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Discover your next great Canadian read! Every genre, hottest books of the season and #GIVEAWAYS! #CanLit #ReadLocal

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Hi friends! We're moving to @bluesky where we'll continue to share your next Canadian read. We'd love to see you there! 👋👋👋https://t.co/ev6x8Vs1Z4

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A powerful excerpt from Niigaan Sinclair's #GGBooks-winning Wînipêk about the colonialist statues in #Winnipeg ... and two that are now anything but. ENTER TO WIN as well! https://t.co/QKbLRIUQRE @McClellandBooks #INDIGENOUS

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What would #GGBooks winner Jordan Abel tell his ten-year-old self about 2024? Hint: It's not anything to do with books! You could WIN his celebrated novel, EMPTY SPACES, right here: https://t.co/949Mq8FACM @McClellandBooks

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Read our Chat with Chimwemwe Undi, #GGBooks winner for #POETRY! And ... you could win her collection! https://t.co/EkNeScaUWv @HouseofAnansi

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Come check out our Chats with 2024 #GGBooks winners! Start with @trevcorkum in conversation with Katia Grubisic, who won for her translation of a Marie-Claire Blais novel, Nights Too Short to Dance https://t.co/CghR2dvDxQ @CanadaCouncil @_secondstory

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Congratulations to Anne Michaels, winner of the 2024 @GillerPrize. Check out HELD and all the other #gillerprize finalists here: https://t.co/clA4rGR2WF

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Last chance to enter for a chance to win the #gillerprize shortlist! Ends tonight at midnight. https://t.co/SERU5b6giW @GillerPrize

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According to the @guardian, Leatherface was “the greatest British punk band of the modern era" & it's central to Chris MacDonald's memoir DAYS AND DAYS. Chris recos other great music books here! https://t.co/Ju1iUiaePj @ecwpress @hockeyesque @eamonmcgrath @LizWorthTarot #punk

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Read an excerpt from Andrea Curry's memoir Finding Otipemisiwak and enter for a chance to WIN it! https://t.co/ZMQySG87hQ @Arsenalpulp #Giveaway #Indigenous

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Don't miss the chance to win Deepa Rajagopalan's Peacocks of Instagram - and the other finalists for the @GillerPrize! https://t.co/TfkVr7jfsI @HouseofAnansi

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Got a thing for horror? Nick Cutter, whose gruesome new book is THE QUEEN, has ideas for you: https://t.co/fOAxSbuOYj @ecwpress @andrewpyper @nickcutter @GalleryBooks @AFSulli #thriller #thrillerreaders

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In this month's Notes from a Children's Librarian, books that further readers' understanding of treaties, dovetailing nicely with #Indigenous education https://t.co/w6p3DN2Hpa #librarian #kidlit @AnnickPress @GoodMindsBooks

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Who knew mason jars could be such conduits to contemplation? An excerpt from the gorgeous new art book 300 Mason Jars, by Joanne Thomson https://t.co/GW8IEcWfVO @HHPublishing

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Anna Dowdall, whose literary whodunit is THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE, recos 9 books in which the journey is intimately connected to escape and survival. https://t.co/JbXfH2MHUp @radiant_press @coachhousebooks @cormorantbooks @guernica_ed @McClellandBooks

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Tasneem Jamal, whose new novel, I Never Said That I Was Brave, is a tale of female friendship and betrayal, recommends amazing books using first-person narration. https://t.co/PDJVgbwsl4 @Lynn_Coady @lethal_heroine @McClellandBooks @HouseofAnansi

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Who would recommend horror stories for kids? Spencer Miller, that's who, and here's why! @49thkids https://t.co/JsI4VlcX0E #kidlit #halloween2024 #HorrorThriller

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We are thrilled to share an excerpt from The Coincidence Problem by @geistmagazine 's Stephen Osborne. https://t.co/xe2LxrGjjE @ecwpress

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Paola Ferrante's Her Body Among Animals is shortlisted for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction! Here, she writes about why Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage means so much to her. https://t.co/EKrUbV7GgS @bookhugpress @CanadaCouncil

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Enter for a chance to win THE TREASURE HUNTERS CLUB and check out Tom Ryan's list of #NovaScotia reads that "scratch the autumnal itch!" https://t.co/XYauBYtsSk @SimonSchusterCA @NimbusPub @ConundrumCanada @HarperCollinsCa

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Erin Steele, whose new book is an addictions memoir and queer coming-of-age story, shares books that "weave beauty like a glinting, gold thread through pain." Not surprisingly, Toews, Thien, Maté, Maclear, & Hay are on this excellent list. https://t.co/lEnls5At8I @caitlinpress