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Alison is a Youth Services Librarian but her knowledge and interests span a lot of age groups. She is a pop culture fanatic, reads and writes voraciously and is a lifelong geek/nerd/fangirl.  |  Meet the team

One eRead Canada 2026

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One eRead logo

As we get ever closer to spring in all of it’s glory, you may be looking for a book to read over April. Well, look no further. Once again, VPL is participating in the One eRead Canada program and you can participate!

If this is your first year participating or hearing about it, One eRead Canada was created by the Canadian Urban Libraries Council / Conseil des Bibliothèques Urbaines du Canada (CULC/CBUC). It’s a bilingual, nationwide book club. A book by a Canadian author is selected each year and then made available in English and French as an eBook or eAudiobook without waitlists or holds. It runs all through April, starting right on the first, and it’s a great way to connect readers across Canada.

So, hearing all of that, you may be asking: What’s this year’s title?

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When spring has sprung, Con season has begun!

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It’s March! The month when the weather can’t quite decide what to do with itself. The month where we get days with snow and -17 temperatures, and then days that are well above zero and starting to feel, ever so slightly, that we can finally escape the flurries and white outs and wind chills.

But there’s many reasons to celebrate in March. There’s St. Patrick’s Day, a super fun and easy-going holiday where you can wear green and embrace all things Irish. Easter and Passover sometimes fall in March (though not this year, they both show up in early April in 2026).

But one of my favorite things about March is the start of one of my favorite stretches of the year… CON SEASON!!!!!

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Valloween – When love is hell, sometimes literally

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Red roses with black background, from PickPik

Yes, we’re doing it again! We’re taking a holiday that has nothing to do with Halloween but giving it a creepy spin. Why? Because we can. And funny enough, in this case it really works. Maybe not on every holiday but Valentine’s Day just seems to blend nicely with terror. I mean, it is already covered in red…

So welcome to Valloween, the latest in our ongoing series of me talking about how you can take beloved holidays and turn them into another reason to get scary.

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