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Dustin Galer Investigates Responsibility, Disability, and the Human Cost of Systemic Failure in BLAME

The death of one man becomes the starting point of a much larger investigation in Blame: Death, Disability, and the Search for Justice for Guy Mitchell (ECW Press), a work of narrative nonfiction that ...

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Shahrzad Arshadi and Anna Chatterton on Building CHILDREN OF FIRE from Profound Voices of Resistance

Our featured non-fiction title today, Children of Fire: Kurdish Female Fighters and the Struggle for Woman, Life, Freedom (Book*hug Press), brings together theatre, memoir, interviews, poetry, photography, ...

July 28, 2026

Anne Baldo Explores the Lives That Shape Us in ONE DAY, HARD AND CLEAR

Growing up often means discovering that the people we love can't always become the people we need them to be. In One Day, Hard and Clear (Dundurn Press), that realization unfolds through the friendship ...

July 24, 2026

Story Sparks & Surprises with Anna Lazowski, Author of I BUILT A ROCKET SHIP

Sometimes children find their own language for grief. In I Built a Rocket Ship, that language takes the shape of a backyard project, as one child quietly sets out to build a rocket capable of reaching ...

July 22, 2026

A Note to Open Book Readers

Dear Readers,After nearly two decades of celebrating Ontario books, authors, and publishers, Open Book will cease operations on August 31, 2026.This is not an announcement we ever wanted to make. We feel ...

July 20, 2026