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Spring Preview
29 Canadian kids books & YA to look for in spring 2019
Here's a guide to Canadian picture books, middle-grade books and YA books that are coming out in the first half of 2019.
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Bestsellers
The bestselling Canadian books for the week of Jan. 20 to 26, 2019
Bestseller lists are compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales stats from over 260 Canadian independent stores.
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Enter the CBC Nonfiction Prize
You could win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre and have your work published on CBC Books.
Britain's Man Booker fiction prize losing main sponsor
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Spring Book Preview
19 works of Canadian nonfiction to check out in spring 2019
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Writing Tip
Struggling to build up your writing momentum? Write from the heart
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Randy Boyagoda chairs 5-person Scotiabank Giller Prize jury
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Tidying guru Marie Kondo talks big messes, Shintoism and viral fame
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Tanya Tagaq melds memoir and fiction with emotional first book, Split Tooth
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Meg Medina wins 2019 Newbery Medal for children's literature for YA novel Merci Suarez Changes Gears
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How Emma Hooper balanced grit & whimsy while writing a novel set on Canada's East Coast
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Giles Blunt takes us on a North Bay Block Party
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Booking for love with speed dating for bookworms at St. John's library
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DOG-EARED READS
Why Janie Chang can't get over Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
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How Jean Genet & Marguerite Duras inspired playwright Jordan Tannahill's love for autofiction
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What it's like to be poor in rural America
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Preserving Indigenous languages, one story at a time
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Poems on the range: the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering wrangles writers from all over, including Canada
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Proust Questionnaire
Barry Callaghan on fears, love and the merits of drinking a glass of wine every day
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Remembering Diana Athill, a 'fierce' editor who broke boundaries with her own writing
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Spring Book Preview
28 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2019
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Esther Kinsky on the ebb and flow of memory in River
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Waubgeshig Rice balances historical accuracy with dystopian future in new novel
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Spring Book Preview
20 works of Canadian poetry to check out in spring 2019
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