March staff picks round up
Catherine Coles Coles Notes The staff of the County of L&A Libraries are avid readers and always eager to share their favourite books. Here we bring you a list of some of the…
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Spring-summer reads preview
Catherine Coles Coles Notes It will not be long until we are out of the woods of winter. Until then, I have my sights set on a variety of soon…
Go beyond the headlines with these reads
Catherine Coles Coles Notes If you are a reader caught up in all of the hot topics and big social issues of the day, why not delve a little bit…
The handwriting’s on the wall
Laurie Snider Notes from the Nest I’ve spent the first few days of the New Year mapping out my plans and goals for the upcoming year, so I have at…
January staff picks
Catherine Coles Coles Notes The staff of the County of L&A Libraries are avid readers and always eager to share their favourite books. Here we bring you a list of some of the…
December staff picks round up
Catherine Coles Coles Notes The staff of the County of L&A Libraries are avid readers and always eager to share their favourite books. Here we bring you a list of some of the…
Finer points for the perfect cup of coffee
Laurie Snider Notes from the Nest My first memory of coffee was the vigorous, bubbling, gurgling sound the dark brown liquid made, spurting up and down into the small glass…
2019 literary award winners roundup
Catherine Coles Coles Notes This is the time of year when all the best works of literary fiction are paid their dues. There are endless awards (and award winners) to…
Books into movies 2020
Catherine Coles Coles Notes Like every year, 2019 has been chock full of movie adaptations of well-loved books. Some of them have tanked (ahem The Goldfinch), while others look extremely…
The DNA-genealogy connection
Catherine Coles Coles Notes One of the most rapidly advancing areas of genealogy and family history research is genetic genealogy. At this point, millions of people all over the world (myself…