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Little kids with big feelings will see themselves in Grumblesome by Joanne Foster and Brandon Dorman. Nat is just like many children who would rather skip their bedtime routines and stay up playing with their favourite toys. But after the all-too-fa...
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Even if you’re wary of spiders in real life, you can’t help but root for them here. In Walter Tarnowsky’s Mad Spiders and Fishermen, Booker is a hard-working spider living with his wife, Silken, and their five children inside an abandoned Ontario fi...
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If you were murdered and then reincarnated as a feral kitten, what would you do first? The answer for William Hawkins is simple: solve your own murder. With this one-of-a-kind premise, C. Stewart brings a fantastical twist to the murder-mystery genre...
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Small-town secrets run deep in 1980s Glenmere, Saskatchewan. How long will they stay buried? Lisa Adair’s The Cache Box: The Glenmere Box Mysteries is the third installment in a compelling mystery series set in the quaint town of Glenmere, Saskatche...
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What does it take to survive a system built to break you? JC Kors’s Bracing for Impact is a gripping debut that explores the correctional system with unyielding honesty about its shortcomings. Drawing from over thirty years of personal experience wor...
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How many versions of yourself can you become before one of them catches up to you? Laura Frost’s Seeking Sasha is a thrilling debut that blends psychological suspense with emotional depth, offering a fresh take on the familiar cop-and-runaway dynamic...
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