Christmas Cross-stitch Stocking Raffle Winner

Congratulations to Rod

who won the Sylvan Lake Municipal Library's Christmas
Cross-stitch Stocking Raffle.

Along with the beautiful handmade stocking, Rod took home many gifts graciously donated by local Sylvan Lake merchants.

Total value of the prize was $500.

This years raffle raised $424. Thank you for your support.
All proceeds from this fundraiser help support Library initiatives.

Special thanks to the following sponsors:

Rainy Daze Medi Spa, Fancy Fingers, Oasis by the Lake, Avon, Beyond Hair, Salon Chateau, Sylvan Lake Business Solutions, Quiznos, Cities Gastro Pub, Sugar and Spice Hair and Beauty Boutique, 52st Hair & Esthetics, Benjamin's Pizza and Subs, Pier 7 Restaurant and Lounge, Canadian Pizza Unlimited, Boston Pizza, Gentle Touch Dog Grooming, Woofs and Purrs, Chef Francisco on the Lake, Dragon House Chinese Buffet, Domino's Pizza, Lee Garden Restaurant and Lounge, Cobb's Clothing, Eclectica Fashions, YogaDive, Shopper's Drug Mart, Sylvan Lake Barber Shop, Janet & James Medspa & Hair Studio, The Paint Stop Inc.

Christmas Stocking Raffle

Sylvan Lake Municipal Library

Christmas 

Cross-stitch Stocking

Raffle

Beautiful handmade stocking
by local Artisan

Kay Johanson.

Stuffed with gifts from local businesses.

Winner will have the name of their choice
stitched on the stocking.

Tickets on sale now at the Library.

Tickets cost: $2 each OR 3 for $5

Draw Date: Friday, December 14

Stocking and contents valued at $500

The Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2012

The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize is out. The winner will be announced on October 16th. Take the time to check them out and see which one you would choose to win.

Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

 Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died in the camp. Aritomo refuses but agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice "until the monsoon comes." Then she can design a garden for herself. As the months pass, Yun Ling finds herself intimately drawn to the gardener and his art, while all around them a communist guerilla war rages. But the Garden of Evening Mists remains a place of mystery. Who is Aritomo and how did he come to leave Japan? And is the real story of how Yun Ling managed to survive the war perhaps the darkest secret of all?

Deborah Levy, Swimming Home 

Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry's second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. But Henry's actions have forced England into dangerous isolation, and Anne has failed to do what she promised: bear a son to secure the Tudor line. When Henry visits Wolf Hall, Cromwell watches as Henry falls in love with the silent, plain Jane Seymour. The minister sees what is at stake: not just the king's pleasure, but the safety of the nation. As he eases a way through the sexual politics of the court, and its miasma of gossip, he must negotiate a ?truth? that will satisfy Henry and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge undamaged from the bloody theatre of Anne's final days. In Bring Up the Bodies, sequel to the Man Booker Prize? winningWolf Hall, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn.

Alison Moore, The Lighthouse 

Will Self, Umbrella 

Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis 

Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my&Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid’s opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose.