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Four drawer filing cabinet

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Green Bean and Olive Salad  

by Susan Hanna This salad from Canadian Living...

Naismith Men’s Shed Owl Boxes

Limited-time offer from your local Naismith Men's...

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Frostbite by Nicola Twilley

by Edith Cody-Rice I cannot recall how I heard about "Frostbite", a book published last summer, or exactly why it intrigued me but it turned out to be a delightful...

The Friends of Mississippi Mills Public Library end 2024 with a bang

The Friends of Mississippi Mills Public Library have had our best year ever.  All our fundraisers were successful, and we were able to give the library a total of...

The Good Allies by Tim Cook

by Edith Cody-Rice  Tim Cook’s newly published book,The Good Allies, joins his many excellent accounts of Canada at war, principally concerning the first and second world wars but extending to...

Oven to Table by Jan Scott

by Edith Cody-Rice  Oven to Table takes simplicity seriously. All the offerings in this cookbook of over 100 recipes use one cooking pot: a sheet...

‘The Colors of All the Cattle’ by Alexander McCall Smith

by Edith Cody-Rice  The Colors of All the Cattle is the latest in the series of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This...

Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks

by Edith Cody-Rice Paris Echo is the latest offering of the extraordinary writer Sebastian Faulks. I remember being absolutely absorbed and astonished by his Birdsong,...

Trust by the Right Honourable David Johnston

by Edith Cody-Rice David Johnston is one of Canada's most successful Governors General, a former university president, law professor and the author of more than...

Sofie and Cecilia – by Katherine Ashenburg

by Edith Cody-Rice Sofie and Cecilia is the debut novel of Katherine Ashenburg, a well known non-fiction Canadian writer who has published in the New...

‘True North Rising’ by Whit Fraser: book review

by Jim Moore Local resident Jim Moore was Assistant Deputy Minister for Northern Affairs for six years. He later served as executive director of the Inuit...

Bella Figura by Kamin Mohammadi

by Edith Cody-Rice Bella Figura is a book in the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes.  A woman with a  high stress...

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje

by Edith Cody-Rice The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very...

My Twenty-Five Years in Provence by Peter Mayle

by Edith Cody-Rice Peter Mayle, that prolific promoter of the pleasures of Provence died in January of 2018. This book, his last, was published posthumously...

The Language of Kindness by Christie Watson

by Edith Cody-Rice Once upon a time when the earth was cooling, I was a nurse. That was back in the 60's and early 70's...

Keith Spicer at Mill Street Books Saturday June 23.

by Edith Cody-Rice  Keith Spicer, Canadian icon of the 1970's to 1990's will be signing his new novel Terror at the Cathedral at Mill Street...

MacBeth by Jo Nesbo

by Edith Cody-Rice  I am not a regular reader of Jo Nesbo crime thrillers but I must say his novel The Snowman scared the wits...

‘Vi’ by Kim Thúy: book review

by Edith Cody-Rice  Kim Thúy is the award winning author of Ru and Mãn. In this, her fourth novel, the lyrical prose is so deeply personal that the...

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

by Edith Cody-Rice Rachel Joyce's new novel The Music Shop is to dedicated readers what slow food is to foodies. You are meant to savour...

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