2:00pm - 7:00pm Wednesday: Closed Thursday: 10:00am - 5:00pm Friday: Closed Saturday: 10:00am - 12:00noon
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Summer Holiday Closures: Saturday, July 1 Monday, August 7 Monday, September 4
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It's Here! 2023 TD Summer Reading Club 3 ways to participate this summer: ► Read books and earn ballots ► Come to our summer programs (registration link below) Registration opens June 19 Register now to receive a registration tote bag! (While supplies last)
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BeanstackThis year we’re counting how many minutes we’re reading! Use your Beanstack account to log your minutes online, complete the Summer Challenge and enter to win an awesome Grand Prize
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Summer ProgramsRegistration for the TD Summer Reading Club plus our full slate of summer programs will open on Monday June 19. Check online or call the branch to reserve your spot. Ages vary - please check the program description or with staff first. Spaces are limited for some programs so be sure to save your spot.
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Summer Drop-In Activities
Silly Critter Creator July 3 to August 18 Create a silly critter by rolling the dice! Name your creature and the library will add it to its silly critter collection! All Ages. No registration required. Weekly Activities July 3 to August 18 Drop-in each week during open hours and explore a new activity to do in the branch or take home each week. All ages. No registration required.
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Potato Family Quest Can you help us find all the potato family members? The Potato Family are supposed to be having a family reunion but they all ended up at different Elgin County Library Branches! Visit all 10 branches this summer during open hours, and help us track everyone down. Follow the instructions in the branch for submitting locations and enter to win a family prize basket!
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Author Visit with J. Ivanel Johnston Thursday September 7 6:30-7:30pm *Straffordville Library* Save the date for an evening with author J. Ivanel Johnson to discuss her JUST (e)STATE mystery series. The series takes inspiration from the villages of Port Burwell and Straffordville with the majority of the action occurring near the old train trestle bridge between Straffordville and Eden under which the author grew up. Light refreshments will be provided. More details to follow.
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Yellowface : a novel
by R. F. Kuang
After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work, but as emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers how far she'll go to keep what shethinks she deserves
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July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries; weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie vanishes mysteriously, last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe. Joe will remain deeply affected by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Boston, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions; as she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.
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The boy, the mole, the fox and the horseby Charlie MackesyCharlie Mackesy offers inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this book based on his famous quartet of characters, as they explore their unlikely friendship and learn poignant, universal lessons together.
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The perfect marriage
by Jeneva Rose
"Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. But one morning everything changes. Kelly is found brutally stabbed to death and now, Sarah must take on her hardest case yet, defending her own husband, a man accused of murdering his mistress"
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