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Family Literacy Day Tips

2012-01-27T07:37:00.000-08:00

January 27 is Family Literacy Day. Here are some tips from Today's Parent magazine on creating a great story time at home.

Storytime is an oasis of calm, when the outside world turns off, and a family takes a journey together to imagined worlds. The list of things to bring along on that journey is quite simple: you, the kids, and a couple of books. Storytime is the most portable, adaptable of family rituals, and here are some tips to ensure the journey is smooth for everyone.

Create a space in your home where the stories happen, where arrival is a signal that the day is winding down. This can be a comfy couch or chair, or somebody’s bed. The best spaces have dimmed lighting, provide opportunities for cuddling and are free of distractions. A pile of books should be close at hand, a mixture of new tales and familiar favourites.
Don’t censor, but curate. Give your kids access to the books that they want to read, but acknowledge that not all books are created equal. Leave the noisy battery-powered books in the playroom, save the books that wind your kids up for morning or afternoon. Some books aren’t books as much as marketing devices or morality lessons in disguise, and some books just aren’t very good — skip these ones at story-time. Also skip the books that you don’t enjoy, because the enthusiasm required for successful reading aloud cannot be faked. Storytime deserves only the very best books. For tips on how to find these best books, consult the experts: your local librarian or bookseller. Also, make regular library visits to change your books up often.
You don’t have to be a genius with voices. If you happen to be a genius with voices, then dramatize away, but those of us who are not-so inclined have other tools at our disposal. Use the natural expressiveness you’d employ in everyday conversation. Focus on punctuation and line-breaks — here, the author is giving us a clue as to when to skip a beat for emphasis. Speed up and slow down your reading to create suspense. Vary between soft and louder tones. And pay attention to the ending. Drag that last sentence out as long as you can, and pause with the book open for a moment or two so that you all can reflect upon what you’ve just experienced.
Make it fun. Although it is through storytime that your kids will be awakened to the power of stories and discover why learning to read might be a worthwhile endeavour, this is not the time for beginning-readers’ skills to be put to the test. At storytime, the pressure is off, and the point is for everyone to enjoy themselves.
Make it work. Adapt the storytime ritual to suit your family’s needs. Read in the language you’re most comfortable with. If a busy schedule necessitates it, read together at the dinner table, listen to audio books in the car, read together on Saturday mornings snuggled in bed. It really doesn’t matter when or where it’s done, the point is just to do it.

February Adult Book Group

2012-01-24T12:56:00.000-08:00

The Lincoln Public Library Adult Book Group will next meeting Thursday February 16 at 1:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the Fleming (Beamsville) Library.

The group will be reading biographies of people who have overcome adversity.

For more information, contact Jill at 905-563-7014.

January Top Ten

2012-01-10T13:34:00.000-08:00

Top Ten Adult Novels

The Litigators by John Grisham
The Affair by Lee Child
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Drop by Michael Connelly
Shock Wave by John Sandford
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt
Kill Alex Cross by James Patterson
The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

Top Ten Adult DVDs

Water for Elephants
Bridesmaids
Amish Grace
The King's Speech
Horrible Bosses
Pirates of the Caribbean
Crazy, Stupid Love
Super 8
The Help
Bad Teacher

December Top Ten

2011-12-06T12:47:00.000-08:00

Books

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Affair by Lee Child
The Litigators by John Grisham
Shock Wave by John Sandford
The Drop by Michael Connelly
The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson
Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Exposive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
Lethal by Sandra Brown

DVDs

Bridesmaids
Amish Grace
Horrible Bosses
Crazy, Stupid Love
Water for Elephants
The King's Speech
Transformers
Bad Teacher
Thor
Cars 2

2012 Canada Reads Titles

2011-11-23T08:51:00.000-08:00

The 2012 Canada Reads books were announced Wednesday November 23 on CBC Radio One’s program Q by host and Canada Reads moderator Jian Ghomeshi, along with the celebrity panellists who have chosen titles to defend in a series of four hour-long debates to be staged live in Toronto and airing on CBC Feb. 6-9.

The books and defending panellists are:

• Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat, to be defended Arlene Dickinson, from CBC-TV’s Dragons’ Den.

• Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre, to be defended by Anne-France Goldwater, star of Quebec’s reality-TV courtroom show l’Arbitre.

• On a Cold Road by Dave Bidini, to be defended by supermodel Stacey McKenzie.

• The Tiger by John Vaillant, to be defended by award-winning rapper Shad.

• The Game by Ken Dryden, to be defended by actor and TV star Alan Thicke.

Now in its 11th year, Canada Reads is highlighting non-fiction for the first time.

Governor General Literary Award Winners 2011

2011-11-16T08:02:00.000-08:00

Fiction

Patrick deWitt, Portland (Oregon) [originally from Vancouver Island], The Sisters Brothers
(House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada)
Brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters are at the centre of this “great greedy heart” of a book. A rollicking tale of hired guns, faithful horses and alchemy. The ingenious prose of Patrick DeWitt conveys a dark and gentle touch.

Poetry

Phil Hall, Perth (Ontario), Killdeer
(BookThug; distributed by Literary Press Group)
Killdeer by Phil Hall realizes a masterly modulation of the elegiac through poetic time. It releases the personal from the often binding axis of the egoistic into that kind of humility that only a profound love of language – and of living – can achieve.

Drama

Erin Shields, Toronto, If We Were Birds
(Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press)
If We Were Birds is a bold and brilliant retelling of a classical myth. The language is poetic and contemporary. Erin Shields creates a haunting and viscerally impactful play about the sexual politics of war. She invites us into a world of complicated family relationships, dangerous sexuality, revenge and fierce loyalty.

Non-fiction

Charles Foran, Peterborough (Ontario), Mordecai: The Life & Times
(Alfred A. Knopf Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada)
Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran is biography as high art, illuminating not only the character of Canada’s most provocative writer, but also, in the most vivid and compelling fashion, the times and places in which he lived. This is a grand, sweeping work that sets the standard for future literary biography.

Children’s Literature — Text

Christopher Moore, Toronto, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
(Tundra Books; distributed by Random House of Canada)
From Then to Now: A Short History of the World, by Christopher Moore, is a fascinating examination of the evolution of human civilization that is global in its span and inclusive in its outlook. The energetic narrative tells a story that rivals the very best fiction.

Children’s Literature — Illustration

Cybèle Young, Toronto, Ten Birds, text by Cybèle Young
(Kids Can Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press)
Ten Birds is a whimsical, surreal visual riddle. A disarmingly simple story becomes a complex discussion of the adjectives used to “pigeon-hole” individuals in society. Cybèle Young’s beautifully crafted pen and ink images describe a journey to simply cross a river. Ironically none of the birds can fly, but ultimately the simplest answer may be the best.

New Fiction Titles for Winter 2012

2011-11-10T11:14:00.000-08:00

The library has just ordered the following fiction titles which will arrive after the new year. If they are not listed as on order, please send a message on the suggestion to purchase form. If you would like a response, please include your email address.

Archer, Jeffrey: Sins of the Father
Blackstock, Terri: Downfall
Bowen, Gail: Kaleidoscope
Boyne, John: Absolutist
Brockmann, Suzanne: Born to Darkness
Chiaverini, Jennifer: Sonoma Rose
Clancy, Tom: Locked On
Clark, Carol Higgins: Gypped
Clark, Mary Higgins: Lost Years
Clark, Mary Jane: Look of Love
Coben, Harlan: Stay Close
Cox, Josephine: Three Letters
Crais, Robert: Taken
Crombie, Deborah: No Mark Upon Her
Cussler, Clive: Thief
De Rosnay, Tatiana: House I Loved
Evanovich, Janet: Love in a Nutshell
Evans, Richard Paul: Road to Grace
Ferguson, Will: 419
Gardner, Lisa: Catch Me
George, Elizabeth: Believing the Lie
Grippando, James: Need You Now
Hannah, Kristin: Home Front
Herbert, Brian: Sisterhood of the Dune
Higgins, Jack: Devil is Waiting
James, Peter: Perfect People
Jance, J. A.: Left for Dead
Kellerman, Faye: Gun Games
Kellerman, Jonathan: Victims
King, Stephen: Wind through the Keyhole
Kingsbury, Karen: Loving
Knsella, Sophoe: I've got your number
Koontz, Dean: 77 Shadow Street
Lescroart, John: Hunter
MacIntyre, Linden: Why Men Lie
Margolin, Phillip: Capital Murder
McCall Smith, Alexander: Limpopop Academy of Private Detection
Nattel, Lilian: Web of Angels
Oates, Joyce C.: Mudwoman
Palmer, Michael: Oath of Office
Paretsky, Sarah: Breakdown
Parker, T. Jefferson: Jaguar
Patterson, James: Private Games
Patterson, Richard North: Fall from Grace
Perry, Anne: Dorchester Terrace
Perry, Thomas: Poison Flower
Picoult, Jodi: Lone Wolf
Robb, J. D.: Celebrity in Death
Rotenberg, Robert: Stray Bullets
Sawyer, Robert J.: Triggers
Scottoline, Lisa: Come Home
Sheldon, Sidney: Angel of the Dark
Steel, Danielle: Betrayal
Ward, J. R.: Lover Reborn
Woods, Stuart: D. C. Dead
Woodsmall, Cindy: Scent of Cherry Blossoms

Author Esi Edugyan takes home the Giller Prize

2011-11-09T10:36:00.000-08:00

Put a hold on Half-Blood Blues today!

John Barber
Globe and Mail Update
Published Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2011 10:06PM EST
Last updated Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2011 11:21AM EST

Calgary-born novelist Esi Edugyan has prevailed against almost 150 other Canadian novelists to win the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize, worth $50,000.

Clearly taken aback by her triumph, Ms. Edugyan acknowledged her fellow competitors and Patrick Crean of Thomas Allen Publishers, “who saved this book when it most needed saving” following the bankruptcy of Key Porter Books, her original publisher.

Esi Edugyan on her Giller prize win A new mother resplendent in a black gown and sparkling silver necklace, Ms. Edugyan offered special thanks to her father, Kweku, an immigrant from Ghana who brought his family to Canada in the 1970s.

“It's a great blessing to be nominated for four awards but there's also a lot of stress,” she said, adding that she hoped to relax before attending next week's ceremony to award the Governor-General's Literary Award, for which Half-Blood Blues was also nominated.

It's been just a miraculous year in all spheres of my life – an embarrassment of riches,” she said. “I could die tomorrow and everything is wonderful.”

Ms. Edugyan’s award-winning novel is narrated by a long-retired jazz sideman in 20th-century Baltimore who joins an old friend as they revisit Europe to attend the debut of a documentary film about a legendary German trumpet soloist with whom the pair toured the continent in the 1930s. Sid Griffiths deals with mixed emotions and harsh memories as he recalls the trauma of being a black musician in Hitler’s Germany, struggling to make what will become a legendary recording as war descends and fragile trumpeter Hieronymous Falk, the son of a German mother and French colonial soldier, disappears into the maw of the Nazi death machine.

Described by the Giller Prize jury as “a joyful lament,” Half-Blood Blues celebrates the persistence of genius even as it catalogues the sacrifices demanded by art, which in Sid’s case included a lifetime of guilt and regret.

Born in Calgary to Ghanian immigrants, Ms. Edugyan, 33, has enjoyed an eventful career. Currently teaching creative writing at the University of Victoria, she has also taught at Johns Hopkins University and held fellowships in Scotland, Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Spain and Belgium.

Ms. Edugyan’s first novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, was published internationally to widespread praise in 2004. Its appearance set in doubt by the bankruptcy of publisher Key Porter Books earlier this year, the Canadian edition of Half-Blood Blues was revived from near-death by Thomas Allen Publishers, one of three independent Canadian publishers represented on the six-book Giller shortlist.

Ms. Edugyan won the Giller against an unusually strong list of finalists that included Patrick deWitt’s much-nominated and award-winning The Sisters Brothers, along with two other novels that have drawn glowing reviews internationally: Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table and David Bezmozgis’s The Free World. Also nominated for the 2011 Giller were Lynn Coady’s novel The Antagonist and Zsuzsi Gartner’s Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, a short-story collection.

Regarded as Canada’s pre-eminent literary prize, the well-promoted and televised Scotiabank Giller Prize routinely transforms winners into bestsellers. Originally published in an edition of a few hundred copies, last year’s winner – The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud – went on to become one of the best-selling novels of the year.

This year’s prize was awarded by a three-person jury comprised of Howard Norman of the United States, Britain’s Andrew O’Hagan and Canadian novelist Annabel Lyon.

Named for literary journalist Doris Giller, the prize was founded and endowed in 1994 by her husband, Jack Rabinovitch, with the intention of drawing greater attention to Canadian literature and stimulating sales. Co-sponsored by Scotiabank since 2005, the prize has so far generated more than $60-million in book sales, according to organizers.

November Top Ten

2011-11-04T09:43:00.000-07:00

Adult Books

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Affair by Lee Child
Kill Me if You can by James Patterson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Lethal by Sandra Brown
Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
Shock Wave by John Sandford
Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
From This Moment On by Shania Twain (autobiography)
The Cats Table by Michael Ondaatje

Adult DVDs

Bridesmaids
The Kings Speech
Amish Grace
The Green Hornet
Thor
Limitless
Beastly
Jane Eyre
The Grace Card
The Tourist

Sense of an Ending

2011-10-19T09:00:00.000-07:00

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

Put a hold on this title today!

October Adult Book Group

2011-10-17T12:45:00.000-07:00

The October Adult Book Group has been cancelled. We will meet again on November 17 to discuss Three Cups of Tea.

Edugyan, deWitt shortlisted for Governor General literary award

2011-10-11T12:53:00.000-07:00

Edugyan, deWitt shortlisted for Governor General literary award

Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press
Oct 11, 2011

The celebration continues for Canadian authors Esi Edugyan and Patrick deWitt.

The authors are now in the running for an astonishing four literary awards apiece this fall. The latest nomination came this morning when both made the short list for the Governor General's Literary Awards.

Victoria-based Edugyan made the cut for Half-Blood Blues, about black jazz musicians trying to survive in Europe during the Second World War

DeWitt is a nominee for The Sisters Brothers, a comical western set amid the 1850s California gold rush.

Both books are already finalists for Britain's Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Toronto author and filmmaker David Bezmozgis is also on the Governor General's list with The Free World, which is also a finalist for the Giller. Other fiction authors up for this year's G-G literary awards include Edmonton's Marina Endicott for The Little Shadows and Alexi Zentner for Touch.

This is the 75th anniversary of the awards, which are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts and honour literature in seven categories, in both official languages.

Winners will be announced on Nov. 15.

A selection of English-language nominees for this year's Governor General's Literary Awards:

Fiction

David Bezmozgis, The Free World (HarperCollins Publishers)

Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brother (House of Anansi Press)

Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (Thomas Allen Publishers)

Marina Endicott, The Little Shadow (Doubleday Canada)

Alexi Zentner, Touch (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)

Non-fiction

Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)

Nathan M. Greenfield, The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45 (HarperCollins Publishers)

Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891 (Random House Canada)

J.J. Lee, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit (McClelland & Stewart)

Andrew Nikiforuk, Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests (Greystone Books)

Poetry

Michael Boughn, Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic (BookThug)

Kate Eichhorn, Fieldnotes, A Forensic (BookThug)

Phil Hall, Killdeer (BookThug)

Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages (Talonbooks)

Susan Musgrave, Origami Dove (McClelland & Stewart)

October Top Ten

2011-10-06T17:48:00.000-07:00

Books

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Kill Me if You Can by James Patterson

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

The Affair by Lee Child

The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

Now You See Her by James Patterson

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen

Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews

Happy Birthday by Danielle Steel

DVDs

The Kings Speech

I am Number Four

The Green Hornet

Limitless

Bridesmaids

The Lincoln Lawyer

Just go with It

No Strings Attached

Source Code

The Adjustment

2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist

2011-10-05T09:05:00.000-07:00

ABOUT THE 2011 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALISTS
Bezmozgis, David | The Free World
published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE FREE WORLD by David Bezmozgis. Copyright © 2011 by Nada Films Inc. Excerpted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

Jury Citation:
"This chronicle of the Krasnansky family, Soviet-Jewish refugees are stranded in Rome, has the strange immediacy of a family album where the photographs light up and start talking. The narrative is so often pulled backward in time, it evokes Sholom Aleichem’s proverb that "In Jewish thought eternity resides in the past." But The Free World is also a very modern, very hip, intellectually intimate, electrically comic novel, all the while a passionate re-telling of the most ancient sort of immigrant story, full of vicissitudes, nerv-wracking doubt and unforeseen joys. David Bezmozgis has done the near impossible - given us a story with pointillist detail as well as historically operatic dimensions. A truly magical writer."

Biography:
David Bezmozgis was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1973. In 1980 he immigrated with his parents to Toronto. He received an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from McGill University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Harper’s, The New Yorker and The Walrus, and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, 2005. Natasha became a national bestseller and was published to widespread critical acclaim. David Bezmozgis lives in Toronto.
Coady, Lynn | The Antagonist
published by House of Anansi Press
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE ANTAGONIST by Lynn Coady. Copyright © 2011 Lynn Coady. Excerpted by permission of House of Anansi Press Inc. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. www.anansi.ca

Jury Citation:
"Lynn Coady’s novel The Antagonist is perfectly titled. Its main character, Rank, is hassled, cajoled and bullied by his hockey coach, classmates and most relentlessly by his own outlandish lout of a father into becoming a nearly twisted psychopath. Yet deep down he’s nothing of the sort. In middle age, Rank discovers a secret novel written by his university friend Adam, in which he is harshly depicted. Rank becomes a cyber-stalker, trying to correct in emails all wrongful indictments set forth in the novel. This zany epistolary life comprises one of the most eccentric and memorable autobiographies you’re likely to read. In this antagonistic tour-de-force, Ms. Coady shows us betrayal up close and personal. This author is a virtuoso of sympathetic edginess."

Biography:
Lynn Coady is an award-winning author, editor, and journalist. Her previous novels include Saints of Big Harbour, which was a national bestseller and a Globe and Mail Top 100 book, and Mean Boy, a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. Her popular advice column, Group Therapy, runs weekly in the Globe and Mail. Coady is originally from Cape Breton Island, NS, and is now living in Edmonton, Alberta.
deWitt, Patrick | The Sisters Brothers
published by House of Anansi Press
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE SISTERS BROTHERS by Patrick deWitt. Copyright © 2011 Patrick deWitt. Excerpted by permission of House of Anansi Press Inc. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. www.anansi.ca

Jury Citation:
"If you fear that Canadian literary fiction is becoming mortally po-faced, Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers might be the perfect antidote. Combine equal parts slapstick brutality, howling humour, and prose grace; slug it back neat, brush your teeth for the first time ever with the bemused wonder of a hired assassin on a half-blind horse; and repeat. deWitt has thrown the Western up in the air and brought it down new and strange and ferociously alive."

Biography:
Patrick deWitt was born on Vancouver Island in 1975. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Ablutions, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice book. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and son.
Edugyan, Esi | Half-Blood Blues
published by Thomas Allen Publishers
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from HALF-BLOOD BLUES by Esi Edugyan. Copyright © 2011 Esi Edugyan. Excerpted by permission of Thomas Allen Publishers. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

Jury Citation:
"Imagine Mozart were a black German trumpet player and Salieri a bassist, and 18th century Vienna were WWII Paris; that’s Esi Edugyan’s joyful lament, Half-Blood Blues. It’s conventional to liken the prose in novels about jazz to the music itself, as though there could be no higher praise. In this case, say rather that any jazz musician would be happy to play the way Edugyan writes. Her style is deceptively conversational and easy, but with the simultaneous exuberance and discipline of a true prodigy. Put this book next to Louis Armstrong’s "West End Blues" - these two works of art belong together."

Biography:
Esi Edugyan has degrees from the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Best New American Voices 2003. Her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne was published internationally to critical acclaim. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Gartner, Zsuzsi | Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
published by Hamish Hamilton Canada
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from BETTER LIVING THROUGH PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES by Zsuzsi Gartner. Copyright © Zsuzsi Gartner, 2011. Excerpted by permission of Hamish Hamilton Canada/ Penguin Group (Canada). All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

Jury Citation:
"Readers who doubt the modern world is grotesque and hilarious, heart‐stopping and wild, may discover they are delighted with Zsuzsi Gartner’s wonderful collection of stories, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives. From the specifications of covetable stereo equipment to the worries of the former terrorist, from the language of IKEA to gardening as warfare, this book shows the short story form at its savage best, each story capturing, with brilliant economy and grace, not only entire worlds but whole mindsets as they explode into eloquence. Gartner is one of the supreme noticers in contemporary fiction, and with this book she has produced a rare work of wisdom and laughter"

Biography:
Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling story collection All the Anxious Girls on Earth and the editor of Darwin’s Bastard’s: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow. She is the winner of a 2007 National Magazine Award for Fiction and the recipient of numerous awards for her magazine journalism. She lives in Vancouver.
Ondaatje, Michael | The Cat's Table
published by McClelland & Stewart
Click here to read the first few pages Excerpted from THE CAT’S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje. Copyright © 2011 by Michael Ondaatje. Excerpted by permission of McClelland & Stewart. All Rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

Jury Citation:
"A beautiful mingling of memory and imagination takes place in Michael Ondaatje’s novel The Cat’s Table. It is the early 1950s, and a passenger ship, the Oronsay, makes its way to England over the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean. On board is our 11-year-old narrator Michael, who eats his meals at the unglamorous cat’s table, where he joins a group of boys and adult eccentrics, all of whom have stories to tell and lives to live, or live down. The journey will change them all in ways that only time will tell. A mature, shimmering work of fiction, Ondaatje’s novel is rich in images, precise in its language, and wise about the way people can be haunted by their own experience."

Biography:
Michael Ondaatje is the author of novels, a memoir, a non-fiction book on film, and 11 books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize; another of his novels, Anil’s Ghost, won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Medicis
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Author Evening - October 17

2011-09-23T07:57:00.000-07:00

The Lincoln Public Library will be hosting an Author Evening on October 17 as part of its 2011 Ontario Public Library Week celebrations.

Sandra Orchard, author of Deep Cover, part of the Harlequin Love Inspired series, will be reading from her works and Elizabeth Mittler, freelance writer will talk about the writing process.

The Author Evening will be held at the Lincoln Centre, 4361 Central Ave. in Beamsville. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. with light refreshments and live jazz music. The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $7 in advance at both Library locations and $10 at the door.

For more details, go to the Library's website - www.lincoln.library.on.ca or contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.

October Book Group Title

2011-09-16T16:01:00.000-07:00

The Adult Book Group will be reading the Three Cups of Tea for the October adult book club meeting on Thursday October 20 at 1:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the Beamsville library.

For more information, call Jill at 905-563-7014.

September Top Ten

2011-09-12T08:53:00.000-07:00

Adult Books

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Steig Larsson
Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Legacy by Danielle Steel
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Room by Emma Donoghue

Adult DVDs

The Kings Speech
The Green Hornet
I am Number Four
Gnomeo & Juliet
Just Go With It
The Adjustment Bureau
The Tourist
L:imitless
No Strings Attached
True Grit

2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Long list

2011-09-08T11:41:00.000-07:00

SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2011 ANNOUNCES ITS LONGLIST

September 6, 2011 (Toronto, ON) – The 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury today announced its longlist of books in the running for this year’s award. The jury selected 16 titles out of 143 books – a record-setting number of submissions – put forward by 55 publishers from every region of Canada.

This year’s jury is made up of: award-winning Canadian writer and 2009 Giller finalist Annabel Lyon; American author, memoirist and Guggenheim fellow Howard Norman; and acclaimed UK playwright and prize-winning novelist Andrew O’Hagan.

Two thousand and eleven marks the 18th year of the prize.

The 143 books of fiction received this year represent a nearly 50% increase in submissions received in any other year since the prize was incepted in 1994.

From a large and highly competitive field, the Scotiabank Giller Prize jury selected the following titles for this year’s longlist:

David Bezmozgis for his novel THE FREE WORLD, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Clarke Blaise for his short story collection THE MEAGRE TARMAC, Biblioasis
Lynn Coady for her novel THE ANTAGONIST, House of Anansi Press
Michael Christie for his short story collection THE BEGGAR’S GARDEN, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Patrick DeWitt for his novel THE SISTERS BROTHERS, House of Anansi Press
*Myrna Dey for her novel EXTENSIONS, NeWest Press
Esi Edugyan for her novel HALF-BLOOD BLUES, Thomas Allen Publishers
Marina Endicott for her novel THE LITTLE SHADOWS, Doubleday Canada
Zsuzsi Gartner for her short story collection BETTER LIVING THROUGH PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES, Hamish Hamilton Canada
Genni Gunn for her novel SOLITARIA, Signature Editions
Pauline Holdstock for her novel INTO THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Wayne Johnston for his novel A WORLD ELSEWHERE, Knopf Canada
Dany Laferrière for his novel THE RETURN (translation, David Homel), Douglas & McIntyre
Suzette Mayr for her novel MONOCEROS, Coach House Books
Michael Ondaatje for his novel THE CAT’S TABLE, McClelland & Stewart
Guy Vanderhaeghe for his novel A GOOD MAN, McClelland & Stewart
Alexi Zentner for his novel TOUCH, Knopf Canada

September Adult Book Discussion Group

2011-08-23T11:04:00.000-07:00

The next Adult Book Discussion Group meeting will take place Thursday September 15 at 1:30 p.m.

This month's topic is 'Summer Reading'.

For more information or to join contact Jill at 905-563-7014.

Pottermore Website

2011-08-17T09:42:00.000-07:00

Pottermore is an exciting new website from J.K. Rowling that can be enjoyed alongside the Harry Potter books. You can explore the stories like never before and discover exclusive new writing from the author. It is FREE to join and use, and is designed to be safe for people of all ages.

http://www.pottermore.com/

Author Reading Series

2011-08-16T07:52:00.000-07:00

The next Lincoln Public Library author reading series will take place on October 17 at the Lincoln Centre.

Please mark this date on your calendar. We will have more information very soon on the authors coming to Lincoln!

August Top Ten

2011-08-03T10:28:00.000-07:00

BOOKS

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Smokin Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Room by Emma Donoghue
Now You See Her by James Patterson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Kill Me if You Can by James Patterson
Her Daughter's Dream by Francine Rivers
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

DVDs

The King's Speech
The Green Hornet
The Tourist
I am Number Four
Just Go with It
True Grit
No Strings Attached
Gnomeo & Juliet
Country Strong
Black Swan

Jane Austen Book Group

2011-08-03T07:12:00.000-07:00

A member of the community would like to start a Jane Austen Book Group in Lincoln which will be hosted at the library.

If you are interested, please contact Jill at the Fleming Library - 905-563-7014 or nicholson@lincoln.library.on.ca

Best books for the beach

2011-07-21T07:29:00.000-07:00

Nathalie Atkinson The Afterword National Post Jul 21, 2011 – 8:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Jul 20, 2011 6:21 PM ET

This is your brain. This is your brain on summer.

This week, Tuesday’s #gno (the “girls night out” hashtag used by moms to denote their weekly Twitter klatsch) turned to the topic of summer reading. Kyran Pittman, a Canadian writer I profiled a few months ago, weighed in that she was bunking up with Austen and offered a pithy summary of why you should leave the likes of Faulkner on the shelf. “I sometimes feel like I’m the last believer in fallow time. Brains need to drain, in my opinion.”

Fallow, not shallow. I’m not wading into the commercial vs. literature debate, genre vs. Important Books By Important Authors. I draw no lines in the hot sand. The formula is more along the lines of whether, in combination with plentiful sunshine, leisure and a view of the lake, the book still sucks you in with its particular magic. It needs to be more immersive than an RPG or as buoyant as a Weezer song. Juicy, rather than meaty. Put another way: Even Booker Prize winners sometimes need to take a break.

Novelist John Banville (who won the Booker in 2005 for The Sea) also writes 1950s Dublin noirs under a pen name. Banville’s fourth and latest Benjamin Black novel is A Death in Summer and concerns a Dublin heat wave and his alcoholic gumshoe Dr. Garret Quirke, a consulting pathologist with the Dublin city morgue. Banville is known for his dense, complex use of language; as Black, he gets to loosen up and play, although the poetry is still unmistakable.

“Everything was shimmering in the heat out there and he could almost taste the cindery dust in the air, and the river had a bilious stink that no thickness of grimed glass could shut out.”

Summer reading is about pleasure, none of it guilty, and never more than in July am I solicited for book recommendations. Before you ask, though, I generally start by suggesting the Meg Wolitzer back list — especially The Position, then The Wife. Then I get specific. Cottage weekend with the girls? Beneath a Starlet Sky, the latest beach read co-written by longtime besties Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper (daughter of the late actor Dennis Hopper).

Day at the beach near a friend’s summer share? A bit of enjoyable fluff, actually called Summer Rental, by Mary Kay Andrews. Have a whole week? Pack the black comedy Laura Rider’s Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton, a couple of Gyles Brandreth’s clever period series or Felix Palma’s The Map of Time, an inventive mind-bending adventure of Victorian time travel — it’s what would happen if Jasper Fforde and H.G. Wells teamed up on Sherlockian steampunk screenplay of The Time Traveler’s Wife.

I’m not alone in my list-making. No other reading season gets this particular sort of red carpet treatment — the genre lists of surefire police procedurals, estrogen- and recipe-fuelled cozies, and the many microsites touting titles both high-minded and lowbrow. O, The Oprah Magazine’s summer reading list includes an intriguing one — The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin, a lush historical novel that seems perfect for the devotees of PBS’s Downton Abbey series now suffering from withdrawal. It’s also got a crowd-pleaser in David Nicholls’ sleeper hit One Day.

Heather’s Picks, the guaranteed good reads personally anointed by Chapters & Indigo CEO Heather Reisman, also lightens up for the summer, cherry-picking recent selections from Shania Twain’s hefty autobio and Esquire’s cookbook for men to Robert Rotenberg’s latest legal thriller and a sassy helping of Janet Evanovich.

For arts writers, summer is about reading ahead and playing catch-up on missed titles — though you can bet it won’t include that RRSP guide I’ve been meaning to get to. Mea maxima culpa: I still haven’t cracked any Harry Potter, let alone The Hunger Games.

I’ll also be skipping the supposedly chilling crime novel The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler (the pseudonym of a Swedish literary couple) and going to J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine instead. People have rhapsodized about it for several weeks, bragging about playing hooky from work to finish it. Next, it will be The God of Greenwich by Norb Vonnegut, a novel about the hedge fund kinds of Connecticut. Vonnegut is a former Wall Street stockbroker and his gift for portraying certain social sets positions him as a satirical heir apparent to Louis Auchincloss. I might even have a peek at The Girl With the Sturgeon Tattoo parody. I’m leaving the books that feel like homework to October. Or Labour Day, at least.

I’m not Ms. Reisman so I can’t offer you a money-back guarantee, but here are five guaranteed good summer reads, of recent vintage:
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma
Someday This Will Be Funny by Lynne Tillman
The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine

New British DVDs

2011-07-08T12:29:00.000-07:00

Check out our new selection of British DVDs.

Come of the new titles include:

Demob starring Martin Clunes (Doc Martin)
Dirty Tricks starring Martin Clunes
Flame Trees of Thila starring Hayley Mills
The Royal Wedding - William and Catherine
The Ricky Gervais Show
MI-5 - Season 8
Minder - Season 4 and 5

Mango introduces Canadian French

2011-07-06T06:27:00.000-07:00

Are you travelling to Quebec, Ottawa or New Brunswick this summer? Brush up on your French by practicing with Mango's new Canadian French option.

Mango is a great way to learn Spanish, Italian, German and many more languages.

Check the database section of the Library's website to log into Mango.

July Top Ten

2011-07-04T11:58:00.000-07:00

Adult Fiction

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson,
Room by Emma Donoghue
Smokin Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Kill Me if You Can by James Patterson
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
10th Anniversary by James Patterson
From this Moment On by Shania Twain
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

DVDs

The Kings Speech
The Tourist
The Green Hornet
Black Swan
Country Strong
I am Number Four
Just go with It
Secretariat
Gnomeo & Juliet
No Strings Attached

June Top Ten

2011-06-07T12:35:00.000-07:00

Top Ten Books

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Room by Emma Donoghue
Buried Prey by John Sandford
10th Anniversary by James Patterson
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The Sixth Man by David Baldacci

Top Ten DVDs

The King's Speech
The Tourist
Black Swan
Secretariat
Love & Other Drugs
Country Strong
Tangled
The Switch
Life As We Know It
The Fighter
Knight and Day

Lilian Jackson Braun

2011-06-07T09:43:00.000-07:00

Lilian Jackson Braun, author of the award-winning Cat Who ... mystery series, passed away June 4 at the age of 97. Braun wrote 29 novels starring Jim Qwilleran and his mystery-solving Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum.

June Adult Book Group

2011-05-25T10:50:00.001-07:00

The next meeting of the Adult Book Group will take place Thursday June 16 at 1:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the Fleming Library in Beamsville. We will continue with the 'Influential Women' topic.

New members are always welcome. For more information, contact Jill at the Fleming Library, 905-563-7014.

Philip Roth wins Man Booker Prize

2011-05-18T06:21:00.000-07:00

Philip Roth, the American author whose career spans 50 years and includes a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and the controversial novel Portnoy's Complaint, was awarded the $100,000 Man Booker Prize on Wednesday in Sydney.

The Man Booker International Prize is awarded every two years to a living writer for overall contribution to fiction. It is connected to but separate from the better-known Man Booker Prize for Fiction, which is awarded each year for a specific book.

Roth beat 12 other short-listed authors, including Britain's John le Carre, Australia's David Malouf and Canadian Rohinton Mistry.

Mistry, who emigrated to Canada from India in 1975, is the author of three novels, each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.

Such a Long Journey (1991) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Governer General's Award. A Fine Balance (1996) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Giller Prize. Family Matters (2002) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2002.

The prize will be officially presented at a dinner in London in June.

Adult Book Group

2011-05-16T13:28:00.001-07:00

The next meeting of the Adult Book Group will take place Thursday May 19 at 1:30 p.m. at the Fleming Library, Beamsville. This month's topic is "Women Who Made a Difference".

New members are also welcome. For more information, contact Jill at 905-563-7014.

May Top Ten

2011-05-10T11:45:00.000-07:00

Top Ten DVDs

Secretariat
the King's Speech
The Switch
Black Swan
Life As We Know It
You Again
Knight and Day
Tangled
The Tourist
Tron

Top Ten Books

Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Toys by James Patterson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Room by Emma Donoghue
Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson
44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel

May Adult Book Group

2011-04-27T07:32:00.000-07:00

The next meeting of the Adult Book Group will be held May 19 at 1:30 in the meeting room of the Fleming Library in Beamsville. The topic is 'Influential Women'. New members are welcome.

For more information, contact Jill at 905-563-7014.

New Overbooks ebooks purchased

2011-04-19T08:02:00.000-07:00

A number of Lincoln only Overdrive books have recently been purchased. The titles include: The Help, Deadlock, Devious, the Land of Painted Caves and the Wild Zone.

Check them out today!

60 Minutes Expose on Greg Mortenson

2011-04-18T06:14:00.000-07:00

A 60 Minutes investigation alleges that the inspirational multimillion seller Three Cups of Tea is filled with inaccuracies and that co-author Greg Mortenson's charitable organization has taken credit for building schools that don't exist.

The report, which airs Sunday night on CBS television, cites Into the Wild author Jon Krakauer as among the doubters of Mortenson's story of being lost in 1993 while mountain climbing in rural Pakistan and stumbling upon the village of Korphe, where the kindness of local residents inspired him to build a school.

The 60 Minutes story draws upon observations from the porters who joined Mortenson on his mountain trip in Pakistan and dispute his being lost. They say he only visited Korphe a year later.

The 60 Minutes report alleges that numerous schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan that Mortenson's Central Asia Institute is said to have established either don't exist or were built by others. According to the CAI's website, the institute has "successfully established over 170 schools" and helped educate over 68,000 students, with an emphasis on girls' education."

Author defends book
In a statement issued Friday through the institute, Mortenson defended the book he co-authored with David Oliver Relinhis, and his humanitarian work.

"Afghanistan and Pakistan are fascinating, inspiring countries, full of wonderful people. They are also complex places, torn by conflicting loyalties, and some who do not want our mission of educating girls to succeed," Mortenson said.

"I stand by the information conveyed in my book and by the value of CAI's work in empowering local communities to build and operate schools that have educated more than 60,000 students. I continue to be heartened by the many messages of support I receive from our local partners in cities and villages across Afghanistan and Pakistan, who are determined not to let unjustified attacks stop the important work being done to create a better future for their children."

Three Cups of Tea was released by Penguin in 2006. Spokeswoman Carolyn Coleburn declined comment, saying the publisher had not seen the 60 Minutes story. The book sold moderately in hardcover, but was a word-of-mouth hit as a paperback and became an international sensation, selling more than 3 million copies.

Mortenson has received numerous honors, including the Sitara-e-Pakistan (Star of Pakistan), a civilian award rarely given to foreigners.

(From a report on cbc.ca)

Tickets still available for Monday's Author Reading

2011-04-10T09:34:00.001-07:00

A reminder that there are still tickets available for the reading on Monday April 11. You will still get the discounted price of $7 if you come to the library before 7:00 p.m. tomorrow.

Dr. Ross Pennie will be previewing his new novel - Tampered which is coming out in May. The on order record is in the online catalogue, so put your hold on now for this great read!

There will also be great prizes to be won from many local businesses.

This is will be a great evening. Come support our local authors!

April Top Ten

2011-04-06T06:37:00.000-07:00

DVDs

Secretariat
Salt
The American
Dinner for Schmucks
Life as We Know It
Knight and Day
The Switch
Unstoppable
The Social Network
Despicable Me

Adult Fiction

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Secret D aughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Tick Tock by James Patterson
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Legacy by Danielle Steel
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

Reminder - Tickets Still Available - April 11 Author Reading

2011-04-04T10:29:00.001-07:00

A reminder that tickets are still available for the Lincoln Public Library's "An Evening with Authors" on Monday April 11 at the Lincoln Centre, Central Ave. in Beamsville.

Join Ross Pennie, author of "Tainted" and Eleanor Johnston, author of the "Blessing Game" as they read from locally themed mysteries.

Door open at 7:00 p.m. and the reading begins at 7:30.

Tickets are $7 in advance from both library locations and $10 at the door.

Proceeds will benefit the Lincoln Public Library.

For more information, contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.

New Overdrive ebooks

2011-04-01T07:52:00.000-07:00

The Lincoln Public Library has purchased some Overdrive ebooks that are available only to Lincoln patrons. Check out the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or the Secret Daughter from these newly acquired ebooks. More will be coming in the near future.

Just go to the database section of the website, and then into Overdrive.

Why not try some of the library's free ebooks on your Kobo or Sony Reader!

April Adult Book Group

2011-03-31T11:01:00.000-07:00

The Adult Book Group will be meeting Thursday April 21, 1:30 p.m. at the Beamsville Library. We will be looking at Medical Biographies again due to the CEO's absence at the last meeting.

New members are always welcome!

For more information, call Jill at 905-563-7014.

Author Evening - April 11

2011-03-29T14:04:00.000-07:00

There are still tickets available for the Lincoln Public Library's special Author Evening.

Dr Ross Pennie, the author of Tainted, and Eleanor Johnson, author of Blessing Game, will be reading from their works on Monday April 11. Doors open and refreshments are available at 7:00 p.m. and the reading starts at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $7 in advance and are available at both the Rittenhouse and Fleming Libraries. They will also be available at the door for $10.

For more information, contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.

March Adult Book Group

2011-03-03T08:10:00.000-08:00

The next meeting of the Adult Book Group will take place Thursday March 17, 1:30 p.m. at the Fleming (Beamsville) Library. This month's topic is Medical Biographies.

For more information, contact Jill at 905-563-7014.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

2011-03-02T06:49:00.001-08:00

The late, great Dr. Seuss would have celebrated his 107th birthday today.

March 2011 Top Ten DVDs and Books

2011-03-01T13:33:00.000-08:00

Top Ten DVDs

Salt
The Social Network
Dinner for Schmucks
The American
Knight and Day
Toy Story 3
Despicable Me
Inception
Eat Pray Love
When in Rome

Top Ten Books

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsso
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda,
The Confession by John Grisham
Bad Blood by John Sandford
Her Daughter's Dream by Francine Rivers
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts
Legacy by Danielle Steel

Canada Reads Winner - Best Laid Plans

2011-02-09T09:02:00.001-08:00

After much vigourous discussion, the winner of the 2011 Canada Reads is Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis.

Canada Reads Day 2

2011-02-08T08:38:00.000-08:00

The Bone Cage has been eliminated in Day 2 of Canada Reads.

February Top Ten

2011-02-08T07:47:00.000-08:00

Top Ten Books

Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants
Roberts, Nora - Happy Ever After
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Grisham, John - The Confession
Rivers, Francine - Her Daughter's Dream
Connelly, Michael - The Reversal
Child, Lee - Worth Dying For
Binchy, Maeve - Minding Frankie
Patterson, James - Tick Tock

Top Ten DVDs

Salt
Knight and Day
Eat Pray Love
Toy Story 3
The American
Dinner for Schmucks
The Other Guys
Despicable Me
The Social Network
When in Rome

Canada Reads Day 1

2011-02-07T13:55:00.000-08:00

The first book eliminated from the Canada Reads CBC Radio program was 'Essex County' by Jeff Lemire. Four out of the five defenders voted against the book.

Check out tomorrow's debate on CBC Radio 1 at 11:00 a.m. It is being streamed live on CBC.ca and broadcast live on Bold.

Mark Your Calendar!

2011-01-27T09:44:00.000-08:00

The Lincoln Public Library is presenting another "An Evening with Authors" on Monday April 11 at the Lincoln Centre, Central Ave. in Beamsville.

Join Ross Pennie, author of "Tainted" and Eleanor Johnston, author of the "Blessing Game" as they read from locally themed mysteries.

Door open at 7:00 p.m. and the reading begins at 7:30.

More on the evening will follow soon.

For more information, contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.

Calling All Reading Fanatics

2011-01-20T10:48:00.000-08:00

Do you like to read? Do you like to read a wide range of books? Do you like to share your 'great reads' with others?

Then the Lincoln Public Library Book Club is for you!

If you are interested, please leave a comment on the blog. Let me know if you would prefer meeting in Beamsville or Vineland and if day or evening works best for you.

TumbleReadables

2011-01-20T07:43:00.000-08:00

The Lincoln Public Library has just received a new online resource for young readers. TumbleReadables is an online collection of read-along titles for elementary and high school students which features adjustable online text and complete audio narration. Sentences are highlighted as they are being read and the pages turn automatically. There is also a selection of downable ebooks which be downloaded to laptops, netbooks and desktops and, in a few months, to Android phones and tablets.

Check the library's website in the Databases section to find these great online books for children and teens.

January 2011 Top Ten Lists

2011-01-03T11:53:00.000-08:00

FICTION

Gowda, Shilpi - Somaya Secret Daughter
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Roberts, Nora - Happy Ever After
Grisham, John - The Confession
Rivers, Francine - Her Daughter's Dream
Connelly, Michael - The Reversal
Binchy, Maeve - Minding Frankie
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Sandford, John - Bad Blood

DVDS

Toy Story 3
How to Train Your Dragon
Letters to Juliet
Eat Pray Love
When in Rome
Date Night
Charlie St. Cloud
The Back-up Plan
The Karate Kid
Grown Ups

Coronation Street Celebrates its 50th Anniversary

2010-12-09T10:19:00.001-08:00

The long-running British drama - Coronation Street - is celebrating its 50th anniversary today - December 9. Based in the fictional Manchester area of Weatherfield, Corrie follows the trials and tributionals of its working class characters. Canadians are some of the most keen fans of this television serial.

The Lincoln Public Library has a wide range of Corrie books and DVDs.

New additions to the library's collection include the movie DVD Romanian Holiday featuring Roy and Hailey Cropper and 50 Years On The Street: My Life With Ken Barlow by William Roache.

Raise a pint to Ken, Dierdre, Rita, Betty and all the other fasinating and infuriating characters on Coronation Street.

Happy Birthday Corrie!

Shakespeare's Bastard

2010-12-02T10:20:00.000-08:00

Richard B. Wright has done it again with his fictionalized memoir of Shakespeare's illegitimate daughter.

Well researched and elegantly written, it is a must read for all who love historical fiction and Canadian writing. St. Catharines based author.

Put it on hold today!

December Top Ten Books and DVDs

2010-12-02T10:10:00.000-08:00

Top Ten Novels

Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants
Patterson, James - Don't Blink
Child, Lee - Worth Dying For
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Roberts, Nora - Happy Ever After
Connelly, Michael - The Reversal
Parker, Robert B. - Painted Ladies
Sandford, John - Bad Blood
Grisham, John - The Confession

Top Ten DVDs

Toy Story 3
Letters to Juliet
How to Train your Dragon
Date Night
When in Rome
Robin Hood
The Back-up Plan
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
The Karate Kid
The Bounty Hunter

New Vampire Fiction

2010-11-25T13:25:00.000-08:00

Do you want a different twist on vampires? Do you want more action and less romance? Try 'The Passage' by Justin Cronin.

The Andromeda Strain meets The Stand in this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control.

The Passage is the first in a triology.

An Indigo recommended read.

Put on a hold today!

Canada Reads Finalists Revealed!

2010-11-25T06:35:00.000-08:00

The five Canada Reads finalists have been revealed along with the celebrity defenders.

1. Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis - defended by Ali Velshi
2. The Birth House by Ami McKay - defended by Debbie Travis
3. The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou - defended by Georges Laraque
4. Essex County by Jeff Lemire - defended by Sara Quin
5. Unless by Carol Shields - defended by Lorne Cardinal

The hour-long debates will air on CBC Radio One on February 7, 8 and 9 2011 at 11 a.m. and again at 8 p.m.

Overdrive E-books have arrived!

2010-11-22T09:47:00.000-08:00

The Lincoln Public Library now offers Overdrive e-books. Check out the database section of the Library's website. Click on Overdrive and then choose the Lincoln Public Library from the list of libraries. You sign in with the full 14 digits of your library code and the pin is the last four digits of your telephone number.

A selection of fiction and non-fiction titles are available. Not all titles can be used with all types of e-readers, so check the specifications for each.

Enjoy using your e-reader with these FREE titles from your public library!

2010 Governor General Award for Literature Winners

2010-11-16T14:17:00.001-08:00

Fiction (English): Cool Waters, Diane Warren
Non-Fiction (English): Lakeland, Allan Casey
Poetry (English-language): Boxing the Compass, Richard Greene, Cobourg, Ont.
Poetry (French-language): Effleurés de lumière, Danielle Fournier, Montreal.
Drama (English): Afterimage, Robert Chafe, St. John's.
Drama (French): Porc-épic, David Paquet, Montreal.
Fiction (French): Ru, Kim Thuy, Montreal.
Non-fiction (French): C'est ma seigneurie que je réclame: la lutte des Hurons de Lorette pour la seigneurie de Sillery, 1650-1900, Michel Lavoie, Saint-Raphaël, Que.
Children's literature, text (English): Fishtailing, Wendy Phillips, Richmond, B.C.
Children's literature, illustration (English): Cats’ Night Out, Jon Klassen, Los Angeles (originally from Niagara Falls, Ont.)
Children's literature, text (French): Rose: derrière le rideau de la folie, Elise Turcotte
Children's literature, illustration (French): Rose: derrière le rideau de la folie, Daniel Sylvestre
Translation (to English): Forests (Forêts, by Wajdi Mouawad), Linda Gaboriau, Montreal.
Translation (to French): Le cafard (Cockroach, by Rawi Hage), Sophie Voillot, Montreal.

Sentimentalists Wins Giller Prize

2010-11-10T07:34:00.000-08:00

Johanna Skibsrud's novel, the Sentimentalists won the Giller Prize on November 9.

Skibsrud's novel deals with complexities of the father-daughter relationship.

The library has ordered a copy, and we are taking holds. The book was published by a small publishing company, and it is doing its best to print enough copies to meet demand. Please be patient!

Room wins Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

2010-11-03T08:07:00.000-07:00

Emma Donoghue's novel Room, about a five-year-old boy named Jack who, along with his mother, lives imprisoned in an 11 by 11 modified garden shed, won the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize at the 10th annual Writers’ Trust Awards, which were handed out at a ceremony Tuesday in Toronto.

New Playaway Titles

2010-11-02T07:03:00.000-07:00

The Lincoln Public Library is now a member of a PLayaway pool with other libraries in Ontario. In addition to the selection of Playaways at the Fleming (Beamsville) Library, both the Fleming and Moses F. Rittenhouse (Vineland) Libraries will receive a new selection which will be changed every four months.

If you have not yet tried a Playaway, it is a good time now with the increased selection. A Playaway is a preloaded audiobook on a device like a MP3 player. You do not have to transfer an audiobook yourself as it is already there. You just supply the headphones and the AAA battery.

Contact your branch for more information on the new Playaways.

November Top Ten Books and DVDs

2010-11-01T11:39:00.000-07:00

Top Ten Books

Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Connelly, Michael - The Reversal
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Patterson, James - Don't Blink
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants
Sparks, Nicholas - Safe Haven
Gowda, Shilpi Somaya - Secret Daughter
Collins, Suzanne - Mockingjay
Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy
John Sandford - Bad Blood

Top Ten DVDs

Date Night
When in Rome
Bounty Hunter
Leap Year
Avatar
Valentine's day
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Clash of the Titans
Invictus
Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2010 Governor General's Literary Awards Nominees

2010-10-13T11:52:00.000-07:00

Nominees for the 2010 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced Wednesday in Toronto. The English-language finalists are:

FICTION

Waiting for Joe (Random House Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada), Sandra Birdsell, Regina

Room (HarperCollins Publishers; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), Emma Donoghue, London, Ont.

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass (Alfred A. Knopf Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada), Drew Hayden Taylor, Curve Lake, Ont.

Cool Water (Phyllis Bruce Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), Dianne Warren, Regina

Annabel (House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), Kathleen Winter, Montreal

POETRY

Boxing the Compass (Signal Editions, an imprint of Vehicule Press; distributed by LitDistCo), Richard Greene, Cobourg, Ont.

Circus (Signal Editions, an imprint of Vehicule Press; distributed by LitDistCo), Michael Harris, Westmount, Que.

&: A Serial Poem (Fitzhenry & Whiteside; distributed by the publisher), Daryl Hine, Chicago, originally from New Westminster, B.C.

Exploding into Night (Guernica Editions; distributed by University of Toronto Press), Sandy Pool, Toronto

Deepwater Vee (McClelland & Stewart; distributed by Random House of Canada), Melanie Siebert, Victoria

DRAMA

Afterimage (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), Robert Chafe, St. John's, N.L.

Scratch (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, Toronto

Courageous (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), Michael Healey, Toronto

Such Creatures (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), Judith Thompson, Toronto

Lady in the red dress (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), David Yee, Toronto

NON-FICTION

A History of Marriage (Penguin Group (Canada); distributed by the publisher), Elizabeth Abbott, Toronto

The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son (Random House Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada), Ian Brown, Toronto

Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada (Greystone Books, an imprint of D&M Publishers; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), Allan Casey, Saskatoon

Burmese Lessons: A Love Story (Random House Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada), Karen Connelly, Toronto

Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 (Alfred A. Knopf Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada), John English, Kitchener, Ont.

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: TEXT

Me, Myself and Ike (Orca Book Publishers; distributed by the publisher), K.L. Denman, Powell River, B.C.

Tyranny (Tundra Books; distributed by Random House of Canada), Lesley Fairfield, Toronto

Free as a Bird (Dundurn Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press), Gina McMurchy-Barber, Surrey, B.C.

Fishtailing (Coteau Books; distributed by Publishers Group of Canada), Wendy Phillips, Richmond, B.C.

Scars (WestSide Books; distributed by Chapters/Indigo), Cheryl Rainfield, Toronto

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: ILLUSTRATION

Uirapuru: based on a Brazilian legend text by P.K. Page (Oolichan Books; distributed by University of Toronto Press), Kristi Bridgeman, Victoria

Owls See Clearly at Night: a Michif alphabet text by Julie Flett (Simply Read Books; distributed by Publishers Group Canada), Julie Flett, Vancouver

I Know Here, text by Laurel Croza (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), Matt James, Toronto

Cat's Night Out, text by Caroline Stutson (Simon & Schuster/A Paula Wiseman Book; distributed by Simon & Schuster Canada), Jon Klassen, Los Angeles, originally from Niagara Falls, Ont.

The Quiet Book, text by Deborah Underwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; distributed by Thomas Allen & Son), Renata Liwska, Calgary

TRANSLATION: FRENCH TO ENGLISH

Sheila Fischman, Montreal, The Blue Notebook (Talonbooks; distributed by Publishers Group Canada), English translation of Le cahier bleu by Michel Tremblay (Lemeac Editeur/Actes Sud)

Sheila Fischman, Montreal, On the Proper Use of Stars (McClelland & Stewart; distributed by Random House), English translation of Du bon usage des étoiles by Dominique Fortier (Editions Alto)

Linda Gaboriau, Montreal, Forests (Playwrights Canada Press; distributed by the publisher), English translation of Forêts by Wajdi Mouawad (Lemeac Editeur/Actes Sud)

Liedewy Hawke, Toronto, High-Wire Summer (Cormorant Books; distributed by University of Toronto Press), English translation of L'été funambule by Louise Dupre (XYZ editeur)

Lazer Lederhendler, Montreal, The Breakwater House (House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada), English translation of La maison des temps rompus by Pascale Quiviger (Les Editions du Boreal)

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Man Booker Prize Winner

2010-10-13T08:13:00.000-07:00

Howard Jacobson wins Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question

Read more: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/10/12/man-booker-prize/#ixzz12BN93Qy0

Author Reading - October 20

2010-10-13T08:12:00.001-07:00

The Lincoln Public Library is hosting an author evening on Wednesday October 20, at at the Lincoln Centre, 4361 Central Ave. Beamsville with William Connor, the author of Coleraine which has received many excellent reviews, and Robert Lindsey, author of Royal Spring.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for refreshments and the readings begin at 8:00 p.m.

Tickets are $5 in advance from both the Fleming Library (4996 Beam St. in Beamsville)or the Moses F. Rittenhouse Library (4080 John Charles Blvd. Vineland) and $7 at the door.

2010 Giller Prize Finalists

2010-10-12T08:25:00.000-07:00

The 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists are:

David Bergen for his novel THE MATTER WITH MORRIS, Phyllis Bruce Books/HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Alexander MacLeod for his short story collection LIGHT LIFTING, Biblioasis
Sarah Selecky for her short story collection THIS CAKE IS FOR THE PARTY, Thomas Allen Publishers
Johanna Skibsrud for her novel THE SENTIMENTALISTS, Gaspereau Press
Kathleen Winter for her novel ANNABEL, House of Anansi Press

October Top Ten Lists

2010-10-09T14:04:00.000-07:00

DVDs

Date Night
When in Rome
The Bounty Hunter
Leap Year
Invictus
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Avatar
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Valentine's Day

Books

Larsson, Stieg - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Larsson, Stieg - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Reichs, Kathy - Spider Bones
Roberts, Nora - Happy Ever After
Collins, Suzanne - Mockingjay
Evanovich, Janet - Sizzling Sixteen
Sparks, Nicholas - Safe Haven
Connelly, Michael - Reversal
Patterson, James - Don't Blink
Roberts, Nora - The Search

September Top Ten

2010-09-09T10:34:00.001-07:00

Fiction

The Search by Nora Roberts
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Private by James Patterson
House rules a novel by Jodi Picoult
Savor the moment by Nora Roberts
Postcard Killers by James Patterson
Take Four by Karen Kingsbury
The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark

DVDs

The Bounty Hunter
Leap Year
Invictus
Valentines Day
Tooth fairy
Avatar
Dear John
The Princess and the Frog
The Book of Eli
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Free Downloadable Audiobook Websites

2010-08-30T06:36:00.001-07:00

Yesterday while searching the Internet, I found a couple of free downloadable audiobook websites. Both offer audiobooks from books out of copyright (i.e. 50-70 years published).

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/Top_100

http://librivox.org/

Both should download to handheld devices.

10 Underrated Canadian Authors

2010-08-26T10:11:00.000-07:00

Bill Gaston

One thing you’ll notice about our list of underrated authors: the vast majority of them are short-story writers. It’s difficult to countenance the lack of interest in short fiction here in Canada, given that it’s the best thing we do as far as our literature is concerned. True, Gaston is also a novelist – and his 2000 novel The Good Body is one of the most criminally underrated Canadian books of the last 15 years – but it’s in his short stories that he is at the peak of his powers. Surprisingly, given the short form’s constraints in terms of space, it is here that Gaston feels most free to be stylistically adventurous; his stories are funny and sad, often at the same time, rich in literary allusion, and honed to a razor’s sharpness. Whether they are riffing on Malcolm Lowry or the notion that every red-blooded American needs only two things – a gun and a beanbag chair – Gaston’s stories are scabrous, inventive, and above all, fun.

Clark Blaise

As Philip Marchand has said of “Canada’s greatest unsung writer”: “It is testament to the vagaries of literary reputation on this wilful and iniquitous planet of ours that Clark Blaise remains unknown to most Canadian readers.” Those who have read Blaise will likely be familiar with his non-fiction bestseller Time Lord, not the four volumes of his Collected Stories that have sold somewhere in the low hundreds. Though he became a member of the Order of Canada in 2009, Blaise has never won a GG. And yet his body of work – and one can speak of it as a coherent body – is an entertaining and profound monument to the craft of the short story.

Caroline Adderson

Another sometime novelist (her new novel, The Sky is Falling, is out in September), Adderson is one of this country’s best – and least heralded – short-story writers. Like Lisa Moore, Adderson’s stories have been characterized as “difficult” by people groomed to expect some neat moral at the close, or some clever twist à la Poe or Maupassant. Adderson, who rightly acknowledges that stories are closer in spirit to poetry than to novels, is more interested in language than in traditional notions of plot or character development; her stories are small stylistic masterpieces. Never showy or ornate, they epitomize Jonathan Swift’s prescription for good writing: “Proper words in proper places.” Although in Adderson’s case, the word “proper” should be understood as “unexpected and delightful.”

Ray Smith

Do a Wikipedia search for “Ray Smith” and you’ll be taken to a disambiguation page with six Ray Smiths, a list that includes a noted American entomologist, but no Canadian author of that name. This is one indication of how far Smith is from ever having “arrived.” And it’s a shame because in a long – and, to be honest, wildly uneven – career Smith has written some of the most truly original books ever published in this country. It’s hard to think of another writer we have who has pushed the form of the novel as far, and few whose best work so demands our attention.

Lynn Coady

Nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for her first novel, Strange Heaven, Coady has yet to receive the broad recognition she deserves, despite a string of books that are as diverse as they are engaging. Coady writes with an authority and power that belies her relatively young age. Unafraid to shy away from tough subjects – addiction, physical and psychological abuse, mental illness – her books are nevertheless bracingly funny and full of life. Her facility with dialogue (frequently laden with profanities) is matched by few writers in this country, and her style is as direct and forceful as a roundhouse to the temple. Her 2006 novel Mean Boy, a satire of writers and academics that is infinitely livelier than anything Robertson Davies ever produced, was woefully overlooked by the award juries that year, proving once again that unpretentious novels that dare to have a sense of humour have no place in the upper echelons of CanLit.

Douglas Glover

Glover might seem like an odd choice, since he did win the GG in 2003 for Elle, but it was a review of that book in Maclean’s that also identified him as “probably the most eminent unknown Canadian writer alive” (he was a student of Clark Blaise, you see). And how much has changed? Glover’s transgressive brand of historical fiction hasn’t won him the wide readership that more conventional practitioners of the form enjoy, and his short stories have received about as much attention as those of any other short story writer whose name isn’t Alice Munro. He deserves a higher profile.

Russell Smith

Another odd choice, perhaps, since Smith has never been far from the media spotlight. But he has become (in)famous more for his somewhat intemperate commentary on gender politics and his columns on men’s fashion than for his fiction. Like Coady, Smith’s first novel (How Insensitive) was nominated for the GG, but he’s been pretty much ignored by award juries since then, despite the fact that his 2004 novel Muriella Pent is hands down one of the best Canadian novels of the new century. Smith provokes strong reactions from people who haven’t read him; were they to do so, they would discover one of the finest prose stylists working in Canada today.

Eric Ormsby

In 2006 a landmark work in Canadian poetry was published: Time’s Covenant, essentially Eric Ormsby’s collected poems to date. You wouldn’t have known this, or for that matter, even known about the book at all, from its reception, as it was widely ignored by reviewers and didn’t even get shortlisted for a GG. But then, Ormsby’s whole career has been mostly spent below the media radar and off the prize lists. Could it be that he isn’t considered Canadian enough? One hopes not. Though born in the U.S. and now living in England, Ormsby is one of the two or three best English-language poets we can fairly lay claim to. A fact that should be recognized someday.

Diane Schoemperlen

Schoemperlen has built a career out of experimenting with form in fiction. Her novels and short stories have won praise from a small coterie of admiring readers, and her 1998 collection Forms of Devotion even won a Governor General’s award. But none of that has resulted in her catching on with the broad mainstream of CanLit consumers. Perhaps her formal experimentation – stories that use multiple choice questions rather than a traditional narrative, or a novel (In the Language of Love) built around the 100 stimulus words on the psychological Word Association Test – is too challenging for readers more accustomed to the soothing, easily digested fiction of certain writers on the previous list. But Schoemperlen’s abiding themes are not far removed from those of Alice Munro or Carol Shields; if readers would simply open themselves to something a bit more stylistically unfamiliar, they might discover a world of riches they never knew existed.

Sharon English

Most of the writers on our underrated list are veterans who have spent their careers toiling in the suburbs of oblivion. Sharon English, however, is still an up-and-comer, with only two story collections under her belt – though they should have been enough in themselves to raise her profile considerably. Her debut, Uncomfortably Numb, stood out as a strong collection of linked coming-of-age stories (no mean feat in this country), but it was Zero Gravity that really announced her arrival as one of our sharpest new talents, wedding precision of language to a remarkable moral and imaginative range. That it made it onto the Giller longlist was slight consolation, given the presence of both Ondaatje and Vassanji in that year’s final five.

National Post
August 25, 2010

British Television Shows on DVD

2010-08-20T09:59:00.000-07:00

Do you love the great comedies and dramas from the British television networks? Do you find it hard to find them on DVD at your local video store? The Lincoln Public Library has a large selection of wonderful shows such as Midsomer Murders, Allo, Allo, On the Buses and many more.

The complete list of British television shows at the library is found on our website from this link: http://www.lincoln.library.on.ca/ReadersAdvisory/BritishTV_Series.htm

Come check out our collection at both the Fleming and Moses F. Rittenhouse Libraries.

August Top Ten Books and DVDs

2010-08-11T06:24:00.000-07:00

Top Ten Books:

The Search by Nora Roberts
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl who kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson
Private by James Patterson
House Rules by Jodi Picoult.
Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts
Take Four by Karen Kingsbury
Family Ties by Danielle Steel
Shadow of your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark

Top Ten DVDs:

Bounty Hunter
Leap year
Invictus
Valentines Day
Tooth fairy
Avatar
Up in the Air
Dear John
The Blind Side
It's complicated

Trillium Award Winner

2010-07-02T06:41:00.000-07:00

The winner of the 2010 Trillium Book Award is Ian Brown for the Boy in the Moon.

If you haven't read this moving book, please reserve this book at the Library.

July Top Ten Books and DVDs

2010-06-30T07:35:00.000-07:00

Top Ten Novels

House rules by Judi Picoult
Savor the moment by Nora Roberts
61 hours by Lee Child
9th judgment by James Patterson
This body of death by Elizabeth George
Eight days to live by Iris Johansen
The Shadow of your smile by Mary Higgins Clark
Storm prey by John Sandford
Deliver us from evil by David Baldacci
The Girl with the dragon tattoo Stieg Larsson

Top Ten DVDs

Blind Side
Invictus
Leap year
Valentines Day
Avatar
Up in the air
The Princess and the frog
Men who stare at goats
Sherlock Holmes
It's complicated

To reserve any of these titles, come into either library location, telephone or login to your library account with your library card number from the library's website: www.lincoln.library.on.ca

June Top Ten

2010-06-02T10:24:00.000-07:00

Top Ten Books

House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts
61 hours by Lee Child
9th judgment by James Patterson
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark
This body of death by Elizabeth George
Big girl by Danielle Steel
Storm Prey by John Sandford
Worst case by James Patterson

Top Ten DVDs

The Blind side
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Avatar
It's Complicated
The Princess and the Frog
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Tme Traveler's Wife
Whip it
Up in the air

Adult Book Group

2010-05-21T10:38:00.001-07:00

The Library is reviewing its adult book group program.

We are going out to the community for feedback.

What location would you prefer?
What type would you like - book based or themed based?
What time of day - daytime or evening?
Would you be willing to lead or co-lead a group?

Please respond through this blog posting.

We need to hear from you!

May Top Ten DVDs and Books

2010-05-04T08:00:00.001-07:00

TOP TEN DVDs

The Blind Side
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up in the air
The Time Traveler's Wife
Avatar
Men who Stare at Goats
The Princess and the Frog
Its Complicated
The Informant

TOP TEN BOOKS

House Rules, Jodi Picoult
Caught, Harlan Coben
Worst case, James Patterson
9th judgment, James Patterson
Take three, Karen Kingsbury
Think twice, Lisa Scottoline
Big girl, Danielle Steel
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Shadow of your Smile, Mary Higgins Clark
This Body of Death, Elizabeth George

April Top Ten

2010-04-14T07:07:00.000-07:00

Here is the April Top Ten list.

DVDs

Hurt Locker
The Time Traveler's Wife
Inglourious basterds
The Proposal
Up in the air
Four Christmases
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
The Blind Side
Up
Julie Julia

Books

House rules a novel, Jodi Picoult
Worst case a novel, James Patterson
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Take three, Karen Kingsbury
Big girl a novel, Danielle Steel
Caught, Harlan Coben
Think Twice, Lisa Scottoline
Never Look Away, Linwood Barclay
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Winter Vault, Anne Michaels.

Canada Reads Winner

2010-03-12T10:00:00.000-08:00

The annual Canada Reads contest was held this week on CBC Radio One. The winner is Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner. The library has a copy available.

The other books considered were Falls on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Jade Peony by Wayson Choy, Generation X by Douglas Coupland and Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott.

What do you think of final choice?

Author Reading

2010-03-10T06:25:00.001-08:00

The Lincoln Public Library is pleased to announce its next author reading event.

Local authors Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of the Day the Falls Stood Still, and
Kara Bartley, author of Call of Adhara, will reading from their works on Monday, April 12th, 7:00 p.m. at the Lincoln Centre, 4361 Central Ave. in Beamsville.

Tickets will be available soon at both the Fleming (Beamsville) and Moses F. Rittenhouse Libraries.

For more information, contact Cathy at 905-562-5711.

Top Ten Lists - March 2010

2010-03-02T11:46:00.001-08:00

Every month, the Top Ten Lists for Books and DVDs will be posted on this blog.

Top Ten Books

Worst Case
James Patterson

Take three
Karen Kingsbury

The Bishop's Man
Linden MacIntyre

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

Big Girl
Danielle Steel

Altar of Eden
James Rollins

Sizzle a novel
Julie Garwood

Rainwater
Sandra Brown

The Last song
Nicholas Sparks

The Disappeared
Kim Echlin

Top Ten Movies

Inglourious Basterds

The Proposal

Up

Four Christmases

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

500 days of Summer

Julie, Julia

Transformers: Revenge of the fallen

The Time Travelers Wife

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

British Television Shows

2009-12-15T09:19:00.001-08:00

The Lincoln Public Library has a list of the British television series it carries at this link:

http://www.lincoln.library.on.ca/ReadersAdvisory/WhatToRead.htm

It has recently be revised to include our latest titles.

Check it out!

Summer Reads

2009-06-11T10:35:00.000-07:00

Summer is a great time to get to all those great books that you have been meaning to read.

What are you planning to read this summer? Any suggestions to pass on to others?

Let us know! Just add a message to this posting!

British Television Shows

2009-04-01T06:57:00.000-07:00

The Lincoln Public Library has actively purchased a cross-section of British comedy and drama television shows.

The Library has just received the full Prisoner series as one of the latest purchases.

What do you think about the British television series at the Library? Which ones do you like? Which ones would you like to see here?

Add a response to this posting to let us know!

Let the Discussions Begin!

2009-03-31T09:30:00.000-07:00

Do you have any suggestions for Books or DVDs that the Library should acquire?

Do you want to provide a review of a book or DVD that you have enjoyed?

Now you have a place to do that!

Let us know what you think!

We will also post new additions to the Library's collection on a regular basis here on the blog!

Lincoln Public Library Book and DVD Chat Blog

Family Literacy Day Tips

February Adult Book Group

January Top Ten

December Top Ten

2012 Canada Reads Titles

Governor General Literary Award Winners 2011

New Fiction Titles for Winter 2012

Author Esi Edugyan takes home the Giller Prize

November Top Ten

Sense of an Ending

October Adult Book Group

Edugyan, deWitt shortlisted for Governor General literary award

October Top Ten

2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist

Author Evening - October 17

October Book Group Title

September Top Ten

2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Long list

September Adult Book Discussion Group

Pottermore Website

Author Reading Series

August Top Ten

Jane Austen Book Group

Best books for the beach

New British DVDs

Mango introduces Canadian French

July Top Ten

June Top Ten

Lilian Jackson Braun

June Adult Book Group

Philip Roth wins Man Booker Prize

Adult Book Group

May Top Ten

May Adult Book Group

New Overbooks ebooks purchased

60 Minutes Expose on Greg Mortenson

Tickets still available for Monday's Author Reading

April Top Ten

Reminder - Tickets Still Available - April 11 Author Reading

New Overdrive ebooks

April Adult Book Group

Author Evening - April 11

March Adult Book Group

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

March 2011 Top Ten DVDs and Books

Canada Reads Winner - Best Laid Plans

Canada Reads Day 2

February Top Ten

Canada Reads Day 1

Mark Your Calendar!

Calling All Reading Fanatics

TumbleReadables

January 2011 Top Ten Lists

Coronation Street Celebrates its 50th Anniversary

Shakespeare's Bastard

December Top Ten Books and DVDs

New Vampire Fiction

Canada Reads Finalists Revealed!

Overdrive E-books have arrived!

2010 Governor General Award for Literature Winners

Sentimentalists Wins Giller Prize

Top Ten Canada Reads 2011

Room wins Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

New Playaway Titles

November Top Ten Books and DVDs

2010 Governor General's Literary Awards Nominees

Man Booker Prize Winner

Author Reading - October 20

2010 Giller Prize Finalists

October Top Ten Lists

September Top Ten

Free Downloadable Audiobook Websites

10 Underrated Canadian Authors

British Television Shows on DVD

August Top Ten Books and DVDs

Trillium Award Winner

July Top Ten Books and DVDs

June Top Ten

Adult Book Group