-- Elizabeth Ruth. 

In this episode:

* Elizabeth Ruth on Matadora
* Elise LeGrow on Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
* Jen Sookfong Lee on fantasy in literary fiction and The Miracles of Ordinary Men by Amanda Leduc
* Elisabeth de Mariaffi on How to Get Along With Women
* Daniel David Moses on A Small Essay on the Largeness of Light and Other Poems

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-- Greg Malone. 

In this episode:

* Greg Malone on Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True Story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada
* Amelia Curran on Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
* Michael Crummey on Under the Keel
* Pamela Yaye says if you liked 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James, you'll love Blush by Lauren Jameson

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Greg Malone has long been fired up by history and politics.  In the 1980s and 90s, he channeled his passion and critique into his work with the comedy troupe CODCO.  Now, he has taken it to the page.  In his new book Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True Story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada, Greg rewrites the story of how Canada acquired its tenth province...

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-- Ruth Ozeki. 

In this episode:

* Ruth Ozeki on A Tale for the Time Being
* Lynn Miles on The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
* Shelagh tours The Monkey's Paw book store with owner Stephen Fowler
* Iain Reid says if you liked A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, you'll love That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan

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The Monkey's Paw bookstore in Toronto doesn't sell bestsellers or books on popular subjects. In fact, it doesn't carry anything published after 1980. What it does specialize in are unusual, arcane, and idiosyncratic books. When Shelagh walked in there to interview the owner, Stephen Fowler, she thought 'this place is like Dickens with a dose of 1950s Gothic thrown in.'

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One day, while walking along the beach of her remote B.C. island home, a novelist named Ruth discovers something even better than a message in a bottle. Sealed inside a series of barnacle-covered freezer bags is a red Hello Kitty lunch box. Stuffed inside that is a pack of old Japanese letters, an antique wrist-watch and the diary of sixteen-year-old Nao Yasutani. 

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-- Lauren B. Davis. 

In this episode:

* Lauren B. Davis on The Empty Room
* Stephen Fearing on A Good Man by Guy Vanderhaeghe
* Lorri Neilsen Glenn and Sheila Norgate on Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s
* Charles MacPherson on The Butler Speaks
* Frank O'Dea, author of Do the Next Right Thing, answers the Proust Questionnaire

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-- Lisa Moore. 

In this episode:

* Lisa Moore on Caught
* Jarvis Church on One Shot by Lee Child
* Monica Kidd on Handfuls of Bone
* Andrew Pyper says if you liked Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, you'll love The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe

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