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Most Anticipated: Our 2024 Spring Fiction Preview

by 49thShelf Staff

All the best fiction coming your way in the first half of 2024!

Most Anticipated: Our 2022 Fall Fiction Preview

by 49th Shelf Staff

New releases by Lee Maracle, David Adams Richards, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Suzette Mayr, and more!

Introducing: Our Amazing 2022 Summer Reading List (Part One)!

by Kerry Clare

Great summer reads—and each and every one is up for giveaway!

13 Fiction Faves

by Kerry Clare

CanLit is everything—rich and literary, fun and commercial, regionally focused with universal appeal, hilarious, heart-wrenching, gripping, sweeping, …

On Our Radar: Quests and Journeys for Survival

by Kerry Clare

"On Our Radar" features books with buzz worth sharing. We bring you links to features and reviews about great new books in a multitude of genres from …

On Our Radar: Internet Trolls, Black Histories, Mental Illness, and Hawaiian Shirts

by Kerry Clare

"On Our Radar" features books with buzz worth sharing. We bring you links to features and reviews about great new books in a multitude of genres from …

On Our Radar: Dancing Chickens, Pregnancy Loss, Powerful Poetry, and Pandemic Days

by Kerry Clare

"On Our Radar" features books with buzz worth sharing. We bring you links to features and reviews about great new books in a multitude of genres from …

Tough Like Mum: An Essential Picture Book for Kids *and* Adults

by Geoffrey Ruggero

Picture books are often written with young children as their intended audience. In Tough Like Mum, Lana Button provides adults with important messaging …

12 books

New Picture Books

list by 49th Teachers

Launchpad: NOOPIMING, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

by Kerry Clare

"This is bold storytelling drawing upon a rich history to present a possible future. Simpson is generously gifting readers, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, …

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