Shelburne Library News: Literacy, Living, and Learning @ YOUR Library!

September 2, 2016 · 0 Comments

The Shelburne Public Library will host an evening of exciting and educational events for Culture Days/Savour Shelburne on Friday, September 30, from 5 to 8 p.m.

We will have book-ish hors d’oeuvres, poetry and six-word memoir walls you can write on, as well as short group sessions on how to use our Ancestry database! (Registration required) You can let us know you’re coming by calling or coming into the library, or by adding our activity to your Culture Days schedule @ www.culturedays.ca.

Watch for details on Facebook (/shelburnelibrary) and our website.

Children’s programs

Storytime will be starting on Friday, September 30 at 10.30 p.m. for ages two and up.

Paws to Read is back on Wednesdays after school, starting on Wednesday, September 14, at 3.30 to 4.30. The sessions are 15 minutes each. Watch the paper for the Lego Club details.

Teen Scene
Teen Scene will commence once again this Thursday, September 1 from 6 – 7 p.m. This club includes crafts, book-ish themed events, multimedia viewings, and MUCH more.

We are always looking for new members!

For those who are also interested in joining our Pizza & Pages book club, which meets the last Thursday of each month, copies of this month’s book of choice, Gone Too Far, will be available at the Teen Scene meetings.

If you plan on coming out to any of these events, stop by the circulation desk or call the library.

NEW BOOKS

Fiction:
Since She Went Away by David Bell
Sunshine Beach by Wendy Wax
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
The Devil’s Cold Dish by Eleanor Kuhns
If I Forget You by Thomas Christopher Greene
Widowmaker by Paul Doiron
The Graveyard of the Hesperides by Lindsey Davis
Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
The Curse of Tenth Grave by Darynda Jones
A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams
Defender by Diana Palmer
Baby Doll by Hollie Overton
The Second Half by Lauraine Snelling
The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown

Non-fiction:
Self-reg: How to Help Your Child and You Break The Stress Cycle and Successfully
Engage with Life by Dr. Stuart Shanker
50 Baby Booties to Knit by Zoe Mellor
501 Quilt Blocks: A Treasury of Patchwork and Applique by Better Homes and Gardens
God and the Afterlife by Jeffrey Long, M.D.
Hidden Ontario: Secrets from Ontario’s past (second edition) by Terry Boyle
The Girl Who Beat Isis by Farida Khalaf