Come check out the gorgeous illustrations in Have You Ever Heard a Whale Exhale? by Caroline Woodward and Claire Watson! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/06/1… Pownal Street Press #nature #kidlit art #kidlit #canlit

Oh, dear protagonists lured to dark & dangerous places...you should have known better! Love this list from Amber Cowie (she/her), whose new book is THE OFF SEASON (there's your ominous right there) 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/06/0… ECW Press RadiantFracturePress Jessica Johns Silvia Moreno-Garcia suzy (elena) krause

🌟WINNER, WINNER🌟

Congratulations, Anne Koval, on winning the Writers Federation of NB New Brunswick Book Awards Non-Fiction award. Well-deserved! 🤩

Danny Ramadan, whose latest is Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir, on 8 books exploring migration and refuge 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/05/3… Abrams Press U of R Press Kamal Al-Solaylee Abdi Nazemian Saeed Teebi سعيد الطيبي Wolsak & Wynn Sheima Benembarek — شيماء ا بنمبارك 𝓜𝓸𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓐𝓫𝓭𝓾𝓵𝓴𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓶 𝓐𝓵𝓲 Owlkids Publishing House of Anansi Press

Congrats to Maggie Burton, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Award! Check out the book recos she shared w/ us upon launching her award-winning collection, CHORES (@BreakwaterBooks ) 49thshelf.com/Blog/2023/04/1… House of Anansi Press Brick Books Goose Lane Editions Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers

Look at all the awesome books coming out of #Alberta these days! 49thshelf.com/Lists/Members/… Renegade Arts Entertainment NeWest Press UAlberta Press UCalgaryPress Athabasca University Press Free Handbooks NeWest Press BPAA #canlit

What a beautiful page full of genius 49thshelf.com/Lists/Members/…

William Deverell's latest thriller is THE LONG-SHOT TRIAL & Publishers Weekly says it is among 'the series’ best entries'! Check out his awesome book recos here: 49thshelf.com/Lists/Members/… Orca Book Publishers Penguin Books Canada Simon & Schuster CA Knopf Canada McClelland & Stewart Doubleday Canada ECW Press

Bestselling Canadian author Genevieve Graham (𝒢𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓋𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒 𝒢𝓇𝒶𝒽𝒶𝓂, 𝒜𝓊𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓇) is out with her 8th historical fiction novel ... and she shares a great list of novels featuring women during wartime right here: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/05/2… Simon & Schuster CA Doubleday Canada Nimbus Publishing HarperCollinsCa

Don't miss new instalments of Trevor Corkum's The Chat! Recent interviews (and excerpts) include Shashi Bhat, Greg Kearney, Patrick Grace, David Roche, and Christine Higdon! 49thshelf.com/49th-Shelf-202… ECW Press Harbour Publishing Arsenal Pulp Press UAlberta Press McClelland & Stewart

Check these books out - they're from three of Canada's funniest writers :-)

Some of Canada's funniest authors :-)

Check out some of the books on our radar this month! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/05/2… House of Anansi Press Nimbus Publishing Greystone Books Coach House Books Thistledown Press Goose Lane Editions Annick Press Great Plains Press

It's The Chat with Shashi Bhat! The Governor General's Award finalist (The Most Precious Substance on Earth) has a new short story collection out now, pictured here 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/05/1… McClelland & Stewart Shashi Bhat Trevor Corkum

Check out indie booksellers' top picks for us this month! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/05/1… Thx to The Mulberry Bush Blue Heron Books Words Worth Books McNally Robinson Booksellers Audreys Books Bolen Books Michelle Berry and Block Shop Books' Jo Treggiari #canlit

Congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award! 49thshelf.com/Lists/Members/… Jordan Abel Book*hug Press Alicia Elliott - AND THEN SHE FELL out now! kōtuku titihuia nuttall (she / they) McClelland & Stewart House of Anansi Press

Check out the nominees for Ontario's Trillium Book Award! 49thshelf.com/Lists/Members/… Biblioasis Invisible Publishing Book*hug Press Kensington Press McClelland & Stewart Coach House Books Arsenal Pulp Press Ontario Creates

An icon leaves us, but leaves us with so much. Rest in peace, Alice Munro. Your inspiration is everlasting.

Ooh, how many of these short story collections (recommended by author Jen Currin, whose new book is DISEMBARK) have you read? 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/05/1… House of Anansi Press Arsenal Pulp Press Biblioasis McClelland & Stewart Simon & Schuster CA Casey Plett Carleigh Baker Hiromi Goto Alix Ohlin

It's here! Shelf Talkers is our quarterly column devoted to indie booksellers' top picks - come take a peek! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/05/1… Bobbi French 🇨🇦🫐 Simon & Schuster CA NON Publishing Jessica J. Lee Mark Bourrie Biblioasis Florence Ashley Gregor Craigie Charlene Carr HarperCollinsCa