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Your Fall 2017 Literary Festival Guide
We've been waiting for this all year long...
Shelf Talkers: Back to School and Beyond
For possibly the first time in this column’s history, two of our booksellers have chosen the same book.
A Conversation with Claire Messud
The Giller Award-nominated Messud on her new book, The Burning Girl, plus quarries, teenage time, and her favourite Canadian reads.
The Recommend: September 2017
This month we're pleased to present the picks of Greg Rhyno (To Me You Seem Giant), Pamela Mordecai (Red Jacket), Alix Hawley (All True Not a Lie In It …
Back to School Books
Titles featuring school themes and/or settings and there's something for readers of all ages, from little kids to big kids, and grown-ups—including …
Notes from a Children's Librarian: Canadian Heritage and Identity
Books to support the Grade 6 Social Studies curriculum.
Malcolm Squires: Canada Is a Forest Nation
We like to picture the boreal forest as a stable, balanced system. Really, it is anything but stable. The boreal forest is dynamic.
The Chat With Grace O’Connell
In Be Ready for the Lightning, Grace O'Connell's second book, we meet Vancouverite Veda and follow her relationship with her troubled brother Conrad and …
Most Anticipated: Our Fall 2017 Books for Young Readers Preview
The best in picture books, middle-grade and YA. (It's so good!)
Spindrift: A Canadian Book of the Sea
The gorgeous result of a five year quest for Canadian nautical writings.