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Daily Deals: NYT contributor Amitha Kalaichandran’s first book to Random House

Distribution change: Red Wheel/ Weiser

Daily Deals: Jane Gerster’s investigation of the RCMP to M&S

Canada finally has a booksellers’ association again

Film adaptations of Indigenous bestsellers The Inconvenient Indian, the Trickster series to premiere at TIFF

TIFA, Vancouver Writers Fest among literary festivals making intimate connections in a virtual world

Inhabit Media to open a new bookstore in Toronto

Daily Deals: Julie Flett to illustrate Buffy Sainte-Marie picture book; two new picture books from King Mouse illustrator Dena Seiferling

Indigenous justice, international relations among topics explored in shortlisted Shaughnessy Cohen titles

Distribution changes: Publishers Group Canada

Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars ranks top bestseller in its first week

Anne with an E petition hits one million signatures, breaks record