By Mike Selby

Cranbrook Public Library

The Cranbrook Public Library is now open with extended hours (with some restrictions and reduced services.)

Library hours for July and August are:

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, Thursday, and Friday;

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday;

12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Library Takeout curbside pick-up is still available by appointment.

The Summer Reading Club is in full swing. Please check our website, our Facebook page and the Library itself for daily activities and contests. Please email Kiersten at [email protected] for more information.

Our website has all kinds of up-to-date COVID-19 information, as well as numerous links to ebooks and audio, streaming movies, educational opportunities, and more. Flip through your favourite magazine, learn a new skill, exercise at home and get homework help:  at:  www.cranbrookpubliclibrary.ca

We are pleased to offer free Wi-Fi all around the outside of the building.

Please note we are working very closely with the City of Cranbrook and Provincial Health officials to continue to expand our services when it is safe to do so.

Sizzling Summer Book Sale:

The Friends have finally come out of hibernation and it’s time for a book sale. This sale will be smaller than ones in the past and will have the following categories only: Fiction, Mystery, Biography, History books and Children’s readers.

The Manual Training School adjacent to the library is the sale site. The members only sale is Tuesday, Aug. 3 from 4 to 6 p.m. Everyone is welcome on Wed., Aug. 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

As masks are recommended at this time all Friends’ volunteers will be wearing them.  Also hand sanitizing will be available. Tables and books will be spaced out to prevent crowding. Hand held baskets will be sanitized between use.

Donations for this sale are most welcome and will be accepted at the circulation desk in the library. Call Marilyn for info at 250-489-6254.

Come and find the books you need for beach read, camping outings and those quiet evenings on the deck.

ADULT NEWLY ACQUIRED ITEMS:

Sprinting Through No Man’s Land – Adin Dobkin   (796.620944)

Pretty Boys – David Yi   (155.332)

Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film   (791.43)

The No-Nonsense Meditation Book – Steven Laureys   (158.12)

The Woman They Could Not Silence – Kate Moore   (303.484092)

Toronto’s Lost Villages – Ron Brown   (971.354)

At the Ocean’s Edge – Margaret Conrad   (971.601)

Bottom’s Up – Sheilah Roberts Lukins   (394.1309718)

A Wilder Life – Joan Louwrens   (bio)

Last Chance Texaco – Rickie Lee Jones   (bio)

Island Queen – Vanessa Riley   (fic)

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur – Alka Joshi   (fic)

Shadow Target – David Ricciardi   (fic)

Songs in Ursa Major – Emma Brodie   (fic)

Sunrise by the Sea – Jenny Colgan   (fic)

In the Palace of Flowers – Victoria Princewill   (fic)

Falling – T. J. Newman   (fic)

Shoulder Season – Christina Clancy   (fic)

The War Nurse – Tracey Enerson Wood   (fic)

The Stranger in the Mirror – Liv Constantine   (fic)

The Lost Soul – Olga Tokarczuk   (fic)

Razorblade Tears – S.A. Cosby   (fic)

The Forest of Vanishing Stars – Kristin Harmel   (fic)

Dream Girl – Laura Lippman   (mys)

Kill All Your Darlings – David Bell   (mys)

The Bone Code – Kathy Reichs   (mys)

An Irish Hostage – Charles Todd   (mys)

Fallen – Linda Castillo   (mys)

Her Last Breath – Hilary Davidson   (mys)

Dog Eat Dog – David Rosenfelt   (mys)

Dead by Dawn – Paul Doiron   (mys)

What’s Done in the Darkness – Laura McHugh   (mys)

YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S NEWLY ACQUIRED ITEMS:

#MeToo and You: Everything You Need to Know About Consent…   (ya 176)

Kate in Waiting – Becky Albertalli   (ya fic)

The Awakening of Malcom X – Ilyasah Shabazz   (ya fic)

Harley in the Sky – Akemi Dawn Bowman   (ya fic)

The Girl’s I’ve Been – Tess Shapre   (ya fic)

It Began With A Page – Kyo Maclear   (j bio)

Stevie Wonder – Ma Isabel Sanchez Vegara   (j bio)

Megan Rapinoe – Ma Isabel Sanchez Vegara   (j bio)

Long Lost – Jaqueline West   (j fic)

How to Become a Planet – Nicole Melleby   (j fic)

The Gilded Girl – Alyssa Colman   (j fic)

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