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Blond ambition
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2016 YEAR IN REVIEW
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Books of the Year
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Northern reflections
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Reviewer picks
Q&Q contributors select their favourite releases of the year
Kids’ books of the year
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Twice as nice
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Blurred lines
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Charlotte Gray and Jane Urquhart anticipate Canada’s sesquicentennial in two new volumes
Drawn and caged
Two promising first poetry collections employ common tropes to good effect
Mean streets
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A pair of new titles aims to inform kids about life on Earth and around it
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