We have lots going on for March Break at all of our Library branches, tap the image above to see a complete list! Or find each Library branch's own newsletter at the bottom of this email to find out what they have planned. Some programs require advanced registration so please pay attention to that.
March Reading Challenge
Celebrate Women's History Month with this reading challenge on Beanstack. Log your reading all month long, and while you're at it, why not read something written by or about women!
Jeannie is in trouble. After the loss of her husband, everyone around her is pressuring her to leave her precious farm, including an incredibly persistent realtor who won’t name her client. But when that realtor ends up dead, killed by mistake when she borrows Jeannie’s car, it becomes clear that her client won’t take no for an answer.
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Championed by Olympic gold medallist, Maggie Mac Neil
After witnessing a shocking event, Sarah, starting over in a different city with her husband and son, feels secure in their friendly, tight-knit community until she finds hidden cameras in her new home, causing her to wonder if the past has caught up with her.
Championed by Podcaster and wellness advocate, Shayla Stonechild
A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.
Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality.
Recalling a boyhood full of pain, laughter, tenderness and humor, the beloved bestselling novelist shares his experiences during a time when he was known as“Jennie's Boy,” the sickly son of a tiny, ferocious woman and the grandson of a witty, eccentric grandmother.
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now, as a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families; Lily's previously stateless father wanted them to blend seamlessly into Canadian life, while her mother, alienated and isolated, longed to return to Brunei. Years later, still affected by Swee Hua's disappearance, Lily's family is nonetheless stubbornly silent to her questioning. But eventually, an old family friend provides a clue that sends Lily to Southeast Asia to find out the truth.
If you'd like the Canada Reads books in an accessible format, both CELA and NNELS provide books in audio, braille, print braille and text formats. You can find out which formats are available for each of the books here for CELA and here for NNELS.
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