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Can-Lit @ L&A Libraries February 2017
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Next year, for sureby Zoey Leigh PetersonLongtime romantic partners experiment with an open relationship that challenges them to reconsider everything they thought they believed about love.
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All our wrong todaysby Elan MastaiLiving in an alternate world of flying cars, moon bases and plentiful food, aimless Tom Barren is blindsided by an accident of fate that leads to a time-travel mishap that lands him in our less-than-ideal 2016, where he discovers wonderful unexpected versions of his own life.
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The chosen maiden by Eva StachniakThe passionate, sweeping story of Bronia, an extraordinary ballerina forever in the shadow of the legendary Nijinsky--Russia's greatest dancer and her older brother.
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A darkness absolute by Kelley ArmstrongHomicide detective Casey Duncan and fellow deputy, Will, are stranded in a blizzard, only to discover a captive former resident and two murder victims who may or may not have been targeted by an outsider in their off-the-grid community.
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Bonus Reads: Can-Lit LOLs
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The gum thiefby Douglas CouplandOver the course of several months, two retail workers at an office supply superstore--Roger, a divorced, middle-aged "aisles associate" at Staples, and his young co-worker, Bethany, an early twenty-something, former Goth--strike up a unique epistolary friendship, in a novel about love, loneliness, and the offbeat comforts of modern-day life.
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The best laid plans by Terry FallisA burnt-out political aide quits just before an election — but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock — an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers — to let his name stand in the election. No need to campaign, certain to lose - or is he?
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Listen to the squawking chickenby Elaine LuiA first book by the writer behind the successful LaineyGossip.com blog shares nine parenting principles distilling the unconventional advice, warnings and messages of love imparted by her eccentric Chinese mother.
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How to be a Canadian by Will FergusonIt isn’t always easy being Canadian, according to Will Ferguson, but it can be a lot of fun. Asked to write a follow-up to his runaway bestseller Why I Hate Canadians, Ferguson, who’s Canadian himself, recruited his brother Ian — comedy writer and executive producer of the Canadian series Sin City and a Canadian too — to create this ultimate guide to the country's cultural quirks.
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