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Featuring In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
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Here's what we're reading this month In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, deeply researched debut set in the Black communities of Ontario that were the last stop on the Underground Railroad. This historical fiction explores freedom, family, and the interconnections between white, Black, and Indigenous communities in 1859 Canada.
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New Appleby Branch opened in Appleview Plaza on October 20, 1983, having served the local neighbourhoods first as Skyway Branch (1965), and New Appleby Branch in Appleby Mall (1972).