Displays at the Fleming Branch

  At the Lincoln Public Library, we are celebrating Black History Month and Freedom to Read Week.

Harper Lee 1926-2016

Harper Lee passed away today, Friday February 19, 2016

Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) and Go Set a Watchman (2015).

Writer Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. In 1959, she finished the manuscript for her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird. 

 In July 2015, Lee published her second novel Go Set a Watchman, which was written before To Kill a Mockingbird and portrays the later lives of the characters from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 

Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird.  She is the youngest of four children. She grew up as a tomboy in a small town. Her father was a lawyer, a member of the Alabama state legislature and also owned part of the local newspaper.

 

CBC website 100 Young Adult Books

Canada has a wealth of writers telling today’s tales, revisiting our past and imagining our future. Literary or mystery, comic or graphic, historical or out of this world, here are 100 young adult books that will make you proud to be Canadian. (You can check out last year's list, 100 novels that make you proud to be Canadian here!)

To find out more information please go to the CBC website
http://www.cbc.ca/books/books100ya.html

This information belongs to the CBC website!

1. 40 Things I Want to Tell You by Alice Kuipers

2. A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee

3. A Thousand Shades of Blue by Robin Stevenson

4. Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me by Julie Johnston

5. Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

6. Alice, I Think by Susan Juby

7. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

8. Arctic Thunder by Robert Feagan

9. Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari

10. At Risk by Jacqueline Guest

11. Audacious by Gabrielle Prendergrast

12. Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson

13. Bad Boy by Diana Wieler

14. Baygirl by Heather T. Smith

15. Between Sisters by Adwoa Badoe

16. Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton

17. Chasing Freedom by Gloria Ann Wesley

18. Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji

19. Darkest Light by Hiromi Goto

20. Demon's Gate by Marty Chan

21. Dust by Arthur Slade

22. Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

23. Escape to Gold Mountain by David HT Wong

24. Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock

25. Fishtailing by Wendy Phillips

26. From Anna by Jean Little

27. Gemini Summer by Iain Lawrence

28. God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya

29. Good for Nothing by Michel Noel

30. Graffiti Knight by Karen Bass

31. Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat

32. Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine

33. Hangman in the Mirror by Kate Cayley

34. Harriet's Daughter by M. NourbeSe Philip

35. Held by Edeet Ravel

36. Him Standing by Richard Wagamese

37. Hold Fast by Kevin Major

38. Hunger Journeys by Maggie DeVries

39. I Am Algonquin by Rick Revell

40. In Search of April Raintree  by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier

41. Innercity Girl Like Me by Sabrina Bernardo

42. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

43. Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat

44. Money Boy by Paul Yee

45. Murder on the Canadian by Eric Wilson

46. My Book of Life by Angel by Martine Leavitt

47. Night Runner by Max Turner

48. Nix Minus One by Jill MacLean

49. Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont

50. Not Suitable for Family Viewing by Vicki Grant

51. Obasan by Joy Kogawa

52. Odd Man Out by Sarah Ellis

53. One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote

54. Pirate's Passage by William Gilkerson

55. Plain Kate by Erin Bow

56. Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi

57. Run by Eric Walters

58. Shadow in Hawthorn Bay by Janet Lunn

59. Shadows Cast by Stars by Catherine Knutsson

60. Shine, Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger

61. Skim by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki

62. Skraelings by Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley

63. Slash by Jeannette Armstrong

64. Stitches by Glen Huser

65. Stones for My Father by Trilby Kent

66. Sugar Falls by David Alexander Robertson

67. Susceptible by Geneviève Castrée

68. Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai

69. The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

70. The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter

71. The Dream Carvers by Joan Clark

72. The Girls They Left Behind

73. by Bernice Thurman Hunter

74. The Gravesavers by Sheree Fitch

75. The Keeper of the Isis Light by Monica Hughes

76. The Landing by John Ibbitson

77. The Lynching of Louie Sam by Elizabeth Stewart

78. The Maestro by Tim Wynne-Jones

79. The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor

80. The Painted Boy by Charles de Lint

81. The Prince of Neither Here Nor There by Seán Cullen

82. The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susin Nielsen

83. The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley by Jan Andrews

84. The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

85. The Tiffin by Mahtab Narsimhan

86. The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten

87. The Wondrous Woo by Carrianne K.Y. Leung

88. This Can't be Happening at Macdonald Hall by Gordon Korman

89. Throwaway Daughter by Ting-Xing Te

90. Thunder Over Kandahar by Sharon C. McKay

91. Tilt by Alan Cumyn

92. To Dance at the Palais Royale by Janet McNaughton

93. True Confessions of a Heartless Girl  by Martha Brooks

94. Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker

95. Wanting Mor by Rukhsana Khan

96. What World Is Left by Monique Polak

97. When Everything Feels like the Movies by Raziel Reid

98. Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell

99. Wild Orchid by Beverley Brenna

100. Will's Garden by Lee Maracle

101. Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Canada Reads 2016

Check out the Canada Read's Website

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-wednesday-january-20-2016-1.3411508/canada-reads-2016-starting-over-with-five-new-book-champions-1.3411517

 

Are you ready to start over?

Canada Reads 2016 is all about starting over. All five books centre on themes of transformation and second chances; stories about people choosing — or being forced to choose — a dramatically different course in life.
Until the big reveal, you can explore the long list.
The official debates will begin on March 21 and run until March 24.

 

As per Canada Reads tradition, this year's books and their high profile champions were revealed live on q! The 2016 contenders are:

• Bruce Poon Tip, defending Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
• Farah Mohamed, defending Bone and Bread by Saleema Nawaz
• Clara Hughes, defending The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
• Adam "Edge" Copeland, defending Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter
• Vinay Virmani, defending The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami

Here is the link to the Long List!

http://www.cbc.ca/books/candareads-16-longlist.pdf

All the Broken Things by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Birdie by Tracey Lindberg

Bone and Bread by Saleema Nawaz

Buying on Time by Antanas Sileika

Landing Gear by Kate Pullinger

Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter

Niko by Dimitri Nasrallah

Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson

Sweetland by Michael Crummey

The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj

The Hero’s Walk by Anita Rau Badami

The Illegal by Lawrence Hill

The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson, with art by Kelly Mellings

All the information in the post is from the CBC Canada Reads Site. For more information please visit

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-wednesday-january-20-2016-1.3411508/canada-reads-2016-starting-over-with-five-new-book-champions-1.3411517

Don't miss out on the Very Merry UnBirthday for Teens in Grades 6-12

Check out the Teen Area for Alice in Wonderland

Read-a-likes!

Enjoy a very Merry UnBirthday Tea Party at the Library. Cosplay your favourite character and more!

Wednesday January 20 at 3:30pm. Registration is required.

For more information please contact Margaret at 905-563-7014 or daley @lincoln.library.on.ca

Downton Abbey Displays

At the Lincoln Public Library we are celebrating the return of the Downton Abbey with displays.

Here is the list of Items that are on Display

December 2015 Top 10 Book Holds

Title	Author
1.  Rogue Lawyer	John Grisham
2.  The Crossing	Michael Connelly
3.  See Me	Nicholas Sparks
4.  The Girl in the Spiders Web	David Lagercrantz
5.  The Lake House	Kate Morton
6.  Tricky Twenty Two	Janet Evanovich
7.  The Illegal	Lawrence Hill
8.  Stars of Fortune	Nora Roberts
9.  The Survivor	Kyle Mills
10.Cross Justice	James Patterson