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A City Teenager Sells Weed with a Side of Egg Rolls to Keep His Family Afloat in Johnny Delivers

Award-winning author and avid world traveler Wayne Ng has found success on the literary scene with his previous works of fiction, using elements from the lived-in experiences of Chinese-Canadian immigrants ...

Writing Lessons from Joni Mitchell

I often look to books for inspiration, but I just got back from seeing Joni Mitchell play in L.A., and as I was sitting at the Hollywood Bowl, with the moon rising over the hills, I realized how much ...

Two Sisters Must Reckon with Deeply-Held Family Secrets in Louise Ells' New Novel, Lies I Told My Sister

After being named a Hawthornden Fellow, author Louise Ells was given the go-ahead to take the opportunity by her family, a crucial decision due to her caretaking duties for a husband living with dementia. ...

Young Detective Elodie LaRue Hunts for Missing Jewels in Mystery at the Biltmore

With a sterling track record in both writing for young people, and illustrating beloved picturebooks, author Colleen Nelson and illustrator Peggy Collins know how to tell page-turning stories that ...

A Small Ontario Town is Filled With Mystery and Danger in As We Forgive Others

Cobourg-based author Shane Peacock has been widely read for years now. His work has won the Junior Library Guild of America Selection seven times, the Arthur Ellis Award twice, and he has been shortlisted ...

Read an Excerpt from Satellite Image, the New Novel from Michelle Berry

Avid readers who are fans of acclaimed author Michelle Berry will be thrilled to find her new novel on bookstore shelves. The prolific Peterborough-based writer has penned three story story collections ...

Catherine Black's Debut Novel, Blessed Nowhere, Finds a Way Through Sorrow and Loss with a Grand Road Trip

As a poet, Catherine Black has been nominated for multiple awards, and has challenged savvy readers with inventive, hybrid forms that explore complex themes of motherhood, mental health, addiction ...

Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley's Wonderful Woodland Art Leaps Off the Page in Boozhoo!/Hello!

Teaching young people about wildlife and nature is a crucial part of storytelling, and a great picture book can achieve this with art and language. There are many examples of these titles, but the new ...

Suzan Palumbo's Novella Countess is a Queer, Caribbean, Anti-Colonial Sci-fi Epic

Suzan Palumbo has already turned heads in her previous work, with short fiction that has been nominated for the Nebula, Aurora, and World Fantasy Awards. Avid sci-fi readers will delight in immersing ...

Debut Novelist Anne Hawk Tells a Story of Childhood and Community in The Pages of the Sea

The history of a place is not just the details that can be written down or chronicled in some pragmatic way. Rather, it can be best explored through the people that have lived there, and the patterns ...