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Castlegar & District Public Library December 2025 |
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BC Libraries Present: Timothy Caulfield
Thursday, December 4, 6:30
https://www.crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-present
Join us for a virtual author event with professor Timothy Caulfield, author of "The Certainty Illusion". In this book, he lifts the curtain on the forces contributing to our information chaos and unpacks why it’s so difficult—sometimes even for experts—to escape the fake.
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Food for Fines
1 non-perishable food or personal hygiene item = $2 off of fines. All items collected will be donated to the Community Harvest Food Bank. Please note that this cannot remove the fee for lost library items. |
The Giving Tree
Bring newly purchased (or handmade) hats, scarves, mittens, gloves, socks, etc. to the library for the Giving Tree. All items will be donated to the Community Harvest Food Bank. |
We'll be closed over the holidays, but you can still borrow library books from home! Access a province-wide catalogue of digital books, audiobooks, and instantly available magazines. You can access through Library To Go or through the Libby app. Use your library card to log in! |
Explore your neighborhood, solve problems around the house, and see the world from a thermal perspective with the FLIR One. The library currently has two FLIR One Thermal Imaging Cameras: one for Apple iPhone users and one for Android users. |
Use LOTE4Kids to read thousands of stories in over 100 languages, with English translations. Also includes activities such as colouring pages, spot the difference, word searches, and memory games. Log in with your library card! |
Launchpads are tablets pre-loaded with educational games and activities for specific age groups. Browse tablets themed around developing literacy and STEAM skills for ages 3+. |
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The Christmas Jigsaw Murders
by Alexandra Benedict
On 1st of December, renowned puzzle setter, loner, and Christmas curmudgeon Edie O'Sullivan finds a hand-delivered present on her doorstep. Unwrapping it, she finds a jigsaw box and, inside, six jigsaw pieces. When fitted together, the pieces show part of a crime scene - blood-spattered black and white tiles and part of an outlined body. Included in the parcel is a message: 'Four, maybe more, people will be dead by midnight on Christmas Eve, unless you can put all the pieces together and stop me.' It's signed, Rest In Pieces. Edie contacts her nephew, DI Sean Brand-O'Sullivan, and together they work to solve the clues. But when a man is found near death with a jigsaw piece in his hand, Sean fears that Edie might be in danger and shuts her out of the investigation. As the body count rises, however, Edie knows that only she has the knowledge to put together the killer's murderous puzzle. Only by fitting all the pieces together will Edie be able to stop a killer - and finally lay her past to rest.
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Christmas Tree Farm: A Christmas Novella
by Melody Carlson
In order to save the family Christmas tree farm that her sister is equally determined to sell, Madison McDowell will have to focus her efforts--and grapple with her old boyfriend who owns the neighboring farms and has plans of his own--if she's to succeed. After all, the farm deserves a second chance. And perhaps love does too.
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The Cardinal: A Novel of Love and Power
by Alison Weir
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey enjoyed one of the most meteoric careers in history. His rise from humble beginnings coincided with Henry VII's ascension to the throne in 1509. The two grew to be cherished friends, and by 1515 Wolsey, now a cardinal, had become the controlling figure in all matters of church and state. All was going dazzlingly until Henry fell in love with Anne Boleyn and sought to end his marriage to his first wife, Katherine of Aragon. Swept up in the maelstrom of the Divorce, Wolsey, who had striven to give his master everything he wanted, found himself in an impossible situation as he drew the ire of the queen, with his world crumbling around him.
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Return to Sender: A Longmire Mystery
by Craig Johnson
Walt Longmire is back after the escapades of First Frost, and encounters one of his most baffling cases. The sheriff of Absaroka confronts a cabal of devious outlaws who are hell bent on getting what they want, even though they have to bend and break the law. Walt is stretched to his physical limits to try to stop them, and has to answer the question of just how far he will go. ... Fans of the series will love seeing Walt put into this almost impossible situation, and new fans will fall for the venerable sheriff as he tries to uphold the law and his own values in this high-stakes mystery.
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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
The world knows Virginia Roberts Giuffre as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's most outspoken victim: the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison, whose photograph with Prince Andrew catalyzed his fall from grace. But her story has never been told in full, in her own words--until now. In April 2025, Giuffre took her own life. She left behind a memoir written in the years preceding her death and stated unequivocally that she wanted it published. Nobody's Girl is the riveting and powerful story of an ordinary girl who would grow up to confront extraordinary adversity.
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Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence
by Alexander McClelland
Criminalized Lives profiles people charged in Canada with the crime of not disclosing their HIV-positive status to sex partners. Examining how criminalization disproportionately punishes poor, Black and Indigenous people, gay men, and women in Canada, Alexander McClelland investigates the consequences of criminalizing illness, which results in people being subjected to state violence rather than treated with care.
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Bear Attacks of the Century: True Stories of Courage and Survival
by Larry Mueller
Bear Attacks of the Century gathers stories of courage, chronicling the most horrific encounters between bears and people, and provides expert advice on avoiding attacks and information that may help both species leave an encounter unscathed.
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The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History Volume 17
by Daniel MacFarlane
Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have crowded its edges, from fertile agriculture landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. The Lives of Lake Ontario examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this remarkably resilient and uniquely vulnerable resource.
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The Glass Girl
by Kathleen Glasgow
Everyone in fifteen-year-old Bella's life needs something from her. Her mom needs her to help around the house, her dad needs her to not make waves, her ex needs her to not be so much. The only person who never needed anything from her was her grandmother--and now she's dead. There's only one thing that dulls the pressure: alcohol. Alcohol smooths the sharp edges of Bella's life. And what's the big deal? Everyone drinks. Besides, Bella can stop whenever she wants. But after she gets blackout drunk at a Thanksgiving party and wakes up in the hospital, it's time to face reality. And for Bella, reality means rehab.
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As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
by Zoulfa Katouh
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager's life. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate, that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion, Khawf, who haunts her every move in an effort to keep her safe. But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, Salama is torn between her loyalty to her country and her conviction to survive. Salama must contend with bullets and bombs, military assaults, and her shifting sense of morality before she might finally breathe free. And when she crosses paths with the boy she was supposed to meet one fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are--not a war, but a revolution--and decide how she, too, will cry for Syria's freedom.
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Koyoharu Gotouge Before Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba
by Koyoharu Gotouge
See how best-selling creator Koyoharu Gotouge, creator of the worldwide sensation Demon slayer: kimetsu no yaiba, got started. This collection features four short stories packed with supernatural action--including a deadly vampire hunt starring Tamayo and Muzan that would serve as the direct inspiration for Demonslayer: kimetsu no yaiba.--Provided by publisher.
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Such Charming Liars
by Karen M. McManus
Sixteen-year-old Kat's con-artist mom takes on one last heist before going straight for good, but the job takes a deadly turn.
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Interview with the Vampire: Season 1
In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac lives in Dubai and seeks to tell the story of his life or afterlife to renowned journalist Daniel Molloy. Beginning in early 20th-century New Orleans, Louis' story follows his relationship with the vampire Lestat du Lioncourt and their formed family, including teen fledgling Claudia. Together, the vampire family endures immortality in New Orleans and beyond. As the interview continues in Dubai, Molloy discovers the truths beneath Louis' story.
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The Princess and the Frog
This modern twist on a classic tale stars a beautiful girl named Tiana, a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, and a fateful kiss that leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical Louisiana bayous.
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Fantastic Four: First Steps
Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch and the Thing face their most daunting challenge yet as they defend Earth from Galactus and Silver Surfer.
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