Thursday, November 20, 2014

Book Review: Switched by Amanda Hocking

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               A few months back while I was searching for some books to interest my special niece; I came across an interesting young adu...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Halloween Scary Story Competition Winners!

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Thanks to everyone who submitted scary stories to the Kelowna Branch Scary Story Competition! Here are your winners! PS - they are pretty...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Book Review: First Love by James Patterson & Emily Raymond

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            This month I have something a bit different to recommend; a Young Adult novel written by James Patterson and Emily Raymond: Firs...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Book Review: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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        I am happy to report that I have just finished reading Diana Gabaldon’s eighth title in the Outlander Series: “  Written in my own H...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Book Review: The Black Count by Tom Reiss

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The Black Count (2012) by Tom Reiss tells the extraordinary true story of General Alex Dumas, the forgotten hero who inspired such cl...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Book Review: The 900 Days by Harrison Salisbury

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A great American author once wrote that truth is stranger than fiction. In fact, truth is sometimes far stranger than any fiction ever cre...
Friday, September 5, 2014

The Importance of Early Literacy

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Storytimes resume in September, so this seems like a good time to talk about the importance of early literacy. Early literacy is defi...