Our Featured Fiction title is:

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, a historical fantasy novel set in New York City  in 1899.

Our Featured Non Fiction title is:

Small-Space Container Gardens by Fern Richardson, a guide to creating charming container gardens for porches, balconies, and patios.

To see the complete featured titles list,  plus staff reviews of a variety of books and movies, visit our WPL Reads blog.

To view our Great Gardening featured books list, click here.

With your library card, you can browse, select, and download magazine issues from our web site to your computer or mobile device. Unlimited access with no waiting and no returns! Please ask library staff for more details. Happy reading!

Managing Headaches Through Massage
Thursday May 23  -   6:30pm to 7:30pm
John M. Harper Branch (Community Room)

Learn about the correlation between neck and shoulder pain, and tension headaches! The RMTs from Elysis Massage Therapy welcome you to join this interactive workshop on Headache Pain Management. Learn ways to soothe headaches by using self-massage, stretching, and learn techniques to help another alleviate their tension headache.

Meditation and Relaxation: the antidote to stress
Thursday June 13 –  6:30pm to 7:30pm
John M. Harper Branch (Community Room)

Would you like to lead a healthier, happier Lifestyle? Be Less Reactive in Daily Life? Worry Less? Join Amanda Weber for this  1 hour introduction to meditation and learn how a growing number of people are engaging in this practice as an antidote to our often stressful lives today. 

Taking Control of Your Back Pain
Presented by: Dr. Sean Delanghe BSc. (Hons), DC
Monday June 24 – 6:30pm to 7:30pm
John M. Harper Branch (Community Room)

Studies show that 80% of all people suffer form back pain, and also that it is the leading cause of work-related disability in Canada.  This seminar will teach you about why you have back pain, and what you can do take control of it today.

For more details on the Wellness Workshops, please contact Lisa Smith at 519-725-8783 ext. 263

April 25, 2013 – This morning, at a special event hosted by Queen Street Commons in Kitchener, the One Book, One Community committee announced that the 2013 selection is Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese.

In Ragged Company, four homeless people seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world, and once the weather clears, continue their trips to the cinema. On one of these outings they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist who has turned his back on writing “the same story over and over again” in favour of the escapist qualities of film, and an unlikely friendship is struck. A found cigarette package (contents: some un-smoked cigarettes, three $20 bills, and a lottery ticket) changes the fortune of this struggling set. The ragged company discovers they have won $13.5 million, but none of them can claim the money for lack proper identification. Enlisting the help of Granite, their lives, and fortunes, become forever changed.

An award-winning writer, Richard Wagamese is one of Canada’s foremost Native authors and storytellers. Working as a professional writer since 1979, he’s been a newspaper columnist /reporter, radio/ television broadcaster and producer, documentary producer and the author of eleven titles from major Canadian publishers, with a new novel, Indian Horse, published in early 2012.

One Book, One Community, now in its 12th year, celebrates the books and writing of Canadian authors.  Through the shared experience of reading and discussing the same book, One Book, One Community has helped create a special sense of community in the Region.

Christine Brown, Chair of One Book, One Community, says “More than heartbreaking story of four people, this book is a story about  friendship , finding strength, and discovering home.”

Free author events will be held in Cambridge, Waterloo, Kitchener and Elmira from September 16 to 18.  Watch the Waterloo Region Record and the official One Book, One Community website (www.oboc.ca) for details on special events as they develop.

Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese is available as a book, an eBook and through the CNIB library.  Visit your library or favourite bookseller today!

If you would like more information about One Book, One Community, contact Christine Brown at 519-886-1310 ext. 146 or cbrown@wpl.ca

Place your hold on Ragged Company at WPL today!

Children in grades 1 to 4 are welcome to join us for the Lego Block Party.  Legomaniacs unite for some creative and imaginative building!

Main Library, 35 Albert Street

Dates: Thursdays, starting April 11

Time: 7:00pm to 7:45pm

For more information on this drop-in program, phone 519-886-1310 ext. 129.

John M. Harper Branch, 500 Fischer-Hallman Road North

Dates:  Mondays, April 29 to May 27

Time:  7:00pm to 8:00pm

Click here for more information and to register today!

Customers will be able to register for a card from home by accessing a link at the top of our home page.  Customers will also be able to register online from any catalogue computer (PAC) within the Library itself.

Click here to access the form and apply for your card now.

Once customers have completed the online form, they will receive a temporary barcode giving them immediate but limited membership privileges.  These privileges include:

• access to WPL’s databases and online resources (excluding Download Library)
• ability to place up to 5 holds on library items

Customers have 90 days to come in to the library, update their temporary record, and receive their permanent library card.

Customers must have their permanent library card in order to borrow material from the library.

NOTE

PINs will no longer be necessary for any service at Waterloo Public Library