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By The River January Meeting ReBooked

Posted in: December 8, 2017 by Windsor Public Library Library | Comments are closed

The December 13 meeting of BY THE RIVER, Readers series is now rebooked and will happen on Wednesday January 17. Urban Farmhouse Press hopes this date works better for your busy holiday schedule and you will attend in the new year, as this meeting will present the published collection of the works of 2016-2017 readers. Place is the same (Ouellette lobby, Central Branch), & no change to the time (starts 6:30 p.m.). ...

Sandwich Writing Club at Bookfest 2017

Posted in: October 30, 2017 by Miss Janet | Comments are closed

Bookfest was amazing this year. Thanks for a terrific time. Club members, Teen Mentors, and their parents had the pleasure of hearing Christopher Paul Curtis interview Kia Corthron as they share their journeys as authors http://bookfestwindsor.com/portfolio-view/kia-corthron/ In addition they heard “Jen Storm is an Ojibway from the Couchiching First Nation in Northwestern Ontario. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Jennifer completed Deadly Loyalties, her first novel, at age fourteen. Fire Starters is Jen’s first...

R.I.P. Oliver W. Sacks, CBE

Posted in: August 31, 2015 by Adam | Comments are closed

Oliver Sacks, the influential neurologist and writer many called the “poet laureate of medicine,” has died at his home in New York City. He was 82. The London-born academic was the author of several books about unusual medical conditions, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars. Dr. Sacks wrote passionately and sympathetically about his patients. He refused to depict these people as...

Guest Blogger Jennifer Nantais on Local Ecology and History

Posted in: May 29, 2015 by Leisa | Comments are closed

Welcome back to another edition of Windsor Public Library’s Guest Blogger series. We hope you’re enjoying learning about the reading habits of your fellow Windsorites as much as we’re enjoying sharing them with you. This month’s guest blogger Jennifer Nantais, a local naturalist and educator, shares with us some of her go-to books about ecology and history – two of her favorite subjects! Three for Thought 1. The Sibley Field Guide...

Adult Sensory Reading Group Creates Their Own Book

Posted in: February 26, 2015 by Sue Perry | Comments are closed

The Adult Sensory Reading circle at Windsor Public Library Riverside Branch was very excited this past week to see their book printed. As a group, we read Michael Hall’s book The Perfect Square, and decided to create our own version. We called our book The Happy Square, and wrote a story about a square that was bored with being a square. This square changed into many different different things, but...

P.D. James 1920-2014

Posted in: November 27, 2014 by Adam | Comments are closed

The woman once dubbed the “Queen of Crime” has passed away. British mystery and crime novelist Phyllis Dorothy James, best known for her works following the Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh, has died at the age of 94. The Oxford born P.D. James began her writing career during her late 30’s, having published her first novel, Cover Her Face, in 1962. She initially took up writing to support her family...

Us Conductors By Sean Michaels Wins The 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Posted in: November 13, 2014 by Adam | Comments are closed

This week Montreal-based author Sean Michaels won the illustrious Scotiabank Giller Prize for his debut novel, Us Conductors. First awarded back in 1994, the list of recipients of the Giller Prize reads like a who’s who of Canada’s literary arts; past winners include Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Vincent Lam, and Joseph Boyden. Us Conductors is inspired by the true story of Lev Termen, the Russian scientist, spy, and...