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Autumn adventures in your local library
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Thank you to all of our Ready, Set, Readers!
 The Summer Reading Challenge is now over for another year - thank you to all the children, parents, grandparents, siblings, teachers, carers and more who joined the challenge or supported someone to take part. Over 4,400 children joined Ready, Set, Read this year, an amazing result!
If your child hasn't picked up their certificate and medal yet, pop into your local library to officially complete the Challenge.
We'd love to hear about any library events or activities you attended over the summer holidays - if you have any feedback for us please let us know here.
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This talk by local historian and writer, Chris Fozzard, will appeal to anyone with an interest in local and family history. Chris highlights the resources he uses to gather stories from the past, many of which are accessible at your local library. He also shares some of the more unusual, unexpected and enlightening stories that he has unearthed during the course of his own investigations.
Upton Library, Friday 15 September at 6pm - book your place here.
This is a free event as part of Heritage Open Days.
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 Over the next few months, we're hosting The Exchange, a brand-new immersive audio installation exploring individual and collective experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Developed by Filament Projects in partnership with Vivo Care Choices. 'The Exchange' invites audiences to uncover some of these hidden stories, whilst also reflecting on their own individual experiences.
Catch The Exchange at one of the venues below:
Saturday 16 - Friday 29 September: Winsford Library
Saturday 30 September - Friday 13 October: Neston Library
Saturday 14 October - Friday 27 October: Theatre Porto, Ellesmere Port
Saturday 28 October - Friday 10 November: Hope Farm Library
Saturday 11 November - Saturday 25 November: Lion Salt Works
To find out more visit The Exchange - Hidden Stories from the Covid-19 Pandemic | Cheshire West and Chester Council
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 ‘The Start of All Imaginings’ by Patricia Mackinnon-Day is a series of short films that explore the personal journeys of nine Chester market traders. The films explore a range of personal insights around migration, camaraderie, well-being, tastes, tradition, community, food origins – and even a love story.
The films will be available to view at Great Boughton and Lache Library from September 22 until 1 December as part of Chester Contemporary.
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We'll be joining in the Sustainable Cheshire Festival in Grosvenor Park on Saturday 23 September - come and see us at our stall for eco-friendly crafts, book recommendations and more.
We’ll also be bringing our brand-new 100% electric mobile library – the first of its kind in the UK! Have you spotted it out on the road yet? Read all about it here.
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And one to watch out for in October…
This year Libraries Week becomes Green Libraries week, so join us to celebrate all that’s great (and green) about your local library! We’re busy finalising plans and all our events and activities will be listed on the Library Events webpage soon.
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How (Not) to have an Arranged Marriage
Dr Amir Khan
Yousef is the golden child to his strict Pakistani parents, overshadowing his younger sister, Rehana. As he finishes his medical degree in London, Yousef's life appears to be mapped out for him - become a doctor, marry a suitable girl of his parents' choosing and, above all, make his family proud. Then Yousef meets Jess. A fellow medical student, Jess presents a complication to the plan. Suddenly, Yousef finds himself torn between two worlds - keeping each a secret from the other. Then, as graduation day looms, Yousef's mother informs him that she's started looking for his wife.
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The Last Devil to Die
Richard Osman
You'd think you would be allowed to relax over Christmas, but not in the world of the Thursday Murder Club. On Boxing Day, a dangerous package is smuggled across the English coast. When it goes missing, chaos is unleashed. The body count starts to rise - including someone close to the Thursday Murder Club - as our gang face an impossible search and their most deadly opponents yet. With the clock ticking down and a killer heading to Cooper's Chase, has their luck finally run out? And who will be 'the last devil to die'?
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The Pit
Peter Papathanasiou
With DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn himself in. Bob is 65-years-old, confined to a Perth nursing home. But 30 years ago, he killed a man in the remote northern Kimberley mining region. He offers to show Sparrow where the body is, but there's a catch: Sparrow must travel north with him under the guise of being his carer.As they embark on their road trip through the guts of Western Australia, pursued by outback police and adrenaline-soaked miners, Sparrow beings to suspect that Bob's desire to head north may have sinister motivations.
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Weirdo
Sara Pascoe
Deep in Essex and her own thoughts, Sophie had a feeling something was going to happen and then it did. Chris has entered the pub and re-entered her life after Sophie had finally stopped thinking about him and regretting what she'd done. Sophie has a chance at creating a new ending and paying off her emotional debts (if not her financial ones). All she has to do is act exactly like a normal, well-adjusted person and not say any of her inner monologue out loud. If she can suppress her light paranoia, pornographic visualisations and pathological lying maybe she'll even end up getting the guy she wants? Then she could dump her boyfriend Ian and try to enjoy Christmas.
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