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New Fiction for the Week of October 7th

New Fiction

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The Elevator

by (author) Priya Ramsingh

Who Will Bury You?

And Other Stories

by (author) Chido Muchemwa

Make Me a Mixtape

by (author) Jennifer Whiteford

An Astonishment of Stars

Stories

by (author) Kirti Bhadresa

The Suspension Bridge

by (author) Anna Dowdall

We're Not Rich

Stories

by (author) Sue Murtagh

Satellite Image

by (author) Michelle Berry

The Apollo Murders

A Novel

by (author) Chris Hadfield

 

2024 BC and Yukon Book Prizes Winners

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Crushed Wild Mint

Poems

by (author) Jess Housty

A Season in Chezgh’un

A Novel

by (author) Darrel J. McLeod

Fire Weather

The Making of a Beast

by (author) John Vaillant

The Best Loved Boat

The Princess Maquinna

by (author) Ian Kennedy

Hopeless in Hope

by (author) Wanda John-Kehewin

Becoming a Matriarch

A Memoir

by (author) Helen Knott

 

Mix Tapes Get Lit

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Make Me a Mixtape

by (author) Jennifer Whiteford

Last Goldfish, The

A True Tale of Friendship

by (author) Anita Lahey

Signal to Noise

by (author) Silvia Moreno-Garcia
read by Ana Bayat

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

by (author) Michelle Hébert

The Lightning Bottles

by (author) Marissa Stapley

To Me You Seem Giant

by (author) Greg Rhyno

Beast

A Novel

by (author) Richard Van Camp

A Convergence of Solitudes

by (author) Anita Anand

 

2024 CCBC Book Awards Finalists

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Do You Remember?

by (author) Sydney Smith

Green Papayas

by (author) Nhung Tran-Davies
illustrated by Gillian Newland

Simon Sort of Says

by (author) Erin Bow

Skating Wild on an Inland Sea

by (author) Jean E. Pendziwol
illustrated by Todd Stewart

The Umbrella House

by (author) Colleen Nelson

Love Is in the Bear

by (author) Judith Henderson
illustrated by Nahid Kazemi

Our Pool

illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins

A Tulip in Winter

A Story About Folk Artist Maud Lewis

by (author) Kathy Stinson
illustrated by Lauren Soloy

 

2024 Lane Anderson Award Shortlists

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Bompa's Insect Expedition

by (author) David Suzuki & Tanya Lloyd Kyi
illustrated by Qin Leng

Operation Cupcake

How Simple Machines Work

illustrated by Bambi Edlund

Polar

Wildlife at the Ends of the Earth

by (author) L.E. Carmichael
illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler

The Autumn Ghost

How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care

by (author) Hannah Wunsch

Fire Weather

The Making of a Beast

by (author) John Vaillant

Message in a Bottle

Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist

by (author) Holly Hogan