Our penultimate ALU Season's Readings picks are for the ones on your gift list who would Hundo P be into these YA reads.

Leila Marshy's debut novel The Philistine (Linda Leith Publishing) finds a young woman casting off the tethers of her life in Montreal to search for her father in Cairo – and discovering her sexuality in the process – in a story that Ann-Marie MacDonald says "spans – ... Read more

Happy birthday to us! Usually, we ring in our big day with a look ahead to books we can't wait to read in Fall, but since we've already tackled that, we're counting to three with:

1. Looking back on some fave memories;
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It’s Pride weekend this weekend in Toronto: and naturally, we’re preparing by reading some fantastic LGBTQ+ books. We’ve come across some great words and phrases on the way: here are ten for you to include in your own Pride lexicon.

As everyone winds down for the holidays, so too does our literary event listings. Here's some parties and launches going on in the throes of 2016 that you can plan ahead for. This week in lit events will be back in 2017!

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Not enough literary festivals last week for you? Check out this week, with festivals in Victoria, Vancouver, Lethbridge, Winnipeg, and Toronto. But that's not all!

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This week's singular event hails from Kingston, Ontario – home of The Tragically Hip, prisons, and the wonderful Novel Idea Bookstore, where Karen Molson will be reading and signing from her latest, The Company of Crows.

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There are some cool readings and events this week - if you're in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, or Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, be sure to check out our listings!

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Thirteen-year-old Veronica speaks like the characters in the Victorian novels she finds absorbing, she has awful new glasses and feels out of sync with the world, especially when she has to spend the summer at Laughing Willows Trailer Park with her two obnoxious younger brothers ... Read more

It's a busy week for lit events! The  Edmonton Poetry Festival and the  Yukon Writers' Fest both kick off this week, plus readings and launches across Canada to tickle your fancy.

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