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The Testaments by Margaret Atwood makes Amazon's best books of the year list
The online retailer selected 20 books as the best of 2019, including The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead and Quichotte by Salman Rushdie. The Testaments is the only Canadian title on the list.
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How family stories inspired Allison Mills's novel about a girl who catches spirits in her hair
Jane van Koeverden
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Susan Rice, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, discusses Donald Trump and her new memoir
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Bohemian Rhapsody screenwriter Anthony McCarten on turning true stories into award-winning movies
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Mozhdah Jamalzadah, the 'Oprah of Afghanistan,' speaks her truth with new biography, Voice of Rebellion
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Wanna pick the fastest checkout line? Jay Ingram says science can ring you through
David Bell
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The Testaments by Margaret Atwood among 3 Canadian titles on Time magazine's 'must-read books of 2019' list
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How poetry helped me navigate the turbulence of teen angst
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Sarah Edmondson escaped from the cult NXIVM. She shares her journey in the memoir, Scarred
CBC Books
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SFU students create colouring book to help refugees feel at home
Maggie MacPherson
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Supervolcanoes, asteroids, climate change: This author looks at the end of the world, and how we might save it
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First Marvel Comics issue sells for $1.26 million US
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Sheree Fitch's latest book aimed at helping people grieve
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Alycia Pirmohamed wins 2019 CBC Poetry Prize
Dionne Codrington
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The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey wins book prize for thrillers that don't feature violence against women
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Like This? Love That
If you liked Young Skins by Colin Barrett, you'll love Megan Gail Coles's 2014 short fiction debut
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With The Sandman set to hit Netflix, creator Neil Gaiman says it will stay true to the comics
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Jordan Tannahill recommends three books written about captivity
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'He wanted me to see that I was a good person': How a writer's friendship with Mr. Rogers inspired a movie
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Anne with an E explores Mi'kmaq First Nation history in P.E.I.
Aruna Dutt
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Cartoonist Lynda Barry teaches us how to silence our inner critic and draw like a child
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McMindfulness: how capitalism hijacked the Buddhist teaching of mindfulness
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