September Book of the Month

 The book of the Month for September is Marcus Rashford's  'You are a champion: how to be the best you can be.' 

Marcus is perhaps best known as a football player with Manchester United and the England national team. He also initiated a campaign to end child food poverty. In this book he shares stories from his own life and offers tips to enable you to be happy being you and gives advice to help you achieve your goals.

If you would like to borrow this book, please see Mrs Aitken in the Library.

Daily Reading Challenge

For today's challenge try and read something from a genre that you do not usually pick up. If you love fantasy why not try a realistic novel. Or if you normally read horror try a romance. Maybe someone in your family has the opposite taste from you and will let you borrow one of their books. Find a book study the cover, read the blurb and then try the first five pages. It may confirm that you absolutely do not like detective fiction or you might find discover you really would like to read an adventure story.
I am not a big fan of real life stories but the book below belongs to my son and from what I've read on the blurb it might be quite funny. I'll give it a go.

Book Week Scotland 23rd - 30th November

Displays of Scottish authors and competitions galore in the Library this week!

Remembrance Day 2015

In memory of all of those who gave their lives in two world wars and in conflicts around the world since.

There are non-fiction books relating to the First World War on the main display and fiction books set during times of war on display around the Library.

Halloween Horrors

There are lots of spooky books available in the Library to cater for all tastes over the Halloween period. There is everything from ghost stories, horror fiction through spooky joke books, art books to help you create your own eerie characters and books about the paranormal!

If you are not afraid of spiders you can reach through the giant web to borrow one of the books from the display.

Holocaust Memorial Day

 
Every year on the 27th of January, the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at the end of WW2, the world remembers all of those who have been affected by acts of genocide whether in the concentration camps or during conflicts in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia or Darfur. The theme for HMD 2015 is 'Keep the memory alive'. There is a display in the Library to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

New display

The latest display in the Library highlights books about VOLCANOES. There are both fiction and non-fiction books on the display, so a must for all would-be volcanologists.

Chinese New Year

The year of the horse begins on 31st January. To celebrate the Chinese New Year there is a display in the Library with information about the Chinese zodiac and books about China and horses!

Lest we forget

There is a Remembrance display in the Library with fiction books which have a wartime setting, and non-fiction books about war.

Burns Night

To celebrate Burns Night - Friday 25th January - there is a display in the Library featuring one of the Bard's longest and best loved poems -Tam o'Shanter.

Burns was born in the family cottage in Alloway on 25th January 1759. In his short life - he died in 1796 aged just 37- he wrote over 500 poems and songs, worked as a farmer and an excise man and travelled all round Scotland.So, before you tuck in to your haggis and neeps come to the Library and learn a little more about the life and work of Robert Burns - Scotland's national poet. The display even has a recipe for making your own haggis should you need one!