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Canada Reads spotlight: From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
Jesse Thistle recounts his long road from addiction and homelessness to rediscovering his Indigenous roots and achieving academic success in his debut memoir, which will defended by George Canyon on Canada Reads 2020.
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Canada Reads spotlight: Samra Habib's We Have Always Been Here
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Peter Robinson reflects on writing his latest Inspector Banks mystery novel in a post-Brexit world
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Star choreographer Alexei Ratmansky makes breathtaking ballet out of classic literature
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Helen Knott's In My Own Moccasins speaks for Indigenous women while making space for others coping with trauma
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Martin Michaud set his detective series in Old Montreal — creating a bestselling series in the process
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Read excerpts from the Canada Reads 2020 books
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Check out the Canada Reads 2020 podcast
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How Canada Reads contender Megan Gail Coles practices tough love in Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun
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Why Dionne Brand is fascinated with Toronto — and how the diverse love and lives of its citizens intersect
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Canada Reads finalist Eden Robinson on the importance of representation and getting it right
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Megan Gail Coles & Alayna Fender discuss Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
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The First Page
Juliana Narváez Gutierrez, Leonardo Mete win The First Page student writing challenge
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The Canada Reads authors answer 5 big questions
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The bestselling Canadian books for the week of March 1-7, 2020
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How writing Canada Reads contender We Have Always Been Here helped Samra Habib deal with past trauma
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Laisha Rosnau's poetry collection Our Familiar Hunger wins $25K Kobzar Book Award
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Jane van Koeverden
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Alix Ohlin, Steven Price, Ivan Coyote, Yasuko Thanh among BC and Yukon Book Prize nominees
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Lady Gaga is publishing an anthology of inspirational stories by youth
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Jane van Koeverden
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Billy-Ray Belcourt, Samra Habib, Ness Lee, Vivek Shraya, Mariko Tamaki among Lambda Literary Awards finalists
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Jane van Koeverden
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Where I Write
A loving wife and cat, some cheap furniture...Jesse Thistle has everything he needs to write here
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My Life in Books
9 books that inspired Canada Reads author Eden Robinson
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