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When you shop local, you are supporting people who live and work in your community. Your money stays in the neighbourhood and helps to make the place you call home, a community.

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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
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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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The Star Thief

By Lindsey Becker
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | April 11, 2017 | 416 pages
The constellations come to life in this imaginative fantasy adventure debut. Honorine's life as a maid at the Vidalia mansion is rather dull, dusting treasures from faraway places and daydreaming in front of maps of the world. But everything changes when she catches two brutish sailors ransacking... More Info
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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
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The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

By Denis Theriault
ONEWorld Publications | February 1, 2017 | 128 pages
Bilodo lives a solitary daily life, routinely completing his postal rounds every day and returning to his empty Montreal apartment. But he has found a way to break the cycle -- Bilodo has taken to stealing people's mail, steaming open the envelopes, and reading the letters inside. And so it is he... More Info
Literature - International
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Little Book of Inner Peace

By Ashley Davis Bush
Gaia | April 4, 2017 | 96 pages
This stunning, color-illustrated guide includes practices to help you let go of everyday stresses and find inner peace. With practical tools, strategies and exercises harnessing the benefits of mindfulness, meditation, gratitude, creativity, relaxation and compassion, this book will guide you... More Info
Health Studies
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Up the Creek

By Nicholas Oldland
Kids Can Press | April 4, 2017 | 32 pages
?There once was a bear, a moose and a beaver who were the best of friends, though they often disagreed.? So when the three friends go canoeing together one sunny day, it doesn't take long for them to start quarreling with one another. First, they can't decide who should get to steer the canoe.... More Info
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The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes...
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Citing costly memory-related inconveniences suffered by average individuals, a science journalist...
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Events

2018 24 May
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Official Launch of Crooked Corrections with author Jeannette Tossounian

CROOKED CORRECTIONS is the final in Jeannette Tossounian's acclaimed Jail Trilogy. The other two titles from this trilogy are: Songs from the Slammer and The Human Kennel.

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2018 28 May
7:00pm - 9:00pm

The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism Book Launch with Chris Roberts and Kevin Skerrett

It is often hoped and assumed that union stewardship of pension investments will produce tangible and enduring benefits for workers and their communities while minimizing the negative effects of what are now global and intensely competitive capital markets.

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2018 30 May
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Policing Indigenous Movements Book Launch with Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan

In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in Canada.

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