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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

A gold birdcage is against an orange background. A light blue silhouette shows two birds on a branch in the cage. Text: We Two Alone. Jack Wang. “With ingenuity and impeccable craft, Jack Wang gives us an utterly remarkable collection.” Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer.

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We Two Alone

Cover: Wellwater, poems by Karen Solie. Over an off-white background, the cover featured an illustration of a flowering lilac tree with a thin stem and visible roots.

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Wellwater

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They Say Blue

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The Lost Words

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The Book of Birds

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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

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French Exit

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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Together by the Sea

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

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Manikanetish

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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Cover: West Coast Wild Baby Animals. By Deborah Hodge. Pictures by Karen Reczuch. A mama otter embraces a baby otter on her stomach. Both otters have their eyes closed, with the baby's head resting against the mother's mouth. Green seaweed surrounds them. The illustrations are created in watercolor paints color pencil.

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West Coast Wild Baby Animals

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Life Is About Losing Everything

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

Cover: The Private Apartments, stories, by Idman Nur Omar. An illustrated orange brick high-rise apartment building with multicoloured windows is set against a blue sky. There are six white stars surrounding the building.

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The Private Apartments

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Noopiming

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Busy, Busy Birds

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This Accident of Being Lost

Cover: A Daughter's Place by Martha Bátiz. Artwork of two young women in seventeenth-century clothing. One leans on a window ledge, resting her chin on her hand and smiling, while the other peeks out from behind a curtain, holding a cloth to her face. The title and author’s name appear in large, white brush script.

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A Daughter's Place

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Cockroach

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Scientific Marvel

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West Coast Wild ABC

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Augustino and the Choir of Destruction

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Atonement

Cover: Lantern, poems by Sanna Wani. Above a cream-coloured background, a forest green border is stamped. Inside the border are three ginko leaves stamped in various directions, as though falling. The text appears in cursive lettering.

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Lantern

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Gargoyles

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Tokyo Digs a Garden

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Sequence

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The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society

This image is abstract. Pink, red, blue, and green shapes form peaks and valleys. In each shape are markings that resemble flower petals in varies colours. Text: Celestial Bodies. Jokha Alharthi. The Man Booker International Prize 2019.

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Celestial Bodies

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The Lost Spells

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Up in the Tree

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

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

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Soft as Bones

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Out of the Sun

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Don't

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Biology As Ideology

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Belonging

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The Break

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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Stella and Sam ABC

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: 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

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: Dangerous Memory, Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed by Charlie Angus, author of the Trillium Award finalist Cobalt. Title appears in black, bold letters on two white bands against a black and turquoise background. Below is a silhouette of a crowd of activists holding up a megaphone and placards protesting nuclear weapons.

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Dangerous Memory

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

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The Withdrawal Method

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river woman

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Carnival

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

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Lonely Me

A photograph shows a close-up of a woman’s face. We see the bottom right corner of her face showing the side of her mouth, her cheek, and a part of her nose. She has light skin tone and short, curly, dark hair. She wears a pink lip colour and blush. Around her neck is a short, yellow pearl necklace and she is wearing a fine-knit, teal sweater. Text: Marie-Renée Lavoie. Autopsy of a Boring Wife. “True to life and wildly entertaining.” – Huffington Post.

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Autopsy of a Boring Wife

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The Rayburn Affair

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Ninan

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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Young Cat, Old Cat

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Blood

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I Am Ariel Sharon

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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Letters to Kafka

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

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The Truth About Stories

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

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The Middle Stories

A graphic pattern is in shades of blue and green shapes with grey lines in between. Some grey lines cross over and through the letters of the title and the authorÕs name. Text: Dual Citizens. Alix Ohlin. Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist. Author of Inside. ÒTouchingÉ Dual Citizens has a lot in common with Zadie SmithÕs Swing Time and Claire MessudÕs The Burning Girl.ÓÑWall Street Journal.

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Dual Citizens

Cover: Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe. Two black outlines of papyrus swamp plants appear in front of a green background. "A Novel" appears in smaller yellow type.

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Everything Is Fine Here

Small glittering, gold shapes are against a light blue background. The shapes appear to drop from the top of the cover, where they fall into place to form mandala-like patterns at the bottom of the cover. Text: Breaking the Ocean. A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation. Annahid Dashtgard. “A profound and candid reflection on the realities of race today.” – Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon of the Crusted Snow.

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Breaking the Ocean

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Back in the Land of the Living

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My Grief, the Sun

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Dog Park

It is nighttime in a forest. A full moon is in the sky. The moon has a face and looks down on a fox, who looks up. The forest is red and blue. Text: Moon Wishes. Guy and Patricia Storms. Milan Pavlović.

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Moon Wishes

Cover: Myth by Terese Mason Pierre. A seascape appears in silhouette, with a beachy area in the foreground that features a luminous bush and the edge of the water line. Behind this are rolling hills and a palm tree; in the background, large mountains. Three rings of muted colour populate the sky in red, yellow, and blue, with a cloud in the foreground.

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Myth

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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Seven Fallen Feathers

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All Our Relations

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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Layaway Child

Seven Heavens Away: A Novel by Ashraf Zaghal. The title and author name appear in bold red, green, and cream letters to evoke the colours of the Palestinian flag. The background features stylized clouds, stars, a crescent moon, and the Jerusalem skyline.

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Seven Heavens Away

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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Twenty-First Century Capitalism

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China Unbound

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Who Will Bury You?

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River Meets the Sea

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Serafim and Claire

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Winter

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The Riveter

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Pigeon