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🔦 In the spotlight / À la une

• 📚Adult Summer Reading Challenges – Choose one or complete both for a chance to win prizes!!!

  🎩 Play Bookopoly and enter for the chance to win an OPL bag sporting the new logo.  Game cards available on the second floor. Our friendly staff will be happy to answer your questions. 

• 📒 Join OPL's Stories of Summer Challenge for a chance to win a gift certificate for cooking classes at C'est bon Ottawa and cookbook, or a set of two full passes to CityFolk Festival, or a set of two three-day Deluxe tickets to Ottawa ComicCon 2026.  Reading Challenge bookmarks available on the second floor. 

📖 Reading news / Actualité de la lecture

• July 21, 6-8 pm: July Silent Book Club - Come joins us at The Book's Better Silent Book Club where we read quietly together and enjoy the magic of books without any distractions. 

• July 22, 7-8:30 pm (Half Moon Bay Park): A Midsummer Night's Dream Tour - Pack your picnic blankets and prepare to sail away as a Company of Fools brings you to the shores of the Greek islands! This year the Fools are setting Shakespeare’s most famous comedy against a backdrop inspired by seaside revelry, moonlit dances, and the toe tapping energy of your favourite 70’s disco.   

• July 26, 7 pm:(un)Told - Ottawa Story Tellers - A free monthly storytelling gathering. Come listen and learn. Interested in telling?

📖 Upcoming events / Programmes à venir

• Tuesday, July 21

  • 1 pm Parenting in Ottawa Drop-in

  • 6:30 pm Lego Storytime (Family 4+)

• Wednesday, July 22

  • 10:30 am Conte en famille et jouons à la biblio

  • 3 pm Drop-in Newcomer Support

  • 6:30 pm What lies beneath...(Ages 7-12)

• Friday, July 24

  • 10:30am Employment Support / Appui à la recherche d'emploi

  • 2pm Stay Current: Let's Go Fishing! (Family 4+)

• Saturday, July 25

  • 10:30 am Dive into discovery: STEAM Storytime (Ages 7-9)

  • 10:30 am Pop-Up: EnviroCentre - Energy Saving

  • 2:30 pm FC26 Tournament on PS4 (Ages 13-17)

• Monday, July 27

  • 2 pm Dive into discovery: EcoRangers (Family 4+)

📌 Your next read - Beach reading romance

Beach reading romance: Looking for an easy read that will let you escape this summer? Click the link for some Beauty and the Beast/marriage of convenience novels that are engaging and compulsively readable.  

📌 Familles francophones - Fictions canadiennes en français: nouveautés 2025-2026

Cette sélection met à l’honneur des œuvres de fiction récentes (2025–2026) écrites par des auteurs et autrices canadien·ne·s, toutes disponibles en français, qu’elles soient originales ou traduites. Une invitation à découvrir la vitalité et la diversité de la fiction canadienne d’aujourd’hui.