When I was a child, almost every book I read was about a girl and her friends. It seemed a…
The Macavity Award is named for the "mystery cat" of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). Each year…
I chose to read Erik Larson’s Dead Wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania in part because I knew little…
In advance of Father's Day every year, library staff think of ways to promote stories about fathers and fatherhood. When…
Just like a person’s memories are ‘snatches of time’ not in chronological order, so too is In a Vertigo of…
Halifax Public Libraries' collection is so diverse that we have books to represent each soccer team in the 2015 FIFA…
Halifax Public Libraries' collection is so diverse that we have books to represent each soccer team in the 2015 FIFA…
I recently got into a discussion with my co-workers regarding how important visuals are, whether in picking a mate or…
The 2014 Nebula Award winners have been announced. The books are voted on by members of the Science Fiction and…
Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood "In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope--wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of…