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Read an Excerpt from WHENEVER YOU ARE by Celebrated and Renowned YA Author Martine Leavitt

A crucial mistake is the driving force behind Martine Leavitt's new YA novel, Whenever You Are (Groundwood Books), in which the possibility of a second chance takes a strange and increasingly unsettling ...

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Read an Excerpt from A HUNGRY FIRE, the New Modern Epic Novel by Élyssa Marcoux-Bissoondath

A centuries-old story finds a very different kind of afterlife in A Hungry Fire, where mythology becomes a way of making sense of a body that refuses to provide easy answers.Élyssa Marcoux-Bissoondath ...

August 13, 2026

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 ...

August 12, 2026

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 ...

August 11, 2026

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