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TSPL Popular Checkouts

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

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

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

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...

Popular Checkouts at TSPL

Here are our most checked out books over the past three months:

State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

Mercy by David Baldacci

Talking to Canadians: A Memoir by Rick Mercer

Never by Ken Follett

The Midnight Lock by Jeffery Deaver

Better Off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child

Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

The Truth-Seeker's Wife by Ann Granger

The Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan

The Long Call by Ann Cleeves

The Judge's List by John Grisham

Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight...