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

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Stories for All Seasons: Can't Miss Fiction Hits
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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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Skid Dogs

When My Ghost Sings
A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation

My Name Is Not Harry
A Memoir

Ukrainian Portraits
Diaries from the Border

Here With You
A Memoir of Love, Family, and Addiction

Where the World Was

The Definition of Beautiful
A Memoir

One Sunny Afternoon
A Memoir of Trauma and Healing

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

Asking for a Friend

Who We Are Now
A Novel

Last Goldfish, The
A True Tale of Friendship

A Secret Sisterhood
The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

Melt

Happy Hour

Memoir of Friendship
The Letters Between Carol Shields And Blanche Howard

Glass Beads

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
A Novel

Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted
The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy

Pure Colour

Kiki Man Ray
Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris

The Girl in the Middle
Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor

The Myth of Normal
Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

The Light of Days
The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

Kingdom of Night
Witnesses to the Holocaust