From fantastical adventures to real life stories, our recommended reads for the "a book about a library worker" cover many genres. Library workers and library lovers share their favourite books featuring library worker characters. Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Yas Imamura Love in the Library is based...
Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Tony Fernandez tags out a runner at second base. Tony Bock, photographer (Toronto Star). View on Digital Archive. Baseball has been played for almost 200 years. It may be slower than basketball and less popular than football (either kind), but it still attracts millions of fans...
Orange Shirt Day is September 30th every year. This day reminds us of one of the methods used to assimilate Indigenous communities to non-Indigenous ways. Indian Residential Schools were open for over 160 years, with the last one closing in 1996. In 2013, after Phyllis (Jack) Webstad shared her experience...
I love this category for the challenge because it's been amazing to discover just how many books have a colour in the title! Searching our library catalogue in colour-specific ways reveals a giant rainbow's worth of material. Please enjoy these bright, bold recommendations from Toronto Public Library staff and Reading...
Agatha Christie was born on September 15, 1890. At the library, we still get a lot of requests for her mysteries even though the author died nearly 50 years ago. Readers enjoy her clever puzzles, psychological insight and, although some of the murders are gruesome, most of the violence is...
The Longlist for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced on September 6. The prize was created by Jack Rabinovitch in 1994 to honour his late wife Doris Giller who was the literary editor at the Toronto Star. All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac Avenue of Champions by...
Picking books for this category was challenging because there are so many issues that are important to me! Some issues that come to mind are waste reduction, climate change, time management, conflict, poverty, healthcare, inequality and human rights. Issues that are important for one person may be different for another....
The end of summer feels like it's far away, but it's getting closer than we think! Have you run through your to-be-read list, and want to read more books by Indigenous authors? Here are some upcoming and recently released books by Indigenous authors for all ages. This is only just...
Have you ever finished reading a book and thought, “Wow, that was a great read. I wonder what else the author wrote", and then found out the book was actually written under a pen name? Pen names are used by authors to replace their real name for several reasons. Sometimes...
“I have this longing for one day when I come up in front of an audience and nobody asks me that question. This is something that happened 26 years ago. I’ve had a lot of life. I was 41, now I’m 68. I’m allowed to have other subjects. So, no,...