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What's new for November at your local library
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November is here and with it comes the annual Chester Literature Festival at Storyhouse. This year’s festival takes place from 9 – 26 November and will see the building filled with 18 days of talks, workshops, performance and events for all ages, interests and passions. For full details of all the events visit Chester Literature Festival 2023 | Storyhouse
The Storyhouse Library team will be getting involved providing free literary activities throughout the festival:
Love Letters to Your Library
Come and collect a blank postcard and tell us what your library means to you. All responses will be displayed in the Storyhouse lobby.
Blind Date with a Book
You can't judge a book by its cover! Borrow a mystery book, wrapped in brown paper, tagged with clues to entice the reader.
Sit for Six
A study by the University of Sussex researchers found reading for as few as six minutes reduced stress by as much as 68 percent. During the festival we invite you to retreat to our reading corner, for just six minutes (or longer if you please!).
Literature Festival booklist
We’ve also put together a list of books from all the different speakers and authors – browse the collection here: Cheshire Libraries Catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
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Join the Road Safety Team for their new and updated ‘Driving Safer for Longer Virtual Reality Workshop’ at the following locations:
Neston Library
Wednesday 29 November, 9.30am, 10.40am, 11.50am
Great Boughton Library
Thursday 30 November, 9.30am, 10.40am, 11.50am
The new virtual reality intervention has been developed to help mature drivers better understand the risks and hazards that become more prevalent with age. The film and discussion is built around the following key objectives: · Increased awareness of reduced physical mobility (i.e., range of next movement) · Understand the effect impaired vision can have on safe driving. · Demonstrate how speed perception abilities can deteriorate with age. · Reinforce the importance of maintaining hazard awareness and prediction skills. For further information email: roadsafety@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
Book your place via TicketSource here.
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Would you love to discover new books and authors but simply don't have the time? Do you struggle to visit the library during your lunch break or at a busy weekend? Or perhaps you choose books on behalf of a friend or family member but don’t know quite what they like?
Why not let us help out with our Order & Collect service? Just fill in our online form, let us know what you'd like to read, and our experienced team will do the rest and find some personalised book picks, just for you. It's a great way to find books and authors you'll love.
Here's how it works: 1. Fill in the online form or call your local library. 2. Wait for us to confirm your order is ready 3. Pop in and collect your hand-picked books! They'll already be on your library card, ready to go. Visit our website to place your first order or find out more.
If you're looking for a specific title, these will still need to be reserved through our Holds service on the library catalogue. http://cwac.co/Bq9su
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Want to know what’s on, particularly as we approach the festive season?
The best place to find all of our latest events is the Library Events section of our website where we will be listing everything going on by library very soon – find it here.
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Winter Mini Challenge, from Friday 1 December
The Winter Mini Challenge is a free online, bitesize version of The Reading Agency’s annual Summer Reading Challenge. This summer, they teamed up with the Youth Sport Trust and public libraries to bring you Ready, Set, Read! which empowered hundreds of thousands of young people to read and play, keeping minds and bodies active over the summer break.
Following this success, The Reading Agency are delighted to extend the theme into the Winter Mini Challenge. With the holidays approaching, now is the time to encourage children to discover the joy of reading or to build on good reading habits! Tackle the holiday reading ‘dip’ and join in at wintermini.org.uk from 1 December 2023. More information on the Challenge can be found on the website from 1 December.
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Good Material
Dolly Alderton
From the New York Times best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both.
Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story…
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The Future
Naomi Alderman
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
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What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Michiko Aoyama
For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers’ life.
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it.
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