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Wed May 22, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Yorkville

In this illustrated talk, Queen's University historian Steven Maynard looks at the emergence of modern gay and lesbian identities in Toronto during the 1920s and '30s. Part of the Pride and Prejudice, History and Memory seri...

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.

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Thu Jun 20, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Yorkville

Since its release, "The Demonologist" has been on the Maclean?s fiction bestseller list for six straight weeks and on the Globe and Mail?s fiction bestseller list for five straight weeks....

Icon of the event Author Reading. Don Gillmor discusses his novel  Mount  Pleasant
Thu May 30, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Deer Park

In this tragicomic social novel,Gillmor examines the anxieties of the once confident baby boomers caught in the recent global recession - the downsizing of lifestyles,ambitions and rosy dreams of easy retirement.