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Notes from a Children's Librarian
Carefully selected books according to curriculum and theme.

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Musical Biographies
THE CHAT
Great writers sit down with us to talk about their books—and the stories behind them.

The Chat with Lucian Childs
INSPIRATION ZONE
Check out the books that inspire other books.

28 Short Story Collections I Can't Recommend Enough
The Latest Interviews, Recommendations, and More

Stories for All Seasons: Can't Miss Fiction Hits
The books that have rocked my reading world this spring.

Most Anticipated: Our 2023 Fall Fiction Preview
All the fiction you'll be falling in love with in the second half of 2023!
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- New Books for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
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- The Chat with Buffy Cram
- Notes from a Children's Librarian: Back to School
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No Ordinary Magic
The Art of Laurie Swim

Cassatt – McNicoll
Impressionists Between Worlds

Pictures on the Wall
Building a Canadian Art Collection

Tom Thomson
North Star

Moving the Museum
Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO

Western Voices in Canadian Art

Arctic/Amazon
Networks of Global Indigeneity

Shelley Niro
500 Year Itch

Landbridge
life in fragments

Where the World Was

The Lost Supper
Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past

Sharp Notions
Essays from the Stitching Life

My Body Is Distant
A Memoir

A War Guest in Canada

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons
The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

Becoming a Matriarch

The Everyday Squash Cook
The Most Versatile & Affordable Superfood

Squashed

Nothing More Comforting
Canada's Heritage Food

Purely Pumpkin
More Than 100 Seasonal Recipes to Share, Savor, and Warm Your Kitchen

Celebrating the Harvest
Recipes for Fall & Winter Gatherings

Fall Flavours
Seasonal Recipes from Canada's Best Chefs

Homegrown
Celebrating the Canadian Foods We Grow, Raise and Produce

Apples To Oysters
A Food Lovers Tour Of Canadian Farms

The COVID Journals
Health Care Workers Write the Pandemic

These Days Are Numbered
Diary of a High-Rise Lockdown

Pandexicon
How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality

Shadows and Light
A Physician's Lens on COVID

COVID-19
A History

Women of the Pandemic
Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19

Conscripted to Care
Women on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Response

Pandemic Spotlight
Canadian Doctors at the Front of the COVID-19 Fight