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Authors who died in 2019
As 2019 comes to a close, we look back at the writers we lost this year.
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Canada Reads 2020 is coming
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The best books of 2019
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36 Canadian books that won awards in the second half of 2019
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The multi-talented Jonathan Miller: a life of creativity, curiosity and comedy
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Katherine Govier named to the Order of Canada for her writing, charity work
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When Wayne Grady discovered his family's secret past, it changed who he was and how he wrote
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Why Lisa Charleyboy wrote a book to empower young Indigenous women
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Gail Gallant grew up believing she was reborn — and wrote a memoir about it
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James FitzGerald looks back on how his first love's early death shaped him and another man
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Todd Babiak's The Empress of Idaho explores vulnerability and sexual power
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Why Shandi Mitchell wrote a novel about the triumph of failure
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John Irving on why he became a Canadian
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Customer starts campaign to find new location for 'unique' Sydney bookstore
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Brent Kelloway
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The enduring appeal of Middlemarch, 200 years after George Eliot's birth
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Why Louise Penny had to be 'hurt' into writing full time
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Read 2 chapters and call me in the morning: The White Coat, Black Art book club
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9 books to read from The Next Chapter's mystery book panel
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Prescribed reading: How a book club helps health-care workers 'understand why we do what we do'
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The bestselling Canadian books for the week of Dec. 8-14, 2019
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How a news story about elevator inspectors (really!) inspired Linwood Barclay's latest thriller
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To Every Thing There is a Season: A reading of a Cape Breton Christmas story
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