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Matadora
by Elizabeth Ruth
The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
by David Waltner-Toews
Travelling Light
by Peter Behrens
Bone and Bread
by Saleema Nawaz
Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother
by Helen Humphreys
The Hungry Ghosts
by Shyam Selvadurai
Under the Keel
by Michael Crummey
Supplying Salt and Light
by Lorna Goodison
The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry
by Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron, eds.
The Ends of the Earth
by Jacqueline Turner
Letter from Brooklyn
by Jacob Scheier
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Books for Young People
In Lucia’s Neighborhood
by Pat Shewchuk; Marek Colek, illus.
Allegra
by Shelley Hrdlitschka
Dream Boats
by Dan Bar-el; Kirsti Anne Wakelin, illus.
The Blackwell Pages: Loki’s Wolves
by K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr
Sneaky Art
by Marthe Jocelyn
Mooncakes
by Loretta Seto; Renné Benoit, illus
Gabby
by Joyce Grant; Jan Dolby, illus.
A Taste of Heaven
by Meg Tilly
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- First time lucky
- Emily Schultz
- Blonde ambition
- Jan Wong
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- Taras Grescoe
- Mover and Shaker
- Kim Thúy
- Engaging with the past
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