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Castlegar & District Public Library December 2024 |
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 65 languages, with English translations. Also includes activities such as colouring pages, spot the difference, word searches, and memory games. |
Yoto is a screen-free audio platform that lets kids explore 1000+ stories, music, activities, sound effects, radio, podcasts and more. Thank you to the Friends of the Library and the Canadian Parents for French - Castlegar for donating our English and French Yoto Players! |
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Everyone who can forgive me is dead
by Hollander, Jenny
After fleeing as the lone surviving witness to horrific, gruesome events at her graduate school, Charlie Colbert disappeared and rebuilt her life only discover that the events of that night are being adapted into a film.
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First frost
by Johnson, Craig
Sheriff Walt Longmire tries to manage his increasingly complicated personal life while staving off the violent underworld that is encroaching on the Old West, in the 20th novel of the series following The Longmire Defense.
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Christmas by candlelight
by Swan, Karen
By the fireside and by candlelight, old friends must hunker down together as they await help after being snowed in at a remote estate. They reminisce about times past, good and bad. But as the cracks in their relationships, old and new, start to show, Libby Pugh is confronted with a truth she has long tried to deny . . .
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Midnight at the Christmas bookshop
by Colgan, Jenny
In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Christmas Bookshop, an American production company decides that McCredie's is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie and Carmen, the bookshop's manager, uses this unexpected windfall to fend off a buyout offer from an obnoxious millionaire.
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The jolliest bunch
by Pellegrino, Danny
The popular podcast host of Everything Iconic and best-selling author offers this festive and funny collection of inappropriately improvised holiday monologues, taking readers on a nostalgic trip to the 90s and 2000s where they can reminisce about their own memories—the good, the bad and the cringeworthy.
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Christmas feasts and treats
by Hay, Donna
Donna Hay makes Christmas cooking and entertaining so easy, with this must-have collection of over 200 easy, delicious, reliable and totally fabulous Christmas recipes to make, enjoy and give over the festive season.
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The darkest white
by Blehm, Eric
The award-winning author of the New York Times best-sellers Fearless and The Only Thing Worth Dying For tells the life story of legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly who died in the 2003 Durrand Glacier Avalanche and also offers a definitive, immersive account of snowboarding and the cultural movement that exploded around it. Illustrations.
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Gatherings
by America's Test Kitchen
Helping you throw an unforgettable dinner party, the cooks of America's Test Kitchen share how they entertain at home, showcasing 140 personal recipes, from simple to showstopping. Illustrations.
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Veil of winter
by Dickerson, Melanie
After faking her own death then heading to Prague to beg King Wenceslaus to save her people, medieval Princess Elyse is joined by a young knight who claims he has had a vision from God and must help her on her quest.
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How to excavate a heart
by Jake Maia Arlow
Fresh off a breakup, college freshman Shani is distracted from her monthlong paleoichthyology internship when she gets involved with May, but when their relationship takes a serious turn, Shani's heartache over her ex-girlfriend's rejection comes rushing back.
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The silent stars go by
by Nicholls, Sally
During Christmastime in 1919, 17-year-old secretly pregnant vicar's daughter Margot Allan joins with her family for the first time since World War I ended, while unbeknownst to her, the fiancé she thought she lost during the Great War turns up alive and well and looking for answers.
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Long live the Pumpkin Queen
by Ernshaw, Shea
Saddled with queenly duties after marrying her one true love, Sally Skellington wonders if she traded one captivity for another until she finds a long-hidden doorway to an ancient realm putting everything into perspective. Movie tie-in.
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Spencer
A fictionalized account of Princess Diana's decision to end her marriage to Prince Charles, and separate from the royal family
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Christmas candle
Every twenty-five years an angel visits the village of Gladbury and bestows a miracle on whoever lights the Christmas candle, but when the candle goes missing the legend may end
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