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Adult Fiction
"One Golden Summer" by Carley Fortune
“I'm lucky to have so much past, so many memories. It's a gift to age.”
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"The Paris Express" by Emma Donoghue
“A secret of mothers: We enjoy it when our offspring are under the weather because it draws them back to us again, reverses time a bit, spins the hands anticlockwise. For a little while they need us as they once did every minute of the day, and we surrender reminiscently to that sweet rush.”
"What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust" by Alan Bradley
"Not that I wanted anyone to die, but why give a girl a gift of science—of chemistry, to be precise—such as mine without giving her the opportunity to use it?”
"August into Winter" by Guy Vanderhaeghe
“Maybe I'm not cold. Maybe I'm just lost. Do lonely and cold feel the same? At bottom are they the same thing?”
"The Other Valley" by Scott Alexander Howard
“What I felt was a kind of thrilling sadness, something I have since experienced when looking out over other open spaces and lonely boundaries: an emotion that lives on the desolate edge of the known.”
Adult Non-Fiction
"Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood" by Wayne Johnston
"Who We Are: Four Questions for a Life and a Nation" by the Honourable Murray Sinclar
"The Valley of the Birdtail: an Indian reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation" by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashi)
"The Road Years: a Memoir Continued" by Rick Mercer
"For the Love of a Son: a Memoir of Addiction, Loss and Hope" by Scott Oake with Michael Hingston
Young Adult Fiction
"The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
“We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across.”
"The Summer of Bitter and Sweet" by Jen Ferguson
"Winter isn’t colorless—it’s full of shine, depth, and shades we often refuse to see."
"Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy" by Faith Erin Hicks
“It is your opinion that expressions of affection between two people of the same gender are gross. I hope someday you learn the difference between facts and opinions. And also develop better opinions.”
"Punch Like a Girl" by Karen Krossing
“There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.”
"Stranded" by Jocelyn Shipley
"I really thought I was getting there. I’d been planning to come to the bench today to tell her how good I’m doing. How I have a job and a place to live. So much for that."
Young Adult Non-Fiction
"House of Dreams: The Life of L.M. Montgomery" by Liz Rosenberg
"Hyena in Petticoats: The Story and Suffragette Neliie McClung" by Willow Dawson
"The Science of Why 5" by Jay Ingram
"Examining Wind Energy" by Lewis Atchinson
"The Canadian Boys who Rocked the World" by Tanya Lloyo Kyi
Junior Fiction
The Masterminds Series by Gordon Korman
“It seems like cheating somehow, breaking some overarching Law of the Way Things Are Supposed to Be.”
"Nish: North and South" by Isabelle Picard
"Unplugged" by Gordon Korman
“My father is considered the smartest man in the world. But when it comes to the unplugged life, I’m the brains of the family.”
"Super Agent Jon le Bon!: The Brain of the Apocalypse" by Alex A.
"The Misewa Saga Series" by David A. Robertson
"The land provides everything anybody would need, if you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more".
Junior Non-Fiction
"I Am Not a Number" by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer
"Raven"by Monica Ittusardjuat
"Always Beginning: The Big Bang, the Universe, and You" by Candace Savage
"Canada's Immigrant Cultures" by Barbara A. Samuels
"Sport-O-Rama" by Benoit Tardif
Junior Easy
"Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear" by Linsay Mattick
"This Is Not My Hat" by Jon Klassen
"The Wish Tree" by Kyo Maclear
"The Rock From The Sky" by Jon Klassen
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