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The Accident of Being Lost

By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Astoria | April 8, 2017 | 152 pages
This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed... More Info
Literature - International
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More Blueberries!

By Susan Musgrave
February 28, 2017 | 24 pages
Young twins can't get enough of their favorite fruit in this rhyming board book.  More Info
Kids' Books
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You Can Read

By Helaine Becker
February 28, 2017 | 32 pages
In this fun and funny celebration of literacy, kids of all ages will discover that the act of reading is a daring adventure that can take you anywhere! You can read at the playground, under the sea, at the opera and even in outer space! It turns out you can read everywhere! And when you do, you... More Info
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Justine McKeen, Thermostat Chat

By Sigmund Brouwer
March 28, 2017 | 80 pages
Saving the rainforest one volt at a time!  More Info
Kids' Books
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Subject to Change

By Karen Nesbitt
February 28, 2017 | 288 pages
Declan thinks he knows the truth, but does he?  More Info
Kids' Books
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An Act of Injustice

By Ray Argyle
April 1, 2017 | 312 pages
A bride, a groom, and a lover. Each with secrets from their past that when exposed, will change their lives forever. One will die, another will hang, and the survivor will begin an obsessive 20-year odyssey to discover the truth. Three people caught up in the harsh class differences and religious... More Info
Literature - International
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Rethinking Capitalism

By Michael Jacobs,  Mariana Mazzucato
Wiley-Blackwell | August 1, 2016 | 224 pages
"Thought provoking and fresh - this book challenges how we think about economics.” Gillian Tett, Financial Times Watch an interview with Mariana Mazzucato at Bloomberg here and here. Download the introduction of the book here. Order the book now and receive 20% discount - simply enter promotion... More Info
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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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