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Reading Challenge 2025
Take a trip this year with our Reading Challenge! Are you ready to embark on a literary adventure? Our Reading Challenge is the perfect opportunity to explore new books, rediscover old favorites, and connect with fellow book lovers in our community! Complete challenges for your chance to win prizes! Each month we'll provide a new destination. Read a book set in that location or otherwise linked to the destination and we'll stamp your passport. Staff Book recommendations for each destination will be on display at the library to help you get started. Our first destination is... FRANCE! Pick up your passport at the library and start your journey today! |
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Astronomy Club Looking for a new hobby? The Astronomy Club is looking for new members. Are you curious about the cosmos? Whether you're a seasoned stargazer or just starting to explore the night sky, our Astronomy Club welcomes everyone 13 years and older! We meet on the last Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the library to explore a new topic related to astronomy. The club is run by our expert volunteer, Richard, who has been running outreach astronomy programs for 30 years and has been a member of both the Montreal and Ottawa chapters of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Past discussions have covered a wide range of fascinating subjects, including observing techniques, the forces that power the Sun, and even the search for methane seeps on Earth to help us understand the potential for life on Mars.
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Heart Health PresentationCome listen to a special presentation by the Canadian Women's Heart Health Centre. In 2008, while in her 50s, Marion Martell developed Sudden Onset Complete Heart Block. There had been no previous warning signs and she was immediately fitted with a pacemaker. On Wednesday, February 12th, she'll share her story and educate attendees on how to reduce heart disease. She'll go over what to look for and what questions to ask your doctor. The talk is free and open to everyone. It will be held from 1 to 3 PM, at the Creating Centre located at 11 High St. Vankleek Hill. Registration can be done here or by phone at 613-678-2216. Please note that in the event of bad weather the talk will be delayed to February 19th.
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Thank-you!
A Book on Every Bed was a success! A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who donated books! Because of your generosity, we were able to gift books to over 120 children this holiday season. Your kindness has brought smiles, stories, and endless adventures to young readers in our community. Together, we’ve made a difference—one book at a time. |
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Library Closures
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Did You Know? Did you know… DVDs and CDs are alive and well at Champlain Library? While there seem to be a million streaming services out there (the monthly fees add up fast!) not everything is online! We still have DVDs and CDs! We have many of the latest films & TV shows with a special section just for kids and are have the latest albums of Beyonce, Nelly Furtado, Taylor Swift and more. Stop by the library and give this “not dead yet” technology a spin—literally! |
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Art Hive
Saturdays, Jan 4 + 18, Feb 1, Mar 1 + 15 + 29, April 12 + 26, 10:30am
Library Activity Room
Come unleash your creativity, share skills and connect with each other through the universal language of art. Open to all ages. Free, no registration required.
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Heart Health Presentation
Wednesday, February 12, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Creating Centre
A special presentation on heart health for both men and women by Marion Martell of the Canadian Women's Heart Health Centre.
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Movie Night: Beyond Paper
Thursday, January 23, 6:30pm
Arbor Gallery
In the age of the virtual revolution, a filmmaker travels the world, navigating between the paper and digital realms to understand the future of human memory.
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Movie Night: Any Other Way - The Jackie Shane Story
Thursday, February 27, 6:30pm
Arbor Gallery
A lost R&B star who eclipsed Etta James and Little Richard, trans soul singer Jackie Shane blazed an extraordinary trail with an unbreakable commitment to her truth. Forty years after vanishing from public view, this 20th century icon finally gets her second act.
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Movie Night: North Star
Thursday, March 27, 6:30pm
Arbor Gallery
North Star chronicles the exceptional journey of Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, a young, Quebec-born Innu astrophysicist who’s leading a massive research project at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.
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We must not think of ourselves
by Grodstein, Lauren
"On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their former lives and held captive by Nazi guards to await an uncertain fate. Weeks later, he is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Would he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. He learns about their childhoods and their daydreams, their passions and their fears, their desperate strategies for safety and survival. The stories form a portrait of endurance in a world where no choices are good ones. One of the people Adam interviews is his flatmate Sala Wiskoff, who is stoic, determined, and funny--and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement, in the presence of her family, Adam and Sala fall in love. As they desperately carve out intimacy, their relationship feels both impossible and vital, their connection keeping them alive. But when Adam discovers a possible escape from the Ghetto, he is faced with an unbearable choice: whom can he save, and at what cost?"
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The leftover woman
by Kwok, Jean
Arriving in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, Jasmine Young, on the run from her abusive husband, desperately searches for the daughter taken away from her at birth, which forces her to make increasingly risky decisions.
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Orbital
by Harvey, Samantha
In an elegy to our humanity, environment and planet, six astronauts, selected for one of the last space station missions, leave their lives behind to travel at a speed of over 17,000 miles an hour to orbit Earth, witnessing the marks of civilization below.
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Interesting facts about space
by Austin, Emily
"Meet Enid: a lesbian who's a serial dater and deaf in one ear. She works at The Space Agency as an information architect, and when she's not obsessing over true crime podcasts, she's managing her crippling phobia of bald people. While she tries not think about her teenage years, she can't seem to stop obsessively watching her childhood YouTube channel. But as Enid fumbles her way through her first serious relationship and navigates a new family life with her estranged half-sisters, she starts to worry that someone is following her. As her paranoia starts to take over her life, and the personal growth she's worked to achieve, she gradually discovers the one thing she can't outrun-herself. Brimming with Emily Austin's signature style, charming characters,and irresistible humor, Interesting Facts about Space will remind you to treasure the relationships you hold most dear, and will offer hope to those who seek to connect in ways they never thought to be possible"
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In every life
by Frey, Rea
When her husband, diagnosed with late-stage cancer, wants her to find a new partner before he dies, Harper is suddenly faced with what-ifs and after making a wish, wakes up in a parallel universe where her what-ifs become a reality, forcing her to make an impossible choice. Original.
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You've reached Sam
by Dustin Thao
After her boyfriend, Sam, dies, Julie gets a second chance at goodbye but finds it hard to keep these otherworldly calls a secret, especially when she witnesses the suffering his family is going through. 75,000 first printing.
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Every moment since
by Whalen, Marybeth
Everyone in Wynotte, North Carolina, knows the name Davy Malcor. Knows the video clip of him juggling four balls, "All at the very same time!" Knows the Marty McFly jacket his mother made for his birthday that he wore proudly, and often. But no one knows what happened to him the night he went missing more than twenty years ago.
When the jacket is unexpectedly uncovered, the cold case reopens, and Davy's family is thrust into yet another media storm.
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Call me Hunter
by Shockey, Jim
A man who will stop at nothing to save his daughter tracks a psychopathic killer who is protected by a 250-year-old secret organization that uses theft, bribery, forgery and murder to acquire the world's greatest works of art.
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The glutton
by Blakemore, A. K.
In 1798 France, in a Versailles hospital lies The Great Tarare, a dying man rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite—an appetite they say tortures him still.
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The fabled Earth
by Brock, Kimberly
Southern mythology and personal reckoning collide in this A A sweeping story inspired by the little-known history of Cumberland Island when a once-in-a-century storm threatens the natural landscape.
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Best in travel 2025
by Lonely Planet
''Discover the greatest places to experience right now in our epic annual bestselling guide that ranks the world's hottest countries, regions, and cities. Featuring our traditional top 10 lists plus new top 10 categories, amazing photography and insider tips, you'll find mountains of inspiration to take you from the ordinary to the unforgettable''
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Lonely Planet's Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth
by Lonely Planet Publications
This illuminating book reveals how cultures and communities around the world grieve their loved ones - with lessons we can all learn from to help us all live (and die) well. Divided into four key chapters: Celebrating, Commemorating, Mourning, and Offering, readers will discover resting places, burials, rituals, and symbols that have been associated with death throughout time
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Notes from Small Planets
by Nate Crowley
Your ultimate travel guide to all the must-see locations in the worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
From misty mountains to wizarding schools, from the homes of superheroes to lairs of infamous villains – visit your favourite worlds and discover new ones – all without ever missing a single landmark or traditional dish. What’s orc for ‘bon voyage’?
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All the beauty in the world
by Patrick Bringley
"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"
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Simply Jamie
by Jamie Oliver
"In five knockout chapters covering Midweek Meals, Weekend Wins, Reliable Roasting Pans, Pantry Love and Delicious Desserts, Jamie has produced a cookbook that will fit seamlessly into your life. Simply Jamie exists to inspire you to get cooking - it's full of delicious, achievable recipes you'll love to make. Whatever your needs, you can trust that these tried and tested recipes will slot right into the rhythms of your week - from 20-minute-to-table dishes and no-time-to-shop pantry rescues to weekend wins that create smart leftover ideas, meaning mealtimes are simple in the days that follow. Recipes include: Jarred Pepper Pasta Roasted Veg with Camembert Fondue Batch-It-Up Bolognese Gochujang Chicken Noodle Bake 8 Cool Ways With Salmon Smash Burger Spicy Paneer & Veg Squash Bake Pantry Raid Fishcakes Hot & Crispy Ice Cream Parcel Epic Sticky Toffee Pudding This is a book about inspiration and bringing joy back into the kitchen"
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Everyday Hockey Heroes
by Bob McKenzie
In this heartfelt collection of personal hockey stories, sports broadcaster and author Jim Lang brings together the remarkable voices of hockey players, coaches, families, and fans who have overcome adversity and are championing the game they love—on and off the ice.
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Framed
by John Grisham
"In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and the corrupt court system that can make them so hard to reverse. Told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of overcoming adversity when the battle already seems lost, and the deck is stacked against you"
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The comfort of crows
by Renkl, Margaret
The beloved New York Times opinion writer and best-selling author presents this stunning literary devotional that follows the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of the year, tracing the passing of the seasons, personal and natural. Illustrations.
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Twenty-four seconds from now...
by Jason Reynolds
The #1 New York Times best-selling author tackles a first-time sexual experience from the guy's perspective in this unfiltered and undeniably sweet stream of consciousness story about teen boy Neon, who is about to experience a huge first with his girlfriend, Aria.
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The lamplighter
by Crystal J. Bell
Temperance, a lamplighter in the 19th-century whaling village of Warbler?—?a position she assumes when her father is found hanging from one of the lampposts?—?seeks to expose the dark truth behind the village's eerie disappearances at the risk of the lives of everyone she loves.
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Heartless hunter
by Kristen Ciccarelli
Moonlighting as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged, Rune courts Gideon Sharpe, an unforgiving witch hunter, while pretending to be a vapid young socialite during the day in order to gain the intel she desperately needs, but she can't help falling for him.
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For she is wrath
by Emily Varga
Escaping from prison to exact revenge against those who framed her for a crime she didn't commit, Dania, armed with power and a new identity, risks losing her humanity to djinn magic and her heart to the boy who betrayed her.
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You've reached Sam
by Dustin Thao
After her boyfriend, Sam, dies, Julie gets a second chance at goodbye but finds it hard to keep these otherworldly calls a secret, especially when she witnesses the suffering his family is going through. 75,000 first printing.
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The Beautiful Game
by Yamile Saied Méndez
When she gets her first period while wearing white shorts during the State Cup semifinal, which unexpectedly eliminates her team, 13-year-old Valeria is relegated to a girls' team for the first time, and with the next tournament fast approaching, she must learn to play like a girl. Simultaneous eBook.
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Starfish
by Lisa Fipps
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies
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Your happiest you
by Judy Woodburn
Provides guidance and advice for girls on the subjects of emotional and spiritual health, disucssing such topics as inspiration, confidence, relationships, kindness, and love
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ARTificial intelligence
by David Biedrzycki
Taking a wrong turn on his way for reprogramming, Robot encounters music, dancing and ART and must learn to express himself and transform the warehouse instead of being recycled.
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The star in you
by Katrina Moore
An inspirational anthem about celebrating the unique“star” that shines brightly within all of us follows a young child on her first day at a new school as she navigates feeling lost and alone, until a kind fellow student offers encouragement.
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The lonely polar bear
by Khoa Le
An orphaned polar bear, accompanied for a while by a little girl, travels through the Arctic, seeking another of his kind. Includes information about polar bears and their habitat
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Welcome to Ai
by Owen Davey
A technoscience expert presents this eye-opening exploration into the history, science and technology behind artificial intelligence, answering mind-boggling questions and showing how, even though we can't see it, AI is everywhere.
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Libby
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Cantook
Borrow ebooks and audiobooks easily through the new and improved Cantook app! |
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KanopyThousands of movies, documentaries, and kids' programs for free with your library card. Start streaming today and explore diverse content anytime, anywhere! Check out the curated kids collection here. |
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Bibliothèque Champlain Library
94 Main St E
Vankleek Hill, Ontario K0B1R0
(613) 678-2216
https://bc-cl.ca/ |
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