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1) Check your email–we've drawn the prize winners for the August 3 - August 9 period and sent emails to the winners. 2) A few more things about the prize draws and related stuff that we've had questions about in comments or emails:
Okay, here's a book you don't want to miss. The Mitochondrial Curiosities will not only knock your socks off, it'll teach you how to make a "forgiving sock creature" named Marcel in the process… Dree has trouble with biology (and other subjects), her family, and Edmonton in general. She’s dying to move to Toronto, where she belongs, where […]
Last week I read Kathe Koja's Buddha Boy, a sparsely-written novel about high school bullying and cliques. Don't let the short length fool you, there's more ideas packed in this novel than in books five times the size. Great read, highly recommended. Alan H is a web librarian at Toronto Public Library. He reads all over […]
Burnout by Rebecca Donner Burnout asks some specific questions, and some big ones: What would you do if your family moved from Toronto to a remote rural community? Are you brave enough to stand up for what you believe, even if it's unpopular, and possibly illegal? How far would you go to save your little piece of […]
Don Mills branch is holding a manga workshop on Saturday August 15 with award-winning manga illustrator and writer Sara E. Mayhew. Learn to draw your own manga! Where: Don Mills branch, 888 Lawrence Ave. East, TorontoWhen: Saturday August 15, 2-4 PMRegister in person or by phone at 416-395-5710
Nonfiction Book for August 3: The Skateboarding Field Manual by Ryan Stutt I think this is a good manual, but I’m not speaking from experience. The closest I’ve ever come to skateboarding was when I was 4 yrs old I found my cousin’s skateboard and used it to propel myself down his sloping driveway, ending […]
The Simcoe Day holiday delayed this a little, but check your email–we've drawn the prize winners for the July 27 - August 2 period and sent emails to the winners. Full details on prizes here. Congratulations to the winners! If you didn't win a prize–there's another four weeks of prize drawings to go!
Wow… Are you guys in for a special treat or what? The Word Out Team managed to have the author of Wake participate in this week's blog! 🙂 Wake won’the Battle of the Book back in early July!!! I was definitely honoured to be the one who got to chat with Lisa a bit. I […]
Wake by Lisa McMann is our featured Fiction this week. We had some interesting things happen around it last week already (and rumour has it there may be a little more to come along those lines), and selector Margaret here to tell us more about the winner of our BATTLE OF THE BOOKS… Poor Janie […]