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#SSAC2021 Day 9

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 9!

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#SSAC2021 Day 8

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 8!

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#SSAC2021 Day 7

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 7!

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#SSAC2021 Day 6

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 6!

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#SSAC2021 Day 5

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 5!

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#SSAC2021 Day 4

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 4!

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#SSAC2021 Day 3

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 3!

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#SSAC2021 Day 2

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 2!

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#SSAC2021 Day 1

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 1!

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The Short Story (and other) Advent Calendars 2021!

One of our favourite things about December here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library is a tradition that began back in 2015 with the publication of the very first Short Story Advent Calendar by Edmonton publishers Hingston & Olsen – a daily December dose of bookish goodness to get us into the holiday spirit!

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Happy Wolfenoot!

We here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library also have a long, if somewhat unrelated, history of animal adoption and companionship: cats, birds, snakes, gerbils, fish, rabbits, tarantulas, guinea pigs – both hairy and hairless... and dogs. Lots of dogs.

So naturally when we discovered a holiday dedicated to a “Celebration of Canines and Kindness,” and heard the story of how this holiday came to be, we couldn’t let it pass unrecognized.

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Happy World Toilet Day!

There’s a reason why toilet humour is called toilet humour, but humour can often be a way to convey important messages. So in honour of World Toilet Day, we wanted to share a book that seeks to deliver some important health information, with humour, on a very closely related topic…