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1 week ago | 
49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Julie Booker |Tree Abraham
Happy Poetry Month! Bonememory is one of our amazing April giveaways, running until the end of the month. Head over to our Giveaways Page for your chance to win, and to check out all the other great books up for offer. *****I am throbbing with envybecause she is seventy-one and has steeredher life through the snug grooves of ache-absencesculpted by a mutated gene. Sure, she doesn’t senseblood oozing from a cut or fingers burningwhen removing baked potatoes from the oven.
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2 months ago | 
49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Caroline Bishop |Julie Booker
One of my favorite things about making hummus is that it’s really hard to get wrong. Here are the basic ingredients, but don’t be afraid to use your imagination. Try adding new flavors—a spoon of pesto, a roasted bell pepper, a pinch of cumin.
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2 months ago | 
49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Leila Boukarim |Julie Booker
The Day I Left You, by Caroline Bishop, is one of the great books we're offering for giveaway throughout February 2025. Head over to our giveaways page for your turn to enter and to check out everything we've got up for giveaway right now. *****Though I’m a Canadian citizen, I grew up in the UK, where my Canadian mother and British father decided to raise my sister and me. I’ve visited Canada multiple times over the years, but I have never lived here.
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2 months ago | 
49thshelf.com | Leila Boukarim |Caroline Bishop |Julie Booker |Trevor Corkum
“The Great Right North should be required reading for every academic, policymaker, journalist, law enforcement official, and citizen concerned about the far right. It is a highly nuanced work that makes sense of recent events such as the Freedom Convoy and the Quebec City mosque shooting, and it is sure to be helpful in interpreting future developments as well.”-Jonathan Montpetit, CBC News_____The Great Right North explores the current state of far-right activism in Canada.
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2 months ago | 
49thshelf.com | Gabriele Goldstone |Spencer Miller |Kerry Clare |Julie Booker
It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished is one of the terrific books we've got up for giveaway until the end of February. Head to our giveaways page for your chance to win! *****We all know the adage about books and covers: don’t judge in the interior of something by its exterior. Good words to live by. Important words. Sometimes life-saving in a world that’s become increasingly parsed by quick-switch assumptions about marginalized bodies.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Julie Booker |Christine Higdon |Natalie Laurin
It’s that time of year again! We’re pleased to highlight all of this year’s English-language Governor General’s Literary Award winners, beginning with Jack Wong. He’s the author of When You Can Swim (Scholastic Canada), the 2023 winner for Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books. You need to be logged in to enter to win. Have an account already? Sign In. Need an account? Sign Up. It's easy and just takes a minute.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
49thshelf.com | Julie Booker |Kerry Clare |Sean Dixon
This is a novel about so many things—neglectful parents, wonder, Woodstock, the 1960s, addiction, mental health. Where were the seeds of the story born? It started with a conversation with my grandma a few decades ago. She told me about growing up with her mother, who had an undiagnosed mental illness and delusions of grandeur. She believed, for example, that she had once dated Frank Sinatra. To hear my grandma tell it, this was entertaining at times but more often terrifying.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
49thshelf.com | Julie Booker |Beth Ryan |Kiley Turner
Visions of the Crow (HighWater Press) is a YA graphic novel that tells the engaging story of Damon Quinn, a teenager who just wants to get through his senior year unscathed. His mom struggles with alcohol and is barely coping with the day-to-day. Damon has to navigate his relationship with difficult classmates and a mysterious new girl—not to mention the mysterious crow following him everywhere.
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May 5, 2023 | 
49thshelf.com | Curtis LeBlanc |Julie Booker |Michelle Syba |Philippa Joly
I wanted to explore these ideas in “Kevin Bombardo,” and I was particularly interested in using a character as a kind of catalyst for the protagonist to repeatedly confront these questions about himself. The inspiration for Kevin Bombardo, the enigmatic character who plays the role of catalyst, came from a friend who told me an anecdote about a Kevin he once knew.
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May 4, 2023 | 
49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Julie Booker |Michelle Syba |Philippa Joly
We've got copies of Sunsetter up for giveaway right now! Don't miss your chance to win. ****I have always been drawn to narratives that feature young protagonists and characters in key roles. Maybe it was because I found my younger years to be so formative, and so profound in the way they still influence my life (it’s when I decided I had to be a writer, after all), but there is something incredibly powerful and insightful about the perspective of youth in literature.
