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October 14, 2015Kid Lit Can, with Susan Hughes: Q and A with 2015 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction Nominees, Part II
Welcome! Today I continue my chat with the three terrific authors whose five books have been nominated for the CCBC Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People: Patrick Bowman, Marsha ...
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August 15, 2016The Final Days of Summer Reading
As we find ourselves in last gasps of summer (how is it already August?) it’s time to park it on the back porch and really focus on that list of carefully chosen seasonal reads.The summer book really ...
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September 01, 2016The Lucky Seven Interview, with Bianca Lakoseljac
Toronto is sometimes criticized as an unfriendly city, but it had a very different atmosphere back in 1967 — during the so-called "Summer of Love". Yorkville was full of hippies, draft dodgers flooded ...
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January 04, 2021Start Your Year with Melanie Raabe's Smart & Irresistibly Creepy Thriller, The Shadow
In The Shadow (House of Anansi Press) by Melanie Raabe (translated by Imogen Taylor), a woman is walking to work when she is approached by a stranger and told that she will murder a man named Arthur ...
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November 30, 2022Ernie Louttit's Debut Novel Follows an Indigenous WWII Veteran's Battle Against Corruption and Prejudice in Northern Ontario
Elmer Wabason and Gilbert Bertrand share a deep bond when they return to their small northern Ontario town after the brutalities of fighting in the Second World War. They're both trying to rebuild their ...
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May 28, 2025Tim Welsh's Debut Novel, Ley Lines, is a Refreshing, Intimate Take on Frontier Life
Readers have seen frontier tales about the gold rush and mining boom towns before, many of which carry familiar tropes and trappings. But, our featured author today has written an original work that upends ...
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September 17, 2025Read an Excerpt from A BOW FORGED FROM ASH by Melissa Powless Day
Melissa Powless Day invites readers into a powerful journey of reclamation in her remarkable collection A Bow Forged from Ash (Palimpsest Press). With precision and heart, she explores what it means to ...
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September 18, 2025A Snowstorm Sets Upon a Small Town and Reveals the Powerful Bonds of Community in THE UPENDING OF WENDALL FORBES
In his latest novel, David Giuliano delivers a warm, funny, and deeply human story about aging, resilience, and the surprising ways life can be renewed. Wendall and Ruby Forbes are grappling with sleepless ...
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September 12, 2011Writing Courses and Workshops in the GTA
In 2008, we first posted this ever-growing list of writing courses and workshops, and it has consistently been one of the most popular posts on Open Book, which suggests that many Torontonians are searching ...
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May 30, 2016#WritingTips Mondays: Toni Morrison on How Plot is Like Melody
Toni Morrison is a writer who needs no introduction. Her epic, revolutionary novels include The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved. In 1993, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.The website Open ...
