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Yesterday, March 8^th, was International Women’s Day. As stated on the International Women's Day website, the day “..is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.”

Today, more than ever before, the publishing industry seeks books with strong female characters, women who don’t rely on a man to save them or solve their problems, women breaking free from typical gender roles, basically...

Here are our most checked out books over the past three months:

State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

Mercy by David Baldacci

Talking to Canadians: A Memoir by Rick Mercer

Never by Ken Follett

The Midnight Lock by Jeffery Deaver

Better Off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child

Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

The Truth-Seeker's Wife by Ann Granger

The Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan

The Long Call by Ann Cleeves

The Judge's List by John Grisham

Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight...

February is Black History month in Canada, so I searched our biography section to see what I could find.  As I have mentioned before, I am reading more nonfiction now than ever before but the biography section is really not my “go to” area.  I am trying to change that because just looking for books for this blog made me realize there are at least fifteen biographies I HAVE to read!

The following books are a few of the selections we hold that speak to black experiences.  I hope all...

We here at the Temiskaming Shores Public Library invite our patrons to participate in celebrating Freedom to Read Week during February 20 to 26, 2022. By taking part in this annual event it encourages us to reaffirm our commitment to intellectual freedom.

Over the past decades there have been hundreds of books that were challenged across Canada. Our library houses a number of these titles and we would like to share them with the community. By reading below you can see a visual booklist of the...