Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year!
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Top 10 Holds at the Lincoln Public Library
Top 10 DVDs
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1. The Age of Adaline
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2. Spy
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3. Avengers
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4. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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5. Aloha
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6. Jurassic world
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7. Tomorrowland
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8. death in paradise
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9. San Andreas
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10.Cinderella
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Top 10 Books
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Title
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Author
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1. Rogue Lawyer
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John Grisham,
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2. See Me
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Nicholas Sparks
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3. The Crossing
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Michael Connelly
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4. The Illegal
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Lawrence Hill
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5. The Survivor
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Kyle Mills
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6. Tricky Twenty Two
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Janet Evanovich,
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7. The Girl in the Spiders Web
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David Lagercrantz
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8. The Lake House
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Kate Morton
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9. Make Me
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Lee Child
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10.All
Dressed in White and Under Suspicion
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Mary Higgins Clark
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CBC Canada Reads 2016 Long List
Canada Reads 2016 is all about "starting over." The show will feature books about transformation and second chances, stories of migrants, immigrants and others who are choosing - or forced - to make major changes in their lives. One thing we're not changing is our host: Wab Kinew is back!
Explore the 15 longlisted books below. The final five books and the panellists who are defending them will be revealed on January 20. Canada Reads 2016 debate week will take place from March 21 to 24.
Canada Reads 2016 longlist:
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
This information is from the CBC website. Please click on the above address or Google CBC Canada Reads 2016
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
The Elves are coming....
Join us at the Lincoln Public Library as we welcome our Elves on the Library Shelves! We'll read elf stories and do fun holiday crafts.
For Children of all ages. Please register.
Fee: donations of non-perishable items for the food bank appreciated.
Saturday November 28
10-11 am
MFR Library, Vineland
905-562-5711
2:30-3:30pm
Fleming Library, Beamsville
905-563-7014
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Congratulations Andre Alexis
For more information about the Scotiabank Giller Prize please visit the following website:
http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/
http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Governor General's Literary Award Winners
The Canada Council for the Arts has
announced the winners of this year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards.
The English-language recipients, each
taking home a $25,000 award, are as follows:
Fiction (Judged by Tammy Armstrong, Robert Hilles, and Souvankham Thammavongsa)
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Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and
Other Stories (McClelland & Stewart)
Poetry (Judged by Tammy Armstrong, Robert Hilles, and Souvankham Thammavongsa)
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Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are
Killing Me (Biblioasis)
Drama (Judged by Leanna Brodie, Michael A. Miller, Bernardine Stapleton)
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David Yee, carried away on the
crest of a wave (Playwrights Canada Press)
Non-fiction (Judged by Stephen R. Bown, Joseph Khoury, Alison Wearing)
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Mark L. Winston, Bee Times:
Lessons from the Hive (Harvard University Press)
Children’s literature: text (Judged by Jan L. Coates, Rachna Gilmore, David A. Poulsen)
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Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth
(Red Deer Press)
Children’s literature: illustrated
books (Judged by Dawn Baker, Judd Palmer,
Farida Zaman)
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JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith,
Sidewalk Flowers (Groundwood
Books)
Translation: French to English (Judged by Jo-Anne Elder, Bobby Theodore, Anne-Marie Wheeler)
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Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One
Cardinals (Coach House Books), translated from Les héritiers de la mine
by Jocelyne Saucier (Les Éditions XYZ)
The publisher of each winning work
will receive a $3,000 award.
English-language winners will present
their respective titles during a public reading and book signing at the Canada
Council in Ottawa on Dec. 1, and French-language winners, on Dec. 3.
Monday, October 26, 2015
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