Library news - August 2024

Kickstart your business

Need help on your business journey? We’ve teamed up with the Business and IP centre to provide you with practical tips to kickstart your business. The free, accessible workshops are for new and existing London-based business owners across the capital. We will guide you through the considerations of starting a business and the hurdles you may encounter, as well as how to utilise the BIPC's resources to protect your intellectual property.

Edmonton Green Library is hosting two workshops on August 6, 10am to 3pm and August 6,10am to 5pm run by the BIPC teaching you how to kickstart your business idea. Sign up by clicking on the links above. More Workshops with the BIPC will be coming up soon, so watch this space.

As part of this partnership, Enfield Library users will have access to COBRA, the Complete Business Reference Advisor, which offers everything you need from starting to developing your business. Enfield library members get free access to factsheets, market reports, contacts, funding sources and support. You can also get hundreds of practical guides for starting more than 350 types of businesses.


South Asian Heritage Month

Happy SAHM!

We at Enfield Libraries are celebrating South Asian Heritage Month by championing South Asian stories and South Asian storytellers. We have put together a display filled with books from across genres written exclusively by authors of South Asian heritage, which are all available for you to borrow! Head into Palmers Green Library and see the display, located on the First Floor, first hand. Make sure to borrow a book or two (or three or four…) from the display at the counter or the self-service machine and do your part to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month this year!

Read more and see the display on our blog.


New regular events

Free English Conversation Club

For English beginning learners who want to improve their speaking and listening skills is a friendly environment. Please speak to a staff member for more information.

Tuesday 2pm to 3:30pm

Palmers Green Library
Broomfield Lane
Palmers Green
N14 4EY
Tel: 020 8379 2727

Terrific Tuesdays

For 6 to 10 year olds to:

At Edmonton Green Library on 6, 20, 27 August and 3 September, 10 to 11am.

Search for events

New one-off events

Make a memory patchwork wall

At Oakwood Library on 7 August from 10:30 to 11:30am and Palmers Green Library on 9 August from 10:30 to 11:30am.

Check out these upcoming August craft events as well, as part of the Summer Reading Challenge: Marvellous Makers!


New in...for children

Toddler books

Front cover of Bears Wash Day

Bear’s Wash Day by Nicola Kent

With flaps, wheels and a slider, your little ones can learn about household tasks in a fun way as they follow Bear and his friend around the house.

The perfect exploration of grown-up tasks for tiny tots!

Picture books

Front cover of Zeki eats out

Zeki Eats Out by Anna Mcquinn

Zeki has been playing 'restaurant' with his toys but he is now going to a real restaurant with Daddy and Nana G.

Find out where he sits, what he eats and how he behaves.

Dyslexia Friendly Junior fiction

Front cover of ReekReek by Alastair Chisholm

Sparrow lives in the world after the Reek, when the climate catastrophe left the people of Earth fighting for oxygen. The atmosphere is poisoned and Axel Brodie, the tech billionaire, controls the supply of clean air.

Sparrow’s brilliant friend, Miriam Fenn, invents technology that could break Brodie’s monopoly on the air supply but he is powerful and hard to defeat. Brodie will do everything in his power to stop Miriam and Sparrow.

Who will win this battle to breathe?

Junior Fiction

Front cover of Three Cheers for the River SchoolThree Cheers for The River School by Sabine Adeyinka

The final of the trilogy set in a Nigerian boarding school.

Jummy has been looking to the new term and to playing football but it has been banned! Instead, the girls have to host a music competition that the rival boys' school is likely to win.

Will Jummy and her friends come up with a successful plan in time?

New in...for teens and adults

Older Teen Fiction

Front cover of The Thread That Connects UsThe Thread That Connects Us by Ayaan Mohamud

Safiya’s dad left them and moved to Somalia. She has no faith in love, despite liking boy-next-door Yusuf. Then her dad moves back to town with his new family, devastating her again. Halima resents her stepdad for moving the family to England, where she is without her friends and is bullied.

When the girls come together at school, they hate each other.

But as they discover their parents' secrets, they begin to realise that the solution to their problems may lie in their sisterhood…

Non-fiction

Front cover of The NinetiesThe Nineties by Chuck Klosterman

In 'The Nineties', cult author Chuck Klosterman makes a home in every element of 90s culture - the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan.

In perhaps no other book ever written could the sentence, 'The video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany' make complete sense.

Chuck Klosterman has written a multi-dimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis that's equal parts smart and delightful.

Front cover of The Dynasties of ChinaThe Dynasties of China by Bamber Gascoigne

Bamber Gascoigne brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilisation by focusing on the main characters of the eight major dynasties.

He starts with myth and goes on to the greatest achievements of language and ideas, cultural treasures, wars won and lands lost to the Mongols.

He finally arrives at the 1912 Revolution, which contained within it the seeds of Communism and the overthrow of the last emperor.

Gascoigne sheds light on an empire and its peoples which were, for centuries, inaccessible to the West.

Crime

Front cover of GaslightGaslight by Femi Kayode

Jeremiah Dawodu, Bishop of a Nigerian megachurch, is arrested at the pulpit for the murder of his beloved young and prominent wife, Folasade. The arrest is televised all around Lagos and the community is shocked.

The Bishop maintains his innocence and his congregation believe him but his wife remains missing.

Philip Taiwo, compassionate investigative psychologist, investigates.

However, as he searches for Folasade, his own beloved family begins to show cracks...

Fiction

Front cover of Falling AnimalsFalling Animals by Sheila Armstrong

A suspenseful and disturbing story of a man found dead on the beach in a village which has had its fair share of strange happenings.

After months of unsuccessful investigation, the stranger is buried in an unmarked grave, but the mystery of his life and death remains.

Different voices come together to unravel the story of the man and a portrait emerges, threaded by lives both true and imagined, real and surreal, past and present.

Front cover of The Wind Knows My NameThe Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

Five-year-old Samuel Adler’s father disappears during Kristallnacht in Vienna 1938. His mother secures transport for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone.

Seven-year-old Anita Diaz and her mother board a train to Arizona in 2019, fleeing danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the US. They are separated and Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales.

The two characters’ tales are interwoven as is the past and present.

It is a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers.


You can also download our Enfield Libraries August 2024 newsletter (PDF, 1773.45 KB).


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