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Wed May 18 • 7:00pm
Take Your Breath Away
With Linwood Barclay
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History
Tue May 3 • 7:00pm
Have You Eaten Yet?
With Cheuk Kwan
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Non-Fiction
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Tue Apr 26 • 7:00pm
The Power of Teamwork
With Dr. Brian Goldman
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Tue Apr 19 • 7:00pm
Spotlight on our Virtual Seasons: Keeping Connected While Maintaining our Distance
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Tue Apr 12 • 7:30pm
The Next Civil War
With Stephen Marche
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Non-Fiction
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Tue Mar 29 • 8:00pm
What Would Freedom Look Like?
With Rinaldo Walcott, Clayton Thomas-Mueller and Mona Eltahawy
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Sun Mar 27 • 7:00pm
Books and Biryani: Zarqa Nawaz and the Comedy of Errors
Zarqa Nawaz
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Politics
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Tue Mar 22 • 7:00pm
Who is Served and What is Protected?
With Desmond Cole and Brandi Morin
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Youth
Tue Dec 14 • 1:00pm
Seen and Heard: Children’s Art and Activism with Marah Gubar
In Conversation with Neil Wilson
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Youth
Tue Dec 14 • 12:30pm
The Healing Power of Stories: A Muslim View with Rukhsana Khan
In Conversation with Neil Wilson
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Youth
Tue Dec 14 • 12:00pm
Changing the World One Story at a Time with Natasha Deen
In Conversation with Neil Wilson
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Politics
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Tue Nov 30 • 7:00pm
Writing and Activism: Words in Action
with Monia Mazigh
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Mon Nov 29 • 7:30pm
What Strange Paradise
with Omar El Akkad
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Mon Nov 15 • 7:30pm
Exile: Celebrating 50 Years in Publishing
with Barry Callaghan, Michael Callaghan, Darlene Madott, Katie Zdybel and George Elliott Clarke
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Poetry
Wed Nov 10 • 7:30pm
Launch of ARC 96
Featuring: Junie Désil, Simone Dalton and Shery Alexander Heinis
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Non-Fiction
Tue Nov 9 • 7:30pm
Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future
with Drew Hayden Taylor, Norma Dunning and Darrel J. McLeod
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Poetry
Thu Nov 4 • 7:30pm
Book Launch: Best Canadian Poetry 2021
With Anita Lahey, Souvankham Thammavongsa and many more!
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Mon Nov 1 • 7:30pm
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future
With Alexander McClelland, Eddie Walker, Kate Doyle Griffiths and Ryan Conrad
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Wed Oct 27 • 7:30pm
My Best Mistake
with Terry O’Reilly
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Memoir
Tue Oct 26 • 7:00pm
Book Launch: My Stories, My Times, Volume 2
with The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien
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Poetry
Mon Oct 25 • 7:30pm
BYWORDS JOHN NEWLOVE AWARDS
with Megan Misztal and John Ian
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Wed Oct 20 • 6:00pm
THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS & PRIX DU LIVRE D’OTTAWA
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Tue Oct 19 • 7:30pm
BOOK LAUNCH: Hunting by Stars
with Cherie Dimaline
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Politics
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Mon Oct 18 • 7:30pm
The Class
with Chris Hedges
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Non-Fiction
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Sun Oct 17 • 7:00pm
Books and Biryani: A Muslim History of the Americas
with Omar Mouallem
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Thu Oct 14 • 7:30pm
Em
with Kim Thuy
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Fiction
Tue Oct 12 • 7:30pm
Not a Happy Family
with Shari Lapena
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Thu Oct 7 • 7:30pm
An Embarrassment of Critch’s
with Mark Critch
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Non-Fiction
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Tue Oct 5 • 7:30pm
BOOK LAUNCH: Off the Record
with Peter Mansbridge
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Politics
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Mon Oct 4 • 7:30pm
Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and the Future
with Esi Edugyan
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Wed Sep 29 • 7:30pm
Return
with Kamal Al-Solaylee
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Tue Sep 28 • 7:30pm
The Strangers
with Katherena Vermette
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Mon Sep 27 • 7:30pm
All's Well
with Mona Awad
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Poetry
Sun Sep 26 • 5:30pm
Book Launch: Masses on Radar
by David O’Meara
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Politics
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Thu Sep 23 • 7:30pm
"Indian" in the Cabinet
with Jody Wilson Raybould
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Wed Sep 22 • 7:30pm
The Mystery of Right and Wrong
with Wayne Johnston
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History
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Tue Sep 21 • 7:30pm
Unreconciled
with Jesse Wente
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Tue Sep 14 • 7:30pm
August into Winter
with Guy Vanderhaeghe
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Memoir
Mon Sep 13 • 7:30pm
My Own Blood
with Ashley Bristowe
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Tue Aug 31 • 7:30pm
Operation Angus
with Terry Fallis
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Sun Jun 20 • 7:30pm
Gather
with Richard Van Camp
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Fri Jun 18 • 7:30pm
The Menopause Manifesto
With Dr. Jen Gunter
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Fiction
History
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Thu Jun 17 • 5:30pm
The Life and Times of Robbie Burns
with John Ivison and Pauline Mackay
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Mon May 31 • 7:00pm
Mayflies
with Andrew O’Hagan
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Non-Fiction
Thu May 27 • 7:00pm
One Page: The Window Seat
with Aminatta Forna
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Wed May 26 • 7:35pm
Sufferance
with Thomas King
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Tue May 25 • 7:30pm
All the Rage
with Brad Fraser
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Thu May 20 • 7:00pm
One Page: Monkey Boy
with Francisco Goldman
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Poetry
Mon May 17 • 8:00pm
The Shadow List
with Jen Sookfong Lee
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Thu May 13 • 7:00pm
One Page: Goodbye, Again
with Jonny Sun
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Mon May 10 • 7:30pm
Find You First
with Linwood Barclay
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Politics
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Mon Apr 26 • 7:30pm
Take Back the Fight
with Nora Loreto
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Thu Apr 22 • 9:00pm
One Page: Under the Wave at Waimea
with Paul Theroux
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Politics
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Mon Apr 19 • 7:30pm
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
with Seth Klein
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Memoir
Thu Apr 15 • 12:00pm
One Page: The Soul of a Woman
with Isabel Allende
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Politics
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Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm
The New Climate War
with Michael E. Mann
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Fiction
Thu Apr 8 • 7:00pm
One Page: Klara and the Sun
with Kazuo Ishiguro
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Non-Fiction
History
Mon Mar 29 • 7:30pm
Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity
With Darrel J. McLeod
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Fiction
Thu Mar 25 • 7:00pm
One Page: Foregone
with Russell Banks
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Politics
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Mon Mar 22 • 7:30pm
Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders
with André Picard
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Fiction
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Tue Mar 16 • 7:00pm
If I Tell You The Truth
with Jasmin Kaur
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Fiction
Mon Mar 15 • 7:30pm
Return of the Trickster
with Eden Robinson
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Politics
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Mon Mar 8 • 7:30pm
White Feminism
with Koa Beck
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Fiction
Thu Mar 4 • 12:00pm
One Page: This Strange and Violent World
with Elif Shafak
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Politics
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Tue Mar 2 • 7:30pm
The New Age of Empire
with Kehinde Andrews
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Politics
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Thu Feb 25 • 7:30pm
Can You Hear Me Now?
with Celina Caesar-Chavannes
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Politics
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Mon Feb 22 • 7:30pm
On Property
with Rinaldo Walcott
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Non-Fiction
Thu Dec 10 • 7:00pm
One Page: Wow No Thank You
Samantha Irby
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Memoir
Thu Dec 3 • 7:00pm
One Page: Close to the Bone
with Lisa Ray and Deepa Mehta
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Fiction
Youth
Mon Nov 30 • 7:30pm
Creative Writing For Teens: Using Texts and Social Media for Inspiration
with Lindsay Wong
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Fiction
Thu Nov 26 • 9:00pm
One Page: There There
With Tommy Orange and Waubgeshig Rice
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Fiction
Thu Nov 26 • 12:00pm
One Page: The Kingdom
Jo Nesbo
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Fiction
Youth
Mon Nov 23 • 7:30pm
The Black Kids
with Christina Hammonds Reed
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Fiction
Thu Nov 19 • 7:00pm
One Page: Deacon King Kong
with James McBride and Omar El Akkad
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Fiction
Youth
Mon Nov 16 • 7:30pm
Masterclass: Connecting Plot and Character
with Kenneth Oppel
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Poetry
Tue Nov 10 • 7:30pm
VerseFest Presents:
with Angye Gaona, Irfan Ali and stephanie roberts
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Fiction
Youth
Mon Nov 2 • 7:30pm
Masterclass: Discovering your Voice
with Kagiso Lesego Molope
Live Online Event
Music
Poetry
Mon Oct 26 • 7:30pm
Bywords 2020 John Newlove Poetry Award
with David Groulx
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Oct 22 • 7:30pm
National Book Launch: Love After the End
With Joshua Whitehead, jaye simpson, Nazbah Tom and Adam Garnet Jones
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Fiction
Mon Oct 19 • 7:30pm
Healing
with Jesse Thistle and David A. Robertson
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Fiction
Music
Poetry
Memoir
Sun Oct 18 • 8:00pm
Musical Language
with Martha Baillie, Stuart Ross, and Maria Reva
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Fiction
Thu Oct 15 • 12:00pm
One Page: Actress
With Anne Enright
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Politics
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History
Tue Oct 13 • 7:30pm
Ending Inequality
with Thomas Philippon
Live Online Event
Music
Memoir
Sat Oct 10 • 12:00pm
One Good Reason to Celebrate Mental Health Day
With Séan McCann and Andrea Aragon
Live Online Event
Poetry
Thu Oct 8 • 12:00pm
One Page: How to Fly
with Barbara Kingsolver
Live Online Event
Politics
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History
Mon Oct 5 • 7:30pm
Missing from the Village
with Justin Ling
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Mon Sep 28 • 7:30pm
Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos
with Steven Heighton
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Poetry
Tue Sep 22 • 7:30pm
National Launch for Burning Sugar
with Cicely Belle Blain
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Fiction
Mon Sep 21 • 7:30pm
Inheritance
with Kaie Kellough and Ian Williams
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Fiction
Mon Sep 14 • 7:30pm
The World as We Know It
with Catherine Hernandez and Saleema Nawaz
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Tue Sep 8 • 7:30pm
Nerve
with Eva Holland
Live Online Event
Fiction
Youth
Mon Aug 31 • 7:30pm
The Silver Arrow
with Lev Grossman
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Fiction
Mon Aug 24 • 7:30pm
The Pull of the Stars
With Emma Donoghue
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Fiction
Tue Aug 18 • 7:30pm
Virtual Book Launch: The Company We Keep
with Frances Itani
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Politics
Non-Fiction
Tue May 26 • 1:00pm
Ending Poverty
With Hugh Segal