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26/11/2023

📚SO LATE IN THE DAY is the latest short story collection from Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE.

📚Clarie Keegan is celebrated for her powerful short fiction and now gifts us three exquisite stories forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from her earliest most recent work.

📚Potent, charged, and breathtakingly insightful, these three essential tales will linger with readers long after the book is closed.

📚Look for a copy or two of SO LATE IN THE DAY and SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE at your local independent bookstore. The perfect gift for that special someone on your list.

13/11/2023

📚THE LIBRARIANIST published by House of Anansi Press is Patrick deWitt’s 5th novel.
📚He has written a wide-ranging and ambitious document of the introvert’s condition.
📚THE LIBRARIANIST celebrates the extraordinary in the so-called ordinary life of Bob Comet, a retired librarian who is stuck in the past.
📚Living alone in his childhood home, volunteers at a seniors’ residence. Here his past and present converge stimulating vivid childhood memories and introducing the reader to a wild cast and wicked dialogue.
📚Look for a copy of the Librarianist at your local independent bookstore.

19/05/2023

📚 THE POSTCARD is an autobiographical novel by author and screenwriter Anne
Berest, published in North America on May 16, from Europa editions. , 📚THE POSTCARD is a sweeping history of a Jewish
family that moves fluidly forward and back through the generations. 📚From stories told to her by her grandmother, Berest is able to piece together the
family history. Beginning in Russia in 1919 through Palestine, and
ultimately to Paris. The horrors of the Holocaust are slowly revealed as the grandmother recounts her miraculous escape from death at Auschwitz.
📚The novel honors the memory of the author's family and helps the next generation
comprehend the devastation and trauma caused by hatred and war. THE POSTCARD was named a Most Anticipated Book by the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star and received starred reviews in Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.

Look for a copy of THE POSTCARD at your local indie bookstore and

29/04/2023

📚Celebrate indie bookstore day on Saturday. Stop by your favourite local for prizes, exclusives, and staff recommendations.
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20/12/2022

📚Book Club questions for
2022 Scotia Giller Winner
SLEEPING CAR PORTER, start the conversation and buy books local!

20/11/2022

Hey indie bookstores and gift shops check the holiday shipping schedule at Raincoast Book Group. So many wonderful publishers and authors in one warehouse!

23/10/2022

📚GENDER SWAPPED GREEK MYTHS is publishing early in November by Faber & Faber and will be available soon at your local independent bookstore.

📚Imagine your favourite myths and the gender roles are reversed – Olympus becomes Olympia, Zeus becomes Zea, Hermes becomes Hermia. The stories are not rewritten with reinvented characters or altered endings, the genders have simply been switched.

📚From the creative team of Karrie Fransman & Jonathan Plackett who gave us Gender Swapped Fairy Tales. The sequel is a beautiful hard cover edition with 14 myths, enhanced by colour illustrations and a bound in cloth bookmark. The perfect gift for kids and adults alike.

📚You'll be enchanted by the refreshing world this swap creates - and thunderstruck by the new characters you're about to discover. Look for a copy of GENDER SWAPPED GREEK MYTHS next month at your local independent bookstore. Click the link in our bio to find a store near you!

06/02/2022

📚NATURE AND ME: A guide to the joys and excitements of the outdoors, publishes this week by The School of Life.

📚Illustrated by Tyla Mason, and edited by Alain Botton, this informative picture book helps remind us the importance of connecting with our natural world.

📚Perfect for young readers, parents and educators, the warm and colourful illustrations help expand emotional literacy as kids explore how their environment makes them feel.

📚Look for a copy of NATURE AND ME at your local independent bookstore. Buy a copy for your home library, or gift a copy to your favourite teacher. Click the link in our bio to find a store near you!

13/01/2022

📚OUT OF THE SUN: ON RACE AND STORYTELLING by Esi Edugyan is the 2021 CBC Massey Lecture.

📚Published last Fall by House of Anansi Press, the Lectures will air on CBC Radio One’s Ideas starting January 24th.

📚Esi Edugyan has won the Giller Prize twice for her novels, HALF BLOOD BLUES and WASHINGTON BLACK.

📚Pick up a copy of OUT OF THE SUN at your local indie bookstore. Click on the link in our bio to find a shop in your neighborhood. And don’t forget to tune in at 8:00 pm January 24th on CBC Radio One to hear Esi Edugyan deliver the first Lecture.

18/12/2021

📚NO LONGER HUMAN by Osamu Danzai translated by Donald Keene was first
published in English by New Directions in 1958. The paperback edition
featured came out in 1973 and sells thousands of copies each month in
Canada.

📚NO LONGER HUMAN is the second-best selling novel of all time in Japan, and
is considered Osamu Danzai's master work. Published in Japan just before his tragic death in 1948, the novel is semi auto biographical, and a powerful study of an individual's alienation from society.

📚Without sentimentality, Danzai records the casual cruelties of life and its
fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness. In popular culture the novel was adapted into a feature fill, a graphic novel and anime series.

📚Look for a copy of NO LONGER HUMAN at your local independent bookstore.

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17/12/2021

📚In November Radiohead reissued their studio albums Kid A and Amnesia
together as one package. Available as a 3LP vinyl set of triple-CD package.

📚To celebrate this milestone of musical accomplishment Canongate has
published KID A MNESIA: The Book of Radiohead Artwork by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood. KID A MNESIA is a celebration of their creative process and a treasure trove for art lovers and Radiohead fans.

📚KID A MNESIA chronicles their obsessions at the time: minotaurs, genocide, maps, globalisation, monsters, pylons, dams, volcanoes, locusts, lightning,
helicopters, Hiroshima, show homes and ring roads. What emerges is a
extraordinary portrait of the of turn of the century.

📚KID A MNESIA is the perfect gift for the music lover on your list. Click the
link in our bio to find an independent bookstore in your neighbourhood.

05/12/2021

📚KING OF THE BLUES: THE RISE AND REIGN OF B.B. KING was published in October
by Atlantic Monthly Press. Written by Pulitzer Price winning author Daniel De
Vise, it's the first full authoritative biography of Riley (Blues Boy) King.

📚Daniel de Vise interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King's inner circle, family, band members, retainers, managers, and more and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan.

📚KING OF THE BLUES presents the vibrant life of man born into deep poverty,
driven by his passion and destined to become the legendary showman and blues
icon. Battling racism and segregation King was a true trailblazer, a mentor
and hero for musicians around the world.

📚The quote on the inside jacket from Barrack Obama sums up B. B. King's
remarkable career. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up and coming artist. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues"

📚B.B. King performed over 15,000 live concerts in 90 countries over 60 years.
His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always
rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of colour.

📚KING OF THE BLUES has received starred reviews in PW, Library Journal, Kirkus and Booklist. Daniel De Vise’s writing accomplishes what great music biography do, encouraging the reader to discover the classic songs and albums of the iconic American legend.

📚Pick up a copy of KING OF THE BLUES at your independent bookstore. The
perfect gift for the music lover on your list. Click the link in our bio to find a bookstore near you!

04/12/2021

📚LUNCH EVERY DAY is the new picture book from KO Kids Books. Written and illustrated by Kathryn Otoshi it's perfect for kids age 4 and up. Kathryn is
the author of the best-selling and award-winning character-building series,
ZERO, ONE and TWO.

📚In LUNCH EVERY DAY Kathryn tackles the subjects and food insecurity and bullying. The main character Jimmy is too proud to wait in line for the free lunch provided by the school. His tough guy exterior is softened when an act of kindness and generosity highlight Jimmy's challenges with hunger and aggression.

📚LUNCH EVERY DAY is based on a true story of a boy who takes another kid's lunch each day, but through the power of kindness he is transformed into a
compassionate human being.

📚Kathyn Otoshi's books have sold over 70,000 copies in Canada. She travels to schools encouraging kids to develop strong character assets, and helps
parents and educators engage with young people through art and the love of
reading.

📚Look for a copy of LUNCH EVERY DAY at your local independent bookstore. Buy
a copy for the young reader on your list, and gift a copy to your favourite
teacher!

28/11/2021

📚NINA SIMONE'S GUM by Warren Ellis was published last month by Faber & Faber.
The story begins on July 1, 1999 when Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance
at Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. It would be her last live show in London, Simone's health was failing but as she played her strength grew and a spell was cast over the audience.

📚After the show in a state of awe Warren Ellis crept to the piano and took Dr Nina Simone's chewed gum, wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records bag. The gum remained with him for twenty years.

📚In 2019, Nick Cave asked Warren if there was anything he could contribute for his Stranger Than Kindness exhibition. Warren realized the time had come to release the gum. They agreed it should be housed in a glass case like a holy relic, and displayed at the show. Eventually the gum was cast in silver and gold, sparking a chain of events that no one could have predicted, that would take him back to his childhood and relationship to found objects.

📚NINA SIMOME'S GUM reveals how something seemingly insignificant and
disposable can form beautiful connections between people. It's a story about the meaning we bestow on objects and experiences. A celebration of the artistic process, the power of art, friendship and understanding.

📚Warren Ellis is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer, most famous for his work as collaborator and bandmate of Nick Cave, in both the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. He's a multi-award-winning film composer whose soundtracks includes The Proposition, The Road, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Mustang and most recently This Train I
Ride.

📚This genre bending biography is filled with photos and has an introduction by Nick Cave. NINA SIMONE'S GUM makes a perfect gift for the music lover on your list. Pick up your copy at a local independent bookstore in your neighborhood. Click on the link in our bio to find a store near you!

07/11/2021

📚THE UNWINDING arrived this week from Unbound, the world's first crowdfunding publisher. Written and illustrated by Jackie Morris who collaborated with
Robert Macfarlane on the award winning and best-selling books, LOST SPELLS and LOST WORDS.

📚THE UNWINDING is designed to be a guide that be can opened at any page and turned to again and again. A book that will offer a place of calm and
moments of reflection amidst our increasingly confusing world.

📚The beautiful water colour paintings created by Morris will help the reader
unwind when the pressures of work and life start closing in. Half story,
half fairy tale she has created an enchanting keepsake to give as a gift to young and old alike.

📚Dreams and wishes are the inspiration at times like this.

📚Pick up your copy of THE UNWINDING at a local independent bookstore. Click on the link in our bio to find a location near you. Look for the Jackie Morris’ companion book THE SILENT UNWINDING an illustrated notebook to allow the reader to create and draw their own stories.

24/10/2021

📚HOLDING CHANGE by adrienne maree brown is a practical guide on how to use facilitation and meditation in our daily lives, skills that can be utilized by both individuals and organizations. The author has over twenty years experience working within the movement and shows us how Black feminists have answers that can serve anyone working to create change in the world.

📚Published by AK Press in June, HOLDING CHANGE in part of the Emergent Strategy Series. adrienne marree brown is the author of the New York Times best selling books PLEASURE ACTIVISIM and EMERGENT STRATEGY.
HOLDING CHANGE gives the reader a detailed look at how to practice the lessons of Emergent Strategy in real time. It draws from the author’s lessons as a facilitator, and her experiences immersing people into the emergent strategy community.

📚Includes contributions by Autumn Brown, Sage Crump, Malkia Devich-Cyril, Ejeris Dixon, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Prentis Hemphill, Micky ScottBey Jones, N'Tanya Lee, and Makani Themba.

📚Pick up a your copy of HOLDING CHANGE at a local independent bookstore. Buy a copy for your work place, or gift a copy to a friend. Click on the link in our bio to find a bookstore in your neighbourhood and .

11/09/2021

📚WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? is an insightful new book published by Faber & Faber for children aged 1 to 5. Written by James Catchpole and illustrated by Karen George, it’s the first picture book to address how a disabled child might want to be spoken to.

📚”What happened to you? Was it a shark? A burglar? A lion? Did it fall off?”

📚The creators use humour and playful illustrations to help young children understand what it feels like to be seen as different.

📚Available in both hard cover and paperback, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? explains complex and personal life lessons in relatable language that will benefit both children and adults.

📚Included on the end pages is a letter from the author giving suggestions to parents and educators on how to explain to young readers that disability is normal.

📚Look for a copy of WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? at your local independent bookstore. Buy one for your home library and gift a copy to your favourite teacher. Click on the link in our bio to find a bookseller in your neighborhood!

22/08/2021

📚In WE DO THIS ‘TIL WE FREE US, Mariame Kaba outlines how to seek justice beyond the punishment system, to transform society and the manner we deal with harm and accountability, and to find hope in a collective struggle for abolition.

📚Published by Haymarket Books in March this year, WE DO THIS ‘TIL WE FREE US is a New York Times bestseller. Mariame, Kaba’s work is deeply rooted in the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change the world. “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.”

📚”This remarkable collection is a powerful map for anyone who longs for a future built on safety, community, and joy, and an intellectual home for those who are creating new pathways to get us there."- Alisa Bierria, co-founder and co-organizer, Survived and Punished

📚Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration.

📚Pick up a copy of WE DO THIS ‘TIL WE FREE US at your local independent bookstore. Click on the link in our bio to find a store in your neighbourhood.

20/07/2021

📚THE FOUR AGREEMENTS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PERSONAL FREEDOM, by don Miguel Ruiz was published in 1997 by Amber Allen Publishing.

📚The book spent 10 years on the New York Times best seller list, and sales over the last 15 months have increased again.

📚The clarity of the writing and wisdom in the message have provided comfort and guidance to millions.

📚Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the FOUR AGREEMENTS offers a powerful code of conduct.
Guiding principles that have helped many overcome difficult challenges and traumatic life events.

📚Look for a copy of the FOUR AGREEMENTS at your local independent bookstore.
Buy one for yourself and a copy someone in your life.

📚Click on the link in our bio to find a independent bookstore near you!

12/06/2021

📚FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS has just shipped in paperback, and is the perfect summer book. Valérie Perrin’s English language debut was published by Europa Editions last July in hard cover, translated from French by Hildegarde Serle.

📚The novel is a tender and poignant exploration of love, loss, and redemption. It quickly became a best seller in France and Italy and was dubbed Italy's favorite lockdown read.

📚FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS tells the story of a middle-aged caretaker of a cemetery in a small town in France. Her life is filled with predictable rhythms, until the arrival of a mourner who reveals pieces of her complicated past.

📚FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS is an intimately told story about a woman who defiantly believes in happiness, despite it all.

📚Pick up a copy at your local independent bookstore. Help celebrate their doors being open and shelves ready for browsing! Click on the link in our bio to find a location near you.

17/05/2021

📚WE MOVE TOGETHER is a charming picture book published by AK Press for kids aged 6 -9. “A joyful exploration of disability community and culture – and all the different ways we move together!”

📚The bright, colourful illustrations invite young readers to explore all the ways we navigate through the spaces around us, celebrating the relationships we foster along the way.

📚WE MOVE TOGETHER follows a mixed-ability group of kids as they creatively negotiate everyday barriers and find joy and connection in disability culture and community. A perfect tool for families, schools, and libraries to facilitate conversations about disability, accessibility, social justice and community building. There is a four-page kid-friendly glossary that will prompt further discussion.

📚Written by Kelly Fritsch an assistant professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, and Anne McGuire an associate professor at the University of Toronto. The illustrations were created by Eduardo Trejos a graphic designer who lives in Toronto.

📚We love this picture book and know you will too! Order your copy today online from your local independent bookstore. Use their web site, email them or order by phone for curbside pickup. Click on the link in our bio to find a location near you!

16/05/2021

📚AN APPRENTICESHIP OR THE BOOK OF PLEASURES by Clarice Lispector was published by New Directions last month. Originally released in 1968 in Portuguese, this new translation by Stefan Tobler has an afterword by Sheila Heti.

📚Lispector’s novel is a passionate, tender work, that is believed to be her most accessible. An unconventional love story where Lisepctor explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them. The novel surprised many of her readers and became a bestseller, and solidified Lispector as one Brazil’s finest writers.

📚Stefan Tobler was born in Belem, Brazil, in 1974 and is the publisher of And Other Stories. Sheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including How Should a Person Be?

📚Look for AN APPRENTICESHIP OR THE BOOK OF PLEASURES at your local independent bookstore. Use their online store, or curbside and order your copy today. Help celebrate New Directions’ 85th anniversary and select Lispector’s novel and one of the many classic titles in their brilliant catalogue!

28/04/2021

📚THE HARE by Melanie Finn was published by Two Dollar Radio in February this year.
📚A gripping literary thriller about a former art student and her daughter who are isolated in a rural Vermont cabin and have to contend with the toxic presence of an unbalanced con man in their lives.
📚Melanie Finn has written a powerful story of female perseverance, strength, and resilience.
📚Check Two Dollar Radio’s Instagram for more delightful reading choices and mouth-watering recipes, fuel for your mind and body.
📚Order your copy of THE HARE today from your local independent bookseller, connect with them by ☎️ or their online store. Click the link in our bio to find a bookstore near you!

19/04/2021

📚We love 💕 indie bookstores.
On Saturday, April 24 you can show your support too!
📚Click on the link in our bio to find a bookseller in your neighbourhood.
📚Use their online store to order your next weekend read, get a
recommendation for your book club.
The text for your course, or a gift for someone special.
📚Shop at an independent bookstore, online, curbside, delivery or instore!
📚Help celebrate independent bookstore day and

19/04/2021

📚We 💕 Canadian indie bookstores. On Saturday, April 24 you can show your support too!
📚Click on the link in our bio to find a bookseller in your neighbourhood.
📚Use their online store to order your next weekend read. Looking for a recommendation for your book club? The text for your course, or a gift for someone special?
📚Shop at an independent bookstore, online, curbside, delivery or instore! Thank you from your friends .

11/04/2021

📚Looking for your next weekend read?
📚The next selection for your book club, or a gift for someone special in your life?
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10/04/2021

📚HEAVEN by Mieko Kawakami will publish in May by Europa Editions, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd . It’s the second book in English from the bestselling author of BREASTS AND EGGS.

📚HEAVEN tells the story of two students who are bullied by their classmates. The novel is narrated by an unnamed 14-year-old boy who is subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye.

📚The one person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters.

📚HEAVEN is a raw and realistic portrayal of bullying that is not often found in literary fiction.

📚HEAVEN has received starred reviews in PW, Kirkus and Booklist. Pre-order a copy today online from your local independent bookseller. Click on the link in our bio to find a bookseller near you!

26/03/2021

📚OPEN WATER by Caleb Azumah Nelson will publish next month by Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic. A stunning debut novel written in the second person set in modern-day London about two Black British artists falling in and out of love.

📚OPEN WATER asks what it means to be a person in a world that measures you by the colour of your skin. To be vulnerable when you are only respected for your physical strength and to find safety in love, only to lose it.

📚Caleb Azumah Nelson is an exceptional new voice in fiction and has written an essential and timely debut novel.

📚Pre-order your copy of OPEN WATER at a local independent bookstore. Click on the link in our bio to find a location near you!

16/03/2021

📚THE ART OF DYING is the next installment in the series of historical crime novels from Ambrose Parry publishing this week by Canongate Books.

📚The characters from the first book, The Way of All Flesh, return to Edinburgh in 1850.

📚Doctors find their remedies powerless as their patients are inexplicably dying. Dr James Simpson, a pioneer of medical chloroform, has his practice and reputation questioned after the mysterious death of one of his own.

📚In THE ART OF DYING multiple story lines intersect highlighting the enormous class inequalities of Victorian Edinburgh. The condition of the poor, a sinister criminal element, the position of women, and the state of medical knowledge all become central to the plot.

📚Ambrose Parry is the pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Dr Marisa Haetzman. The married couple bring their expertise in best selling writing and medical knowledge to create a gripping well researched and authentic new series set in Edinburgh.

📚Order your copy today of THE ART OF DYING from a local independent bookseller. Click on the link in our bio to find a location near you!

13/03/2021

📚VIKING ADVENTURE ACTIVITY BOOK published by Button Books and illustrated by Jen Alliston is perfect for kids aged 4 -8 who are looking to take a break from their screens over the Spring Vacation.

📚There are 63 full colour pages packed with mazes, wordsearches, dot to dots, puzzles, jokes and 100 stickers. Included is an easy-to-follow recipe for Rune Cakes, plus a glossary of answers to the puzzles and word searches.

📚VIKING ADVENTURE ACTIVITY BOOK is guaranteed to draw children in and keep them busy. Along the way
they'll find out more about the fascinating history of Vikings. Like how they landed on the shores of Newfoundland over 1,000 years ago!

📚Look for the VIKING ADVENTURE ACTIVITY BOOK and the other titles in the series: Space, Ancient Egypt, Pirate, Roman, and Castle at your local independent bookstore. Click on the link in our bio to find a bookseller near you!

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