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

Notes From a Children's Librarian: In Conversation with Nature
Quick Hits
The best books are timeless, and they deserve to find readers whenever and wherever.

Quick Hits: 9 Books Well Worth Your While
The Chat
Great writers sit down with us to talk about their books—and the stories behind them.

The Chat with Michelle Porter
The Latest Interviews, Recommendations, and More

You Can Find a Chinese Restaurant Everywhere You Go
"Madagascar is one of the last places on Earth I would expect to find Chinese settlement. And now I find out that wonton soup and rickshaws have contributed …

Magnificent Short Fiction
A recommended reading list by the author of the celebrated memoir Chasing Zebras.
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- The Chat with Lorna Crozier
- Bodies in Trouble
- Secret Lives of Mothers
- Shelf Talkers Spring 2022
- Bright Lights, Big City: Kids Books About Urban Life
- The Philosopher Kings
- Darn Good Books: Popular Fiction from the Past
- The Chat with Michelle Porter
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Dadibaajim
Returning Home through Narrative

Persephone's Children
A Life in Fragments

Returning to Ceremony
Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities

We Are All Perfectly Fine
A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing

Did You See Us?
Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School

Mosienko
The Man Who Caught Lightning In A Bottle

Scofflaw

The Strangers

Don't Call It a Cult
The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

Measuring Up
A Memoir of Fathers and Sons

Yearbook

Unreconciled
Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

My Mother's Daughter
A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph

The Quiet is Loud

Satellite Love
A Novel

Ghost Forest
A Novel