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Notes from a Children's Librarian: Adventure and the Reluctant Reader
What better way to draw kids in to literature than through exciting plot-driven graphic novels?
Back to School Books from Preschool to University
Books for little kids and big ones, and everyone in between. We run the academic gamut of back to school titles.
On Our Radar
New books with buzz worth sharing: titles by Jon Chan Simpson, Austin Clarke, Jamie Sharpe, and Monica Kulling and Marie Lafrance.
Shelf Talkers: August 2015
A heartfelt thank you to passionate booksellers, and as usual, a stellar roundup of recos!
Summer Eats: Dulce de Leche Buttermilk Ice Cream
A delicious recipe from A Taste of Haida Gwaii, a new cookbook by Susan Musgrave.
In Times Like These: On #elxn42 and the Suffragists
For over a century, suffragists fought to acquire rights to expand fairness and justice. They were imperfect but we should care about what they glimpsed. …
Jennifer Quist on the Family Saga
"Women can’t help but out-master men when it comes to harrowing, genuine stories about how families are made."
Most Anticipated: Our Fall 2015 Books for Young People Preview
Canadian children's literature has never been so good.
“One day, somebody is going to forget”: A Conversation With Mini Aodla Freeman
On how Freeman came to write her memoir, its enthusiastic reception by readers, and how copies were kept in a basement at Indian Affairs for fear that …
Summer Eats: Roasted Tomatoes from Per La Familiglia
Give your Canadian summer a mediterranean twist with this recipe for roasted tomatoes from Emily Richards' Per La Famiglia: Memories and Recipes of Southern …