Little Lights Hanukkah Storytime
Join us for a special children’s Hanukkah program! Learn about the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah with stories and hands-on activities. Suggested for families with children ages 4-10. Parent/caregiver attendance is encouraged.
Christmas Open Book Club
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
A deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy; a tale of one man’s courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family.
NTPL's Film Society Presents:
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies
Legendary filmmaker, Martin Scorsese, shares his personal view and knowledge of the films, directors and actors that have shaped the world’s most popular art form.
Science Storytime (Alliston)
Join us for a storytime exploring the electricity all around us with author Valerie Miller, as we read The Mystery of the Glowing Light. Then we get hands on exploring static electricity and circuits!
NTPL's Poetry Circle
Calling all poets! Join our Zoom program to share and discuss traditional written or spoken word poetry. Share your own or bring an old favourite. Listeners welcome too. December’s theme: FAITH
Science Storytime (Tottenham)
Join us for a storytime exploring the electricity all around us with author Valerie Miller, as we read The Mystery of the Glowing Light. Then we get hands on exploring static electricity and circuits!
NTPL's Kanopy Club
Did you know you now have FREE access to thousands of online movies with your library card, via the Kanopy platform? Watch our pre-selected film at home each month in advance, and then sign in to the Zoom program on the scheduled date and time to discuss. Think book club, but for film!
Become an Earth Doctor
Playing along with the Dungeons and Dragons style game, you will face the challenges of land reclamation and try to heal the earth yourself! Hosted by author/scientist Valerie Miller.
New Books

Hidden Genius
By: Polina Marinova Pompliano
What distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely great?
After five years of writing The Profile, Polina Marinova Pompliano has studied thousands of the most successful and interesting people in the world and examined how they reason their way through problems, unleash their creativity, and perform under extreme pressure.

Best Vacation Ever
By: Jessica Cunsolo
Two best friends, five hot guys, one dream vacation. What could possibly go wrong?

The Hidden World of Gnomes
By: Lauren Soloy
A delightful introduction and collection of facts about the secret lives of gnomes that will charm and fascinate readers of all ages.
This book is an introduction to the hidden folk called gnomes, who live in a happy place they call The Pocket. Where is The Pocket, you ask? Well, it’s all around you, all the time.

Alice in Borderland 3
By: Haro Aso
An action-packed thriller and source of the hit Netflix drama where the only way to survive is to play the game!

The Con Queen of Hollywood
By: Scott C. Johnson
The spellbinding tale of an epic international manhunt for a psychopathic con artist who exploited the dreams of creators to steal dozens of identities and millions of dollars.

Going Bicoastal
By: Dahlia Adler
A queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she’s always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming).
In Dahlia Adler’s Going Bicoastal, there’s more than one path to happily ever after.

Penny & Pip
By: Candace Fleming & Eric Rohmann
A little girl finds a lost dinosaur baby roaming the halls of a museum and is determined to give it a home in this sweet and charming picture book.

The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
By: Brandon Sanderson
#1 New York Times Bestselling author Brandon Sanderson meshes Jason Bourne and epic fantasy in this captivating adventure that throws an amnesiac wizard into time travel shenanigans—where his only hope of survival lies in recovering his missing memories.

We've Got This
By: Ritu Bhasin
Many of us feel constant pressure to mask and curate who we are—to perform as someone we’re not rather than be who we are. And it hurts us. But we don’t need to live this way.
With We’ve Got This, award-winning and globally recognized DEI and empowerment expert Ritu Bhasin delivers a much-needed guidebook on how to heal, thrive, and stand in your power in the face of hate and hardships. She reveals how to unlock belonging—for yourself and for others.

The Grimoire of Grave Fates
By: Hanna Alkaf
Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary. There’s been a murder on campus, and it’s up to the students of Galileo to solve it. Follow 18 authors and 18 students as they puzzle out the clues and find the guilty party.

I Only Read Murder
By: Ian Ferguson & Will Ferguson
A once-beloved television sleuth finds herself far from Hollywood and witness to a murder during a small-town theatre production—and is convinced it’s up to her to solve the case. Introducing a new comedic crime series from the bestselling Ferguson brothers, for fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club, Alexander McCall Smith’s 44 Scotland Street series and Schitt’s Creek

Two Weeks Notice
By:Amy Porterfield
Ever wish there was a step-by-step blueprint to design your life for financial freedom, lifestyle flexibility, and major impact?
Are you ready to go from being stuck and complacent to courageous and capable of creating a business offering you the time and financial freedom you never dreamed possible?

The Grover School Pledge
By: Wanda Taylor
A true-to-life story about the pains and triumphs of growing up, perfect for readers of Renée Watson and Lisa Moore Ramée.
Arlaina Jefferson is eager to prove herself. Tasked with caring for her cousin’s rabbit, Obeena, Arlaina knows all that stands between her and the grown-up world of middle school is one year of staying out of trouble and making sure to clean up Obeena’s turds. It would be easy—if growing up didn’t also mean growing wiser.

Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality
By: Lindsay Wong
From the bestselling, Canada Reads-shortlisted author of The Woo-Woo comes a wild, darkly hilarious, and poignant collection of immigrant horror stories. They’ll haunt and consume you—in strange and unsettling ways.

City on Fire
By: Don Winslow
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border), The Force, and Broken comes the first novel in an epic new trilogy.

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
By: Augustina Bazterrica and Sarah Moses
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh.
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.