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Read an Excerpt from CARRYING WAR, the Affecting New Memoir by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt

Some experiences never entirely leave us. The new memoir, Carrying War (Dundurn Press) traces how encounters with violence, instability, and fear can continue to shape a life long after the immediate ...

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Story Sparks & Surprises with Katie Arthur, Author and Illustrator of BACKPACK

A beloved bag can carry a lot more than lunch and library books. In the new picturebook, Backpack (Owlkids Books), a familiar everyday object becomes a companion through school days, family trips, new ...

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Andrea Coke Reflects on Family, Culture, and Belonging in I AM CARIBBEAN

Author and Speech-Language Pathologist Andrea Coke knows that identity is rarely a simple story. In her memoir I Am Caribbean (Saunders Book Company/Beech Street Books) she reflects on family, culture, ...

August 10, 2026

Blaine Thornton on Writing Survival, Healing, and Home in the New Poetry Collection, HERE'S TO LETTING GO

Finding safety is rarely a straight path. Here's to Letting Go (Latitude 46 Publishing) follows one young person's search for belonging through unstable housing, temporary shelters, and the quiet determination ...

August 07, 2026

Kevin Jagernauth on Reimagining Noir in THE LONGEST DEATH

A small-town bank job is just the beginning of the story in The Longest Death (House of Anansi Press), a new work of noir full with longing, ambition, and the dangerous hope that one perfect score can ...

August 06, 2026