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Feels Like Summer 2016
Our pick of great new books that celebrate the season.
On Our Radar: The Mystery Month Edition
"On Our Radar" is a monthly 49th Shelf series featuring books with buzz worth sharing.
Shelf Talkers: May 2016
Is it spring where you are, or summer ... or more of a mishmash of weather?
With the sheer size of this country, and the vicissitudes of climate change, …
Crime Fiction Virtual Round-Table
We talk with Wayne Arthurson, Steve Burrows, Hilary Davidson, Dieter Kalteis, Ausma Zehanant Khan, Suzanne Kingsmill, Janice MacDonald, and R.J. McMillen. …
The Recommend: May 2016
Most of the books we read are the result of one thing: someone we know, trust, and/or admire tells us it's great. That's why we run this series, The Recommend, …
Aaron Cully Drake's All-Canadian Reading List
...or "Books by Canadian Authors Who Are All So Horribly Good at What They Do That They Are Now Discouraging People from Picking Up the Pen, Just Like …
Notes from a Children's Librarian: Great, Great Books About Grandparents
Our Children's Librarian columnist, Julie Booker, brings us a new view from the stacks every month.
Amanda Leduc: On Owning It and The FOLD
Amanda Leduc continues an important conversation about literary diversity.
Plant Some Seeds With These New Gardening Books
Gardening books for all kinds of green thumbs—even aspiring ones.
Books to Inspire Writers in the Thick of It
You're looking at what you've written, and it's ... not very good. You can't figure out the voice. You can't make a city come alive. Your dialogue is …