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It's #FoodieFriday! Looking to try out a new recipe this weekend?  Our Zinio digital magazine collection has you covered – no wait list, no return date, no fine!                      Happy noshing! 

Congratulations to last night's winners of the 2016 Writers' Trust Awards.    Yasuko Thanh won’the $25,000 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for her novel Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains.       Deborah Campbell won’the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for her book A Disappearance in Damascus.       For more information on […]

It's #MakerMonday! Are you an electronics genius in the making? Check out our terrific selection of eBooks & digital magazines for experienced and budding makers:           If you need access to a 3D printer or help with tech projects, be sure to visit one of TPL's three Digital Innovation Hubs.

The Loan Stars November list is out! These are the ten most highly recommended new releases as selected by Canadian librarians:     Faithful: A Novel by Alice Hoffman eBook  eAudiobook The Twenty-Three by Linwood Barclay   eBook Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino eBook    Testimony by Robbie Robertson   eBook eAudiobook To Capture […]

It's #FoodieFriday! Looking to try out a new recipe this weekend?  Here is a selection of fantastic cookbooks in our OverDrive collection (click on a cover to check one out):           

Congratulations to Paul Beatty who won’the Man Booker Prize last night for his novel The Sellout.  Click on the book cover to place your hold: If you are looking for more great reads, be sure to check out this list of past Man Booker Prize winners and nominees in our OverDrive collection:

Congratulations to all of today's winners!    And the English winners are:    Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien  eBook Pig Girl by Colleen Murphy  eBook Party Wall by Catherine Leroux,  Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)  eBook    The Waking Comes Late by Steven Heighton   eBook Calvin by Martine Leavitt  eBook Tokyo Digs a […]

Books in the media this week:   CBC Radio – Books    The Secret Path by Gord Downie & Jeff Lemire eBook  Podcast The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee   eBook  Podcast Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks   eBook   Podcast   The Globe and Mail      Wenjack by Joseph Boyden   eBook […]

Books in the media this week: The Globe and Mail Trudeaumania by Robert Wright  eBook News of the World by Paulette Jiles eBook The Escapist by Gabriel Filippi  eBook Lament for Bonnie by Anne Emery   eBook Last Days of Night by Graham Moore  eBook & eAudiobook When the Music's Over by Peter Robinson   eBook   […]

Bob Dylan won’the prestigious 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature today! It was a shock to many and the internet was set ablaze immediately following the announcement.  There is sure to be a surge in demand for his books & music in the days to come.   If you want to get in on the action, here is a sampling […]