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Climate Change by Sharren Reil
Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2022 06:01 AM
I am now 62 and grew up listening to David Suzuki warn us about global warming and the need to act forty years ago. I watched as B.C.’s forests were clear cut, as subdivisions were built on ancient flood plains, as SUV’s and trucks became the norm for city dwellers to own, and how each family went from one to many vehicles. Travel ads screamed for us to escape our life and travel, travel, travel. Appliances went from being built to last decades to the new ones that are only warrantied...
TSPL Popular Checkouts
Posted on Saturday, April 02, 2022 11:30 AM
Here are our most checked out books over the past three months:
State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
The Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan
Never by Ken Follett
A Man of Honor by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
The Truth-Seeker's Wife by Ann Granger
Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi Demeester
Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
Mercy by David Baldacci
The Maid by Nita Prose
The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
The Horsewoman by James Patterson...

Northern College Library Service Partnership by Rebecca Hunt
Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 06:00 AM
On March 1, 2022, the deposit library collection at the Northern College Haileybury Campus Library location opened to the public. This satellite service is available to Temiskaming Shores Public Library cardholders, and to students, staff and faculty members of Northern College.
The partnership came about when the Temiskaming Shores Public Library made the difficult decision to amalgamate and close both former branches of the library to help fund the renovation and move into a newly renovated, fully...

Spring is in the Air by Alison McCorkle
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 05:52 AM
Spring is definitely in the air these days. I hear the birds singing in the mornings, the icicles are dripping, snow is melting and puddles are forming. A much-missed colleague and friend who passed away a few years ago, Catherine Gillier, often wove the weather, flora and fauna into her blogs for the library. Just by reading this over, made me immediately think of her. Words have a way of doing that. Words can evoke images, fragrances and memories of all kinds just with a...

Fiction to Celebrate International Women’s Day by Elesha Teskey
Posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2022 05:37 AM
Yesterday, March 8th, was International Women’s Day. As stated on the International Women's Day website, the day “..is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.”
Today, more than ever before, the publishing industry seeks books with strong female characters, women who don’t rely on a man to save them or solve their problems, women breaking free from typical gender roles, basically...