Maybe it does mean a little bit more this year.
Take care.
Stay safe.
See you all in 2021.
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Ring and Read
Kirklees libraries continue to offer our Ring and Read service.
You can get a selection of books chosen for you through Ring and Read, but if there are specific titles you would like, you can now request them using our online catalogue. We will get in touch when they are available and book a slot for you to collect them.
If you need help accessing the catalogue please ring 01484 414868 and a member of staff will be happy to help.
Staff are working hard to ensure that we’re ready to open our doors for safe browsing and IT access in the New Year; in the meantime the Home Library service will continue to serve our most vulnerable members throughout December. if you want to know more about this service you can ring 01484 226363.
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Thurday January 7th
11.00am – 12.00noon
Emma Decent - In conversation
Live online
In conversation with Emma Decent - the writer of the one woman show ‘I Don’t Know What I’m Supposed to be Doing’
Emma’s writing explores how dementia impacted on her relationship with her mum. The session will explore dementia, but also the mother/daughter relationship. Emma’s writing is authentic, touching and heartfelt and with our libraries not able to host Emma’s show we are pleased to be able to offer this online event.
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Thursday February 11th
6.30 -7.30pm
Carl Chinn - In conversation
Live online
Well-known social historian Carl Chinn has spent decades searching them out, one of whom was his own great grandfather, and, like the Shelbys, his grandfather was an illegal bookmaker in the back-streets of Birmingham in the 1920s.
In this gripping social history book, Chinn shines a light on the rarely reported struggles of the working class in one of the great cities of the British Empire before the First World War.
Drawing together a remarkably wide-range of original sources, including rarely seen images of real Peaky Blinders and interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: The Real Story adds a new dimension to the true history of Birmingham’s under world and highlights the fact behind fiction.
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We've put together collections of the most popular titles borrowed via Overdrive since March 23rd. Select (click on) the title links to borrow or place a hold. Select (click on) the images to see the full collection.
We've also listed the most popular Magazines and Newspapers read via our Pressreader platform.
In a House of Lies (Inspector Rebus Series, Book 22) by Ian Rankin
Blue Moon (Jack Reacher Series, Book 24) by Lee Child
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping ... by Cait Flanders
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime ... by Bill O'Reilly
"I Will Not Be Erased": Our stories about growing up as people of colour by gal-dem
Wrecking Ball (Book 14) by Jeff Kinney
Fetch-22: Dog Man Series, Book 8 by Dav Pilkey
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli
Kids Fight Plastic: How to be a #2minutesuperhero by Martin Dorey
Most read = TV Times
Other popular titles include Amateur Photographer and Woman & Home
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Welcome to Kirklees Libraries Book Chat Group. This is not a book group as such, so there will be no regular recommended title, but rather a social group for broader discussion about books.
Whether it's an old favourite you keep coming back to or the latest bestseller everyone's talking about, post a picture of what you're reading and let us know what you think about it. You might just find your next favourite read!
Kirklees Libraries will post ideas and themes to stimulate conversation, but this is very much your group. This group is an adult book chat group and intended for persons aged 18 or over
https://www.facebook.com/groups/kirkleesbookchat
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Is a new online resource from Kirklees Libraries. It’s recognised as a standard work to help introduce readers and borrowers to novelists whose work is unfamiliar to them. It is designed to answer the perennial question "I've read all the books by this author, who else writes like that?"
It's free to use for all Kirklees Library members.
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App update
Recently, Google announced that they are sunsetting Chrome apps built with App Runtime for Chrome (ARC) by the end of 2020. As a result, we will discontinue support for the Chrome Web Store version of the OverDrive app, effective November 20, 2020.
Users who have already downloaded the Chrome Web Store’s version of the OverDrive app can continue to use it, though OverDrive’s ability to troubleshoot and resolve any reported issues will be limited.
We have over 26,000 eAudio and eBook titles. Borrow them for free with your Kirklees library card and PIN.
View the collection along with details of how to download and use the Libby app via our Overdrive page at: kirklees.overdrive.com
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Digital Magazines and Newspapers
Choose from over 7,300 national and international titles to read online or download for offline convenience.
Complimentary access with your Kirklees library card and PIN for 60 days before you have to sign in again.
Create a collection of favourite titles, search and add new ones.
Share articles through email and social media, or save and organize them into categories with labels for quick and easy access.
For more details along with details of the text-to-speech and instant translation options, see our PressReader catalogue at: www.pressreader.com
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kirkleeslibraries.co.uk
Carefully selected and regularly updated links and resources for:
- Creative Adults
- Creative Children
- Learning
- Making Reading Fun
- Staying Safe
- Virtual Kirklees Library
- Wellbeing
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