Scotiabank Giller and Writers' Trust Prize finalist Timothy Taylor's THE RISE AND FALL OF MAGIC WOLF, about a Canadian chef who meets a colleague from Quebec while training in Paris who later comes to work for the chef at his first restaurant in Vancouver; over the next few years, his restaurant empire booms before beginning to crumble under the weight of sexual assault allegations and accusations the chef stole his most profitable recipes…
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Life skills coach, blogger and Indigenous rights defender originally from Pays Plat First Nation and currently residing on Treaty 6 Territory on Poundmaker Cree Nation, Andrea Landry’s picture book, REZ LIFE IS THE BEST LIFE, which follows the life of a young Nehiyaw girl living on the reserve on the prairies as she experiences the beauty of Indigenous land-based living surrounded by her kinship network…
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Author of Amnesty International Book Club’s 2020 Reader’s Choice Pick, SEVEN, Farzana Doctor’s THE BEAUTY OF US, a campus-based YA that tackles the complexities of consent, racism, power-dynamics, social anxiety, and the struggles with sexuality faced by a feisty group of teens – all girls of colour – while they solve a mystery at their boarding school in the 1980’s, to Pia Singhal at ECW…
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