The Fault in Our Stars by John Green follows Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen year old girl living with cancer who reluctantly attends a support group. There, she meets Augustus Waters, a confident and funny teenager who previously lost part of his leg to cancer. As the two grow closer, they bond over books, fears…
YOUth Review: Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
In the novel Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow, Charlie is a teen who is struggling with abuse and self–harm. She finds herself in a mental hospital where she is working towards recovery. She eventually gets released from the hospital expecting to go home with her mother but instead her mothers gets her money and…
YOUth Review: Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter and Lee Child
Cleaning the Gold, authored by thriller writers Karin Slaughter and Lee Child, is a novella that brings together a story and brings their most famous characters along for the ride. Will Trent, a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, goes undercover at Fort Knox to investigate a decades-old cold case murder — and…
YOUth Review: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
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…
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