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Get Inspired: Canadians Hike the Trails

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Poets Pushing the Limits: Doing a Lot with a Little

by David Martin

A recommended reading list by the author of the new book Limited Verse.

New Fiction for the Week of May 6th

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Peacocks of Instagram

Stories

by (author) Deepa Rajagopalan

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

by (author) Michelle Hébert

Lightning Strikes the Silence

A Lane Winslow Mystery

by (author) Iona Whishaw

These Songs I Know By Heart

by (author) Erin Brubacher

We Were the Bullfighters

by (author) Marianne K. Miller

Little Fortified Stories

by (author) Barbara Black

The Education of Aubrey McKee

by (author) Alex Pugsley

The Rasmussen Papers

by (author) Connie Gault

 

2024 Trillium Book Award

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Sleep is Now a Foreign Country

Encounters with the Uncanny

by (author) Mike Barnes

The Clarion

by (author) Nina Dunic

North of Middle Island

by (author) Daniel (.D.A.). Lockhart

Anecdotes

by (author) Kathryn Mockler

River Mumma

A Breathtaking Fantasy Novel Brimming with Magical Realism

by (author) Zalika Reid-Benta

Wires that Sputter

Poems

by (author) Britta Badour

Continuity Errors

by (author) Catriona Wright

More Sure

Poems and Interruptions

by (author) A. Light Zachary

 

Asian Heritage Month Book List

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You Still Look the Same

by (author) Farzana Doctor

Duty, Honour & Izzat

From Golden Fields to Crimson - Punjab's Brothers in arms in Flanders

by (author) Steven Purewal
illustrated by Claude St. Aubin & Christopher Rawlins

Eyepiece

Adventures in Canadian Film and Television

by (author) Vic Sarin
foreword by Adrienne Clarkson

In Flux

Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing

by (author) Roy Miki

How to Hold a Pebble

by (author) Jaspreet Singh

All of Us in Our Own Lives

by (author) Manjushree Thapa

How the Chinese Created Canada

by (author) Adrian Ma

 

2024 Amazon First Novel Award

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Empty Spaces

by (author) Jordan Abel

As the Andes Disappeared

by (author) Caroline Dawson
translated by Anita Anand

And Then She Fell

A Novel

by (author) Alicia Elliott

Tauhou

A Novel

by (author) Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall

A History of Burning

A Novel

by (author) Janika Oza

The Berry Pickers

A Novel

by (author) Amanda Peters

 

Great New Books for Mother's Day

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The Bee Mother

by (author) Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

The Mother Act

by (author) Heidi Reimer

Motherlike

by (author) Katherine Leyton

Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes

Essays on Motherhood

by (author) Adrienne Gruber

Giaci and Me

A Mother's Journey of Loving and Raising an Autistic Child

by (author) Rita Miceli

On Comics and Grief

by (author) Dale Jacobs

The Inheritance

A Novel

by (author) Joanna Goodman

The Game of Giants

by (author) Marion Douglas