Libraries June 2016 – Pickup a good read, enjoy half term fun, refugee week, and national bookstart week - all for free at your local library!
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Dive in to a good book and let's celebrate National Bookstart Week 6-12 June
Libraries are heading ‘under the sea’ to take you and your little ones on a magical journey at a special under the sea themed event at Nottingham Castle on Thursday 9 June, 10.30am to 2.30pm.
Teaming up with The Imagination Library, it will be a jam-packed day of stories and lots of fun activities to inspire families to read together every day:
Under the Sea crafts and activities with shadow puppet making
Geoffrey Jumper’s amazing under the sea shadow puppet show!
Meet Peppa Pig and the Bookstart Bear
Learn to line dance with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Free face painting and balloon animals
A free book for every child (while stocks last)
...and don’t forget, follow Bookstart Bear's paw prints from the Castle to Central Library to claim a special Bookstart Bear teddy - first come first served!
Pop in to your local library and enjoy special ‘under the sea’ totstimes; musical fun where babies and toddlers can sing, count, play and listen to music and rhymes using instruments that even the smallest of hands can hold and shake!
'Heimatlos’ is a state of being without any homeland, often civilians who have been denationalised, dislocated and displaced. The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees was established in the aftermath of the Second World War when refugees and displaced persons was high on the international agenda. In this exhibition four artists reflect on past and current issues facing refugees in the UK.
Don't miss this thought provoking exhibition. Part of Refugee Week 2016.
Exhibition open during normal library opening hours.
Film Screening: When I Saw You (12a Cert)
1967. The world is alive and open to new opportunities. But in Jordan, tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border fleeing the chaos of Palestine. This is the story of 11 year old Tarek, waiting for his right to return to his homeland and yearning to be reunited with his father. It is the story of the human spirit that knows no borders.
"Cinematic poetry. Beautiful, groundbreaking and deeply, deeply moving" Huffington Post
Funded by local Councillors and Nottingham City Library Service
Introduction to iPads and Tablets at Bilborough Library
From the Beginning: Explore, Learn and Discover...
Sign up to this free three-week course for new computer learners. In this fun and friendly course learn how to use your tablet, discover and explore the Internet, be safe and secure online, sign up and use email and download Apps.
Courses take place weekly from Monday 6 June. For full details visit What's On or contact Bilborough Library. Booking in advance essential.
Join Rachel from the Arkwright Meadows Community
Gardens for a gardens questions time and workshop. Learn how to sow seeds,
take cuttings and make sure your plants get a healthy start in life.
This is a great way to get involved in your library. You get to work with kids, encouraging them to enjoy reading and you'll pick up some great skills and experience along the way.
Be a Superhero for a Day in our Half Term Holiday Activities!
Looking for somewhere to take the kids over half term?
Then pop in to your local library and join us for FREE Superhero stories and activities to make and take home. Why not come dressed as your favourite hero?
Paris, 1939:A young Irish writer puts his life and the lives of those he loves in
danger
Mark Billingham - Die of Shame
Every Monday six people meet to discuss their addictions, sharing their
deepest secrets and regrets. Then one of them is killed and it is clear that
one of the other five is responsible.Detective Inspector Nicola Tanner must uncover the truth.
Barbara Taylor Bradford - The Cavendon Luck
After the Great War, Cavendon Hall looks to the future with a new generation of children playing in its
halls and gardens. However, war clouds
are gathering again and men and women from above and below stairs will be drawn
into the conflict.
Fern Britton - The
Postcard
Penny Leighton, TV Producer and vicar’s wife is struggling to cope after
becoming a new mother in her forties.The town’s charming new doctor may not be all
that he appears to be, but can Penny resist the temptation?
Jessie Burton - The
Muse From the author of The Miniaturist
Odelle Bastien has struggled to find her place in London since arriving
from Trinidad five years before. Now in 1967 her life is about to change again.
She is going to work for the glamorous and enigmatic Marjorie Quick at the
Skelton Gallery where she will be drawn into the mystery of a lost masterpiece
with a secret history.
Charles
Cumming - A Divided Spy
Former MI6 agent Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. A
life devoted to the service has left him with nothing but grief and a simmering
anger against the Kremlin.When an
opportunity for revenge occurs, Kell is willing to take the law into his own
hands and to rejoin this most dangerous of games.
Barbara
Erskine - Sleepers Castle
Two women, centuries apart. One endless nightmare tearing Wales apart -
and only they can stop it.
Mike Gayle - The Hope
Family Calendar
Since the death of his wife Laura, Tom Hope is a broken man, unable to support
his two struggling daughters.His
mother-in-law Linda has helped to pick up the pieces, but Tom’s arrest on the
anniversary of his wife’s death may be the final straw.
Charlene Harris - Night
Shift
At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves - only
to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in
town. Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire
Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, discovers what makes Midnight
the town it is.
Conn Iggulden - Ravenspur:Rise of the Tudors
The Epic “Wars of the Roses” series draws to its dramatic conclusion
Anna Jacobs - A Time
to Rejoice
After a stray bomb scored a direct hit on his childhood home in
Hertfordshire, the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is the thought
that soon he'll be joining war-time friends Mayne, Daniel and Victor as
electrician in their new building firm in Lancashire.But will nothing go right for him?
Stephen King - End of
Watch
A compelling and chilling suspense novel. Retired detective Bill Hodges is
on the trail of his nemesis Brady Hartsfield, known as The Mercedes Killer. Hartsfield
is seemingly in an unresponsive state in hospital, unable to harm anyone, but
Hartsfield can influence other people to commit his crimes for him or to take
their own lives. Now he is out for revenge: on Hodges and his team.
Dorothy Koomson - When I Was Invisible
In 1988, two girls with identical names and the same love of ballet meet
for the first time; apparently destined to become professional dancers and stay
best friends forever. However things do not work out as planned.
What will happen when they are reunited 20 years later?
James Runcie -Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation
Clergyman Sydney Chambers continues his investigations against the
background of the summer of love and the Apollo 11 launch.
Anne Tyler - Vinegar
Girl
Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and
home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister
Bunny?Unbeknown to Kate, her father has
other problems; he needs to stop his brilliant young lab assistant from being
deported.Is Kate the answer?A new interpretation of The Taming of the Shrew.
