Author Talks & Lectures
Library Branch
Albert Campbell
In Sri Lankan Buddhist mythology, if a person desires too much in life, they will be reborn as a peréthaya--an insatiable hungry ghost. "The peréthayas that appear to us are always our ancestors, and it is our duty to free th...
The Birth of Richard III...
The talk explores the rich and enigmatic world of Roman wall painting...
"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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
Mystery novelist, Howard Shrier, and his new Riverdale sleuth book, "Miss Montreal", discussion and book signing.