London
Local Swimmer Goes for Gold!
Canton native Allison Schmitt will compete in four swimming events at the Summer Olympics in London. Considered one of the best middle distance swimmers in the country, Schmitt is a member of Team USA for the second time. She won a bronze in the 800m freestyle relay in Beijing in 2008. Allison will begin competiton on Saturday July 28th and continue everyday until Wednesday if she makes the finals in each of her events; 200m and 400m freestyle and the 400m and 800m freestyle relays. Tune in to cheer her on and claim your Game On Badge!Look What's In Large Print: March 2012
10th anniversary by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Afraid of the dark [large print] by James Grippando
Heartwood [Large print]: a novel by Belva Plain
Love me if you dare [Large print] by Carly Phillips
Mar 06, 2012
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Book Club Choices: July 2011
Check out Canton Public Library’s Book Club in a Bag selections:
The help [kit] by Kathryn Stockett
Little Bee [kit] by Chris Cleave
The postmistress [kit] by Sarah Blake
Jul 06, 2011
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- Teens
- Adults
- Seniors
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
- Audiobook
- Books
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
- May We Suggest
- 20th century
- African-American women
- civil rights movement
- doctors
- emigration
- England
- German Occupation
- housekeepers
- immegration
- London
- Massachusetts
- news broadcasters
- Nigeria
- Occupied France
- Paris
- postmasters
- World War II
- young women
Busy Moms Book Club
Please join the Busy Moms Book Club on Thursday, March 18, at 11:00 a.m. in the Children's Library for an interesting discussion of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society! A series of letters comprises this charming novel set in 1946 post-war London. Author Juliet Ashton writes her publisher to lament covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams encourages his neighbors to write their own stories to Juliet who finds the letters not just inspiration for her work, but her life.A Tale of Two Dickens
Implausible as it seems, 2 acclaimed authors have simultaneously penned mysteries about Charles Dickens' last, unfinished novel.