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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials: Book 1)

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The first of a trilogy, this book follows Lyra Belacqua, an orphan who lives with the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College. One day her uncle, Lord Asriel, visits and tells her of mystery and danger in the far North. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs.…

Reluctantly Alice (Alice series)

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Reluctantly Alice is the third book in the Alice series. The series follows Alice McKinely as she grows up in Silver Spring, Maryland with her dad and brother (her mom passed away when she was five). The Reluctantly Alice book sees Alice through the…

Helping To Enlighten The "Two Solitudes"

Montreal, Quebec

Gason's favourable review on Peter Desbarats book “The State of Quebec: A Journalist’s View of the Quiet Revolution.” Gascon views the work as intelligent and “well documented”, as well as noting that Desbarats understanding of…

The Little Engine That Could

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A genuine meme came into the language from this beloved story, now reaching its fourth generation of children. It's still an enchanting tale of a little train filled with toys, books, fruit, milk and treats for "all those good little boys and girls…

Persephone

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"When Hades sees Persephone gathering flowers in a field, he carries her off to the underworld to be his queen. Her mother Demeter is so distraught that she curses Earth with endless winter. With intervention from Zeus and other gods, Persephone is…

What's wrong with comic books? (Publication Reprint)

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" A reprinted publication from the Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications from the 1950s to 1970s. This board was part of the Alberta Government and was censoring comic books and magazines because they believed that children were being…

International Sex Workers Day

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This zine was created by Masters of Library and Information Science students. It contains poetry, critical essays, non-fiction articles, and illustrations.