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Cover Collage: Water

Quintessential to the Canadian summer experience is water: whether questionably hygienic public pools in urban centres, still lakes in cottage country, or the rollicking ocean across all three coasts. These books vary in the stories they tell – from a Governor General’s Award winning poetic meditation on a lake to a dystopic cruise to a contemporary retelling of an Arthurian legend – but all include bodies of water, and all of that water is something we can get behind.

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Quintessential to the Canadian summer experience is water: whether questionably hygienic public pools in urban centres, still lakes in cottage country, or the rollicking ocean across all three coasts. These books vary in the stories they tell – from a Governor General’s Award winning poetic meditation on a lake to a dystopic cruise to a contemporary retelling of an Arthurian legend – but all include bodies of water, and all of that water is something we can get behind.Or in. It’s hot this week.Click the books below to learn more about their watery ways. Tenderman Lake of Two Mountains Not Being on a Boat Return to Open Water The Lake in the Clouds Eye Lake Arguments with the Lake Bridge to Normal Escape Plans ***Like your books to come in thematic grid form? Check out our other Cover Collages here.

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