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Read an Excerpt from TAKE THIS FOR THE PAIN, the Fascinating New Essay Collection by Alex Boyd

Art has a way of turning up in unexpected places, and Take this for the Pain (Palimpsest Press) follows those moments wherever they lead. Drawing on twenty-five years of essays, reviews, and criticism, ...

Story Sparks & Surprises with Anita Yasuda, Author of BOLLYWOOD BEAT!

A dance recital is exciting enough on its own, but Bollywood Beat! (Kids Can Press) captures everything that happens around it too, from the nervous energy backstage to the thrill of stepping into the ...

THOSE ARE PEARLS Author André Narbonne Takes on Our Storytellers Interview

One decision can echo through generations, and we've seen this play out time and time again in some of Canada's best fiction. In the new novel, Those Are Pearls, a young man's pursuit of love becomes ...

Read an Excerpt from Valerie Sherrard's Heartwarming ABSOLUTELY NO BODY PARTS

Cleaning out an old building shouldn't pull at the threads of a mystery, but that's exactly what happens in Absolutely No Body Parts (Cormorant/DCB Books), where one messy job quickly turns into something ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Highly Acclaimed Poet Derek Beaulieu Passionately Explores His Craft, and Implores Other Scribes to DO IT WRONG

Poetry handbooks often focus on rules, technique, and best practices. Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet in the Twenty-First Century (Assembly Press) starts from a different place, asking what happens when ...