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All of OPL’s staff recommendations in one page. You can browse the different lists based on topics, format or genres, or you can read some of the more detailed blog posts about specific items. If you can’t find what you are looking for, you can always #AskALibrarian online or in a branch!

 

Recent Staff Lists

Journée Je lis des auteurs canadiens 2020...

Date Created:
10/02/2020
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Collection_Development

Journée Je lis des auteurs canadiens 2020...

Date Created:
10/02/2020
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Collection_Development

I Read Canadian Day - Children's Titles...

Date Created:
10/02/2020
By
Collection_Development

Semaine de la liberté de l'expression

Date Created:
19/02/2021
By
CD_Librarian

Mois de la Francophonie 2021

Date Created:
19/02/2021
By
ProgramDevelopment

Freedom to Read

Date Created:
19/02/2021
By
CD_Librarian

Love and Fantastical Creatures

Date Created:
18/02/2021
By
AndrewNKawam

Groupe d'amis / Group of friends

Date Created:
18/02/2021
By
Program1Karine

Hippity Hop

Date Created:
17/02/2021
By
andiejpg

Cerebral, Unsentimental YA/Kids Books for Adults

Date Created:
16/02/2021
By
AndrewNKawam

I Read Canadian Day - Children's Books...

Date Created:
16/02/2021
By
Collection_Development

Stories to Share: JK - Grade 1

Date Created:
15/02/2021
By
wordgurlz

Global perspective on children's literature

Date Created:
15/02/2021
By
story_catcher

Invitation to Create

Date Created:
15/02/2021
By
wordgurlz

Dementia - for caregivers

Date Created:
13/02/2021
By
curiouscat

Get a Hobby!

Date Created:
13/02/2021
By
abbeyclark

Goodbye Christopher Robin

Date Created:
13/02/2021
By
NaidaAP

Books that address COVID-19 for kids

Date Created:
12/02/2021
By
Feng_Library

Brave new worlds and survival therein

Date Created:
12/02/2021
By
adeline_meryt

Album cartonné / Board Books

Date Created:
12/02/2021
By
Program1Karine

Bébé / Baby

Date Created:
12/02/2021
By
Program1Karine

(Enfant) Indigène / (Kids) Indigenous

Date Created:
12/02/2021
By
Program1Karine

S**a Playlist - Picture Books

Date Created:
11/02/2021
By
libdelite

Dementia/Alzheimer's - Books to share with people...

Date Created:
10/02/2021
By
andiejpg

Spotlight on...

New Non-Fiction: Community and Transformation

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Radical Belonging : How to Survive and Thrive in An Unjust World (while Transforming It for the Better)
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On Property
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Love Is An Ex-country : A Memoir
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Missing Each Other : How to Cultivate Meaningful Connections
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Black & Buddhist : What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation & Freedom
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Reading, Writing, and Racism : Disrupting Whiteness in Teacher Education and in the Classroom

New arrivals for Teens

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Fights : One Boy's Triumph Over Violence
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Court of Swans
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Game Changer
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The Electric Kingdom
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All the Tides of Fate
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We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire
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What Big Teeth

New Titles, All Formats!

Notable, recently-added non-fiction that's available to borrow in either print, eBook or eAudio!
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Can You Hear Me Now? : How I Found My Voice and Learned to Live With Passion and Purpose
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Light for the World to See
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Four Hundred Souls : A Community History of African America, 1619-2019.
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Surviving the White Gaze : A Memoir
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Black Futures
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Just as I Am : A Memoir
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Long Time Coming : Reckoning With Race in America

Delve into design, drawing and decoration

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In Memory of : Designing Contemporary Memorials
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Drawing Fantastic Female Fighters : Bringing Fierce Female Characters to Life
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Easy homemade pottery : make your own stylish decor using polymer and air-dry clay
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The Rebirth of An English Country House : St Giles House
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Techniques for Beginners : How to Build A Practice for Sketching on Location
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Soul of the Home : Designing With Antiques

Canadian House and Home

Coping with COVID-19 for Kids

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What Kids Did : Stories of Kindness and Invention in the Time of COVID-19.
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Covid-19 Helpers : A Story for Kids about the Coronavirus and the People Helping During the 2020 Pandemic.
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Viruses, Vaccines and COVID-19 : Prepare and Prevail
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The princess and the petri dish
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Now Wash your Hands!
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Why We Worry : The Science of Anxiety
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The COVID-19 Pandemic : The World Turned Upside Down
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Hooray for Our Heroes!
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What Is COVID-19?
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Don't Stand So Close to Me.

News about books and reading from staff

I Read Canadian Day - February 17th!

By CD_Librarian

February 17th is a national day of celebration of Canadian books for young people. It's a day dedicated to ‘reading...
The Parliamentary Poet Laureate

New Parliamentary Poet Laureate Louise Bernice Halfe

By sonja_library

Louise Bernice Halfe, from the Saddle Lake Reserve in central Alberta, is the first Indigenous person to become Canada’s Parliamentary...
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CBC's All in a Day Book Panel

By Collection_Development

On Monday, February 1 st , CBC's All in a Day Book Panel, featuring OPL's Ann Archer and Sean Wilson...
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This year's ALA award-winners for young peoples' literature

By OPL_BPO_Comms

The American Library Association (ALA) recently announced the winners of this year’s awards for books for young people. These are...
The National Book Critics Circle Awards Winners

National Book Critics Circle Awards 2020

By OPL_BPO_Comms

Looking for a quality read this mid-winter? The National Book Critics Circle have chosen their yearly winners’ circle of the...
Beethoven 250

Happy 250th birthday Beethoven!

By CMCAT

Every year December brings celebration, and this year marks the additional celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday. While the actual day...
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CBC's All in a Day Book Panel

By Collection_Development

On Monday, December 7 th , CBC's All in a Day book panel, featuring OPL's Ann Archer and Sean Wilson...

How to Pronounce Knife wins the Giller!

By CD_Librarian

Souvankham Thammavongsa won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller for her book of short stories How to Pronounce Knife. In a virtual...
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CBC's All in a Day Book Panel

By Collection_Development

On Monday, November 2 nd , CBC's All in a Day Book Panel, featuring OPL's Ann Archer and Sean Wilson...

Milkman by Anna Burns Wins Dublin Literary Award 2020

By CD_Librarian

Anna Burns has scored her second big literary prize for Milkman , after also winning the 2018 Man Booker Prize...
Books and reading, Parenting, Pandemic Parenting

Storytimes go home for families!

By ProgramDevelopment

Dear parents and guardians, We miss you dearly in the branches. While we’ve seen many of you online at our...

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott won the 2020 Evergreen Award

By CD_Librarian

Alicia Elliott's A Mind Spread Out on the Ground wins the 2020 Evergreen, an award that is voted on by...
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CBC's All in a Day Book Panel

By Collection_Development

On Monday, October 5th CBC's All in a Day Book Panel, featuring OPL's Ann Archer and Sean Wilson of the...
Books and reading

October is…Adopt a Shelter Dog Month!

By charmaine_library

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us...

Ottawa Book Award 2020 Finalists - Congratulations!

By CD_Librarian

There are many familiar faces and titles on the Ottawa Book Awards' list of finalists: Karen McBride for Crow Winter...

Washington Black Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award!

By CD_Librarian

Esi Edugyan's Washington Black has the honour of being shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2020. The Ottawa...
Books and reading, Read a book

Summer Thrillers

By charmaine_library

Nothing beats a sunny day outside, enjoying the soft breeze and a really good book! That summer feeling doesn’t have...

International Booker Winner - The Discomfort of Evening

By CD_Librarian

A Dutch novel, The Discomfort of Evening has won the prestigious International Booker Prize in 2020. A debut that became...
Books and reading, Read a book

Love is in the air…. during romance awareness month

By charmaine_library

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I...
Read a book, Take a virtual trip, Books and reading

Beach Reads

By charmaine_library

Summer 2020 has been an unforgettable summer, although, not in the way most of us would like. Quarantining, and social...
Books and reading, Read a book

Wild West Fall Picks: What We’re Reading, Listening to & Watching

By charmaine_library

This past summer has been quite unlike the many we have seen before. With the pandemic, changes to schooling, working,...
Read a book, Study at home, Learn something new
Picture of 2 siblings reading books outside.

French immersion: Resources for a French-filled summer!

By ProgramDevelopment

Is your child enrolled in a French immersion class? Do you want them to keep practicing over the summer without...

Josephine Cox dies at 82 - with more than 60 books to her name

By CD_Librarian

Josephine Cox wrote a small library of family sagas, and sold more than 20 million copies. Her popular style captured...
Read a book, Watch a movie, Read a magazine
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Christmas in July – New items are here!

By OPL_BPO_Comms

It is wonderful to see all the shiny new library items coming in – and doubly exciting n ow that...

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