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Staff Pick – The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker is a difficult story to pin down. In our catalogue, it's not…

10 years ago

Staff Pick: Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler

Lyrical and engaging, Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler is really a story about the pull of a small town. Henry,…

10 years ago

Happy Birthday Nabokov!

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov is considered of the world's greatest writers. Born on April 22nd, 1899 in Saint Petersburg to a…

10 years ago

Little Bee in Persian and English

Welcome to our newest blogger, Mahboubeh!Firstly, I am so excited to share my reading experience in two languages, English and…

10 years ago

Exploring Autism

I recently came across a Reddit thread that asked people with autism what they wished others could understand about their…

10 years ago

Family Secrets

Memoirs and autobiographies are among the most popular non-fiction genres. There a lots of subgenres in this field (my own…

10 years ago

It’s Marathon Monday!

Today 30,000 eager marathoners will make their way to Hopkinton with the goal of running 26.2 miles to a famous…

10 years ago

The Buzz About Bees Onscreen

Bees have always been fascinating to me, with their interesting social colonies, their ability to keep our agricultural systems going…

10 years ago

Urban Homesteading for All

In the few years, Halifax Public Libraries has received a series of new books documenting the urban homesteading movement. With…

10 years ago

Garden Planning By the Book

Another spring, another year of garden planning.Last year we rebuilt our vegetable garden from the ground up, complete with 10…

10 years ago

Cookbook Club – Food52

Have you ever read through a new cookbook and wanted to try every single recipe - but not actually have…

10 years ago

Staff Pick – The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey

I have only read one other book by Peter Carey - Jack Maggs (M), a variation of Charles Dickens' Great…

10 years ago