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one day agoPanels & Pencils with Dian Day and Amanda White, author and illustrator of SHY CAT AND THE STUFF-THE-BUS CHALLENGE
Friendship, food, and misunderstandings abound in Shy Cat and the Stuff-the-Bus Challenge (Second Story Press), a lively graphic novel by Dian Day and Amanda White about two kids learning to see each ...
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February 25, 2026Read an Excerpt from ECHO-MIRROR by Famed Dub Poet Klyde Broox
Spoken word and written poetry collide in Echo-Mirror (Wolsak & Wynn), a collection that gathers decades of work from one of Canada’s most respected dub poets. These poems carry rhythm in each ...
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February 24, 2026A Italian Museum Heist and Murder Stir a Seasoned FBI Agent in THIRTY FEET UNDER: A MYSTERY
In Thirty Feet Under, Williams Wodhams blends art crime, archaeology, and high-stakes intrigue. Moving between Europe and New York, the novel follows parallel ambitions and moral compromises, offering ...
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February 20, 2026Ray Robertson Defends the Act of Independent Thinking in THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG
In an era that prizes certainty and punishes dissent, disagreement has begun to feel like a moral failure. Prolific author Ray Robertson's new nonfiction title, The Right to Be Wrong (Cormorant Books), ...
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February 18, 2026Read these Excerpted Poems from LOCKERS ARE FOR BEARCATS ONLY by Mallory Tater
Celebrated author Mallory Tater is back this month with Lockers Are for Bearcats Only (Palimpsest Press/Anstruther Books), a collection shaped by the steady rhythm of swimming laps. After the death ...
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February 10, 2026WOMEN AMONG MONUMENTS Confronts the Enduring Obstacles Women Artists and Writers Face
What does it actually mean for a woman to claim the title of artist, let alone genius, in a culture that still hesitates to grant it? Women Among Monuments (Dundurn Press) approaches that question without ...
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February 09, 2026Joanne Robertson and Shirley (Fletcher) Horn Tell the Crucial Story of a Young Girl's Resilience and Survival
At five years old, Shirley is taken from her family and sent to a residential school, a strange place that she does not understand. The long walk up the school’s stone steps marks the beginning of a ...
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February 05, 2026Read an Excerpt from REBELLIOUS BODIES AND RADICAL ACTS, Edited by Alex Bulmer & Debbie Patterson
Performance takes on new urgency and possibility in Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts (Coach House Books), an anthology that centres disabled and Deaf artists working at the forefront of contemporary ...
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February 03, 2026Read an Excerpt from SYNCOPATION, the Extraordinary New Novel-in-Verse from Whitney French
In the wildly creative novel-in-verse, Syncopation (Wolsak & Wynn), the future feels both strange and close at hand. After a devastating Memory War, the world has split into unfamiliar cultures and ...
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January 28, 2026Read an Excerpt from ARAB TECHNO FOR THE PEOPLE, a Fascinating Work of Cultural Nonfiction by Jillian Fulton-Melanson
In clubs, basements, and late-night dance floors across Toronto and Montreal, electronic music becomes more than sound. Throughout the pages of Arab Techno for the People: Sonic Responses to Orientalism ...