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Young Adult/ChildrenTale of a touching gift passed on to a new refugee family turns into picture book
For Nhung N. Tran-Davies, her autobiographical picture book The Doll, illustrated by Ravy Puth, isn’t just personal – it’s a book four decades in the making. When her family first arrived in Canada as refugees from the Vietnam War, their sponsors’ daughter, Adrienne, gave her the eponymous doll. -
Young Adult/ChildrenAward-winning series comes together in one adventuresome volume
Marion Mutala’s Baba’s Babushka: Magical Ukrainian Adventures is an all-in-one gathering of the three books in her award-winning Baba’s Babushka series: A Magical Ukrainian Christmas, A Magical Ukrainian Easter, and A Magical Ukrainian Wedding – along with the brand new A Magical Ukrainian Journey. -
Young Adult/ChildrenLes Métis de Saint-Laurent en histoire et en images selon Gisèle Reynolds
L’album jeunesse Le doré de Saint-Laurent est un beau petit récit ancré dans ce qui donne à ce village métis du Lac Manitoba son caractère : la pêche commerciale sur glace pour le doré, une tradition et un mode de vie aussi vieux que la province elle-même. -
Young Adult/Children
Reynolds represents Métis of Saint-Laurent in both folk art and story
The picture book Le doré de Saint-Laurent is a wonderful little story rooted in what gives a certain Lake Manitoba Métis community its character: commercial ice fishing for pickerel, a tradition and a way of life as old as the province itself. -
PoetryUn recueil qui rétablit le rapport de force dans les discussions sur la sexualité et les relations
Poète francophone Amber O’Reilly s’est replonger dans ses vieux journaux qu’elle a écrits comme adolescente, pour écrire son premier livre, un recueil de poésie. -
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Poetry collection aims to take back power in discussing sexuality, relationships
Francophone poet Amber O’Reilly dove into old journals that she wrote as an adolescent to write her first book, a collection of poetry. -
FeaturesDispatches
Over the years, I’ve said to anybody who will listen that being the director of a literary festival is the best job on the planet – and even COVID chaos hasn’t shaken that conviction. To spend days and months and years poring over new books, talking with writers and publishers across the country, exploring ways to connect readers and writers – it never gets old. -
Non-FictionMutual survival ties personal journey together with beekeeping
One wouldn’t assume a story of bees would begin during the month of November on a small farm at the edge of the boreal forest in Alberta, but this one does. In preparation for winter, the hives are cleaned, stocked with honey, and bundled with blankets. Once the hives are sealed for the season, the bees are on their own. -
FictionMystery tale created as an exercise in writing a book beginning to end, ‘with no skipping about’
When a downsized social worker helps a good friend deal with the murder of a beloved granddaughter, she and her cat are thrust into a gritty world full of sex, lies, and betrayal. She faces these challenges with intelligence and humour, only to discover that what at first appeared to be a simple street killing in a Canadian city is just the surface of a complex and dark set of criminal schemes. -
FictionObsessive nature of artists examined through triangle of characters
Su Croll is an acclaimed poet and now, in her debut novel Seeing Martin, she turns her observant eye on Mira – an art student grieving the death of her father – along with photographer Marie Claire Zorn and Martin Zorn, Marie Claire’s brother.
