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Martina Scholtens: Know What You Don't Know
An excerpt from Scholtens' memoir about working as a doctor at refugee clinic.
Amazing Kids' Books for Family Literacy Day
A list of Canada's most beloved children's books, as selected by authors with exciting new books just out or coming up on the horizon.
Notes from a Children's Librarian: On Structures
Great fiction and nonfiction titles to launch the Grade 3 science unit on structures and buildings.
Most Anticipated: Our 2018 Spring Nonfiction Preview
Our 2018 Spring Preview continues with spectacular nonfiction, books on art, literature and music, travellers and refugees, nature and history, fathers …
The Way to a Happier Life: Currant Bread from DUTCH FEAST
Put down your smoothie bowls and chia seeds, and embrace Dutch breakfasts, sugar and white bread and cheese, and all.
The Chat with Carleigh Baker
Next up on The Chat, we speak to Carleigh Baker, author of the sensational short story collection Bad Endings, a finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers’ …
Tacit Permissions: Literary Goals Beyond One's Grasp
A list by Thomas Trofimuk, whose This Is All a Lie has been called "a powerful, dazzling accomplishment.”
Lianne Oelke on Strong YA Narrators
Leanne Oelke, author of Nice Try, Jane Sinner, recommends amazing YA novels that are unabashedly Canadian.
The Chat with Ahmad Danny Ramadan
We begin The Chat in 2018 with a conversation with Ahmad Danny Ramadan, author of the stirring debut novel The Clothesline Swing (Nightwood Editions). …
Most Anticipated: Our 2018 Spring Fiction Preview
Here are the books that will be rocking CanLit in the first half of 2018.