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Readers spotted in and around Mississippi Mills lost in a good book!

The Friends of Mississippi Mills Public Library (FMMPL) have captured community members taking a break in familiar locales in their new 2022 “Caught Reading” calendar. Find out whose faces grace the...

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Library books can now be dropped off in Appleton

North Lanark Regional Museum in Appleton: a new library drop off & pick up location! Mississippi Mills Public Library and the NLRM in Appleton are increasing convenience for library patrons in the...

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Off the Record by Peter Mansbridge

by Edith Cody-Rice It’s a little late in the season but for those of you who are book lovers or friends or partners of book lovers, I thought I would review a few of my recent reads in the next few...

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Denial by Beverley McLachlin

by Edith Cody-Rice Beverley McLachlin, the former chief justice of Canada retired at the end of 2017 and not only has she been busy judging at an international arbitration court, she has turned her...

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Home Hospice North Lanark Book of the Month Review: “Every Note Played”

A curated collection of books and other resources can be found at both branches of Mississippi Mills Public Library. Some of our members are going to be reading and reviewing these books, and we will...

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The Ice War Diplomat, Gary J. Smith, comes to Almonte

by Edith Cody-Rice If you are of a certain vintage you will recall the intense excitement in 1972 when a professional Canadian hockey team faced off against the Russian Olympic medal winning amateur...

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Ice War Diplomat by Gary J. Smith

by Edith Cody-Rice He had a distinguished diplomatic career full of dramatic events: he was in Israel during the 1982 war in Lebanon, in Bonn, West Germany, when the Berlin wall came down in 1989,...

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Dad Bod: portraits of pop culture papas by Cian Cruise

by Edith Cody-Rice I have to acknowledge at the outset that I am probably the wrong generation to review this book. I think Cian Cruise is at least a generation and a half behind me and many of the...

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Almonte’s Mill Street Books makes Canada’s top ten list

Mill Street Books Those who nominated this “small, community minded shop” in Almonte, Ontario, repeatedly sang the praises of owners Mary and Terry. A keen, knowledgeable staff and friendly ambiance...

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Tumblehome by Brenda Missen

by Edith Cody-Rice If you love Algonquin Park, as I do, you will be intrigued by this book. It is substantial, at 304 pages (not counting acknowledgments) and is essentially a memoir of a woman coming...

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