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Kern Carter tackles toxic masculinity in his middle-grade debut; Shop Talk: Lake House Books; Excerpt from The Audacity of Relevance: Critical Conversations on the Future of Arts and Culture
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Oct 9, 2024 · August 28, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books. ★The Outsmarters. By Deborah Ellis. Governor General’s Award–winning author Deborah Ellis returns with a terrific middle-grade novel set in contemporary Toronto. Written in first-person narrative, the book follows 12-year-old Kate Grey after she is suspended from school for ...
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Stolen Words - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
Dec 1, 2017 · A group of children stand, their heads reluctantly held to the sky with mouths open as their voices flow from their throats in smoky wisps, coalescing into a large blackbird. The bird flies into a cage, held by a white priest. Back in the present, when the grandfather opens the Cree language book, the previously caged blackbird is released ...
All the Quiet Places - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
Brian Thomas Isaac’s All the Quiet Places transports the reader across time and space to a, well, quiet corner of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the southern Interior of British Columbia in 1956. There, six-year-old Eddie lives with his mother, Grace, and younger brother, Lewis, isolated from most of their community except for his grandmother …
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Canisia Lubrin, Danny Ramadan among 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award finalists. By Cassandra Drudi. The Canada Council for the Arts has named 70 finalists for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Awards. Each finalist receives $1,000, with the winners in each of the 14 categories to receive $25,000.
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Book Reviews — Dundurn Press. Read our reviews of books published by Dundurn Press. Canada Alone: Navigating the Post-American World. by Kim Richard Nossal. Reasonable Cause to Suspect: A Mother’s Ordeal to Free Her Son from a Kurdish Prison. by Sally Lane. What the Dog Knows. by Sylvia McNicoll. ★ Autonomy.
Forty years on, In Search of April Raintree remains a …
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Métis author Beatrice Mosionier’s best-known work In Search of April Raintree. The novel candidly deals with Indigenous experiences of sexual assault, suicide, and alcoholism, and follows the lives of sisters April and Cheryl as they are separated from their birth family and placed in foster care ...
The Break - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
Katherena Vermette’s first book, North End Love Songs, a poetry collection set among Winnipeg’s Métis community, won a 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award. In her debut novel, the author finds herself in familiar and heart-wrenching territory of prejudice and violence. “The Break” is hydro land that cuts a swath through Winnipeg’s North End neighbourhood; in
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The debut novel by Brampton, Ontario, author Jael Richardson – founder of the Festival of Literary Diversity and author of the memoir The Stone Thrower – is an outstanding and fearless story that follows a young woman’s journey of self-discovery and strength as she forges her own way in a ruthless society. Much can be said about Richardson’s impressive world-building: not …