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Kim's Convenience

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The Immortal Woman

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The Outside Circle

A brown owl flies through mist. Its eyes are yellow. Its feathers are spotted and striped with different shades of brown. Text: An Owl at Sea. Susan Vande Griek. Ian Wallace.

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An Owl at Sea

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The Break

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October 1970

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Chez l'arabe

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Ana Historic

Cover: My Book of Butterflies. Geraldo Valerio.” The wing of a large black butterfly, with yellow markings and touches of blue and red, fills the cover. Its eye, antenna and part of its body are also shown. Beneath the wing, a child runs with a book in one hand, while a white butterfly rests on the other. Two white butterflies fly behind. Surrounding the title are four butterflies of different sizes, colors, and patters. Pink flowers growing from green and blue stems decorate the bright yellow background.

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My Book of Butterflies

Cover: Myth by Terese Mason Pierre. A seascape appears in silhouette, with a beachy area in the foreground that features a luminous bush and the edge of the water line. Behind this are rolling hills and a palm tree; in the background, large mountains. Three rings of muted colour populate the sky in red, yellow, and blue, with a cloud in the foreground.

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Myth

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Nothing for You Here, Young Man

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Augustino and the Choir of Destruction

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Cover: Go Home. By Terry Farish and Lochan Sharma. The cover is filled with a wash of red, white and blue, with patterns of stripes and stars. Under the colors, three faces fill the cover. One is a teenage girl with long hair and an intense expression, and the other two are teenage boys. One of the boys has a mullet hairstyle and an angry expression. The other has short hair, and gazes to the side. The characters are rendered in a black-and-white graphic style.

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Go Home

Cover: A Daughter's Place by Martha Bátiz. Artwork of two young women in seventeenth-century clothing. One leans on a window ledge, resting her chin on her hand and smiling, while the other peeks out from behind a curtain, holding a cloth to her face. The title and author’s name appear in large, white brush script.

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A Daughter's Place

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The Rayburn Affair

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All Our Relations

Cover: I Make My Own Fun: A Novel by Hannah Beer. A martini glass filled with blood has a single barbie arm sticking out of the blood and is set on a bright pink background. The title appears in bold gold lettering above the glass.

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I Make My Own Fun

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Migrant

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Seven Fallen Feathers

Cover: A Horse at the Window by Spencer Gordon. A painting of a person with fire coming out of their head. They are wearing a black suit jacket. and holding a flaming flower.

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A Horse at the Window

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The Triumph of Narrative

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Selected Poems 1983–2020

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As Long as the Rivers Flow

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Poems for All the Annettes

Cover: The Two Roberts, by Damian Barr. A black-and-white upper-body photo of two men, both with light skin tone. One man lies sideways, his head on his arm and his hand draped over his head; the second man sits more upright behind the first, only the lower half of his face visible, both smile slightly.The image is partially obscured by diagonal semi-opaque coloured stripes at the top of the frame and the title, and similar stripes at the bottom of the frame and the author's name.

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The Two Roberts

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Heart Residence

Cover: Passengers by Michael Crummey. The words "passengers" and "poems," as well as the author's name, are stylized to form the shape of Newfoundland. The text is in black and red.

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Passengers

Maggie Lou, Firefox. By Arnolda Dufour Bowes. A girl with medium skin tone and curly brown hair is flanked by two dogs: one brown, the other black and white. She wears boxing gloves around her neck, a yellow sweater, blue vest, green shorts and mismatched knee socks. There is a white bandage around one knee. She stands on grass against a purple sky and a pink and orange sun.

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Maggie Lou, Firefox

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Congratulations, Rhododendrons

Cover: Lantern, poems by Sanna Wani. Above a cream-coloured background, a forest green border is stamped. Inside the border are three ginko leaves stamped in various directions, as though falling. The text appears in cursive lettering.

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Lantern

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Blood

Cover: In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World, by Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel. The cover has a red background with white and black text. It features a grainy black photograph of an unidentified guitarist jumping in the air in front of a microphone stand.

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In Too Deep

Cover: A Single Dreadlock. Written by Xaiver Michael Campbell and illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes. A close-up of half of a young boy’s smiling face is shown on the right side of the cover. He has dark skin tone and light brown eyes. His hair is dark brown, medium length and tightly curled, except for one single dreadlock. Over his shoulder we see a red-and-white fishing boat with a lobster trap on the back. It floats in front of a red boathouse on large wooden beams. Behind that, are rolling grassy hills.

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A Single Dreadlock

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river woman

Cover: Midway, poems by Kayla Czaga. Most of the cover is taken up by the sky at dusk. The bottom edge of a steep hill leads into a still body of water. Near the shoreline is a lit-up Ferris wheel surrounded by a few RVs and strings of colourful lights.

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Midway

Cover: Peacocks of Instagram: stories by Deepa Rajagopalan. Over a background with blocks of pink, green, and yellow, a black-and-white hand is extended holding a mirror. A dozen eyes fill the reflective space, also in black and white. On the top right corner, a blurb from Souvankham Thammavongsa reads, "The debut of a major new writer."

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Peacocks of Instagram

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Kamouraska

Cover: “Summer in the City. Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel.” Two boys peer out of a red tent, spotting a skunk with their flashlight. The tent is set up in a fenced-in yard behind a residential house. A cat stands on the top of the tent, tail raised. Tall buildings are visible in the background. Bats fly in the night sky around a full moon.

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Summer in the City

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In Search of A Better World

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The Bush Garden

Cover: The Golden Daughter: My Mother's Secret Past as a Ukrainian Slave Worker in Nazi Germany by Halina St. James. An illustration of three sunflowers in descending size from the left on a dark blue background: the biggest flower has orange petals, the middle one is yellow, and the smallest one is pink; they all have green stems with leaves.

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The Golden Daughter

A photograph shows a close-up of a woman’s face. We see the bottom right corner of her face showing the side of her mouth, her cheek, and a part of her nose. She has light skin tone and short, curly, dark hair. She wears a pink lip colour and blush. Around her neck is a short, yellow pearl necklace and she is wearing a fine-knit, teal sweater. Text: Marie-Renée Lavoie. Autopsy of a Boring Wife. “True to life and wildly entertaining.” – Huffington Post.

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Autopsy of a Boring Wife

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Go Home Bay

Cover: The All + Flesh, poems by Brandi Bird. A vibrant, impressionist-style painting of a golden sunset over a red horizon. The sky blends from teal at the top to a bright yellow around the white sun, which reflects like a flaming spotlight on the ground. The brush strokes are cross-hatched in the sky, giving the appearance of downward motion, while the ground appears sponged.

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The All + Flesh

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Cockroach

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Mirror Lake

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February

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Does State Spying Make Us Safer?

A drawing of a bird is in white against a green background. The bird has slender wings and stands in short grass. Text: The Caiplie Caves. Karen Solie.

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The Caiplie Caves

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Mai at the Predators' Ball

Cover: Arms and Legs, A Novel by Chloe Lane. A pair of legs from knees to toes sticks up vertically from the bottom of the cover. The legs are painted in a light skin tone with shading against a black background.

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Arms & Legs

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The Librarianist

When Spider Met Shrew by Deborah Kerbel. Illustrations by Geneviève Côté. These images were done in watercolour. A small black spider hangs down from her web that covers a corner of the image. The spider smiles at a small brown shrew who stands on his hind legs and smiles back with a wave. The sky is blue behind them.

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When Spider Met Shrew

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River Meets the Sea

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Serafim and Claire

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The Law of Dreams

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Arrival

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Broken Memory

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The Smile of the Wolf

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Soft as Bones

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The Acacia Gardens

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Pure Spring

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History’s People

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Manikanetish

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The Unmemntioable

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When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks

Cover: Dangerous Memory, Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed by Charlie Angus, author of the Trillium Award finalist Cobalt. Title appears in black, bold letters on two white bands against a black and turquoise background. Below is a silhouette of a crowd of activists holding up a megaphone and placards protesting nuclear weapons.

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Dangerous Memory

A photograph shows the back of a woman walking in the middle of a road. She has light skin tone and brown hair. She wears a long, black coat. The background showing the road and its surroundings is blurry and brown. Trees line the road. Part of the sky is blue. Text: The Outlander. Gil Adamson. Author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist Ridgerunner. “Bolts off the opening page… An absorbing adventure… Captivating.” Washington Post.

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The Outlander

A gold birdcage is against an orange background. A light blue silhouette shows two birds on a branch in the cage. Text: We Two Alone. Jack Wang. “With ingenuity and impeccable craft, Jack Wang gives us an utterly remarkable collection.” Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer.

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We Two Alone

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Together by the Sea

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The Sultan of Sarawak

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Let the World Have You

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Cover: Home For Margaret. Written by Denise Davy. Illustrated by Bérengère Delaporte. A young girl sits with a woman in the snow in front of a blue tent surrounded by bare trees. The girl has medium light skin tone and curly black hair in two buns, and the woman has light skin tone; medium length gray hair and both their cheeks and nose are rosy. The woman’s hands are tucked into her jacket pocket, while the girl raises her arm as she is talking. Beside the young girl in the snow is a white grocery bag.

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Home for Margaret

On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation by Quill Christie-Peters. The cover features abstract, colourful artwork against a brown background. Organic shapes, some humanlike, and swirling lines reminiscent of waterways and galaxies flow out of a dark hole with red blood dripping from its bottom edge. The hole is flanked by two bears and two thunderbirds on either side.

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On Wholeness

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Leaving Home

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Endings

Cover: “Marie-Noëlle Hébert. My Body in Pieces ” A young woman kisses the head of a black cat in her arms. The image is sketched in grayscale with graphite pencils.

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My Body in Pieces

Cover: Death Interrupted: How Modern Medicine is Complicating the Way We Die by Blair Bigham, MD. A small black bar in the upper-left corner of the cover reads The Walrus, to indicate this book is part of a series of books published in partnership with The Walrus magazine. Centred against the off-white background is the cover’s only image: a turquoise stethoscope bent into the loose shape of the letter P. The stethoscope’s chest piece acts as the top of the letter P in the word "interrupted."

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Death Interrupted

Cover: procession by katherena vermette. The title and author's name all appear in white text, stylized in lower case. The backdrop is a close-up image of a beaded quilt, vibrant and detailed, with flowers, paisley, and more designs appearing. The edge of the quilt is beaded in red, and a yellow surface beneath the quilt appears at the bottom-left corner.

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Procession

Cover: Kukum by Michel Jean, translated by Susan Ouriou. A black-and-white ink illustration of a woman crouching. Her knees are drawn up to her chest and her arm is tucked up. She has dark hair and her face is partially tucked against her shoulder. The woman’s body is covered in various patterns. A ragged blue shape reminiscent of a flowing river runs in front of her lower half; through the blue, her body is still visible, but smudged. Around her are small black line drawings of various spruce trees.

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Kukum

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Ninan

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French Exit

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Noopiming

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Fugue With Bedbug

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My Grief, the Sun

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Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson

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Kapusta

Fly Away Home. Written by Betty Quan and illustrated by Akin Duzakin. A young girl and a woman with their backs to us hold hands and carry backpacks. The girl has medium-light skin tone and straight black hair. The woman has medium-light skin tone and black hair tied back in a ponytail. They each clutch a full bag their arms and look out across a hilly green field with a blue sky above. A group of people also carrying bags walk in the distance. Above them a flock of white birds fly through the sky.

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Fly Away Home

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The Rapture