Summer Reading Program prevents summer slide
The Hanna Municipal Library is offering parents a fun and affordable way to stop the summer slide this year.
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Local News Indigenous stories and history for kids at Sudbury's libraries
June is National Indigenous History Month, with cultural events happening throughout the city. What better time to check out the Greater Sudbury Public Library’s new resources for kids, featuring Indigenous ... -
Books Book excerpt: Ditson wants to offer sexual assault survivors hope with Wide Open
Excerpt from D.M. Ditson's memoir Wide Open -
Television Review: Oprah shares life's light and painful shoes with Rogers Place crowd
A carefully curated video played before Oprah Winfrey appeared on stage at Rogers Place Thursday evening. -
Edmonton Sun 20 Questions: Kelly Shepherd
Kelly Shepherd’s second full-length poetry collection, Insomnia Bird: Edmonton Poems (Thistledown Press, 2018) won the 2019 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. -
Books Author Q&A: Heidi Tworek’s new book shows information warfare has a long history
Tworek takes a deep dive into the rise of the German media machine, and talks about parallels with today's media. -
Books Book review: Greg Nolan’s Highballer spins true tales of tree planting
Highballer — Greg Nolan's stories from 27 years in the tree planting industry — offers a good read and a glimpse of a little known aspect of Canadian working life. -
Books B.C.: 15 bestselling books for the week of June 15
The Association of Book Publishers of B.C.'s list of the top selling books for the week of June 15
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Local News Sudbury's Wordstock looks to create 'energy'
Several award-winning Canadian authors will be coming to Sudbury in November for the 6th edition of the Wordstock Sudbury Literary Festival. -
Books Book for children simmers for 30 years
Norman Redpup – a book for children about an orphaned puppy making his way in an uncertain world – wasn't rushed into print. -
Column Library details reading activities and programs for this summer
Natasha Bergeron and Kristen AdairGPPLYo ho ho! Survive the summer with this year’s Shipwrecked! Themed Summer Reading Game at the Grande Prairie Public Library! Children are invited to participate and ... -
Column Shelf Life: Normal People
Nominated for the Booker prize, Sally Rooney's writing is beautiful, and each new chapter is a snapshot in the lives of two flawed but hopeful young people. -
Local News Chatham-born physicist now a popular children's author
A Chatham native's foray into the world of children's literature has resulted in estimated sales of close to a million books. -
Books Beach reads! London library reveals readers' top summertime picks
Beach days and picnics, outdoor sports and star gazing, cookouts and long walks. Summer comes with all of that — and books. -
Travel The World Outdoors: Birdy beach reads just in time for summer
As you make summer vacation plans, remember that being on a beach doesn't mean we have to forget about birds. There are some new bird books and other nature titles ... -
Columnists Brownstein: Almost 94, Sheila Goldbloom is a force of nature
The wife of Victor Goldbloom writes her first book, Opening Doors
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Local News Local author fulfils a WISH by releasing first children's book
It was supposed to be a small, personal project – a folder of wishes Jennifer Paquette would give to her two granddaughters at Christmas. -
Books Book review: A Canadian doctor in China, Victoria Chung's story
Dr. Victoria Chung graduated from the University of Toronto’s medical school in 1922, the first Asian student to earn a medical degree from a Canadian school. -
Books Brown: Chicken Rising depicts fowl childhood, hopeful evolution
The experience of reading Chicken Rising likely depends on what kind of childhood you had. -
Column Shelf Life: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
It's the middle of the Depression years, 1936 in the hills of Kentucky. -
Books Library to hold fundraising barbecue
The Patient One by Shelley Shepard Gray – seven former best friends reunite and struggle to heal after the tragic death of one of their own. -
Books Local author to release new book
Local writer Eric Schmiedl will release Realities - a book on good versus evil with spiritual overtones - will have a book signing at Merrifield Book Shop this Saturday from ... -
Culture 'Dangerous ideas': Author Angela Saini on the return of old-school scientific racism
'It was an affront to my sense of identity when I was writing this book, to actually see how little basis there is for race' -
Books B.C.: 15 bestselling books for the week of June 8
The Association of Book Publishers of B.C.'s list of the top selling books for the week of June 8.
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Local News Sudbury library books celebrate national Indigenous history month
By Colleen BurnsEvery June, Canada celebrates National Indigenous History Month by honouring the stories and cultures of Indigenous peoples in Canada. -
Local Entertainment BIBLIOFILES: Summertime and the Reading is Easy
The book is the most important thing because studies show that over the summer break, kids forget what they’ve learned. -
Books Book review: A moving account of torment, captivity and survival
This true story has insights that will resonate for women readers and for men who take seriously the challenges posed by gender injustice and misogyny. -
Books B.C.: 15 bestselling books for the week of June 1
The Association of Book Publishers of B.C.'s list of the top selling books for the week of June 1. -
Books Book review: Story doesn't measure up to what-if premise
We Were Killers OnceBy Becky MastermanPenguin Random House, $24.95Apparently there are people who’ve never heard of the prolific and gifted Truman Capote. -
Books Brown: Aurora Borealice could be perfect graphic novel
Joan Steacy’s Aurora Borealice is pretty much the perfect comic book. -
Column Once more into the breach
Jacob FehrGPPLSometimes it can be frustrating reading a long-running series. Beyond the obvious annoyance of waiting for the next book to be written and published (especially for Patrick Rothfuss and ... -
Local News Sudbury author launches new book today
What began as a helpful tool for a teenage babysitter has become a children’s book about the adventures of an alien named MISHMASH. -
Movies Wild Nights With Emily is a far more ribald affair than other Emily Dickinson biopics
Chris Knight: Wild Nights with Emily was written and directed by Madeleine Olnek, whose first feature, 2011’s Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, gives you a sense of her sexual ... -
Books Calgary author L.D. Crichton lands deal with Disney Books for novel, All Our Broken Pieces
L.D. Crichton was in New York City on May 7, the day her young adult novel, All Our Broken Pieces, was published by Disney Books.
