In a small, working-class Chicago neighborhood, the bright, chaotic Padavano family encounter William, who’s welcomed warmly. William finally feels like he’s found a place to call home, while suddenly his troubles start to rise from a difficult past. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano is a drama and historical fiction that presents family ups and downs…
YOUth Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
In Matt Haig's The Midnight Library, Nora Seed finds that everything in her life is falling apart and going sideways. She ends up killing herself. But she hasn't died just yet. Instead, she finds herself at the Midnight Library. It's the library between life and death. Here she goes through different experiences, and all the…
Bottles and Bullets: Shootout at the Slate River Bridge | TBPL Research Blog
"When men, engaged in the liquor business commenced to carry revolvers with which to protect themselves against possible police interference, then they ceased to be simple law breakers, and became bandits and potential murderers" — Magistrate William Palling, Fort William, 1922 Four Ontario Provincial Police officers, led by Inspector Charles W. Symons, waited in the…
Lakehead and the Battle of Vimy Ridge | TBPL Research Blog
On April 9, 1917 the Canadian military began an assault that would solidify itself as a formidable force for the remainder of the First World War. The Battle of Vimy Ridge took place from April 9 - 12, a battle that marked the first time all four divisions of the Canadian Corps fought alongside each…
YOUth Review: And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyn Saucier
Tom and Charlie are two men that are determined to live out the rest of their lives on their own terms and away from the outside world. Abruptly, their peace is disturbed by a photographer who photographed survivors of the catastrophic fires as she was looking for a famous survivor, Ted Boychuck. She arrives and…
YOUth Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt follows the lives of three main characters: Tova Sullivan, Cameron, and Marcellus, who just so happens to be an octopus. In this book, Tova had lost her son many years prior and her husband not long ago. She works in an aquarium where her best friend just so…
Lady Lumberjack | TBPL Research Blog
Sometimes you hear about a life that is so grand and full of adventure it almost seems impossible. Affectionately known as the Lady Lumberjack, Dorothea Mitchell settled in the Thunder Bay District and led a life full of adventure. Dorothea was a force of nature up until her death in 1976. She never let age…
YOUth Review: Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Mr. Mercedes is a crime thriller that follows a retired detective trying to stop a killer who once got away with mass murder. This book pulls you in, not because of the over-the-top action but because of the unsettling atmosphere. What I loved about this book is how two genres blend to create an overwhelming…
A Brief History of the Mechanics’ Institute | TBPL Research Blog
Over two decades before a public library was established in Port Arthur, then Prince Arthur's Landing, there was the Mechanics' Institute. The Institute, which began in 1876, put on classes and operated a reading room with books for leisure and for learning. In 1907, Port Arthur's Town Hall burned to the ground, resulting in the…
YOUth Review: A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
Reading “A Certain Hunger” by Chelsea G. Summers is not so simple. It’s one of those books that leaves you constantly wondering why? The first thing that caught my attention was the character and narrator of the book, Dorothy, a highly intelligent and attractive woman in her 50s who is also a food critic. However…
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