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1 week ago | 
49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Kate Braid |Tim Welsh |Kerry Clare
Finding Flora is up for giveaway until the end of May! Head to our giveaways page for your chance to win, and to check out all the other books up for grabs. *****Finding Flora is a rollicking historical novel set in turn-of-the-century Alberta about a young woman on the run from her abusive husband who uses a legal loophole to claim a homestead in the Wild West—perfect for fans of Outlawed and The Giver of Stars.
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1 week ago | 
49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Elinor Florence |Tim Welsh |Kerry Clare
The Erotics of Cutting Grass is one of our great giveaways running until the end of May. Check out our giveaways page for your chance to win and to take a look at everything else up for offer. *****What these books (listed in no particular order) have in common for me is that they all tell, with wonderful skill and insight, heartfelt stories of coping with difficult times. I love oral history—the view of History from so-called “ordinary” people’s perspective, not just the “famous” people.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
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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Jan 13, 2025 | 
49thshelf.com | Janice MacDonald |Kerry Clare |Kiley Turner |Trevor Corkum
When We Were Ashes is one of the great books we've got up for giveaway until the end of January. Head to our Giveaways Page for your chance to win and to check out everything we've got on offer. ***** Fifteen Dogs, by André AlexisThe premise is just brilliant. Over drinks at a local Toronto bar, Hermes and Apollo (yes, those fickle Greek gods of an eternal yesteryear) decide to settle a bet by granting human consciousness and language to 15 dogs staying at a nearby veterinary clinic.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
49thshelf.com | Kerry Clare |Kiley Turner |Trevor Corkum
Victor & Me in Paris is one of the great books we've got up for giveaway until the end of January. Check out our giveaways page for your chance to win and to check out everything else we've got on offer. *As I celebrate the launch of a new series, I’ve been reflecting on when I first started writing mystery fiction.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kerry Clare |Lilian Nattel |Tolu Oloruntoba |Paul Seesequasis
collected a wonderful list of The 20 Best Creative Writing Substacks in 2023. I’m doing a round up of my favourite Turtle Island/Canadian Substacks that I actually read (in alphabetical order) by authors, reviewers, archivists, coaches, and more. This list will be updated.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
49thshelf.com | Kerry Clare |Patti Grayson |Trevor Corkum |Spencer Miller
The Bookseller: Liz Green, Audreys Books (Edmonton, AB)The Pick: Daughter, by Claudia DeyDaughter revolves around Mona and her larger than life, manipulative, and narcissistic father as he draws her closer and pushes her away, as he sees fit, often playing her against his other relationships, especially his daughter by another marriage. Claudia Dey writes beautifully about this ebb and flow and its toll on Mona.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
49thshelf.com | Kerry Clare |Chris Banks |Trevor Corkum |Michael Mirolla
Welcome to Top Grade: CanLit for the Classroom, a blog and preview video series that features new releases from Canadian book publishers ideal for use in K-12 classrooms and school library collections. Throughout the year, we dive into new titles, highlighting relevant curriculum links and themes. ***Written by secondary school teacher Spencer MillerAlmost half the world’s refugees are children.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Spencer Miller |Kerry Clare |Patti Grayson
We begin this year’s special Giller coverage in conversation with Dionne Irving. Her short story collection The Islands is a 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist. 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. Enter for a chance to win the 2023 Giller Prize shortlist! Contest closes midnight, November 14.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
49thshelf.com | Patti Grayson |Trevor Corkum |Spencer Miller |Kerry Clare
This is a sprawling, gorgeous epic of a novel that spans nearly a century. What moment or character provided the initial seed for the story? I had actually been working on a different novel for a couple of years when the first image from what would become A History of Burning popped into my head—and wouldn’t leave until I wrote it down.
