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Notes from a Children's Librarian
Carefully selected books according to curriculum and theme.
Notes from a Children's Librarian: Canadian Fairy Tales
THE CHAT
Great writers sit down with us to talk about their books—and the stories behind them.
The Chat with Andrea Warner
The Latest Interviews, Recommendations, and More
Lisa Moore's Favourite Books
A recommended reading list from Lisa Moore, whose latest book is the nonfiction title Invisible Prisons.
Short Story Collections to Delight & Unsettle
A recommended reading list by the author of Widow Fantasies.
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Who We Are
Four Questions For a Life and a Nation
No Credit River
Sunrise over Half-Built Houses
Love, Longing and Addiction in Suburbia
Finding Otipemisiwak
The People Who Own Themselves
Born to Walk
My Journey of Trials and Resilience
300 Mason Jars
Preserving History
The Nail That Sticks Out
Reflections on the Postwar Japanese Canadian Community
May It Have a Happy Ending
A Memoir of Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers
The Halifax Explosion
6 December 1917 at 9:05 in the Morning
The Hanging Of Angelique
The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
Gold
George And Rue
From the Heart
Family. Community. Service.
The Burden of Exile
A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship
Jade Is a Twisted Green
Yume
Becoming a Matriarch
A Memoir
Crooked Teeth
A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Stories
Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue
A Novel
Interesting Facts about Space
A Novel
Landbridge
life in fragments
North of Nowhere
Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner
Prairie Edge
A Novel
Home and Away
Hockey on the Moon
Imagination and Canada’s Game
Behind the Mask
A Revealing Look at Twelve of the Greatest Goalies in Hockey History
The Country and the Game
30,000 Miles of Hockey Stories
Turk
One of the NHL’s great coaches: From Summerside to Madison Square Garden
Ice in Their Veins
Women's Relentless Pursuit of the Puck
Dreamer
My Life On the Edge
All Roads Home
A Life On and Off the Ice
Homing
A Quest to Care for Myself and the Earth
Senescence
A Year in the Canadian Rockies
In Exile
Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life
Hearty
On Cooking, Eating, and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence
Voice Lessons
No Jews Live Here
Relative to Wind
On Sailing, Craft, and Community
All Our Ordinary Stories
A Multigenerational Family Odyssey