Arts

Staff Pick — My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

When I was a child, almost every book I read was about a girl and her friends. It seemed a…

10 years ago

Macavity Award 2015

The Macavity Award is named for the "mystery cat" of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). Each year…

10 years ago

Staff Pick – Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

I chose to read Erik Larson’s Dead Wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania in part because I knew little…

10 years ago

Dad’s Day Multipack

In advance of Father's Day every year, library staff think of ways to promote stories about fathers and fatherhood. When…

10 years ago

Staff Pick: In a Vertigo of Silence by Miriam Polli

Just like a person’s memories are ‘snatches of time’ not in chronological order, so too is In a Vertigo of…

10 years ago

2015 Literary Women’s World Cup – Part 2

Halifax Public Libraries' collection is so diverse that we have books to represent each soccer team in the ‪2015 FIFA…

10 years ago

2015 Literary Women’s World Cup – Part 1

Halifax Public Libraries' collection is so diverse that we have books to represent each soccer team in the ‪2015 FIFA…

10 years ago

Cover art

I recently got into a discussion with my co-workers regarding how important visuals are, whether in picking a mate or…

10 years ago

Nebula Award – 2014

The 2014 Nebula Award winners have been announced. The books are voted on by members of the Science Fiction and…

10 years ago

Classics! …. with a twist

Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood "In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope--wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of…

10 years ago