For Mother's Day this year we've rounded up three books that appreciate moms of all kinds⁠—read on for excerpts from an uproariously funny novel, a moving memoir, and a powerful poetry collection. 

Today's #ALUgiftguide book recommendations come from the insightful Lauren Carter who shares gifting picks for "your settler mom, wondering what she can do for reconciliation" to "your best feminist friend in university, circa 1992" and more, below.

Yesterday we brought you five action and adventure picks from the ALU bookshelves to keep you on the edge of your beach blanket. Today we bring you five book picks by some very funny women that'll inspire some belly laughs during those plane/train/car rides to your summer ... Read more

This week we rounded up books for two important events: CMHA Mental Health Week and Mother's Day; continued our interview series for Short Story Month, and got TCAF ready with a new graphic novel.

With spring still feeling so far away here in Canada and that existential dread starting to set in from being cooped up for too long indoors, we could all use a few laughs – a chuckle, at the very least. To help you out with a little LOL'ing, we've compiled 5 books to lighten ... Read more

Once you read that last chapter of a good book and put it down, there is so much to do and so much to consider. You want to take a moment and decide how it made you feel, or write down your two cents, maybe even cross it off your list and reach for the next book. But my personal ... Read more

And just like that, book club is finished for another summer. We’ve had only ups reading The Figgs’ ups and downs: from interviewing both publisher Freehand Books and author Ali Bryan, and having our own staff discussion that ended in fits of laughter. Because ... Read more

This week, we interviewed authors, learned lessons, avoided foraging advice from Instagrammers, and so much more! Read on to make sense of that weird opening.

This might just be our favourite part of book club: this week we electronically sat down with August book club pick  The Figgs author Ali Bryan, who told us about figuring the plot out as you go along (with some help from her editor at Freehand Books), how communications ... Read more

This week we observed International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples with books by Indigenous authors we admire, got chatty about our #ALUbookclub pick The Figgs, contemplated gender and writing, and more.