Due to construction from August to October, the westbound lane of Major Mackenzie Drive West in front of the Civic Centre Resource Library will be closed on weekdays from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM. The operating hours of the library remain unaffected. Learn More
Kleinburg Library is still accessible during road construction
Kleinburg Library is open during road construction, though the parking lot may be temporarily inaccessible. Street parking is available in the neighbourhood to the East of the library, along Art Drive and Cardish Street.
In the sourdough world, recipes and methods can get really complicated really fast. Boddy shares her tips, tricks, and troubleshooting tools for showstopping success. Her practical approach shows how you can manipulate a few simple master recipes to create any kind of shaped, filled or seeded bread you wish. -- adapted from back cover
"The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act explores a dark yet largely forgotten chapter in Canadian history. The unprecedented law, which targeted only the Chinese community, was in place for a quarter century and remains among the most tragic episodes in the country's history. Yet this story, that left such profound effects on the individuals and families it touched, has been steeped in silence. Almost nothing about this period was shared by those who lived through it. Consequently, within a single generation, the trauma of exclusion was forgotten. This is the first book to explore the human experience of exclusion as revealed through the stories of the lives it touched. The stories in this book reveal haunting tales of tragedy, loss and despair as well as powerful examples of courage, perseverance, and resilience. They chronicle the lives of ordinary people caught in extraordinary times. Many stories are being shared publicly for the first time. An act of collective remembrance and historical reckoning, this book presents an unflinching look at a monumental and shameful chapter in Canada's origin story. The pages offer a reminder of how the wreckage wrought by discrimination and exclusion, can be ignored and yet still ripple through the generations."--
Discover "shibui" -- the Japanese philosophy of finding the simple, subtle beauty that emerges with time. Through watercolour illustrations, personal stories, and mindfulness reflections, this book offers Eastern wisdom to help readers embrace healthy aging with joy and grace.
"From the author of A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking) comes a rowdy and hilarious new collection of essays on life as an elder Millennial, filled with life lessons on everything from marriage, to parenting, to rolling with the punches when Gen Z mocks your TikTok dances. In Adulting for Amateurs, Jess H. Gutierrez marvels at how -- we can't avoid the fact anymore -- her cohort, the Millennials, are approaching middle age. While 1998 seems like just yesterday, we are now grown ups who feel like we're still growing up. And now, at 42, Jess has quite a trove of stories to tell. Jess is leaning into her geriatric Millennial years, and reflects on how growing up does not necessarily bestow one with maturity. When the fancy dinner covers were lifted to reveal vertically posed sausages -- hundreds of the fanciest wedding guests including the mayor were treated to a demure and refined Jess's explosive guffaws. While Jess's brothers now have wholesome families and responsible jobs, she can't stop one-upping them, even if it gets her brother nearly fired by a potty-brained prank right before he scrubs into surgery. When Jess and her wife booked their first grown up vacation, they discovered too late that their Hawaiian trip was to a Mormon resort and therefore completely alcohol-free. So Jess and her wife bravely put on their big girl panties -- and slunk off in a makeshift escape from this cheerful teetotaler paradise. Turns out, even as a responsible mortgage-owner with three kids and a yard of chickens, Jess might not have matured much beyond her twenties. She's still the woman who had in an earlier era survived queer dating fails and aughts-era pop culture moments -- ultimately discovering that an illegal rave cannot heal a broken heart, and that vampire romance franchises are terrible dating manuals for a budding trailer park lesbian. Altogether, these are the makings of delightful material for this bawdy -- and sometimes poignant, and daresay occasionally wise-new read"--
