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The Little Book of Ontario

April 30, 2017 | 80 pages
In The Little Book of Ontario, George Fischer captures the crystal clear lakes, sprawling forests, and glittering skylines of the Heartland Province. From the Great Lakes to the Canadian Shield, Fischer takes readers on a visual journey, with nearly 80 stunning full-colour photographs, across... More Info
Canada
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If You Could Wear My Sneakers

By Sheree Fitch
May 30, 2017 | 32 pages
A Sheree Fitch classic, the Silver Birch- and Hackmatack Award-winning children's picture book about children's rights, If You Could Wear My Sneakers, is now available for a new generation of young readers. A series of humorous poems, paired with timeless illustrations, interprets 15 of the 54... More Info
Kids' Books
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Goth Girl

By Melanie Mosher
April 30, 2017 | 180 pages
There are only three things fifteen-year-old Victoria Markham truly enjoys: English class, her signature "Goth Girl" look, and art. It's just that she tends to do the last one late at night, with spray paint, in public places. It isn't long before Vic is caught red-handed and forced into community... More Info
Kids' Books
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Cammie Takes Flight

By Laura Best
April 30, 2017 | 224 pages
Eleven-year-old Cammie Turple grew up with more obstacles than most. Visually impaired and abandoned by her parents, she was raised by her tenacious, bootlegging aunt in rural Tanner, Nova Scotia. After Cammie and her best friend, Evelyn Merry, destroy the local moonshine still, forcing Evelyn's... More Info
Kids' Books
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Official Handbook (Captain Underpants Movie)

By Dav Pilkey,  Kate Howard
April 25, 2017 | 64 pages
Meet George and Harold, two funloving best friends with a special talent for trouble. The only thing they love more than pulling pranks is creating comic book heroes like the Amazing Captain Underpants. When the boys accidentally bring Captain Underpants to life, Jerome Horwitz Elementary and the... More Info
Kids' Books
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Reading 'Capital' Today

By Ingo Schmidt,  Carlo Fanelli
Pluto Press (UK) | April 15, 2017 | 272 pages
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Marxian political economy, particularly evident by the resurgence of readers picking up Marx's most famous work, Capital. Now 150 years after its original publication, there are still fresh interpretations of Capital that can help readers find new... More Info
Political Action
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Redemption Songs

By Jon Tattrie
September 9, 2016 | 240 pages
Redemption Songs tells the extraordinary story of how one of Bob Marley's greatest songs was born in Nova Scotia. It opens with Marley's live acoustic performance of Redemption Song at the end of his life, and reveals that the core lyric comes from a speech Marcus Garvey delivered in Sydney, Nova... More Info
Unusual Histories

Indie Next Pick

Does for microbiology what Dr Joe Schwarcz's Brain Fuel (Anchor, 2010) did for chemistry: informs and...
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Events

2018 26 Sep
6:30pm - 9:30pm

Ottawa Talk: Dorothy Phillips - Victor and Evie

Dorothy Phillips, author of Victor and Evie: British Aristocrats in Wartime Rideau Hall, will give a brief talk at the Ottawa Public Library Main Branch as part of their Heri

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2018 26 Sep
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Octopus Books Community Classroom: Contesting Total Institutions: How to use Access to Information / Freedom of Information for research, journalism, resistance

Join the authors of Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State, Andrew Crosby and Jeff Monaghan, for a discussion of how to use Access to Information (ATI) or Freedom of Information (FOI) processes to research or investigate the practices of powerful (and often secreti

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2018 28 Sep
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Poetry Reading with Steve Luttrell, Cameron Anstee and Natalie Hanna

Steve Luttrell is the founder and publishing editor of the acclaimed Café Review, which has published for a remarkable 25 years and printed the work of twelve Pulitzer Prize winners.

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