Investigating Motherhood
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Motherlike is up for giveaway until the end of this month. Make sure you visit our giveaways page for your chance to win and to check out everything else we've got on offer. ***** Motherhood is raw, terrifying, thrilling, mundane, horrible and thought-provoking. It is an act that raises so many philosophical questions that it begs to be written and read about, and yet it’s so often thought of as a niche topic. The books on this list, ranging from fiction to nonfiction to poetry, challenge the idea that motherhood isn’t worthy of serious inquiry.  Whatever your relationship to mothering ..read more
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The Chat with Christine Higdon
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3d ago
The Literary Review of Canada calls the novel "A tender and memorable look at love, loss, and sisterhood...Although fictional characters, the McKenzies represent the untold stories of countless real-life women desperate to shed strict gender-based expectations." Christine Higdon is the author of the award-winning novel The Very Marrow of Our Bones. She has won a National Magazine Award, been published in numerous journals, and nominated for CBC literary prizes. She lives part-time in Nova Scotia but mostly in Mimico, Ontario. ** Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue is your second novel. What was y ..read more
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The Chat with Roger Mooking & francesca ekwuyasi
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Publishers Weekly raves about the book, saying, "The unorthodox structure is part of the appeal of Curious Sounds – there's a sense of a mind spilled onto the page, with sharp insights scattered throughout. The results are both odd and enchanting." Roger Mooking is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and visual and recording artist born in Trinidad and raised in Canada. He is the host of such television shows as Man Fire Food, Heat Seekers, Greatest of America, and Everyday Exotic and has appeared as a guest judge on such programs as Chopped and Guy's Grocery Games. As a musician ..read more
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Coming Out
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1w ago
Jeffrey Round's The Sulphur Springs Cure is up for giveaway until the end of March. Head to our giveaways page for your chance to win, and to see everything else up for grabs right now. ***** The concept of coming out is old, but has taken on many new forms over the course of the years since Gay Liberation became a catchphrase. In the ten books listed here you will find tales by a wide assortment of Queer Persons who felt their stories and adventures, big or small, were worth telling. And not only worth telling, but worth pursuing the dream till, in most (but not all) cases, they found a ..read more
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Notes From a Children's Librarian: Inspiring Junior Fiction
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Our Children's Librarian columnist, Julie Booker, brings us a new view from the stacks every month. ***** Me and Mr. Bell, by Philip Roy, is a gem of a book, a tale to inspire any young reader to overcome their weaknesses by finding their strengths. It’s 1908. Ten-year-old Eddie discovers he’s not like the other kids. He can’t read or write. When everyone else finds this out, his family, his classmates, and even his teacher, treat him like a dummy, and give up on him. Then he meets someone who changes his life: the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell, a visitor in Eddie’s home town, rumoure ..read more
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BC in Eight Books and Seven Genres
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My novel The Other Valley takes place in a speculative world, but I borrowed its physical landscape from the places I grew up: the lush valleys and shrub steppe of the Southern Interior, and the windswept northern hills of the Peace River Country. After transforming this province’s geography into an otherworldly setting, I wanted to make a reading list focused on the actual place where I live. Here are eight recent books set in the mostly unceded territory we colonially call British Columbia: a memoir, a scholarly history, a story collection, two works of poetry, and three different genres of ..read more
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My Interests Are Matter
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Three copies of Asterisms are up for giveaway until the end of March. Head over to our giveaways page for your chance to win, and to check out everything else we've got on offer. *** A child of settlers, I grew up in rural northeast BC on Treaty 8 Territory before corporate farming and oil and gas extraction took over much of the landscape. Exposed to the other-than-human world more than the human world, my childhood connection to nature and the recognition that humans are nature continue to drive my poetry, as does a curiosity about how the natural world works. You could say my interest ..read more
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My Interests are Matter
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Three copies of Asterisms are up for giveaway until the end of March. Head over to our giveaways page for your chance to win, and to check out everything else we've got on offer. ***** A child of settlers, I grew up in rural northeast BC on Treaty 8 Territory before corporate farming and oil and gas extraction took over much of the landscape. Exposed to the other-than-human world more than the human world, my childhood connection to nature and the recognition that humans are nature continue to drive my poetry, as does a curiosity about how the natural world works. You could say my interests a ..read more
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Making the Familiar Strange
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2w ago
The tenth-anniversary edition of Kate Cayley's award-winning collection How You Were Born (which includes three new stories) is up for giveaway throughout March. Head over to our giveaway page for your chance to win, and also to check out everything else that's on offer. ***** I’m not sure if this counts as a thematic category, but I’m going to treat it as one. I love books that make me feel off-kilter in an interesting way, that make me reconsider what is daily and ordinary as not. Like being in a familiar kitchen but seeing it uncannily, from a different angle. As if you were sudd ..read more
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Most Anticipated: Our 2024 Spring Poetry Preview
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2w ago
Hauntings form the canopy of The Seventh Town of Ghosts (March), the debut by Faith Arkorful, CBC Poetry Prize finalist and National Magazine Award honoree. The extreme level of sass in Emily Austin's Gay Girl Prayers (March) does not mean that this collection is irreverent, on the contrary, in rewriting Bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities, Austin invites readers into a giddy celebration of difference and a tender appreciation for the lives and perspectives of "strange women." And in I Will Get Up Off Of (May), by Simina Banu, poems are attempts an ..read more
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