February is “I Love To Read Month.”  For the entire month of February, each time you visit the Library, you can put you name in for the book draws.  There are 10 draws this year – something for everyone’s reading pleasure.  For those that prefer movies, we have a two film set on DVD by Barbara Taylor Bradford.  The draws will be made at the end of the month.

 

    Biographies new to the Library include:  Mercator – The Man Who Mapped the Planet by Nicholas Crane; and Host of CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada Ron MacLean gives us Cornered – Hijinks, Highlights, Late Nights and Insights, with the foreword by, you guessed it, Don Cherry.

 

    Whether you’re new to ice fishing or an experienced hard-water angler, Ice Fishing – The Ultimate Guide is written for you. It’s an all-encompassing guide that covers everything you need to know about modern ice fishing. Join author-photographer and ice-fishing fanatic, Tim Allard, and over 20 pros as they share the most up-to-date techniques to catch North America’s favourite sport-fish in winter.  

 

    Knack Self-Defense for Women by Chris Wright-Martell displays the strategies, moves, and everyday tactics to gain confidence and stay safe.

 

    If you are planning a vacation in the South Pacific, we now have the Lonely Planet South Pacific Phrasebook to help make your vacation even more enjoyable.

 

    Haywood Smith introduces Wife-in-Law.  Neighbors Betsy Callison and Kat Ellis develop an unlikely friendship despite their vastly different backgrounds.  When Betsey's husband, Greg, leaves her for his secretary, Kat is the one who helps her through, but, when Greg returns two years later and romances the newly widowed Kat, Betsy can only watch in disbelief as her friend marries her ex-husband in Haywood Smith’s Wife-in-Law.

 

    Malcolm Fox and his team from Internal Affairs are back. They've been sent to Fife to investigate whether fellow cops covered up for a corrupt colleague, Detective Paul Carter. But what should be a simple job is soon complicated by intimations of conspiracy and cover-up and a brutal murder in Ian Rankin’s The Impossible Dead.

 

    For our junior readers we have Rainbow Magic’s Ruby the Red Fairy and Sunny the Yellow Fairy.  The Geronimo Stilton series continues with Run for the Hills, Geronimo! Finally, Night of Champions – Pick Your Path #2 by Tracey West, asks readers to choose the plot of a story about a young wrestler who prepares for the World Wrestling Entertainment Night of Champions and must decide which championship to go for.

 

    Our youngest readers will enjoy three new Dora the Explorer board books – A Day at the Beach, Dora’s Bedtime Wishes, and What Will I Be?

 

    Catalogue and Events details are available at the Library website:  www.library.lacdubonnet.info.

 

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    Thank you to all the children and parents who joined us for Family Literacy Night, as well as to our volunteers, Beverley Richmond, Heather Shabaga and Teri Usackis.  We had a great turnout and a very good time was had by all.  See you all again next year!

 

    February is “I Love To Read Month.”  For the entire month of February, each time you visit the Library, you can put you name in for the book draws.  If you have not yet come in to see what the Lac du Bonnet Library has to offer, we would be most happy to show you around.

 

    Our new Large Print rotation is now available for circulation and the audiobook rotation will be available very shortly.

    What’s New?  Studio Visual Steps introduces Protect, Clean Up and Speed Up Your Computer for Seniors.  Use the protection, clean up and optimization tools available in Windows (suitable for Windows 7, Vista and XP). 

 

    For our Geronimo Stilton fans, we have the all-new, full-color graphic novel The Great Ice Age.

 

    Brent Weeks, author of the popular Night Angel trilogy, begins his new Lightbringer series with The Black Prism.  Gavin Guile, the most powerful man in the world who holds the title of "Prism," has only five years to complete five impossible goals, but his life is complicated further when he learns that a woman in the kingdom he defeated before taking his place of power has given birth to his son, a secret that could ruin everything.

 

    V.C. Andrews introduces Book 1 of her brand new Storm series, Family Storms, where fourteen-year-old Sasha is taken in by wealthy Mrs. March and her husband after a car accident, in which their daughter Kiera injured Sasha and killed her mother. While the March family provide Sasha with more than she could ever ask for, Kiera is unhappy with the arrangement and sets out to make Sasha's life miserable.

 

    Continuations of other series include:  Debbie Macomber’s 1105 Yakima Street (#11 Cedar Cove); The Man Who Smiled (#4 Kurt Wallander) by Henning Mankell; Heart of Evil (#2 Krewe of Hunters) by Heather Graham; Jim Butcher’s First Lord’s Fury (#6 Codex Alera); The Dead Town (#5 Frankenstein, final volume) by Dean Koontz; Alexander McCall Smith’s The Forgotten Affairs of Youth (#8 Isabel Dalhousie); Killing Kate (#4 Riley Spartz) by Julie Kramer and finally, for our young adults, we have Clockwork Prince (#2 The Infernal Devices) by Cassandra Clare.

 

Catalogue and Events details are available at the Library website:  www.library.lacdubonnet.info.

 

    Kids, bring your parents to the Library on Thursday evening, January 26th, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, for Family Literacy Day. Join other families and Library staff for learning activities made fun for the whole family. There is no admission fee and snacks will be provided. See you then!

 

    The Library is proud to introduce “Molly,” the main character in a brand new children’s series by Manitoba author Marlene Reimer. Marlene lives in Steinbach, Manitoba, where the simple and idyllic childhood, portrayed in these books, took place. Since Marlene, both the writer and illustrator of the Molly stories, didn’t think of herself as a fine enough artist to illustrate with pencil and paintbrush, she decided to create sets and scenes to photograph these stories. 

 

    Also available:  A biography of Steve Jobs, focusing on his intense personality and creative success as the founder of Apple, based on interviews with Jobs and more than a hundred friends, family, and colleagues.

 

    The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classic tale about Hester Prynne, her lover, their child, and Hester's husband, and the effect of sin on the mind and spirit of these characters.

 

    Susannah's world is rocked by her rekindled feelings for Rob, and then totally turned upside down by a revelation from her best friend Amelia. Just when Susannah and Amelia need each other the most, they are facing a crisis that threatens to tear their friendship apart, in When You Were Mine by Elizabeth Noble.

 

    New series include:  Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Blood Trinity (#1 Belador). Evalle Kincaid, who has always walked the line between human and demon, is on a quest to learn more about her origins. She comes under suspicion after a demon claims the life of a young woman and sets out to prove her innocence in the sordid underground of Atlanta, but first she must stop the coming apocalypse and save mankind from a group of supernatural terrorists.

 

    Denise Mina introduces Garnethill (#1 Garnethill). He was tied into the chair. His throat had been cut clean across, right back to the vertebrae. Splashes of his blood were drying all over the carpet. When Maureen O'Donnell finds her boyfriend butchered in her living room, her world is shattered - and she is the chief suspect in the murder case.

    Finally, Sophie Jordan gives us Wicked in Your Arms (#1 Forgotten Princesses). Grier Hadley, the illegitimate daughter of an unsavory character who has an enormous dowry, and Prince Sevastain Maksimi, who is looking for a well-bred young lady to marry, are both aware their backgrounds make them an unsuitable match, but their attraction for one another makes it difficult to deny their blossoming relationship.

 

    Catalogue and Events details are available at the Library website:  www.library.lacdubonnet.info.

 

    Welcome to another new year at the Lac du Bonnet Library.  For those of you who may not be familiar with out Library, memberships are free to residents of the Town and R.M. of Lac du Bonnet as well as to R.M. of Alexander residents in the Bird River area.  Non-resident memberships are also available for a small fee.  Library staff will issue a username and password for those patrons who would like to manage their Library account (i.e., renewals, holds, etc.) from home, or who would like to access the approximately 15,000 audiobooks and ebooks available through eLibraries Manitoba. 

 

    Family Literacy Day takes place annually on January 27th to celebrate adults and children reading and learning together, and to encourage Canadians to spend at least 15 minutes enjoying a learning activity as a family every day.  The Library will host a Family Literacy Night on January 26th.  Final details will be posted at the Library, in the Leader Library Corner, and the Library website.

 

    Manitobans have selected J.R. Léveillé’s novel The Setting Lake/Le soleil du lac qui se couche as this year’s featured book for On The Same Page, a province-wide reading initiative that encourages all Manitobans to read and talk about the same book at the same time.

 

    Léveillé’s first novel, set in his native Manitoba describes the unforgettable encounter of Angèle, an aspiring young Métis architect, with Ueno Takami, an older Japanese poet.  The story begins when they meet at an art gallery in Winnipeg, a city surprisingly rich both physically, in its architecture, and culturally, with its mix of heritage and customs brought by people who have emigrated there from all over the world.  From Winnipeg, Angèle and Ueno head north through the wilds to Thompson.  The Setting Lake Sun is as much a love story as a spiritual journey, a celebration of life in all its incompleteness, imperfection, and impermanence.

 

    For all you Jets fans, we now have Back in the Bigs – How Winnipeg won, lost and regained is place in the NHL by Randy Turner/The Winnipeg Free Press.  Ten chapters of Jets history complete with action shots of such hockey greats as the Golden Jet, the Finnish Flash and the Swedish Rhapsody (Lars-Erik Sjöberg, Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson), naming only a few.

 

    It was one of the most gripping murder mysteries in Winnipeg’s history; a case that many believed would never be solved.  But thanks to the modern miracle of scientific analysis – combined with a dedicated police service that refused to give up hope – Candace Derksen’s killer was finally brought to justice, in Journey for Justice by Mike McIntyre – How “Project Angel” Cracked the Candace Derksen Case.

 

    In Louise Penny’s 7th novel, A Trick of the Light, fifty-year-old artist Clara Morrow, having survived her first solo show at the famed Musée in Montréal, returns to her home in the tiny village of Three Pines for a celebration with close friends.  Her high spirits are dashed when the body of an old art school classmate is found in her garden, leaving Chief Inspector Gamache to navigate the light and shadow of the art world in search of answers.

 

    Catalogue and Events details are available at the Library website:  www.library.lacdubonnet.info.

 

 

    Catalogue and Events details are available at the Library website:  www.library.lacdubonnet.info.

 

    On behalf of the LdB Library Board and Staff, we would like to thank all those families who came out for pyjama storytime on Tuesday evening.  Thank you to Beverley Richmond and Cathie Brereton, our guest readers.

 

    Our Christmas video collection is now available for circulation, as well as a very good selection of magazines with new ideas for the holiday season.  For those who prefer to make their own gifts, try our Back Issue Christmas Craft Magazines.

 

    The Library is pleased to offer several new resources on DVD to assist those in our community who may find themselves or someone they know needing a little help in dealing with the grief that comes with the loss of a loved one.

    Journey Through the Shadows – Hope for Healing After Someone You Love Has Committed Suicide.  Topics include:  The initial impact; the question “Why;” feelings of guilt; why suicide is so hard to talk about; finding support; and how friends and family can help.

 

    Helping Parents Grieve – Finding New Life after the Death of a Child.  Topics include:  Knowing you are not alone; dealing with the loss of hopes and dreams; grieving the death of a baby; the family’s grief journey; and honoring and remembering your child.

 

    Helping Children Grieve by experts Khris Ford and Paula D’Arcy, whose personal experiences with death give them intimate knowledge and compassion.  Topics include:  Differences between how adults and children grieve; how a parent can grieve while still helping a child to grieve; three common feelings expressed by all grieving children; and how to be authentic and tell children the truth about death.

 

    Audiobooks now available include:  Charade by Sandra Brown – A medical miracle gave TV personality Cat Delaney more than a new heart. It gave her a second chance at life. After leaving Hollywood to host a San Antonio TV show spotlighting children with special needs, Cat fights to gain respect as a newscaster. She meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned crime writer, who regards her as a woman, not as a heart patient. When fatal 'accidents' begin killing the other heart recipients, Alex may, or may not, be her most important ally.

 

    Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the murder of Bart Minnock, the founder of a computer gaming giant, who seems to have been attacked while playing a new virtual game in which he was playing the role of a warrior king, but has a difficult time finding a suspect or determining exactly how he was killed, in J.D. Robb’s Fantasy in Death.

 

    Years after losing her mother in a car accident that rendered her father emotionally distant, Rachel resolves to escape from an abusive marriage to protect her young daughter, in The Snow Angel by Glenn Beck.

 

    Finally, recorded in concert for the CBC radio program, Vinyl Cafe, we have Out & About by Stuart McLean.

Pyjama Storytime

    “Come One, Come All” to Pyjama Night at the Lac du Bonnet Library, Tuesday, Nov. 29th, 2011.  Doors open at 7:00 p.m.  Guest reader for the preschoolers, another for the older kids.  Juice and cookies will be available.

 

    New books available especially for the occasion include several titles from the Step into Reading Series.  For Step 1 readers, we have DC Super Friends – Flying High, Dancing Dinos Go to School and Dancing Dinos at the Beach.  Step 2 readers will enjoy DC Super Friends in Brain Freeze; Unicorn Wings and from Disney Princess, we have The Sweetest Spring.  Ironman Armored Adventures introduces The Crimson Dynamo Returns for Step 3 readers.

 

    A Polar Bear Night of Stars and Light is a story of two polar bear cubs who find themselves separated from their mother one snowy afternoon.  As they search for her, the cubs encounter several of the unique animals that share their wintery world.

 

    Having moved from the city to a tropical island to escape such horrifying creatures as bugs and cats, a homeowner encounters a horde of friendly crocodiles, who drink Tabasco sauce, get tangled in dental floss, and turn the house into a swamp in Crocs by David T. Greenberg.

 

    His Shoes Were Far Too Tight is collection of poems for children that explore the fantastic world of imagination.

 

    The fairies are assigned their parts for the ballet recital and Gerry is upset when she is cast as the court jester, instead of the crystal princess, but when the performance takes a bad turn, Gerry brings extra sparkle to the stage, in The Very Fairy Princess Takes the Stage.

 

    With a splish of paint and a splash of fun Colin's room gets painted by two painters, Molly and Heather.  While painting Molly and Heather use American Sign Language to talk to each other.  What is the result of the project?  Read Splish, Splat to find out!

 

    Scaredy Squirrel is planning his own birthday party for one, but despite his detailed plans, things get out of control, in Mélanie Watt’s Scaredy Squirrel Has a Birthday Party.

 

    Finally, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site – At sunset, when their work is done for the day, a crane truck, a cement mixer, and other pieces of construction equipment make their way to their resting places and go to sleep.

 

    Catalogue and Events details are available at the Library website:  www.library.lacdubonnet.info.