Big thanks to Words Worth Books MassyBooks Bookmark II Blue Heron Books Cross & Crows Books The Mulberry Bush The Book Keeper ABRAMS Books Audreys Books Russell Books Michelle Berry & Block Shop Books in Lunenburg, NS, for our latest edition of SHELF TALKERS!!! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/0…

Family trees are fascinating in some ways ... but the foundation of those trees can be problematic as well. S. Bear Bergman, in Special Topics in Being a Parent (illustrated by Saul Freedman) asks us to consider a family garden instead 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/0… Arsenal Pulp Press

Our August #bookgiveaways are awesome! 49thshelf.com/Giveaways Cormorant Books Fernwood Publishing Random House Canada Simon & Schuster CA Dundurn Press HarperCollinsCa Portage & Main Press Palimpsest Press

Staycations are underrated - especially when you have a great stack of books to read! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/0… Palimpsest Press

Check out our August Summer Reading List - every one of the books is up for #giveaway! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/07/3…

Can't wait! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/0…

49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/1… Running the Goat Groundwood Books Scholastic Canada

Poetry lovers - this one's for you! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/1… #poetry #canlit

Elisabeth Eaves' new psychological #thriller, THE OUTLIER, is up for #Giveaway right now! Check out her super-fun post on creating fictional villains' lairs 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/1… Elisabeth Eaves #mystery #suspense

Have you entered for a chance to win AWESOME new books on our #giveaways page? Hurry over to see what's up for grabs! 49thshelf.com/Giveaways #canlit

Elliott Page, author of Pageboy: A Memoir, says "Vantage Points is a stunning work that offers new ideas, compassion, and hope for a kinder, egalitarian future that may let us all heal, breathe, and truly be." 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/2… Arsenal Pulp Press

Rod Moody-Corbett, whose novel HIDES is set amid a wilderness hunting trip in northwestern Newfoundland, shares 6 of his favourite reads 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/2… Breakwater Books Presses uOttawa McClelland & Stewart Biblioasis Broadview Press

And Marianne K. Miller's We Were the Bullfighters is up for giveaway! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/2… Dundurn Press Wolsak & Wynn Knopf Canada House of Anansi Press Cormorant Books Simon & Schuster CA renaissancepress Biblioasis Penguin Books Canada

Step into fall with our Previews of the best books coming our way this season! Fiction: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/07/1… Poetry: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/1… Nonfiction: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/08/0…

The Giller longlist is out: gillerprize.ca/the-giller-pri… Congrats to all the honoured authors and publishers! Biblioasis Coach House Books Arsenal Pulp Press Strange Light McClelland & Stewart House of Anansi Press Knopf Canada Random House Canada

Check out Trevor Corkum's The Chat with Deepa Rajagopalan - Peacocks of Instagram is on the The Giller Prize longlist! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/07/2…

Parents, teachers, grandparents, librarians, KIDS, #kidlit and #kidlitart nerds (like us!) - this is for YOU! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/09/0… #canlit #YAreads

"Joy in the face of hardship is very punk rock." 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/09/0… Portage & Main Press #Indigenous #GraphicNovel #kidlit #Winnipeg

"A polymath, a dazzling mimic, a word magician, [Academy Award-winning film actor Peter Ustinov] exhibited none of the hauteur I would have expected." 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/09/0… Linda Leith Publishing

Hollay Ghadery, whose new short story collection is Widow Fantasies, recommends other amazing books! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/09/0… Book*hug Press Wolsak & Wynn Turnstone Press Inanna Publications Radiant Press House of Anansi Press UAlberta Press Guernica Editions Hollay Ghadery (she/her)