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14 high school students share the one book they think their entire generation should read
CBC Radio's All in a Day invited Ottawa-area high school students to come on the show and make a case for the the book they think all teens should read.
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How Jesse Thistle's deeply personal memoir 'happened by accident'
Jesse Thistle had no intention of sharing his deeply personal story of homelessness, addiction and recovery in a book. But what started as a few personal details sprinkled into his doctoral work on Indigenous homelessness spun into something much larger - a bestseller.
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The CBC Books fall reading list: 30 books to read now
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My Life In Books
6 books Sydney Smith would love to illustrate
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Ann Shortell's Celtic Knot among 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards winners
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Jane van Koeverden
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Why Anar Ali wrote a novel about a Muslim family dealing with hard times in a new country
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Ryan B. Patrick
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Atwood @ 80
The time Margaret Atwood found inspiration in how society views female criminals
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Brian Bilston may be the Banksy of poetry
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Rocky Johnson, father of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, on growing up in N.S.
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The Atwood archives reveal what the author was thinking about while writing The Handmaid's Tale
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My Life in Books
Emma Donoghue shares her favourite books
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Jane van Koeverden
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Malcolm Gladwell on why it's so tricky detecting liars based on behaviour
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Unreserved's fall book pick list
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'A beautiful avenue for me to get my own grief written down': Karen McBride on writing 'Crow Winter'
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How Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist David Bezmozgis wrote about the hardships of being an immigrant
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'Indigenous spin' on iconic Hardy Boys series inspired The Mighty Muskrats
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Fighting for democracy from the bottom up | Astra Taylor, Pt 2
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Remembering Harold Bloom, the Yale scholar who searched for literary genius
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Jon Klassen, Deborah Ellis among finalists for largest children's literature prize in the world
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Jane van Koeverden
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Yiyun Li navigates the loss of a child in her heartbreaking new novel
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18 books you heard about on CBC Radio this week
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Why Jenny Heijun Wills wrote a book about reuniting with her first family in Korea
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Jane van Koeverden
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How Christy Ann Conlin's writing is shaped by the evocative landscapes of Nova Scotia
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