One of the volunteer opportunities available for youth at TBPL is joining the Youth Action Council. This group meets monthly during the school year to discuss Library services, programs, and collections for teens. This May, the current YAC group went shopping at Chapters and these are just some of the titles they selected for purchase!... Continue Reading →
It's Pride Month, and just like every year, we are showing off our amazing collection with a booklist! Ordinarily, this would be a genre list year: romances, fantasies, etc. with queer characters. However, it turns out that there are so many great books being published (and that we are buying) that fit those parameters, such... Continue Reading →
This week, we have a selection of movies and tv based on books. Some of these are available to borrow directly from TBPL on DVD, while others are available through various streaming services. What have you been watching (and reading) lately? Listen to the episode on your favourite podcast platform by searching for Read This... Continue Reading →
For this episode, we selected titles across a variety of genres that were getting lots of attention in 2022 - either because of awards, bestseller status, new books from popular authors, or some other metric! Join Laura and Nicole as they add to their to-read lists and Listen to the episode on your favourite podcast... Continue Reading →
Why read the original when the remake is more fun? Try one of these retellings of classic fiction for updated and diverse versions of the stories you know. Listen to the episode on your favourite podcast platform by searching for Read This Next or watch on our YouTube channel. Place your TPBL holds for print books... Continue Reading →
Curious about superhero stories but not interested in reading comics? This episode is for you! Listen to the episode on your favourite podcast platform by searching for Read This Next or watch on our YouTube channel. Place your TPBL holds for print books through our online catalogue, or search for eBooks through cloudLibrary. For full details about these titles... Continue Reading →
Inspired by the recent Kenneth Branaugh adaption of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, we've decided on another mystery episode! Laura's read all the Agatha's; Nicole has read none. Listen to some rambling from Laura about her favs, then get some reading suggestions of other reads that recall Agatha's plot-dense style. For more mystery recs,... Continue Reading →
We realized that our first romance episode was seriously lacking - there were no queer love stories! So we decided to shine a spotlight on LGBTQ characters with a second romance episode. Enjoy one of these super sweet, delightful romances in your favourite romance subgenres today! Listen to the episode on your favourite podcast platform... Continue Reading →
It's time for an illustrated-cover romance roundup! Pick up one of these light-and-fluffy, trope-filled, all contemporary reads today. Listen to the episode on your favourite podcast platform by searching for Read This Next or watch on our YouTube channel. Place your TPBL holds for print books through our online catalogue, or search for eBooks through cloudLibrary. For full details... Continue Reading →
We weren't sure what to title this episode. It was clear that there was a collective theme to these books, but our original idea of feminist dystopia wasn't quite right. I ended up at Gender-Interrogating Speculative Fiction, but Nicole told me (correctly) that is way too long and complicated. You can see what we've settled... Continue Reading →
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