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Summer Reading Starts Here: July Picks
Perfect picks to get your summer reading on, and even better? Every title is up for giveaway!
The Chat with Lucian Childs
Lucian Childs’ Dreaming Home (Biblioasis) superb debut, a novel-in-stories, is a tender and powerful queer coming-of-age that spans forty years and multiple …
Canadian Books for Canada Day
Essential works by immigrant writers, recommended by the author of the bestselling Bones of Belonging.
Stories for All Seasons: Can't Miss Fiction Hits
The books that have rocked my reading world this spring.
The Chat with Wanda John-Kehewin
Visions of the Crow (HighWater Press) is a YA graphic novel that tells the engaging story of Damon Quinn, a teenager who just wants to get through his …
Nonfiction You Need to Know
This round-up of stories and ideas offers something to every kind of reader.
Notes from a Children's Librarian: Canadian Creatures
How do animals grow and change? Books that dovetail nicely with the Grade 2 Science “Life Systems” unit, as well as the Grade 1 “Needs and Characteristics …
Summer Eats: Portuguese Kale Soup (Caldo Verde)
An excerpt from the new book How to Clean a Fish: And Other Adventures in Portugal.
Reading the Garden
A recommended reading list by the author of the new book Tilling the Darkness.
Name Dropping: Favourite Authors I've Met On My Travels
A recommended reading list by the author of the new novel Mason's Jar.