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Icon of the event Storytelling with Molly Sutkaitis
Tue Sep 24, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Barbara Frum

Molly Sutkaitis is a storyteller, and can help you with your own stories. She has worked with adults and teens, helping them to develop their storytelling skills. Come and join us as she regales us with her tales, then enco...

Icon of the event At the Table
Tue Oct 08, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Barbara Frum

Author Terence Keenleyside will discuss his new book "At the table: nourishing conversation and food". This is a collection of entertaining stories drawn from dinnertime exchanges at tables in many locales, and includes recip...

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 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 Great Books:  George Eliot  Middlemarch
Wed Oct 16, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Barbara Frum

George Eliot?s great multi-plotted novel of middle-class life in early 19th century England interweaves stories of people facing crucial romantic and vocational choices. As the two principal protagonists, struggling with the...

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...