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Noopiming

Cover: Kukum by Michel Jean, translated by Susan Ouriou. A black-and-white ink illustration of a woman crouching. Her knees are drawn up to her chest and her arm is tucked up. She has dark hair and her face is partially tucked against her shoulder. The woman’s body is covered in various patterns. A ragged blue shape reminiscent of a flowing river runs in front of her lower half; through the blue, her body is still visible, but smudged. Around her are small black line drawings of various spruce trees.

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Kukum

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All Our Relations

Cover: My Street Remembers. Written by Karen Krossing and illustrated by Cathie Jamieson. Paintings were inspired by illustrator’s Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee background, showing organic shapes in thick outlines. A turtle crawls along the sand, leaving footprints behind. The sky is blue. Grass grows above, and under it there is dark earth with a long, curving black line bisected by shorter vertical lines. Pictured on the left side of the page is half of a medicine wheel ringed with a braided grass ring.

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My Street Remembers

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Manikanetish

Cover: The All + Flesh, poems by Brandi Bird. A vibrant, impressionist-style painting of a golden sunset over a red horizon. The sky blends from teal at the top to a bright yellow around the white sun, which reflects like a flaming spotlight on the ground. The brush strokes are cross-hatched in the sky, giving the appearance of downward motion, while the ground appears sponged.

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The All + Flesh

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The Book of Birds

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The Rayburn Affair

Cover: Boobies by Nancy Vo. A Blue-footed Booby stands with its wings folded behind its back. It has a white body with black wings and a black face. Its legs and webbed feet are blue. The bird wears a green and orange hat with a wide brim. The title “Boobies” is written across the bird so that the two o’s are placed on its chest where breasts would be.

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Boobies

Cover: Owlish, a novel by Dorothy Tse, translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce. The cover features a surrealist illustration: The sun sets behind a mountain. A music box with an outstretched ballerina rests on a mossy stone. A figure with a trumpet on his head sits on a red chair, atop a large hourglass. An ear is screwed into rectangular concrete monolith, which is cracking. A man dangles from a purple bridge over a river which fills with a faucet.

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Owlish

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The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society

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Arrival

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Poems for All the Annettes

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Town Is by the Sea

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History’s People

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This Accident of Being Lost

Cover: House of Anansi presents Xanax Cowboy, poems, written and directed by Hannah Green. The cover is yellow, monochrome. The title text is large and black, and the font appears as though stamped with ink.

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Xanax Cowboy

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A woman with light skin tone stands in a field of tall, dry grass. The sky is blue behind her. Her hands are bound in front of her with white fabric. She holds a piece of driftwood to cover her face. One eye is visible through a circular hole in the wood. Feathers stick out of a cracked section toward the top of the driftwood. Text: NDN Coping Mechanisms. Notes from the Field. Billy-Ray Belcourt. Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize.

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NDN Coping Mechanisms

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Young Cat, Old Cat

This image is a series of scenes. The scene above is a yellow photograph of a strip mall and a stoplight. Signs read, ÒDonuts, Muffins, CakesÓ and ÒGrocery StoreÓ. Two sections, one red and one yellow, with black polka dots, show the title. The scene below is a black and green image of the Toronto skyline on a red background. Text: Frying Plantain. Zalika Reid-Benta. Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist. ÒAn unforgettable debut.Ó Ð Paul Beaty, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout.

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Frying Plantain

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My Grief, the Sun

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When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks

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The Björkan Sagas

Cover: Cats and Us. Written and illustrated by Marta Pantaleo. Translated by Debbie Bibo and Yvette Ghione. On a vibrant red background is a line of people of different ages and skin tones in clothes suggesting they come from different eras in history with different breeds of cats.

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Cats and Us

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Cockroach

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Reset

Cover: Abstract painting featuring three indistinct female figures in vibrant colors against a light background. The figures are rendered with broad, expressive brushstrokes, blending hues of orange, red, brown, purple, and yellow. The title The Creation of Half-Broken People is centred on the cover in large letters with the words “a novel” in smaller type below it. The author’s name, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, appears at the bottom of the cover.

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The Creation of Half-Broken People

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Broughtupsy

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Taking Turns with Turtles

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Together by the Sea

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The Break

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The Lost Spells

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The Educated Imagination

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They Say Blue

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The Truth About Stories

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river woman

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Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson

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Kim's Convenience

Cover: Community Snowman. Story by Deborah Kerbel. Illustrated by Tine Modeweg-Hansen. This book is wordless and laid out in a graphic novel style. There are three snowy scenes stacked on top of each other against a blue background of people of various ages and skin tones pushing large balls of snow alone or together in colourful winter clothing.

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Community Snowman

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Scientific Marvel

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Swimming Lessons

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The Politics of the Family

Cover: However Far Away by Rajinderpal S. Pal. A face and shoulders in purple with features obscured in shadow. The figure is wearing orange over-the-ear headphones and a green shirt. The words A Novel appear in white type across the green shirt. Text: A beautiful debut novel about the calamitous aftereffects of decisions made and unmade, secrets kept and spilled. Omar El Akkad.

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However Far Away

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Lonely Me

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Winter

On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation by Quill Christie-Peters. The cover features abstract, colourful artwork against a brown background. Organic shapes, some humanlike, and swirling lines reminiscent of waterways and galaxies flow out of a dark hole with red blood dripping from its bottom edge. The hole is flanked by two bears and two thunderbirds on either side.

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On Wholeness

Cover: Her First Palestinian and Other Stories by Saeed Teebi. 'Intelligent, original and bursting with vitality' - Ayelet Tsabari, Author of The Art of Leaving. A soft yellow background with an small orange, unpeeled with the peel spiraling to its right.

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Her First Palestinian

Cover: Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising by Brandi Morin. A painted portrait shows a woman with medium-dark skin tone and black hair beating a drum. She wears a cream-coloured dress and stands before a red circle.

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Our Voice of Fire

Two loons float on a lake at dawn. One loon has two grey, fluffy ducklings on its back. The loon’s head is out of the frame. Text: Loon. Susan Vande Griek. Pictures by Karen Reczuch.

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Loon

Cover: Valid, Dystopian Autofiction, by Chris Bergeron, translated by Natalia Hero. Hot-pink type against a black background fills the entire cover.

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Valid

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Cover: An Ordinary Violence, a novel by Adriana Chartrand. A black-and-white image of a rabbit against a black background spans the cover diagonally. The rabbit appears from the side with its eyes open. Its legs are bunched under its body, and its ears are laid flat against its back, with its nose pointed into the upper left corner. Red blood droplets spatter the cover.

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An Ordinary Violence

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Museum of Bone and Water

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Tokyo Digs a Garden

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The City of Words

Cover: John Candy: A Life in Comedy, by Paul Myers. Foreword by Dan Aykroyd. A black and white photograph of the comedian and actor John Candy, shown from the chest up, wearing a tuxedo, and looking directly into the camera, with just the hint of a smile. The main title and author’s name appear in large, pink block letters. The sub-title appears in a white, handwritten typeface. The foreword attribution appears in the same block letters as the title, but smaller and in white.

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John Candy

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The Middle Stories

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I Am Ariel Sharon

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Tug

Cover: A Love Affair with the Unknown: Leaning into the Uncertainty of Modern Life by Gill Deacon. A painting by the author of a woman in a black bathing suit jumping off a green cliff into the water below against a cloudy sky. The title is stacked over this background with the author's name below it.

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A Love Affair with the Unknown

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The Outside Circle

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Soft as Bones

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Cover: In a Land Without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark by Jonathan Garfinkel. Black and white text of the title is set in a Soviet-era propaganda font. A small black illustration of a cat walking is in the middle-right of the page. The background is red.

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In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark

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Makade Asin / Black Stone

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Out of the Sun

Cover: Pitiful by Brandi Bird. The text is white over a back backgound, with "poems" appearing in red. In the center, an illustration in red shows a hand reaching up from the ocean, through waves that also look like hands. At the bottom, a blurb reads, "Far from a whimper, Pitiful is a vital battle cry and a song." —Marya Hornbacher

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Pitiful

Cover: CBC Massey Lectures, The Age of Insecurity: On the Collapse of Our Economic, Emotional, and Ecological Well-being by Astra Taylor. A white arrow points downward, framed by red and black geometric shapes.

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The Age of Insecurity

Cover: In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and my Grandmother's Secret Life by Sadiya Ansari. Behind a layer of mustard yellow, a black-and-white photograph of the right two-thirds of a woman’s face is framed within a silhouette of a woman wearing a shalwar and kameez. The woman has dark hair and eyebrows and her expression is neutral. The title is centred in the middle of the cover and the author’s name is centered at the bottom.

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In Exile

The Quiet Hunt: A Poem for Young Foragers. By Jean E. Pendziwol and Risa Hugo. A young girl lays on a hill with her head in her hands, her wicker basket next to her. She has medium-light skin tone, short brown hair, brown eyes and her nails painted red. She wears a white baseball t-shirt with red sleeves, red high-top sneakers and a pink baseball cap with a smiling sun. She gazes at a cluster of mushrooms with brown rounded tops and white stems.

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The Quiet Hunt

Cover: Chrysalis: Stories by Anuja Varghese. The title is centred with the author's name below it. A faint paisley pattern fills the black background. The image is an 18th C painting of a thin reddish branch with heart-shaped leaves and a pale peach flower and two buds. In the bottom left is a pinkish-brown Antheraea polyphemus moth with a brown thorax and two large black spots ringed in white on the lower wings, and two smaller black and white spots on both the upper and lower wings.

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Chrysalis

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River Meets the Sea

Cover: Inheritance, a novel, by Jane Park. A silver eunjangdo (Korean ornamental knife in a sheath) with a blue tassel and a yellow crysanthemum over a background illustration of a prairie grassland. The title Inheritance is set in the top third of the cover and the author's name at the bottom.

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Inheritance

Cover: We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard. The words of the title and author's name are composed of small pink and yellow dots against a turquoise background. The dots are sparse at the top of the page and become more dense moving down the cover, giving the impression of something coming into focus. "A Novel" appears in small white type.

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We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine

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Caramba

Cover: CBC Massey Lectures, What I Mean To Say: Remaking Conversation In Our Time by Ian Williams, award–winning author of Disorientation: Being Black in the World and Reproduction. Below the type are four stylized line drawings of faces with splashes of colour in peach, pink, orange and yellow. The entire cover is framed in a white box according to the CBC Massey Lectures series look.

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What I Mean to Say

Cover: Innie Shadows by Olivia M. Coetzee. “Groundbreaking and unique, character-driven crime fiction." —Deon Meyer. A stylized illustration of a mountain beneath a bright moon and clouds. The background is purple, and the typography and mountain are in vibrant green and yellow. Eyes are scattered at the bottom.

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Innie Shadows

Cover: procession by katherena vermette. The title and author's name all appear in white text, stylized in lower case. The backdrop is a close-up image of a beaded quilt, vibrant and detailed, with flowers, paisley, and more designs appearing. The edge of the quilt is beaded in red, and a yellow surface beneath the quilt appears at the bottom-left corner.

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Procession

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French Exit

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West Coast Wild ABC

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Ninan

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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

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The Lost Words

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Blood

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A Small Madness

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The Future of Capitalism

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Therefore Choose Life

Cover: CBC Massey Lectures: Player One: What Is to Become of Us, A Novel in Five Hours by Douglas Coupland. A blurry black and white photograph of two figures sitting on stools at a long bar with two empty seats between them. The person in the foreground wears a dress and high heels. There are five coloured dots overlaying the photograph in black, red, blue, yellow, and white. The dots cover the figures' faces, and black arrows connect the dots.

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Player One

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The Bush Garden

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The Law of Dreams

Cover: Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories by Cho Nam-joo Translated by Jamie Chang. From the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. Four portraits appear in four boxes. The faces have hair but no facial features. All the figures are wearing hot pink shirts of different kinds and have purple hair styles. The title appears in strong white capital letters in the centre of the four boxes.

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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories