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Icon of the event The 26th Helen E. Stubbs Memorial Lecture : Lois Lowry
Thu Oct 10, 2013 | 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Lillian H. Smith

Lois Lowry is the author of many distinguished books for young readers, including the Anastasia, Sam, Gooney Bird and Giver series. She was awarded the Newbery Medal for Number the Stars (1990) and for The Giver (1994), and i...

Icon of the event The 7th Annual Sybille Pantazzi Memorial Lecture: Jeremy Tankard
Thu Oct 10, 2013 | 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Lillian H. Smith

Jeremy Tankard, the award-winning author-illustrator of Grumpy Bird, Me Hungry!, and illustrator of It's a Tiger!, whose picture books are as brilliant on paper as in ebook format, describes his creative processes.(Photo cred...

Icon of the event Branded by the Pink Triangle
Wed Sep 25, 2013 | 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lillian H. Smith

Between 5,000 and 15,000 gay men--identified by the pink triangle--were sent to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, many to die there. After the war, this bitter history was for decades ignored. Author Ken Setterington t...

Icon of the event Eva Stachniak - Evergreen Author
Tue Aug 27, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Runnymede

Come and hear Eva read from, and talk about, her book "The Winter Palace" which is on the shortlist for the Ontario Library Association's Evergreen Book of the Year.

Icon of the event Nepal's Wild West: The Dolpo and Mustang Regions
Fri Jun 28, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Don Mills

Join Chris Beall, a freelance photographer, writer, lecturer and Himalayan mountain guide with more than 20 years of experience, for a slide presentation about the landscapes, people, cultures and wildlife of the infrequently...