January - Children's Books

Muddy Paws
Sue Bentley








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Princesse Rosa  Vivian French
Christmas Castle  Rosie Banks
Chocolate Wishes  Sue Bentley
BC Mambo  Stone Rabbit
Pirate Palooza  Stone Rabbit
Deep-Space Disco  Stone Rabbit
The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary  Jeff Kinney
I Even Funnier  James Patterson
The Astrosmurf  Yvan Delporte
The Smurf Apprentice Yvan Delporte
The Smurf King  Yvan Delporte
The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid  Geronimo Stilton
Four Mice Deep in the Jungle  Geronimo Stilton
Journey to the Center of the Earth  Jules Verne
Whizz! Pop! Granny, Stop!  Tracy Corderoy
The Vole Brothers  Roslyn Schwartz
Dinosaur Revealed  Dougal Dixon
Life in Ancient Rome  Simon Adams

January - Mysteries

The Gods of Guilt
Michael Connelly








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Sandrine's Case  Thomas H. Cook
Dust  Patricia Cornwell
Hunting Eve  Iris Johansen
Silencing Eve  Iris Johansen
The Hidden Child  Camilla Lackberg
Tatiana  Martin Cruz Smith
Cross My Heart  James Patterson (Large Print)

January - DVDs

The Paradise








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Bomb Girls - Season 2
Dalziel & Pascoe - Season 4
DCI Banks - Season 1
The Fall - Saeson 1
Kingdom - Season 2
Last Tango in Halifax
Murdoch Mysteries - Season 1
Silk - Season 1
Case Histories
Mad Men - Season 6

January - Fiction

The House Girl
Tara Conklin








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And Thereby Hangs a Tale Jeffrey Archer
The Measure of the Magic  Terry Brooks
We Need New Names   NoViolet Bulawayo
The Luminaries   Eleanor Catton
Mad About the Boy  Helen Fielding
The Lowland  Jhumpa Lahiri
The Last Word  Lisa Lutz
Reconstructing Amelia  Kimberly McCreight
A Tale for the Time Being  Ruth Ozeki
The Testament of Mary  Colm Toibin
Mirage  Clive Cussler (Large Print)
The Senator's Wife  Sue Miller (Large Print)
Family History  Dani Shapiro (Large Print)

January - Non-Fiction

Ecstasy to Agony
Bill Young










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The Vegetarian Collection  Alison Kent
The Way of the 88 Temples  Robert C. Sibley
The Village Against the World  Dan Hancox
Globish  Robert McCrum
The Holmes Inspection  Mike Holmes
The World's Strongest Librarian  Josh Hanagame

February Book Sale

The February Book Sale starts at 2.30 pm on Monday, February 3rd and runs until Saturday, February 8th. Cookbooks are featured.

The Write Stuff - Susan Byrd

Bestselling author Sandra Byrd has now published more than forty books. Her adult fiction debut, Let Them Eat Cake, the first in the French Twist series was a Christy Award finalist, as was her first historical novel, To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn, the first in her Tudor series. She also writes young adult novels.

Byrd is passionate about helping new writers develop their talent and has mentored and coached hundreds of new writers.  Byrd lives near Seattle, Washington, with her husband and two children. 
The library has both the French Twist and Tudor series.  Click here to visit her website.

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - Parade's End

Set over a tumultuous ten-year period 100 years ago, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of one privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian one. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, aristocrat Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch) puts principles first by marrying Sylvia (Rebecca Hall), a pretty, manipulative socialite who gives birth to a child who may not be his. More...

December - Books

A Great Game
Stephen Harper








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Consumer Reports 2014
Toward New Horizons  Clifford Lincoln
The Silent Wife A.S.A. Harrison
The Wind Through the Keyhole  Stephen King
The Good House  Ann Leary
How I Came to Sparkle Again  Kaya McLaren
The Roots of the Olive Tree  Courtney Miller Santo
Every Last One  Anna Quinlen
The Kashmir Shawl  Rosie Thomas
Takedown Twenty  Janet Evanovich
Joyland  Stephen King

December- DVDs

We're the Millers
Also in Blu-ray








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Breaking Bad - Season 3
The Impossible
Louis Cyr
The Miracle Worker
Playing for Keeps
Stories We Tell
To the Wonder
On the Road

December - Children's DVDs

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special







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Mr. Jelly Goes Time Travelling
Planes
The Search for Santa Paws
The Smurfs 2
Ratatouille (Blu-ray)
Home Alone (Blu-ray)

January Book Sale

The January Book Sale starts at 2.30 pm on Monday, January 6th and runs until Saturday, January 11th. Dictionaries and collectables are featured.

Holiday Hours

The Library will be closed the following days:

December 24, 25, 26
December 31, January 1, 2

Happy Holidays!

The Write Stuff - Lisa Moore



Lisa Moore, a Canadian writer, is the bestselling author of the novels February (2010), longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of CBC's Canada Reads competition, and Alligator (2006), which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her third novel, Caught, was published in June 2013 and shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller prize.

Moore grew up on the outskirts of St. John's, Newfoundland, and still makes her home there. Although she had intended to follow a career in the visual arts, she now writes full time.

The library has these three novels.  Click here to find out more about Lisa Moore.   

Hudson Box Office (HBO) - House of Cards

For those of you who enjoyed The West Wing, double your pleasure with this superb Netflix Original series. Starring Kevin Spacey as cunning and ruthless Congressman Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his collaborative wife, Claire.
Based upon the original BBC series of the same name, House of Cards won several Emmy Awards and was the first series to live stream all 13 episodes at once. More...