The first sign of Spring in Prince George is surely not the snowy weather and gusts of hail that we've been experiencing lately. No, Spring arrives with the tree planters. These intrepid young men and women arrive from all parts of Canada to get their hands dirty and their backs sore in order to reforest our clear cuts.

There's a vernal pattern to the planters' life in Prince George. On their days off from the bush, they descend to the city to get their laundry done, visit Value Village and then traipse to the library to use our free WiFi.

Read Charlotte Gill's delightful book Eating Dirt about the tree planting life in B.C.

On Monday May 7th, Canada and the rest of her allies during WWII, celebrated 67 years since Victory in Europe was declared and that awful war was over - at least in Europe.

Listen to live broadcasts from the BBC Archives from that time and the anecdotal stories from those who lived during the blitz.

BBC war reports. World War Two, on air and BBC war reports. World War Two, the home front

Happy Star Wars Day!!!! I put together a quick list of some of the most interesting Star Wars books in our library, but there's loads more!

We have DVDs, CDs, books on CD, graphic novels... everything Star Wars you could ever want. Here's some of my favourites!

May the Fourth Be With You: Happy Star Wars Day! Book List

Sometimes I tell teens about fantastic books that I've read, but they are reluctant to check them out because of a seriously ugly cover. Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes not only suffers from an awkward book title, but also an extremely ugly book cover.

This is quite possibly the ugliest book cover on the planet but the book is AWESOME. You have to trust me. I wouldn't suggest a crummy book.

For readers who like John Green's Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, or Jay Asher's 13 Reasons Why, you HAVE to read this ugly-but-awesome book!

On April 21st, the beloved English novelist Charlotte Bronte will be commemorated by all readers who love her. She is apparently to have written in her journal in 1847, "I shall be thirty-one...My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it."

She had four novels published and was 20 pages into a fifth when she died at the age of thirty-eight, possibly of typhus. She was pregnant with her first child.