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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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Local memories offered in new book: Lanark County Kid

Last year, when Arlene Stafford-Wilson wrote her first book of reminiscences, the reaction in the community confirmed that people wanted local history. She realized,...

everybody has everything by Katrina Onstad – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice Katrina Onstad has a little of the Alice Munro in her, but it needs honing. everybody has everything, her second novel, deals, as...

The St. Zita Society by Ruth Rendell – book review

by Amelia Gordon If Tongue in Cheek were a genre, The Saint Zita Society would fit right in, but let us call it satire. The...

The Emperor of Paris by C.S. Richardson – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice The key to The Emperor of Paris, which in the guise of a novel, presents the poetry of small lives lived, is...

Book Launch: The Stardust Revolution by local author Jacob Berkowitz

by Mary and Terry Lumsden Have you ever wondered what it means when we say “we are stardust?”. Join local author Jacob Berkowitz and celebrate...

The Emperor of Paris by C.S. Richardson – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice    The key to The Emperor of Paris, which in the guise of a novel, presents the poetry of small lives lived,...

Fall Greetings from Mill Street Books!

by Mary and Terry Lumsden  As the outdoor chores wrap up, it is a great time to have a stack of books ready to...

Above All Things by Tanis Rideout – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice Canada, we know, abounds in writing talent and another promising and possibly major writer is emerging in Tanis Rideout, who this spring...

The Cat’s Table – by Michael Ondaatje – book review

by Amelia Gordon Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table, the bestseller published in hardback last year, has now been released in paperback by Vintage Canada....

Vulture’s Picnic by Greg Palast – book review

by Robin Samuel  Vulture's Picnic is about the oil business.  It is focused on BP's Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and...

A Conspiracy of Friends – A Corduroy Mansions novel by Alexander McCall Smith – book review

 by Edith Cody-Rice  The third in the Corduroy Mansions series by Alexander McCall Smith has finally been distributed in Canada by Random House. A...

The Abundant Community by John McKnight and Peter Block – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice The Abundant Community is a book that addresses our current societal malaise. John McKnight, who visited Mississippi Mills, Brockville and Carleton Place...

The Dog Who Came in From the Cold – A Corduroy Mansions Novel by Alexander McCall Smith – book review

by Edith Cody-Rice One imagines Alexander McCall-Smith writing with a gentle chuckle in a mahogany lined study, upon a sturdy and classically attractive desk...

Home – by Toni Morrison – book review

 To be black in America. An experience that most of us could not have and do not understand or imagine although we may live...
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