I Heart Edmonton

Edmonton Public Library By Emil Tiedemann Only West Edmonton Mall gets more visitors on an annual basis than the 18 Edmonton Public Libraries combined, at more than 14 million people! They borrowed well-over 10 million books, CDs, DVDs, and magazines from the EPL - which has a entire collection of some 17 million items - while about 350,000 folks participated in some 14,000 library-run programs.    In 2014, the EPL was named Library of the Year by 'Library Journal.' Those are some pretty impressive numbers, stats that have led to dozens of awards since 2010, including Library Journal ’s 2014 Library of the Year, the first time a Canadian library was ever chosen. But, the century-old EPL has been pioneering public services for many decades now, like in 1941 when they were the first North American library to offer a bookmobile!  In 1979, the EPL became Canada’s first library to install an integrated, computerized circulation system, and in 2007 it was the firs...

The Writers By Emil Tiedemann So many talented storytellers with so many enticing stories to tell! We love our homegrown wordsmiths and can’t help bragging about them! In fact, if you've got some time on your hands and are looking for some good reads, then check out any of these Edmonton-born-and/or-raised writers:  Nasra Adem, Bert Almon, Wayne Arthurson, Todd Babiak, Jalal Barzanji, David Belke, Eileen (E.C.) Bell, Ted Bishop, E.D. Blodgett, Tim Bowling, Andrew Brook, Marty Chan, Daisy Chang, Myrl Coulter, Charlotte Cranston, Diana Davidson, Laurel Deedrick-Mayne, Candas Jane Dorsey, Caterina Edwards, Marina Endicott, Minister Faust, Rita Feuti, Helen Forrester, Brad Fraser, Gary Garrison, Pauline Gedge, Martyn Godfrey, Katherine Govier, Darrin Hagen, Greg Hollingshead, Carl Honoré, D.C. Hooke, Mel Hurtig, Phillip Jagger, Zillur Rahman John, W.P. Kinsella, Jessica Kluthe, Myrna Kostash, Robert Kroetsch, Stewart Lemoine, Janice MacDonald, Laurie MacFayden, Alice Major, Co...

Here are the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ending February 10, 2017 by Audreys Books, provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers The Break - Katherena Vermette A Still and Bitter Grave - Ann Marston * Everybody's Fool - Richard Russo The Naturalist - Alissa York Arcadia - Iain Pears The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware The Slow Waltz of Turtles - Katherine Pancol , William Rodarmar I'll Take You There - Wally Lamb Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson Memoirs of a Polar Bear - Yoko Tawada , Susan Bernofsky Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers Facing the Shards - Joy Ruth Mickelson * Your House, Your Choice: Whoever Told You That What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You, Surely Wasn't Talking About Your Older House - Re Peters The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet - Sheila Watt-Cloutier The Case A...