Anne DeGrace

COLUMN: On the cover of Rolling Stone

COLUMN: On the cover of Rolling Stone

From the Nelson Library's Anne DeGrace...

COLUMN: On the cover of Rolling Stone
Anne DeGrace is a columnist for the Star.

COLUMN: Being yourself at the Library

Nelson author Anne Degrace's latest column for the Nelson Star.

Anne DeGrace is a columnist for the Star.
Anne Degrace writes a library column for the Nelson Star.

COLUMN: Once Upon a Time in the Real World

My relatively untraveled self has travelled through time and across continents to gain insight and understanding through reading novels.

Anne Degrace writes a library column for the Nelson Star.
COLUMN: A tree story from the Nelson Public Library

COLUMN: A tree story from the Nelson Public Library

It began with a tall spindly pine tree growing in the corner of our yard smack at the meeting point of four fences.

COLUMN: A tree story from the Nelson Public Library
Anne Degrace

COLUMN: Reading in our neck of the woods

Anne Degrace writes about some of her favourite BC books.

Anne Degrace
COLUMN: Nelson library starts radio show

COLUMN: Nelson library starts radio show

From library columnist Anne deGrace...

COLUMN: Nelson library starts radio show
COLUMN: Nuts to you!

COLUMN: Nuts to you!

October is Library Month

COLUMN: Nuts to you!
COLUMN: I’ll tell mine; you tell yours

COLUMN: I’ll tell mine; you tell yours

The Nelson library's Anne Degrace on flash fiction....

COLUMN: I’ll tell mine; you tell yours
COLUMN: Put on your travellin’ shoes

COLUMN: All the glory of the rainbow

When I came to work last year and saw the rainbow crosswalk outside the library I felt elated, delighted and proud.

COLUMN: Put on your travellin’ shoes
COLUMN: Put on your travellin’ shoes

COLUMN: Put on your travellin’ shoes

The library is the friendly hub for travellers of all kinds, offering a different sort of connectedness.

COLUMN: Put on your travellin’ shoes
COLUMN: Always smile at a crocodile

COLUMN: Always smile at a crocodile

From our library columnist Anne DeGrace . . .

COLUMN: Always smile at a crocodile
Nancy Wise from Kelowna’s Sandhill Book Marketing is part of the illuminating discussion at the panel Publishing: Perish or Prosper?

Bright enough for you?

Nancy Wise from Kelowna’s Sandhill Book Marketing is part of the illuminating discussion at the panel Publishing: Perish or Prosper?

Nancy Wise from Kelowna’s Sandhill Book Marketing is part of the illuminating discussion at the panel Publishing: Perish or Prosper?
Bill Richardson (pictured) and Caroline Adderson headline the Saturday Night Live! event

COLUMN: Get hooked on the Ones That Got Away

Bill Richardson and Caroline Adderson have been many things: authors, multiple award winners, and, just possibly, ones that got away.

Bill Richardson (pictured) and Caroline Adderson headline the Saturday Night Live! event
J.B. MacKinnon (above)

COLUMN: Warm, fuzzy, and in the know

We feel warm and fuzzy when it comes to nature. What’s not to like about our furry friends of the forest?

J.B. MacKinnon (above)
Eden Robinson and Thomas King are two aboriginal authors whose work can be found in the Nelson Public Library collection.

COLUMN: Authors, aboriginality, and you

Summer solstice. It’s June 21; the sun’s zenith is at its furthest point from the equator.

Eden Robinson and Thomas King are two aboriginal authors whose work can be found in the Nelson Public Library collection.
Kinderbiblioscriblioaudiophile Jill Barber will perform at the 100-Mile Gala that opens the Elephant Mountain Literary Festival next month.

COLUMN: Bibliobrilliance comes to Nelson

Full disclosure: I am a bibliophile. I am also a bibliophage, and at times even a bibliotaph. Luckily, I’m not alone.

Kinderbiblioscriblioaudiophile Jill Barber will perform at the 100-Mile Gala that opens the Elephant Mountain Literary Festival next month.
Children’s librarian Nancy Radonich’s Jammy Jamborees enthralled kids and their stuffies for decades.

COLUMN: Adieu, Queen Nancy of the Children’s Kingdom

Once upon a time Queen Nancy lived in a fairytale land called the Nelson Public Library.

Children’s librarian Nancy Radonich’s Jammy Jamborees enthralled kids and their stuffies for decades.
Heather Goldik (left) and Anne DeGrace took happy selfies in the Vancouver airport before returning to Nelson with heads full of new ideas for the library.

COLUMN: One scoop or two?

Librarians and library-lovers everywhere know that Nancy Pearl — famous Seattle librarian, advocate, activist, and Book Lust author.

Heather Goldik (left) and Anne DeGrace took happy selfies in the Vancouver airport before returning to Nelson with heads full of new ideas for the library.
Sweetland is inspired by the tragic tale of Newfoundland’s lost outports.

COLUMN: Loss of libraries hurts everyone

One of my all-time favourite provinces is going through harrowing financial times, but still: close 50 per cent of the province’s libraries?

Sweetland is inspired by the tragic tale of Newfoundland’s lost outports.
Did you catch Donald Trump's reading at the Nelson Public Library on April 1?

COLUMN: Flattened Squirrel Fricassee, and other fun facts

Donald Trump was in the Nelson Public Library on April 1 on his book tour for Make America Great (by Annexing Canada).

Did you catch Donald Trump's reading at the Nelson Public Library on April 1?