***Mystery in Manhattan – The start of a cozy mystery series from Kelly Oliver (Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mysteries Book 1) (Deal, Not Free) by Kelly Oliver. Price: $1.99. Genre: Whodunit Mystery Deal, Sponsor, A fun, mix of whodunnit and thriller set amid American high society. Rate...
The SDG Book Club launched in April 2019, the aim being to develop a reading list of titles for readers aged 6-12 years about the importance of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to encourage young people around the world to set up their own book clubs on this subject (more...
Our own polling of publishers suggests that Amazon’s share of the ebook market, excluding its own Kindle publishing efforts, sits at 68 per cent. Gorgeous stats from Statista Business intelligence firm Statista maintains a rich data set of statistics about ebooks, including granular insights into ...
Set in a vision of medieval Paris, part of the book’s goal was to make people appreciate the cathedral of Notre-Dame itself, at a time when Gothic art wasn’t considered of particular value and the church was falling to ruin. Shortly after, it would be restored and beloved again. ...
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The events of that summer have long-lasting repercussions, not only on the three friends caught in its shadow but also on their children, who struggle to escape their parents’ story. Spanning fifty years and set against the backdrop of a rapidly warming Montana, Dream State explores what it...
February is Black History Month, the perfect time to check outToronto’s Black Film Festival. It features movies, docs and shorts from Canada and around the world. Like Karen Chapman’s Village Keeper a drama set in Toronto’s Laurence Heights neighbourhood, about an overprotective mom with her...
Ottawa Citizen Honours the RCAF on Remembrance Day with this important Bomber Command episode “We Are The Dead: Flying Officer Arthur Reid Died on a Secret Mission to Occupied France” Seven planes took off on a blustery night in 1944. Only five made it back. This is the story of one ...
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“The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges, and the phrase “[t]his set of works” refers to several of Brewer’s striking sculptures in homage to the story. These works are not in the Books On Books Collection (yet?), but these images (courtesy of the artist) are too ...