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Happy New Year! MCMPL Newsletter Mary C. Moore Public Library January 2020 Announcements & Events About Us Hours Happy New Year! Monday-Thursday 10am-8pm Friday Book Club: For our February 4 meeting we are reading Circe by Madeline Miller, “a bold 10am-5pm and subversive retelling of the goddess's story, both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the Saturday most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right.” 10am-5pm Sunday & Stat Holidays Four Eyes Film Series: Wednesday, January 15, 7pm at Lacombe City Cinemas: Il Pleuvait Closed de Oiseaux (And the Birds Rained Down, directed by Louise Archambault. Tickets will be avail- able at the library January 4 through 14. See next page for all the details! Library Services Armchair Travel: Tuesday, January 14, 7pm in the LMC: Ireland, presented by Janet Hall. Free Wi-Fi Local History: Thursday, January 23, 7pm in the LMC: Deep Roots Farm, presented by Free public computer use Marc Visscher. Printing Genealogy Club: The library provides a time and space on the second Tuesday of the Faxing month at 4:30pm, for family history enthusiasts to convene and share tips, advice and stories. Everyone is welcome to attend drop-in meetings -- no registration required. The club meets the Scan-to-email second Tuesday of each month. Ancestry.ca is now available for public use, in the library or via Photocopying the library Wifi only. ** The January 14 meeting will take place in the Rotary board room in the LMC. Reference Questions Adult Craft Programs: Check out our website for information about our regular and special eBook/Audio downloads craft programming for adults. Card making, jewellery nights, knitting and more! Children’s Programs: Registration for winter/spring children’s programs begins Monday, Regular Programs January 6 at 10am. Phone us or register in person at the library -- NO voicemails or emails, please. Classes fill very quickly (usually within the first 45 minutes), so register early to avoid Children’s Programs disappointment. Classes run January 14 through February 21, March 3 through April 10 and Monthly Book Club April 21 through May 29. Children will be registered for the entire session. There is a one-time fee of $5 per family, or a craft supply donation. Knitting Club Adult Craft Programs Independent Film Series Local History Presentations Armchair Travel Presentations Mary C. Moore Public Library 101-5214 50 Ave. Lacombe, AB T4L 0B6 403-782-3433 [email protected] lacombelibrary.com facebook: /MCMPL twitter: @MCM_PubLibrary Four Eyes Film Series Independent Film Series Independent, International, Illuminating, Imaginative Four Eyes Film Series screens notable independent and world films not typically available to film lovers in Lacombe and area. Films are shown on the third Wednesday of each month (except July and August), 7pm at Lacombe City Cinemas. The film series is organized by a group of staff at Mary C. Moore Public Library. We acknowledge and appreciate our partnership with Toronto international Film Festival Film Circuit and Lacombe City Cinemas. Tickets Advance tickets $9 each, available at the library at the beginning of the month, until 8pm on the Tuesday before the film. On the day of the film, tickets are only available at the door, $10 each, cash only and subject to availability. All tickets are final sale. Box office opens at 6:15pm in the lobby of Lacombe City Cinemas. All ticket proceeds to the library. Concession available! JAN 15~IL PLEUVAIT DES OISEAUX (And the Birds Rained Down) Directed by Louise Archambault Three elderly hermits live deep in the woods, cut off from the rest of the world. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women... A luminous octogenarian, unjustly institutionalized her whole life, and a young photographer charged with interviewing survivors of the region's deadliest forest fire. And The Birds Rained Down is the story of intertwined destinies, where love can happen at any age and new life emerges in unexpected places. A poignant meditation on the possibilities of living outside modernity. Canada // 127 min // French with English subtitles // Rated: PG Rated 88% Fresh by critics on rottentomatoes.com See the full Four Eyes line-up, with film trailers, on our website: lacombelibrary.com/film New Book Spotlight A selection of our recent acquisitions Crocuses Hatch from Snow by Jaime Burnet When Ada falls for a body piercer named Pan, her grandmother, Mattie, says she looks like a caught trout with all those hooks in her mouth. But Mattie is caught too. It isn’t her Alzheimer’s, or the secret vibrator Ada’s mother Joan is convinced she has stashed in her room. Mattie is in love with a ghost. When Joan buys a house in Halifax's north end, the three generations move in next door to Ken, the man at the reins of the machine that tore down their old one. Ken and his family aren’t thrilled about their new neighbours, who are driving up the rent and helping history to repeat itself. While Ada’s obsession with Pan is written on her body, the story of Mattie’s love for Edith, a Mi’kmaw survivor of the Shubenacadie Residential School, unfurls. Next door, Ken grieves his late wife Leona, a powerful Black community organizer, and tries to inspire his disillusioned young son. Meanwhile, his daughter Kiah works to live up to her mother’s magic. A story of luminous love, the frustrations of family, violence mapped onto land and skin, and slender stems that grow thick enough to hatch from snow. Older Brother by Mahir Guven, translated by Tina Kover Older Brother is the poignant story of a Franco-Syrian family whose father and two sons try to integrate them- selves into a society that doesn’t offer them many opportunities. The father, an atheist communist who moved from Syria to France for his studies and stayed for love, has worked for decades driving a taxi to support his family. The eldest son is a driver for an app-based car service, which comically puts him at odds with his fa- ther, whose very livelihood is threatened by this new generation of disruptors. The younger son, shy and seri- ous, works as a nurse in a French hospital. Jaded by the regular rejections he encounters in French society, he decides to join a Muslim humanitarian organization to help wounded civilians in the war in Syria. But when he stops sending news home, the silence begins to eat away at his father and brother who wonder what his real motivations were. When younger brother returns home, he has changed. Guven alternates between an ironic take on contemporary society and the gravity of terrorist threats. He explores with equal poignancy the lives of “Uberized” workers and actors in the global jihad. The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising #1) by Kiersten White There was nothing in the world as magical and terrifying as a girl. Princess Guinevere has come to Camelot to wed a stranger: the charismatic King Arthur. With magic clawing at the kingdom's borders, the great wizard Merlin conjured a solution--send in Guinevere to be Arthur's wife . and his protector from those who want to see the young king's idyllic city fail. The catch? Guinevere's real name--and her true identity--is a secret. She is a changeling, a girl who has given up everything to protect Camelot. To keep Arthur safe, Guinevere must navigate a court in which the old--including Arthur's own family--demand things continue as they have been, and the new--those drawn by the dream of Camelot--fight for a better way to live. And always, in the green hearts of forests and the black depths of lakes, magic lies in wait to reclaim the land. Arthur's knights believe they are strong enough to face any threat, but Guinevere knows it will take more than swords to keep Camelot free. Deadly jousts, duplicitous knights, and forbidden romances are nothing compared to the greatest threat of all: the girl with the long black hair, riding on horseback through the dark woods toward Arthur. Be- cause when your whole existence is a lie, how can you trust even yourself? The first book in an exciting new trilogy. The Sacrament by Olaf Olafsson A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter’s day, a young student at the school watches the school’s headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the child—now a grown man, haunted by the past—calls the nun back to the scene of the crime. Seeking peace and calm in her twilight years at a convent in France, she has no choice to make a trip to Iceland again, a trip that brings her former visit, as well as her years as a young woman in Paris, powerfully and sometimes painfully to life. In Paris, she met an Icelandic girl who she has not seen since, but whose acquaintance changed her life, a relationship she relives all while reckoning with the mystery of August Franz’s death and the abuses of power that may have brought it on. In The Sacrament, critically acclaimed novelist Olaf Olafsson looks deeply at the complexity of our past lives and selves; the faulty nature of memory; and the indelible mark left by the joys and traumas of youth. Affecting and beautifully observed, The Sacrament is both propulsively told and poignantly written—tinged with the tragedy of life’s regrets but also moved by the possibilities of redemption, a new work from a novelist who consistently surprises and challenges.
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