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Answers to Diana’s Quiz – July 18, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  The two Diomede Islands...

Outdoor chairs for sale

Two Faulkner 'zero gravity' chairs in navy,...

Caroline Yuill — obituary

Yuill (nee Drynan), Caroline Ann Peacefully at home...

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Maternal Ecologies: Feminist Practices of Motherhood, Land and Creativity

Review by Edith Cody-Rice Maternal Ecologies is an anthology, a combination of artistic and academic expressions of the experience of motherhood, particularly in relation to nature and the land In...

Earth for Sale by Maude Barlow.

by Edith Cody-Rice  In her opening sentence of the afterword to this book, Maude Barlow stated “This was a difficult book to write, as I am sure it was to...

From Ragged Ass Road to Rideau Hall by Whit Fraser

By Edith Cody-Rice   Canada has a deep wealth of accomplished writers and Whit Fraser is certainly one of them.  A CBC reporter from 1967 to 1991, his perspective is significantly...
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The Andalucian Friend by Alexander Soderberg – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice Alexander Soderburg, a Swedish television screen writer, has turned his hand to penning a first novel, The Andalucian Friend. Predictably, non-Swedes will...

Beckwith Public School annual used book fair & BBQ May 9, 2013

Local Storytellers at Mill Street Books April 13, 2013

March greetings from Mill Street Books

The beautiful spring weather on Saturday has roused me from hibernation! It was a good winter for reading books. My latest favourites are A Woman...

Murdoch Mysteries – Night’s Child – book review

by Amelia Gordon For those of us who are huge fans of the TV series Murdoch Mysteries, the publication of the trade paperback Night's Child...

Mill Street Books presents Curious George March 16- 17, 2013

The Dinner by Herman Koch – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." These opening lines of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina occur...

Unusual Uses for Olive Oil, by Alexander McCall Smith – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice  Alexander McCall Smith is back with his gentle wit poking fun at vanity, self absorption and individual peccadillos.  Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Ingelfeld...

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland – book review

by Amelia Gordon Plutocrats is a rather alarming book. Many of the middle class in America think they are ruled by a bureaucracy or even...

Merry Christmas from Mill Street Books!

The shop has been packed every day lately and it is heartwarming to welcome newcomers and see old friends. Many are taking part in...

Hot off the press- Beckwith Rural School Book

by Marilyn Snedden  Archives Lanark is happy to announce that a reprint of the popular Beckwith Rural Schoolbook is now available for a Christmas gift...

Dear Life by Alice Munro – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice In some ways there is little more to say about Alice Munro. She has been described as peerless, one of the great...

The North Star of Herschel Island by Bruce Macdonald – press release

Mill Street Books at 52 Mill Street in Almonte Ontario is now carrying a new book on Canada's Arctic tall ship entitled North Star...

Jack Reacher’s Rules by Lee Child – book review

by Amelia Gordon For the diehard Lee Child fan, this may be a good stocking stuffer at Christmas. Jack Reacher, a Lee Child creation, is...
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