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for adults<br />
arts & reading<br />
<strong>The</strong> Nooner<br />
A half-hour break to listen to a<br />
reading—and ask a few questions! Bring<br />
your lunch.<br />
MILLENNIUM <strong>LIBRARY</strong><br />
Carol Shields Auditorium<br />
12:15-12:45 pm<br />
Monday, September 26:<br />
Christian Guay-Poliquin<br />
Now translated into<br />
English, Christian Guay-<br />
Poliquin’s debut novel<br />
Running on Fumes blends<br />
the contemporary and<br />
the mythical into an<br />
apocalyptic road novel.<br />
Tuesday, September 27:<br />
Craig Francis Power<br />
Set in Newfoundland,<br />
Craig Francis Power’s new<br />
novel <strong>The</strong> Hope is a sharp<br />
and wickedly funny satire<br />
of the things we do for<br />
culture and love.<br />
Wednesday, September 28:<br />
Peter Behrens<br />
Carry Me, the latest novel<br />
from award-winning Peter<br />
Behrens, is a love story,<br />
a historical epic, and a<br />
portrait of Europe’s violent<br />
twentieth century.<br />
Thursday, September 29:<br />
Pamela Mordecai<br />
Pamela Mordecai’s novel<br />
Red Jacket, about a redheaded<br />
girl growing up<br />
on a Caribbean island,<br />
is a haunting story of<br />
difference and identity.<br />
Friday, September 30:<br />
Craig Davidson<br />
Giller-nominated Craig<br />
Davidson’s latest book<br />
Precious Cargo is a<br />
thoughtful and humorous<br />
memoir of his year driving<br />
a special-needs school bus.<br />
McNally Robinson Booksellers will<br />
be on-site each day selling the<br />
featured books.<br />
Big Ideas<br />
A late-afternoon non-fiction series that<br />
tangles with serious issues of the day.<br />
MILLENNIUM <strong>LIBRARY</strong><br />
Carol Shields Auditorium<br />
4:30-5:30 pm<br />
Monday, September 26:<br />
Robin Esrock<br />
Got the travel bug? Let<br />
Robin Esrock, host of the<br />
television series Word<br />
Travels and author of <strong>The</strong><br />
Great Canadian Prairie<br />
Bucket List and <strong>The</strong> Great<br />
Global Bucket List, help you<br />
choose your next destination.<br />
Tuesday, September 27:<br />
James Laxer<br />
In Staking Claims to a<br />
Continent, the renowned<br />
historian James Laxer looks<br />
at how Abraham Lincoln,<br />
Jefferson Davis, and John<br />
A. MacDonald reshaped<br />
the North American<br />
continent during the fiery 1860s.<br />
Wednesday, September 28:<br />
Mark Leiren-Young<br />
Journalist and filmmaker<br />
Mark Leiren-Young’s latest<br />
book, <strong>The</strong> Killer Whale<br />
Who Changed the World, is<br />
a heartbreaking account of<br />
Moby Doll, the whale who<br />
changed the way we see<br />
orcas and sparked the movement to<br />
save them.<br />
Thursday, September 29:<br />
Myrna Kostash<br />
<strong>The</strong> Seven Oaks Reader,<br />
by Myrna Kostash gathers<br />
together historical<br />
documents, poems, and<br />
even songs to relate a stillcontroversial<br />
and bloody<br />
episode from Canada’s<br />
Fur Trade Wars in what is now West<br />
Kildonan, Winnipeg.<br />
Friday, September 30:<br />
Ian Gill<br />
Ian Gill, former reporter<br />
for the Vancouver Sun<br />
and the CBC, chronicles<br />
the decline of Canadian<br />
media companies with both<br />
biting, in-depth analysis<br />
and glimmers of hope in<br />
his new book, No News Is Bad News.<br />
Enter our door prize draw each day for<br />
an opportunity to win the featured book.<br />
If you aren’t the lucky person, McNally<br />
Robinson Booksellers will be on-site<br />
selling copies.<br />
10 / <strong>At</strong> <strong>The</strong> Library
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