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Blood

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All Our Relations

Cover: Bury the Lead: a Quill and Packet mystery by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti. The cover illustration shows a woman with dark hair and stark features peeking out from behind a red curtain, as if looking out from backstage. There is a blurb at the top which reads, “A whodunit that had me turning pages as fast as I could … an absolute delight!” —Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky

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Bury the Lead

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Town Is by the Sea

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Democracy on Trial

This image is abstract. Pink, red, blue, and green shapes form peaks and valleys. In each shape are markings that resemble flower petals in varies colours. Text: Celestial Bodies. Jokha Alharthi. The Man Booker International Prize 2019.

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Celestial Bodies

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: John Candy: A Life in Comedy, by Paul Myers. Foreword by Dan Aykroyd. A black and white photograph of the comedian and actor John Candy, shown from the chest up, wearing a tuxedo, and looking directly into the camera, with just the hint of a smile. The main title and author’s name appear in large, pink block letters. The sub-title appears in a white, handwritten typeface. The foreword attribution appears in the same block letters as the title, but smaller and in white.

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John Candy

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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Hollywood Eden

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Let the Elephants Run

Cover: Innie Shadows by Olivia M. Coetzee. “Groundbreaking and unique, character-driven crime fiction." —Deon Meyer. A stylized illustration of a mountain beneath a bright moon and clouds. The background is purple, and the typography and mountain are in vibrant green and yellow. Eyes are scattered at the bottom.

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Innie Shadows

A photograph shows a white plate on a wood table. The food on the plate is decoratively arranged. Orange sauce has been placed with a hand to show a handprint. On top of the handprint is a delicate tower of grains, vegetables, and meat. Text: Tawâw. Progressive Indigenous Cuisine. Shane M. Chartrand with Jennifer Cockrall-King. Best in the World Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

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tawâw

Water laps a sandy shore. On the sand are two children. We can see their rain boots and their clothes. One wears overalls and a shirt and the other wears a pink tutu and sweater. They both hold branches like walking sticks. In the water we can see the children’s reflection. They both have light skin tone and red hair. A boy wears the overalls. A girl wears the tutu. A flower floats on the water. Text: The Biggest Puddle in the World. Mark Lee. Nathalie Dion.

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The Biggest Puddle in the World

Cover: In a Land Without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark by Jonathan Garfinkel. Black and white text of the title is set in a Soviet-era propaganda font. A small black illustration of a cat walking is in the middle-right of the page. The background is red.

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In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark

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The Outside Circle

Cover: Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories by Cho Nam-joo Translated by Jamie Chang. From the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. Four portraits appear in four boxes. The faces have hair but no facial features. All the figures are wearing hot pink shirts of different kinds and have purple hair styles. The title appears in strong white capital letters in the centre of the four boxes.

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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

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History’s People

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Stella and Sam ABC

A blue balloon floats against a white background. Underneath the balloon, at the bottom of the cover, is a silver thumb tack. Text: Payback. Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. Margaret Atwood. CBC Massey Lectures.

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Payback

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The Librarianist

This image is a series of scenes. The scene above is a yellow photograph of a strip mall and a stoplight. Signs read, ÒDonuts, Muffins, CakesÓ and ÒGrocery StoreÓ. Two sections, one red and one yellow, with black polka dots, show the title. The scene below is a black and green image of the Toronto skyline on a red background. Text: Frying Plantain. Zalika Reid-Benta. Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist. ÒAn unforgettable debut.Ó Ð Paul Beaty, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout.

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Frying Plantain

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Narinjah (The Bitter Orange Tree)

Mnoomin maan’gowing/The Gift of Mnoomin. Written by Brittany Luby, illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, translated by Mary Ann Corbiere. A field of mnoomin plants grow in the water, where a canoe holds three people. A man stands in the canoe holding a long pole that extends down into the water. Two ducks swim in the foreground, where ripe seed heads of mnoomin appear. An eagle soars against a background of pink and gold clouds. A faint brushstroke flows across the scene.

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Mnoomin maan'gowing / The Gift of Mnoomin

Cover: Tauhou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall. A blue background. Two greyscale oolichan fish are parallel, with the head of each adjacent to the other’s tail. The left fish has a Māori-inspired ancestor figure, made up of swirls and a beak-like mouth. Around her are small and simple weaving and carving patterns. The right fish is covered in similar markings. The ancestor figure on this side wears a cedar hat and skirt. Her hands are lifted. Between the fish, the title splits vertically down in white text.

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Tauhou

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Pure Spring

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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Toronto in 100 Beers

Walking Trees by Marie-Louise Gay. A girl with pale skin tone and black hair walks while holding a leash in one hand and a watering can in the other. In the background there is a city scape depicted as white line drawings against a forest-green background. Seagulls fly across the scene. Leaves sprout from the title lettering.

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Walking Trees

Cover: Pitiful by Brandi Bird. The text is white over a back backgound, with "poems" appearing in red. In the center, an illustration in red shows a hand reaching up from the ocean, through waves that also look like hands. At the bottom, a blurb reads, "Far from a whimper, Pitiful is a vital battle cry and a song." —Marya Hornbacher

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Pitiful

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Cockroach

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The Immortal Woman

A graphic pattern is in shades of blue and green shapes with grey lines in between. Some grey lines cross over and through the letters of the title and the authorÕs name. Text: Dual Citizens. Alix Ohlin. Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist. Author of Inside. ÒTouchingÉ Dual Citizens has a lot in common with Zadie SmithÕs Swing Time and Claire MessudÕs The Burning Girl.ÓÑWall Street Journal.

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Dual Citizens

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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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

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Belonging

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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Soft as Bones

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Caramba and Henry

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This Accident of Being Lost

Cover: Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor. Over a bright yellow background, the cover features an illustrated pair of hands making casting a shadow puppet in the shape of a dog.

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Shadow Price

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Winter

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Asian Vegetables

Cover: “Burying the Moon. By Andrée Poulin and Sonali Zohra.” A girl with medium-dark skin tone stands in a field, facing away from us. The girl wears sandals and a blue dress over a white shirt, and her dark hair is braided. She holds a pick and stares at the big full yellow moon. There is a hole in the ground beneath the moon. The field and sky are shades of purple, blue and pink. There are swirls in the sky behind the moon.

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Burying the Moon

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Big Lonely Doug

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

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French Exit

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A Short History of Progress

Cover: The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island. Written by Deborah Hodge. Pictures by Karen Reczuch. A close-up of a bird’s head fills the page. The bird has a black neck, white face, orange beak and long, yellow tufts flowing from above its eye to behind its head. Behind it are three more tufted puffins sitting on a grassy cliff with the ocean and clear blue sky behind them. The illustrations are done in watercolor and pencil.

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The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island

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Biology As Ideology

Cover: Colonel Parkinson in Charge: A Wry Reflection of my Incurable Illness by François Gravel, translated by Shelley Pomerance. The title is set in yellow against a bright, light teal background, above a white outline sketch of the brain and brain stem. There are approximately 20 small starbursts and dots in yellow, blue, red, and white scattered around the illustration of the brain.

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Colonel Parkinson in Charge

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Who Will Bury You?

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The Björkan Sagas

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Sit

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Manikanetish

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Blue Future

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

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More Lost Massey Lectures

Alone. The Journeys of Three Young Refugees. By Paul Tom and Mélanie Baillairgé. A woman and girl embrace. The girl rests her head on the woman’s shoulders, and the woman wraps her hands around the girl’s body. The woman’s upper body appears to be fading, ghostlike, into the background. Both have dark skin tone and black hair. The woman wears a red dress with long sleeves, and white hoop earrings. The girl appears to be teen age and has a green shirt, black skirt and a black backpack.

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Alone

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The Wayfinders

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February

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The Break

Cover: Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising by Brandi Morin. A painted portrait shows a woman with medium-dark skin tone and black hair beating a drum. She wears a cream-coloured dress and stands before a red circle.

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Our Voice of Fire

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A Family Is a Family Is a Family

Cover: However Far Away by Rajinderpal S. Pal. A face and shoulders in purple with features obscured in shadow. The figure is wearing orange over-the-ear headphones and a green shirt. The words A Novel appear in white type across the green shirt. Text: A beautiful debut novel about the calamitous aftereffects of decisions made and unmade, secrets kept and spilled. Omar El Akkad.

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However Far Away

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Channel of Peace

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

Cover: Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Two-Year Battle to become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb. Chess pieces on a green checkered board against a light background and two illustrated hands reaching toward the pieces. The title is set in the top third of the cover and the author’s name at the bottom.

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Interregnum

Dark blue vines curl along the sides of a light blue background. At the bottom of the vines are two small circles made by the branches, each with a rose. In the left circle is a man’s face and in the right circle is a woman’s face. In between the two is a girl with earphones. All three people have light skin tone and black hair. At the top of the vines are pink roses. In between them is the silhouette of a woman on stage in front of many seats. Text: Operatic. Kyo Maclear. Byron Eggenschwiler.

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Operatic

Cover: One Foot on the Platform: A Rock ’n’ Roll Journey—Writings on Music by Peter Goddard, edited by J.A. Wainwright. A blue cover with white and yellow type showing a greyscale photograph of a musician playing an acoustic guitar to a large audience at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival show, held at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Canada, on September 13, 1969.

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One Foot on the Platform

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Endings

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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Tokyo Digs a Garden

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A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests

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The Universe Within

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

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Seven Fallen Feathers

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The Truth About Stories

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Caramba

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river woman

Cover: Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History by Donna Seto. A colourful book cover that features vibrant, detailed illustrations of various storefronts and buildings in Vancouver's Chinatown, with a blue sky background. The buildings display Chinese signage and distinct architectural elements.

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Chinatown Vancouver

Cover: Inheritance, a novel, by Jane Park. A silver eunjangdo (Korean ornamental knife in a sheath) with a blue tassel and a yellow crysanthemum over a background illustration of a prairie grassland. The title Inheritance is set in the top third of the cover and the author's name at the bottom.

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Inheritance

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Carnival

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Mustafa

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De Niro's Game

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The Water Rat of Wanchai + The Dragon Head of Hong Kong

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Noopiming

Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections by Monique Gray Smith, featuring a colourful, beaded floral pattern with a hummingbird at the centre and a glowing yellow and orange background.

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Sharing the Light

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Step

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The Return of History