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  • Jackie  Traverse
    Non-Fiction

    Colouring book paired with teachings can offer quiet time, healing, connection, and more

    Traverse hopes her 3rd book can open discussions into historical truths and the way forward

    By Melanie J. Murray

  • dee Hobsbawn-Smith
    Features

    Strong-willed characters navigate multigenerational family dynamics, investigate disappearance

    Protagonist Luka seeks to understand Hutterite ancestry, reconnect, and find answers

    By Bev Sandell Greenberg

  • Judith Silverthorne
    Features

    Time-travel adventure dives into ancestral history to explore migration, hardship

    Middle-years novel balances current events of the present while reflecting on the past

    By Shirley Byers

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Issue 81, Fall/Winter 2022-23

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  • May 6, 2021

    Bertrand Bickersteth wins 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for The Response of Weeds (NeWest Press)

  • May 6, 2021

    Manitoba Book Awards short list announced

  • January 21, 2021

    New ownership at Freehand Books

  • October 8, 2020

    Here the Dark by Winnipeg Author David Bergen Shortlisted for 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize

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