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Kia ora!
Welcome to our May 2025 newsletter.

Library Noticeboard
Bookmark contest, unleash your creativity
Don't forget to enter our 2025 Bookmark Contest
Each Queenstown Lakes Library will select an adult and a child winner - with chosen bookmarks distributed in our libraries throughout the year.
Pick up an entry form at your local library. Entries are due by 16 May.

New eMagazine: TIME International
Time International magazine cover with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
You can now read TIME International on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet through the library's PressReader subscription.
 
TIME International is a weekly magazine that offers global news and analysis, with a focus on international affairs, politics, business, health, science and entertainment. The International Edition provides a broad perspective on current events, prioritising international issues. 
Read TIME International on PressReader
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Research global issues with Gale
Gale in Context: Global issues
Are you interested in learning more about topics such as Fast Fashion, Violence against Women, Globalization and Infectious Disease, and Digital Information Privacy?
Analyse important global issues and events through the Gale in Context database with topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.
Access the Gale in Context database with your library card number and pin.

New Fiction
Click on the book cover to place a hold on these new title in our library catalogue. 
If you're having problems placing a hold on any new books, ask your local library team to help you!
Hang on St. Christopher by Adrian McKinty
Once the deed is done by Rachel Seiffert
Dream count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The reunion by Bronwyn Rivers
Head cases by John McMahon
The boy from the sea by Garrett Carr
The wolf tree by Laura McCluskey
Counter-attacks at thirty by Wŏn-p'yŏng Son
Flesh by David Szalay
 

New Non Fiction
Click on the book cover to place a hold on these new title in our library catalogue. 
If you're having problems placing a hold on any new books, ask your local library team to help you!
The 5 types of wealth by Sahil Bloom
Waste wars : dirty deals, international rivalries and the scandalous afterlife of rubbish by Alexander Clapp
Hope : the autobiography by Pope Francis
Source code : my beginnings by Bill Gates
Eliot after The waste land by Robert Crawford
Wild thing : a life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
Thruhikers : a guide to life on the trail by Renee Miller
100 weekends in Europe by Angélique Adagio
That green olive : recipes to inspire, nourish and devour by Olivia Moore

Young Adult Staff Picks
Each month, our passionate librarians handpick captivating and inspiring reads just for young adults.
Head to our blog for more!
Happyhead by J.D. Silver
Sister heart by Sally Morgan
Long way down by Jason Reynolds
Ghost boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Bang : the wild wonders of Earth's phenomena by Jennifer Smith
Kaldoras: epilogue by Lynette Noni

Children's Staff Picks
Each month our passionate children's librarians handpick the most delightful, heartwarming, and engaging books for young readers. Below is just a selection of this month's recommendations. Happy reading, little bookworms!
Head to our blog for more!
When the stammer came to stay by Maggie O'Farrell
How to be a lion by Ed Vere
In time by Marina Ruiz
The color monster: a story about emotions by Anna Llenas
Lightfall. Book 3, The dark times by Tim Probert
Flotsam by David Wiesner

What's on at the library

To keep up to date with all of our events, check our What's On webpage, follow us on social media, and keep an eye out for event posters and flyers when you're next in the library.
Event highlights
Employment, Education and Training Opportunities; Connected po-ups at the Library
Queenstown Library
Eby Sebastian: Memories and Melodies of a home unforgotten
Frankton Library
Adult Events
Digital Help Drop-ins
Drop by for help with your smartphone, laptop, tablet, or other technology. Our dedicated librarians and volunteers are here to assist you with your tech questions.
We're celebrating all aspects of literacy with dozens of free events across our libraries.
Regular events
Children and Young Adult Events
Children's Library Programmes
Our regular term-time programmes for children and young adults are back at Arrowtown, Frankton, Hāwea, Queenstown and Wānaka Libraries. 
Join us from Monday 28 April for favourites such as Wriggle & Rhyme, Reading to Dogs, Pre-School Storytime, LEGO® Club, Pages and Purrs, and Video Games Club.
Visit our What's On webpage for more information about times and dates.

Community Noticeboard
The International Storytellers Film Series presents
Free film screening
Join the Lakes Multicultural Collective (previously known as The Kiwi Kit Community Trust) and QLDC Libraries for The International Storytellers Film Series presents: "Vai"
Date: Tuesday 27 May
Time: 5:30-7:15PM
Location: The Rees Hotel, Queenstown
Admission: Free, but please reserve your seat due to limited numbers

Kupu o te Marama |
Proverb of the Month
Whakareri - To prepare, get ready, make ready
 
 

NZ Sign Language 

Whakareri | Ready
adjective; adverb; verb
NZ Sign Language drawing of the motion for 'get ready'

Kā mihi,
- Your Libraries Team.

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