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Tay Township Public Library
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Newsletter Volume 22
Issue 10 | |
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Mark your calendars for our
Festive Fundraiser! Sunday, November 9th 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Oakwood Community Centre,
Victoria Harbour This seasonal craft show is planned and hosted by the Marjorie Young Volunteer Association (MYVA) and library staff in support of Tay Township Public Library. Join us for a warm drink, check some names off your shopping list, or treat yourself!
Vendors this year include: home decor, maple syrup, decorative lanterns and centerpieces, outdoor planters, sublimation products, jewelry, knitting, crocheted animals and clothing, collectibles, lego, action figures, 3D printing, clothing, wood working, gnomes, ornaments, an author, art, crafts, and more!
For the kids: Button making, Storytime with Mrs. Claus at 2 PM, and Santa Letter kits.
We only have a few tables left!
The registration fee is $30 plus a donation to the prize table. All proceeds go to the MYVA group to support Library programs and special collections. For more information please view the registration form here or stop by a branch to pick up a copy, call, or send us an email at library@taylibrary.ca |
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Ontario Public Library Week
October 19th-25th 📚 Libraries aren’t just for books — they’re for life. From your first story time to discovering new hobbies in retirement — your local library is with you every step of the way.
During Ontario Public Library Week, we celebrate the stories, support, and opportunities libraries offer every stage of life. Whether it’s digital literacy programs, computer access, or just a quiet place to reflect — libraries evolve as we do. 📅 Visit your local branch this week and discover all the ways your library is there for life.
We also invite you to fill out a comment card and tell us:"Why you love Tay Library!"
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It's time to donate to our Seed Library!
Please consider when saving your seeds, to bring some to the library to replenish for next year. Thank you to everyone who has participated this year thus far, we can't wait to see what seeds come our way! We also have some native plant seeds that rely on fall planting that you can pick up. For more information on how to borrow seeds please visit our website. |
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Family Craft Party - Bats and Hats
Saturday, October 25th at 1:00pm Port McNicoll Get in the Halloween spirit with us this month and make some fun decorations. We are making spooky bats and witch hats! For kids aged 4-10
Please send us an email to register. |
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Halloween Costume Party
Thursday, October 30th 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Waubaushene
Join us for snacks, tricks and treats. We are planning some fun games and there will be prizes for scariest, cutest and most creative costume! Great for all ages, drop in.
Please send us an email to register. |
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Storytime for Babies and Tots
Wednesdays at 11 AM in Victoria Harbour Thursdays at 11 AM in Waubaushene Join us as we read books, sing songs, learn, & have fun! No registration required. |
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Pajama Storytime
Wednesdays at 4:30 PM
Victoria Harbour Join us in branch, in your PJs, as we read and talk about our favourite picture books! Geared to ages 5 and up! |
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Game Night!
Thursdays 5:30-7:00 PM Waubaushene
Join us for Game Night with video games and board games. Great for kids of all ages, drop-in. |
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Port McNicoll Youth Activity Group
Halloween Handouts Wednesday, October 29th 6 PM - 8 PM Port McNicoll Library
Serving hot chocolate, creepy craft corner, phantom photo booth, and TONS of goodies to give away. Plus many service groups and local businesses will be handing out candy. |
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Artful Escapes - Beginner Watercolour Painting
Tuesdays October 7th, and
November 4, 2025 5:30 PM - 6:45 PM - Port McNicoll
Create your own work of art and learn some beginner watercolour techniques with video tutorials at the library. Free, all materials provided, for ages 15+, please register as space is limited. Email us! |
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Learn to Play Chess Club
Tuesdays at 12:30 PM Victoria Harbour Never played, but always wanted to? Not played in a long time and need a refresher? Learn to play chess in a group setting. Come join us for a game! |
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Sit and Stitch
Wednesdays at 2:30 PM
Victoria Harbour A casual, drop-in atmosphere. Bring what you are working on and maybe get help from new friends. Knit, crochet, embroidery, mending, if you can bring it and want to share it, stop by and do one more row together. You could also swap yarn and patterns! |
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Mahjong for Beginners
Thursdays at 1:00 PM Victoria Harbour
Mahjong is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century. We are playing the American version of the game. It is played with four players and a set of 152 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols. |
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All three branches have a cart full of donated and discarded books and movies you can purchase from, by donation to the Library.
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Drop in Kids Colouring
Drop in anytime to any branch and visit the table that has crayons and colouring pages where children of all ages can colour and relax. |
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Pole Walking
Did you know that Tay residents can borrow poles for pole walking free of charge all year long? Check them out just like a book at any Library branch. Click here for more info. |
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Borrow a PassClick here to visit our website for more information, or click the images to place your holds! |
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The Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre has provided the Tay Township Public Library with Family Day Passes! This gives you FREE entrance to the Marsh for up to 2 adults and 2 children.
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Visit any Ontario Park for FREE by borrowing an Ontario Parks Vehicle Permit from the Library! Permits allow park entry to any provincial park for one vehicle (excluding busses) and its passengers for the whole day (not for overnight use).
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The Huronia Museum has provided the Tay Township Public Library with 3 Museum Passes! This gives you FREE entrance to the Museum for up to 2 adults and 2 children.
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Apps to read on the go!
Click on the App icons to learn more about cloudLibrary for borrowing eBooks and AudioBooks, and PressReader to view your favourite newspapers and magazines, all on your own device! |
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ComicsPlus
Enjoy unlimited access to thousands of digital comics, mangas and graphic novels for free with your Tay Township Library card! No holds, wait lists or limits!
To access Comics Plus:
1. Visit login.librarypass.com, or download and install the LibraryPass app for iOS or Android.
2. Search for Simcoe Digital Library Service, and enter your library card number. 3. Read all the comics! |
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Download the Simcoe County Libraries app and log in with your library card to access your account and place holds today.
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Reciprocal Borrowing |
If you are currently a member in good standing at your Library, you are entitled to a free Library membership at any of these Libraries!
Clearview Public Library
Essa Public Library
Penetanguishene Public Library
Ramara Public Library
Severn Public Library
Springwater Public Library
Midland Public Library
Click here for more information
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Library Board Information |
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Library Board Members:
Heather Walker (Chair)
Janet McFadden (Vice Chair)
Laura Adams
Gerard LaChapelle (Council Representative)
Sandy Talbot (Council Representative) |
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Overdue items?
We started collection of overdue fines on May 1st. Just keep renewing or returning items on time and you will have nothing to worry about. All books are 25 cents per day overdue, everything else is $1.00 per day. Ask library staff for more information. |
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New Titles for your holds!
Click the images to display in our catalogue to place a hold. |
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The Academy
Elin Hilderbrand When a surprise national ranking thrusts underachieving Tiffin Academy into the spotlight, a viral gossip app begins exposing students' and staff's secrets, unraveling reputations and relationships as the boarding school's carefully curated image gives way to chaos, scandal and unexpected alliances. |
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How Bad Things Can Get
Darcy Coates
Prosperity Island. Its history is filled with shipwrecks, cannibalism, and a string of unexplained deaths. And now it hosts the party of the century. A content creator millionaire and more than a hundred of his fans land on the beach. The plan -- five days of elaborate games, drinking, and suntanned fun. Among the guests are a woman trying to hide from her bloody and notorious past, and a video journalist hunting for the next big scandal. The celebrations have barely started when the first guests go missing. Games take a deadly turn. And attendees are forced to question whether they've really been invited to paradise -- or whether something much darker is boiling just under the surface. |
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The Austen Affair
Madeline Bell
Tess Bright just scored her dream role starring in an adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. It's not just the role of a lifetime, but it's also her last chance to prove herself as a serious actress (no easy feat after being fired from her last TV gig) and more importantly, it's her opportunity to honor her mom, who was the biggest fan of Jane Austen ever. But one thing is standing in Tess's way -- well, one very tall, annoyingly handsome person, actually -- Hugh Balfour. A serious British method actor, Hugh wants nothing to do with Tess (whose Teen Choice Awards somehow don't quite compare to his BAFTA nominations). Hugh is a type-A, no-nonsense, Royal Academy prodigy, whereas Tess is big-hearted, a little reckless, and admittedly, kind of a mess. But the film needs chemistry and Tess's career depends on it. Sparks fly, but not in the way Tess hoped, when an electrical accident sends the two feuding co-stars back in time to Jane Austen's era. 200 years in the past with only each other to rely on, Tess and Hugh need to ad-lib their way through the Regency period in order to make it back home, and hopefully not screw up history along the way. But if a certain someone looks particularly dashing in those 19th century breeches -- well, Tess won't be complaining.
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All This Could Be Yours
Hank Philippi Ryan
Debut sensation Tessa Calloway is on a whirlwind book tour for her instant bestseller, All This Could Be Yours. In a different city every night, Tessa receives standing ovations from adoring fans while her husband Henry and their two children cheer her on from their brand-new dream house. But there's a chilling problem with Tessa's triumphant book tour-she soon discovers she is being stalked by someone who's obsessed not only with sabotaging her career, but also with destroying her perfect family back home. Tessa fears the fallout from an impossible decision she once made-what felt like a genuine deal with the devil-appears to be coming due. And she's realizing that every high-stakes bargain comes with a high-stakes price. If Tessa can't untangle who's threatening to expose her darkest secrets, she'll lose her career, her family-and possibly her life.
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This Will Be Fun
E. B. Asher
Ten years ago, they saved the realm and it ruined their lives. Now, four former heroes must reunite, and hopefully live to tell the tale. Everyone in Mythria knows the story of how best friends Beatrice and Elowen, handsome ex-bandit Clare, and valiant leader Galwell the Great defended the realm from darkness. It’s a tale beloved by all -- except them. They haven’t spoken in a decade, devastated by what their quest cost them. But when they all receive an invitation to the Queen of Mythria’s wedding, it’s a summons they can’t refuse and a reunion for the ages, with Clare secretly not over his long-ago fling with Beatrice, Beatrice fighting the guilt she feels over how everything ended, Elowen unprepared for the return of her ex-love (the cunning Vandra), and all of them lost without Galwell. And if reuniting with former friends and lovers wasn’t perilous enough, dark forces from their past have also returned. Dusting off old weapons and old instincts, Beatrice, Clare, and Elowen will face undead nemeses, crystal caves, enchanted swords, coffee shops, games of magical Truth or Dare, and, hardest of all, their past rife with wounds never healed and romances never forgotten. This time around, will their story end in happily ever after?
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Exiles
Mason Coile
The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray--the machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and picked up some disturbing beliefs. Each must be interrogated. But one of them is missing. In this barren, hostile landscape where even machines have nightmares, the astronauts will need to examine all the stories--especially their own--to get to the truth. Exiles is a terrifying, taut, one-sitting read, and Mason Coile once again blends science fiction and psychological horror to engage some of humanity's deepest questions. |
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Essential Great Britain : with the Best of England, Scotland and Wales
Fodor's TravelWhether you want to explore London, hike the Scottish Highlands, or marvel at Stonehenge, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Great Britain are here to help! Fodor’s Essential Great Britain guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. |
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A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World
Tom Phillips
Do you feel like we're living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another? Here's a small comfort: you're not the first to feel that way. If there's one thing that people throughout history have agreed on, it's that history wasn't going to be around for much longer. This book is about the apocalypse, and how humans have always believed it to be very f*cking nigh. Across thousands of years, we'll meet weird cults, failed prophets and mass panics, holy warriors leading revolts in anticipation of the last days, and suburbanites waiting for aliens to rescue them from a doomed Earth. We'll journey back to the 'worst period to be alive', as the world reeled from a simultaneous pandemic and climate crisis. And we'll look to the future to ask the unnerving question: how might it all end? But it's also a book about how we live in a world where catastrophe is always looming, whether it's a madman with a nuclear button or the slow burn of environmental collapse. Because when we talk about the end of the world, what we really mean is the end of our world. Our obsession with doomsday is really about change: our fear of it, and our desire for it, and how ultimately, we can find hope in it.
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Invasive Terrestrial Plant Species : A Quick Reference Guide
OFAH Foundation Donated by the Severn Sound Associaion (SSEA)
This is a handy picture-heavy guides containing identification features for Ontario’s most common invasive plants. Other titles inlude Invasive Fish Species, Invasive Aaquatic Plant Species, and Invasive Aquatic Invertebrate Species. |
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The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy
Jenny HanBelly has always lived for the summertime, because summer means all her favorite things: swimming, the beach, and the Fisher boys, Conrad and Jeremiah. For as long as she can remember, she’s shared her summers with the brothers at Cousins Beach. And for as long as she can remember, she’s been in love with Conrad. Then one summer it seems like he might have feelings for her too—but so does Jeremiah.
As the summer seasons pass, Belly has to choose between two brothers who love her…and she’ll have to break one of their hearts. |
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Bob the Vampire Snail
Andrea Zuill Did you know all snails are named Bob? It's a fact! And this is the story of one of those Bobs and the night his life changed forever. First, he heard a SCREAM... then a C-R-A-C-K... and then he felt a drip, drip, drip... and then, poof! He was a vampire snail.
Fangs? Check. No reflection? Check. Wings? You bet. And so Bob, now very different from all the other Bobs, sets out to live life as a vampire snail, discovering his knack for sleeping upside down and his taste for tomatoes. He's alone in his vampire-ness, until one day Bob meets someone very similar.... |
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Big Nate No Harm Done!
Lincoln Peirce
It’s back-to-school time for sixth-grader Nate Wright, and this just might be the best year ever! Rumors are flying that the villainous Mrs. Godfrey is now teaching EIGHTH grade. Chad is on the verge of destroying Gina in the race for class president. And could Nate finally realize his dream of changing the school mascot to . . . a sea cucumber? Hey, why not? He’s a can-do kind of guy. So when the Weekly Bugle needs a story, Nate’s happy to make headlines—by (allegedly) starting an epic food fight in the cafetorium! In this latest collection of gut-busting Big Nate comics, Nate’s always stirring things up, but at the end of every day, P.S. 38 is still standing. In other words: NO HARM DONE! |
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Elio [DVD]
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be. |
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Ballerina[DVD]
From the world of John Wick. An assassin trained in the traditions of the Ruska Roma organization sets out to seek revenge after her father's death. |
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Neighborhood Watch [DVD]
Simon, a young man grappling with mental illness, becomes convinced that he has witnessed an abduction of a young woman. When he reports it to the police and they refuse to believe him, he reluctantly seeks the help of his neighbor Ed, a jaded retired security guard with his own troubled past. As the unlikely duo delves deeper into the mystery, their pursuit of the truth forces them to confront not only the dark secrets surrounding the disappearance. |
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The Boys Season 4[DVD]
The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under Homelander’s muscly thumb as he consolidates his power. Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son, and his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they must find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late.
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