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Promotional banner for CBC Books' Canada Day Special titled "Canadian Authors on CBC Bookends." The design is split into two halves: the left features a warm lakeside scene with evergreen trees and a wooden dock, overlaid with a deep red panel containing the title in bold yellow serif type. Below, white text reads "Check out the 45 authors from around Turtle Island who appeared on CBC Books this year." The Open Book and Bookends/Mattea Roach logos appear at bottom left in white. The right half shows a beaver wearing a red-and-white Canada flag as a cape, sitting on a rock beside a mountain lake with dramatic peaks and soft clouds in the background. The CBC Books logo sits in the top right corner. The overall palette blends patriotic red, natural earth tones, and cool mountain blues, creating a cinematic yet approachable feel that celebrates Canadian literary culture.

Canada Day Special! Celebrate Canadian Stories with CBC's Bookends Reading List

There's never a bad day to read Canadian books, but Canada Day feels like an especially good excuse to fill your TBR with homegrown voices that are all writing all around Turtle Island!Fortunately, there's ...

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Read an Excerpt from KOH-I-NOOR, the Adventurous Debut Novel by Michael Eddy

Trying to build a better world is one thing. Figuring out how to live in it is another. Koh-i-Noor (Book*hug Press) follows a young man whose search for purpose becomes increasingly complicated as his ...

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Read an Excerpt from THE BODY RIDDLE, the Spellbinding Debut Novel by Sam K MacKinnon

Change doesn't follow a straight line in The Body Riddle (House of Anansi Press), the impressive debut novel by Sam K MacKinnon. Instead, it creates new questions, reshapes old relationships, and challenges ...

June 26, 2026

Read an Excerpt from SELDOM SEEN ROAD, the First Title in the New Burnt River Mystery Series from John Degen

A murder on a riverbank pulls an unlikely detective out of retirement in Seldom Seen Road (Latitude 46),l the first instalment in John Degen’s Burnt River mystery series.When the body of a local environmental ...

June 25, 2026

ONWARD Groundwood Books Giveaway! Win All Three Titles in the Series!

Groundwood Books, a celebrated stalwart among children's publishers in Canada, is celebrating the publication of this Deborah Ellis's latest title in the ONWARD series with a fantastic giveaway of all ...

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