11 September 10am to 3pm

on the library's front lawn

We are accepting donations of gently used books* during opening hours until Labour Day.

*Please! No music, no magazines and no encyclopedias.

Rossland Writer's & Co.

Readings by:

Illustrator Amy Exner - Crazy Little Town

Rosa Jordan - Wild Spirits

Almeda Glenn Miller - poetry

Louise Sidley - non-fiction prose

Keynote: George Bowering - poetry

Saturday, 11 September; 1 - 2:30 pm at Cafe Books.

Sponsored by:

Rossland Public Library presents Rossland Reads 2010.

Come read along with us as we discuss this year's "hidden gems" from Canadian fiction. Write a comment on the blog and tell us about your own gems, new or old.

Thank you to our media sponsor The Rossland Telegraph

http://rosslandreads.wordpress.com

The three books short listed for OBOK 2010 are:

• In the Path of an Avalanche: A True Story" by Vivien Bowers - tells of the fate of six back country skiers in   Kokanee Glacier Park in the winter of 1998.

• "Blue Valley: An Ecological Memoir" by Luanne Armstrong - tells of the deep attachment to the land and sense of place that author experienced growing up on the East Shore of Kootenay Lake.
• "Treading Water" by Anne DeGrace - is a fictional account of a town created by settlers carving out a lifestyle and its decimation in the face of progress.

For more information see their website: http://obok.bclibrary.ca/

Open Sesame!

Photo by Trevor Kehoe, Trail Rossland News

Carpenter Junior Hamm and Paralympian Kimberley Joines do the honours on the new automatic door opener at the Rossland Library. Hamm donated his time to the project.

Read the article in the Trail Rossland News here.

 Want to get dirty?

The Rossland Library is looking for volunteers to take care of their flower beds. For more information contact the landscaping committee.

 Vision and Mission

Read the library's new vision and mission statements.

 New at the Library - new books, new movies, new audio books. For more ideas on what to read, watch and listen to see our Readers' Advisory. Find out what the critics think are the best books of 2009.

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