Art Lab for Kids
Explore. Create. Take.
Friday, June 2 It’s a P.A. Day! 10:30-12:00
Try one activity or all three. It’s your choice!
Yoga Storytime
Suggested for families with children 3-7 years. Follow along with Appleseed Yoga to move and breathe through a favourite storybook. Families can quietly listen or find yoga poses of all sorts to bring the story to life.
Youth Summer Programs
Check out the full line-up of fun summer programs for youth at NTPL!
Ask the Lawyer
Wills and Powers of Attorney in Canada
Join us to learn about the importance of having a will and powers of attorney for you and your family, with local presenter Morgan McCabe Law.
Kids' Summer Programs
Lively Tales, Baby Time at the Park and more! Check out the fun programs and activities being offered for kids this summer!
Change to Sunday Hours
The Pam Kirkpatrick Branch’s
Sunday hours
have changed to 10 am-3 pm.
NTPL's Play Reading Series
Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill
Discussion and Q&A will follow the Reading. Refreshments available. Registration is required, max 20 registrants per Reading. Two dates.
The Big Lebowski
25th Anniversary Celebration
Join us in celebrating the 25th anniversary of this cult classic film. Film folloed by a discussion of its cultural relevance and technical achievements, led by Adam Nayman, author of The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together.
New Books

Age of Vice
By: Deepti Kapoor
This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything,
and the family ties that bind can also kill.

Attention Span
Find Focus, Fight Distraction
By: Gloria Mark PhD
Rediscover your ability to pay attention with this groundbreaking new approach from “the definitive expert on distraction and multitasking” (Cal Newport).
We spend an average of just 47 seconds on any screen before shifting our attention. It takes 25 minutes to bring our attention back to a task after an interruption. And we interrupt ourselves more than we’re interrupted by others.

Six Crimson Cranes
By: Elizabeth Lim
A princess in exile, a shapeshifting dragon, six enchanted cranes, and an unspeakable curse… Drawing from ‘The Wild Swans’ and East Asian folklore, this breathtakingly original fantasy from the author of Spin the Dawn is perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo or Tomi Adeyemi.

Waiting on Mr. Sloth
By: Katy Hudson
The sun is out. The temperature is hot. And Sasha has everything packed and ready for a full day of swimming! But Mr. Sloth is taking for-eh-ver! Sasha does NOT like to wait. However, her best friend is never in a hurry. Will Sasha learn to be patient, or will her quick temper ruin a memorable summer outing?
Showcasing the unlikely duo of an energetic girl and a sloth, best-selling author Katy Hudson (Mindful Mr. Sloth, Too Many Carrots, A Loud Winter’s Nap) creates the perfect story about patience and its importance. When you learn patience, every moment can be special.

Hanged in Medicine Hat
By: Nathan M Greenfield
For three years during the Second World War, 12,000 Nazis were held in a prisoner-of-war camp at the edge of Medicine Hat, an isolated city of 12,000 people on the bald Canadian prairie. The camp and the townsfolk lived cheerfully side-by-side until two men were beaten and hanged by their fellow prisoners and no one on the scene would admit to knowing anything about the crimes…

Chloe's Lunar New Year
By: Lily LaMatte
It’s almost Lunar New Year, and Chloe can’t wait to celebrate! But first, Chloe and her family must prepare for the new year. They buy new shoes, lay out good-luck oranges in a bowl, decorate the red envelope, and make a crispy turnip cake. Everyone comes together to cook a fantastic feast, saving a plate for A-má, of course. Chloe enjoys the festive celebration and yummy food, but most of all, she loves spending time with her family.

French Kissing in New York
By: Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
A charming, high-energy romance in the city that never sleeps about a girl who can’t wait to be a part of Manhattan’s restaurant scene—and find the boy she fell for last summer. Perfect for fans of Emily in Paris!
Welcome to New York. . . . He’s been waiting for you.

Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
A haunting debut novel where dreams, family and spirits collide
Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears. But she can still smell the sharp pine scent in the air, the nearest pine tree a thousand kilometres away in the far reaches of Treaty 8.

Unwinding Anxiety
By: Judson Brewer
A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits
We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as having kids at home and fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, we are feeling overwhelmed and out of control. But in this timely book, Judson Brewer explains how to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to anyone.

We Are All So Good at Smiling
By: Amber McBride
They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride.

Ablaze
By: Christopher Krovatin
Aly Theland doesn’t understand what’s happening to her. She comes from a very normal family and lives a very normal life.There’s only one thing off. When Aly gets angry, things burst into flame. Aly doesn’t feel she’s in control of this. But as the fires get better and the stakes get higher, something has to be done. Because it’s not just flames Aly’s unleashing, it’s . . . evil.
New DVDs

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Action/Adventure/Thriller

Chesapeake Shores Season 6
Drama/Family
The multi-generational family drama, “Chesapeake Shores” will return for its sixth and final season. Based on the New York Times bestselling series of books by Sherryl Woods. “Chesapeake Shores” explores the lives and loves of four generations of the O’Brien family, after the homecoming of eldest daughter Abby (Ory) and – over the past five seasons – has seen the family reconcile following a painful chapter in their past.

The Fabelmans
Drama
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Fruit Salad Big Show
Family

Armageddon Time
Drama

The Resident: Season 2
Drama
A group of doctors at Chastain Memorial Hospital face personal and professional challenges on a daily basis. Season 2 starts a week into Conrad and Nic’s rekindled romance. We’ll get to see the good and the bad of their relationship, and find out what broke them up initially. But it will be a rocky road due to their past.