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Happy New Year from your library service. Start 2025 positively by focusing on your health and wellbeing and save money by using the library.
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Ever wondered how much you’ve saved by using the library to borrow books instead of buying them?
We did! So, we’ve added up the prices of all the books borrowed in 2024.
Curious to know how much you’ve saved? Just log in to your library account to find out: Cheshire Libraries Catalogue (remember to check the accounts of any younger family members too!).
When you borrow a book from us, you’re helping to save money and be kinder to the planet. You’re also supporting your favourite authors, who earn a small amount every time their book is borrowed from a public library. What’s not to like?
And, if you read eBooks, listen to eAudiobooks, read magazines or newspapers through our BorrowBox or Libby apps, you’ve saved even more!
Saved a fortune? Let us know on social media @cwaclibraries
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We’re brightening up your January with Health and Wellbeing Week. Once again, our libraries are offering a wide range of free activities to help improve your mental and physical wellbeing, from Monday 20 to Sunday 26 January.
Our larger libraries will be holding health and wellbeing marketplaces 10am to 4pm at:
- Storyhouse Chester - Monday 20 January
- Ellesmere Port Library - Wednesday 22 January
- Frodsham Library - Thursday 23 January
- Winsford Library with Let’s Talk - Friday 24 January
These are free drop-in sessions, providing you with the opportunity to connect with a wide range of local and community organisations, learn about their work, and how they can provide support.
Other highlights include:
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Wellbeing Walks at Blacon Library, Ellesmere Port Library and Neston Library. These walks are supported by the Health Ranger and Green Infrastructure team at Cheshire West and Chester Council and other partners. Find your nearest walk here.
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Drive safely for longer workshops at Ellesmere Port Library, Great Boughton, Helsby Library, Little Sutton Library, Northwich Library at Weaver Hall Museum, Sandiway Library and Upton Library.
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Volunteering information days at Frodsham Library (Wednesday 22 January) and Neston Library (Thursday 23 January) - find out how you can improve your wellbeing through volunteering.
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An evening with multi-million selling crime novelist Simon McCleave, at Tarvin Library Tuesday 21 January, 6.30pm. Tickets available via Ticketsource - Simon McCleave at Tarvin Library and at the library.
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Love to Move at Neston Library – new gentle exercise session which aims to stimulate memories through music, starting Wednesday 23 January, 2-3pm. For people living with dementia but also for those interested in seated exercise and increasing wellbeing through music.
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Lache Library celebrates 60 glorious years. Join us for coffee, cake and a chance to reminisce on Monday 20 January.
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Creative writing taster workshop at Northwich Library at Weaver Hall Museum on Thursday 23 January, 5.30pm.
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Refreshment, Exercise and Chat (REC) - gentle chair exercises at Sandiway Library
To find out about all the fantastic wellbeing events and information sessions, visit the library events page.
Tickets to bookable events are available at www.ticketsource.co.uk/cwaclibraries
Our regular library activities will still be taking place including adult crafts, scrabble clubs, adult colouring, knit and natter sessions, family history support, wellbeing coffee mornings, reading groups, rhymetimes and storytimes.
We offer an extensive range of resources to help raise awareness about mental health whilst also providing access to information that will enable people to lead happier and healthier lives.
Go to our dedicated health and wellbeing page for lots of information and advice from a whole host of health organisations, which provide support for children, young people and adults.
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Do your bit to help save the environment and money this year, by donating unwanted children’s fancy dress costumes at Barnton, Frodsham, Hope Farm, Lache, Little Sutton, Neston, Northwich, Sandiway, Weaverham, Wharton and Winsford libraries.
You can also drop into any of those libraries and collect a donated costume.
Donated costumes will be quickly checked and put out for collection (no donation or payment required) from Saturday 1 February to Wednesday 5 March.
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Little Sutton Library, Friday 7 February, 7pm |
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Trevor Wood is the writer of the Jimmy Mullen trilogy and ‘’You Can Run, a standalone thriller set in a remote Northumberland village. His latest book, ‘The Silent Killer’, featuring a senior cop in the first stages of early onset dementia, has just been optioned for TV.
Rob Parker is the author of ‘Far from the Tree’ and the first instalment in the Thirty Miles trilogy, as well as eight novels for independent publishers. There will be a chance to ask questions, have books signed and even purchase a book or two. Refreshments will be available.
Tickets are £5 per person. Book via Ticketsource or at Little Sutton Library.
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Neston Library, Thursday 27 February, 7pm
Jasper’s first book, ‘The Eyre Affair’, debuted on the New York Time Bestseller list in 2001 and his 18th novel, 'Dark Reading Matter', will be published in the UK/USA in 2025.
Fforde's writing is an eclectic mix of genres which include a four-book series for teens about magic and dragons, set in a shabby world of failing magical powers; 'Shades of Grey', a post-apocalyptic dystopia where social hierarchy is based on the colours you can see; 'Early Riser' , a thriller set in a world in which humans have always hibernated; and 'The Constant Rabbit', an allegory about racism and xenophobia in the UK.
Books will be on sale, which Jasper will be happy to sign. Wine and refreshments will be available.
Tickets £5 per person. Book via Ticketsource or at Neston Library.
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This winter visit your local library for a warm and friendly welcome
During opening times libraries are part of the Council’s Warm, Welcoming Spaces network, providing a space for you to stay warm and safe.
Some Warm Welcoming Spaces sites will be open all day and some for shorter periods. Details of opening times can be found on each library’s webpage.
Alongside our wide range of books, eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines, there are also refreshments and free access to WiFi as well as public computers and newspapers. Everyone is welcome to join in with library events and activities that are taking place.
Find out more about Warm Welcoming Spaces here, and share the details with your friends, family and neighbours.
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Just Add Nature
Rebecca Frank
You don't need to live in the countryside or have access to an abundance of green space to make valuable connections with the natural world around you. Often it's the simple pleasures - like eating seasonally, identifying wild flowers, listening to birdsong, being close to water or nurturing a houseplant - that bring the greatest reward. Around the world, doctors have been experimenting with 'prescribing' nature to help patients' wellbeing, and this book does just that.
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Unprocess Your Family Life
Rob Hobson
Expert nutritionist Rob Hobson addresses common challenges faced by families, such as dealing with different diets, and making quick and healthy meals on a busy schedule. Full of practical tips, easy swaps, and sections dedicated to cooking with your kids and teenagers, the entire family can now enjoy nutritious, unprocessed food at home, without sacrificing flavour.
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The Mind Manual
Dr Alex George
Mental health matters. Learn how to assess your mental health today - and understand what's normal for you. Discover the seven universal truths that everyone should remember, and the mental fitness foundations that will boost you. And exercise your mind with the mental health toolkit that will help you thrive.
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The Pegan Diet
Dr Mark Hyman
Food is medicine. Take the best aspects of the paleo diet (good fats, limited refined carbs, limited sugar) and combine them with the vegan diet (lots and lots of fresh, healthy veggies) to create a delicious diet that is not only good for your brain and your body, but also good for the planet.
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