Author Talks & Lectures
Audience
Library Branch
Alderwood
Dr. Donald Smith, Professor Emeritus at University of Calgary, brings to life some of the Mississauga's most important and interesting community leaders from the mid-nineteenth century. Each portrait is based on research dr...
Join author Nawaz as she explores the divergent paths of two orphaned sisters, brought up by their exasperated uncle in Montreal.Through life's vicissitudes- teenage pregnancy, anorexia, death and loss, the sisters are determ...
The Birth of Richard III...
Ovid was Rome's most prolific and famous poet in the eighth century, when he put into circulation his great poem about transformation, the Metamorphoses, a literary masterpiece that has inspired generations of artists, write...
"Shakespeare on the Silver Screen": Beginning with a brief history of the adaptation of Shakespeare's films to the screen, Dr. Sheppard will then continue by considering the ebbs and flows of Shakespeare's popularity as a sou...
The talk explores the rich and enigmatic world of Roman wall painting...
"intoxicating mystery set amid the glory and dark underside of Renaissance Rome". Pope Julius II, Michelangelo,Raphael,golden haired prostitute pulled out from the Tiber, floods surrounding Rome as the wolves descend - Buona...
Detective Ari Greene, is arrested for first degree murder by his young protege, Dan Kennicott. House- bound, Greene must work to clear his name and to come to terms with the fact that people are not what they seem and the hig...
Meet First Nations Author and Poet Giles Benaway (Anishinaabe/Metis/Tsagli) as he explores the haunting themes of inter-generational trauma, cyclical abuse and inherited grief in his new book "Ceremonies for the Dead."
Bestselling author and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, James Bartleman, will be at the Spadina Road Branch to launch his latest novel "The Redemption of Oscar Wolf."