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  • Halloween Special: CanLit's Smart & Bold New Horror Queen, Erica McKeen, on Isolation, Manipulation, & Female Rage
    Halloween Special: CanLit's Smart & Bold New Horror Queen, Erica McKeen, on Isolation, Manipulation, & Female Rage
    October 28, 2022

    Halloween Special: CanLit's Smart & Bold New Horror Queen, Erica McKeen, on Isolation, Manipulation, & Female Rage

    It's spooky season and to pay tribute to the literary greats who have scared us over the years, we're speaking with one of Canada's newest and most exciting voices when it comes to creating tension and ...

  • Special Feature: Annick Press
    Special Feature: Annick Press
    January 21, 2020

    Special Feature: Annick Press

    The roots of Annick Press extend back to 1975 when Rick Wilks and Anne Millyard founded Books By Kids with the aim of publishing books that children would choose for themselves. The following year, Books ...

  • Special Feature: Book*hug Press
    Special Feature: Book*hug Press
    November 25, 2019

    Special Feature: Book*hug Press

    On November 2, 2019, a throng of enthusiastic word nerds gathered at Harbourfront Centre to toast Book*hug Press on its fifteenth anniversary. It was an appropriate venue in which to celebrate, given ...

  • Pivot Readings
    Pivot Readings
    June 18, 2019

    All Booked Up - Pivot Reading Series

    The roots of Pivot Readings stretch back to 1998, when poet Paul Vermeersch started a fiction and poetry reading series in Toronto’s adorably dilapidated I.V. Lounge. When that venue closed in 2008, ...

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Image features an ad for Second Story Press's Do You Know My Name series. It reads, 'Collections of biographies for middle-grade readers that profile activists from around the world who you may never have heard of." It also features the cover images of "She's a Mench" by Anne Dublin and "World Shaker" by Helen Wolfe.

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Image features an ad for Second Story Press's Do You Know My Name series. It reads, 'Collections of biographies for middle-grade readers that profile activists from around the world who you may never have heard of." It also features the cover images of "She's a Mench" by Anne Dublin and "World Shaker" by Helen Wolfe.
Image features an ad from Annick Press for Walking Together by Elder Albert D. Marshall and Louise Zimanyi, illustrated by Emily Kewageshig. It includes a cover image and a starred review from Booklist: "This important, gorgeous book has something for readers of all ages."
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An ad from Coach House Books for Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison. The ad says, "Read the acclaimed debut novel from Open Book's Writer in Residence." It also featured a quote from Brett Josef Grubisic from a Vancouver Sun review: "The perks and pleasures are innumerable in this, the memories of the disgruntled protagonist on a single, lonely day."
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