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Member Libraries' Workshop 2021
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Call for Proposals - DEADLINE EXTENDED
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Making a Difference Awards
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Freedom to Read Week: February 21-27, 2021
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Librarian's Guide to Homelessness
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Steps to Reconciliation in Alberta Libraries
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As we start 2021 and look forward to the 20th edition of Canada Reads, we are reminded that books can be a safe place to go when times are tough. Here is the shortlist along with their champions, which will be debated March 8-11, 2021 on the various CBC platforms.
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Butter Honey Pig Bread
by Francesca Ekwuyasi
Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a human mother misery. She has made the unnatural choice of staying alive to love her human family but lives in fear of the consequences of her decision.
Championed by Roger Mooking, chef, recording artist, and TV host
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Two Trees Make a Forest : In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts
by Jessica J. Lee
After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather's life, Lee seeks to piece together the fragments of her family's history as they moved from China to Taiwan, and then on to Canada. But as she navigates the tumultuous terrain of Taiwan, Lee finds herself having to traverse fissures in language, memory, and history, as she searches for the pieces of her family left behind.
Championed by singer-songwriter Scott Helman
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The Midnight Bargain
by C. L. Polk
The award-winning author of Witchmark presents a romantic fantasy set in a magical Regency England, where a sorceress must balance magic-ending familial duty with her ambition to become her world’s first great sorceress.
Championed by Rosey Edeh, Olympian and broadcaster
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Hench
by Natalie Zina Walschots
Temping for people on the wrong side of the law, Anna becomes unfairly unemployed before using her talents for manipulating data to expose how the heroes of her world do more harm than good.
Championed by actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
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Jonny Appleseed
by Joshua Whitehead
Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages - and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home for his step-father's funeral, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life.
Championed by Devery Jacobs, actor and filmmaker
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