Spring Fling Storytime
Join us for a delightful storytime session and fun-filled spring activities to celebrate the arrival of spring. Our storytime will begin at 10:30 AM, followed by fun activities for all to enjoy.
Drop-In!
Seedy Saturday
Mark your calendars for Beeton’s annual celebration of seeds!
In partnership with the Beeton Horticultural Society and the BTBIA, NTPL Seedy Saturday Event returns Saturday, March 29.
Rod Carley Author Talk Featuring Ruff: A Novel
NTPL is thrilled to host author Rod Carley discussing his latest novel Ruff. Rod is this year’s Honorary Chair for Next Step Literacy Council’s 2025 Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee.
Library Giving Day
#LibraryGivingDay is a one-day fundraising event with the goal of encouraging people who depend on and enjoy public libraries to donate to their individual library system. In turn, that support will go toward the incredible programs, services and materials provided by NTPL.
#ItStarts Reading List
#ITStarts with being informed. As Simcoe County launches the annual #ITStarts campaign to bring awareness to ending racism and increasing inclusivity, NTPL has a list of materials that speak to ending discrimination and racism.
Book Buddies Book Club
Discover the magic of reading with our Book Buddies Book Club! Children aged 6-10 and their caregivers can enjoy quality time reading together at home, followed by an in person monthly book dialogue and activities.
Wordsmiths Special Event:
Following Your Writer’s Voice
Join us for a Wordsmiths Special Event! Following Your Writer’s Voice is designed for writers of all skill levels looking to refine their unique writing voice.
Poetry Open Mic Night
Calling all New Tec (and other area) poets! NTPL is celebrating Poetry Month in April. Join us at the mic to share your traditional or spoken word poetry or join simply as a listener and lover of poetry.
STAFF TRAINING
The Memorial Branch will be CLOSED on Monday, March 31st for a staff training day. Regular hours will resume in all branches on Tuesday, April 1st.
New Books

These Good Hands
By: Carol Bruneau
Captive to a staggering genius and mounting paranoia, Mademoiselle—the fictional incarnation of legendary French sculptor Camille Claudel—relives her art-making in Belle Époque Paris from the asylum where she’s been captive for thirty years. The year is 1943, the height of the Vichy regime in war-torn France, and salvation comes in the form of Solange Poitier, the nurse who cares for Mademoiselle in her final days, and their growing friendship.

Where the Falcon Flies
By: Adam Shoalts
From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history.

Road to Ruin
By: Hana Lee
An electrifying, gritty fantasy from debut author Hana Lee that takes a royal messenger on a high-speed chase across a climate-ravaged wasteland, featuring motorcycles, monsters, and magic.

Making Bird-Friendly Birdhouses
By: Melvin “Bird Man Mel” Toellner
As popular as birdhouses are, many are designed with aesthetics in mind, rather than the bird’s preferences and needs. Not so for the projects in Making Bird-Friendly Birdhouses. Lifelong birder Mel “Bird Man Mel” Toellner and pro woodworker Matt Maguire walk readers step-by-step through 15+ projects for safe birdhouses that birds find conducive to their natural nesting habitats.

The Avro Arrow: For the Record
By: Palmero Campagna
“No one has done more than Palmiro Campagna to document the story of Canada’s extraordinary Avro Arrow … This latest work sheds new light on the Arrow’s fascinating saga.” – ANDREW CHAIKIN, author of A Man on the Moon
An expanded edition of the bestselling book, including newly discovered American records that shed further light on the disastrous cancellation of the Avro Arrow.

Rocket Says Look Up!
By: Nathan Bryon
Meet Rocket—an aspiring astronaut intent on getting her community to LOOK UP! from what they’re doing and reach for the stars. This Chicago Public Library 2019 Best of the Best Book is now available in paperback!
New DVDs

All Quiet on the Western Front
Action/Drama/War
A young German soldier’s terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.

Cocaine Bear
Comedy/Thriller

Dungeons & Dragons:
Honor Among Thieves
Action/Adventure/Comedy

The Pope's Exorcist
Horror/Thriller
Follow Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican’s leading exorcist, as he investigates the possession of a child and uncovers a conspiracy the Vatican has tried to keep secret.

Terror Season 2
Adventure/Drama/Horror
The second season takes place on the west coast of the United States during World War II and centers on the Japanese folklore of bakemono, “an uncanny specter that menaces a Japanese American community from its home in Southern California to the internment camps to the war in the Pacific”.

This is Spinal Tap
Comedy/Music
Spinal Tap, one of England’s loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.