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Award-winning publisher of 25+ years in Winnipeg, MB 🍁 Committed to the stories that bind us. https://linktr.ee/greatplainspress

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A new review for Blood Letters by GMB Chomichuk and Ariel Gordon from Kirkus Reviews

Read the full review on Kirkus Reviews here: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

#War #postApocaplyse #GraphicNovel #CanLit #Poetry #Robots #Dystopian #YoungAdult #CanLit #Letters

07.08.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A new review for Rhapsody Smith, Ice Angel by Lorna Schultz Nicholson from The British Columbia Review

Read the full review here: thebcreview.ca/2025/07/30/2...

#Hockey #Kidslit #JLG #JuniorLibraryGuild #OfficialSelection #Hockey #CanLit #MiddleGrade #KidLit #PWHL #SupportLocal #JLGSelection

05.08.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prefer e-books? We got you covered. πŸ“±

All of our Spring 2025 Titles are now available in accessible e-book format! Click the link in bio to start reading everywhere you go. ✨

#ebooks #shoplocal #casino #hockey #urbanism #bookstagram #booktok

28.07.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cave-In by Pam Withers received a new review from The British Columbia Review:

β€œCave-In is very present-day in its portrayal of greed and capitalism doing what it does bestβ€”run amok and cause ruinβ€”and political forces. All is captured well and, alas, feels real.”

21.07.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Catch You on The Flipside by @leekvern.bsky.social received a new review from the Literary Review of Canada πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ“š

reviewcanada.substack.com/i/165577699/...

18.07.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Meet Sabrina and Alex, co-authors of Portage and Main. πŸš¦πŸ™οΈ

Portage and Main is available for pre-order now from our website or from your local bookstore! greatplainspress.ca/books/portag...

#WinnipegHistory #ManitobaHistory #Nonfiction #ShopLocal #OneGreatHistory #PortageAndMain

12.07.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet Patty Wiens, author of That'll Never Work Here.

That'll Never Work Here is available for pre-order on our wesbite or from your local bookstore! greatplainspress.ca/books/thatll...

#Biking #YearRoundCycling #BikeInfrastructure #Winnipeg #WinterCycling #CyclingSafety

11.07.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Meet Ariel Gordon and GMB Chomichuk. the co-creators of Blood Letters! πŸ€–βœ‰οΈ

Blood Letters is available for pre-order now from our website or from your local bookstore! greatplainspress.ca/books/blood-...

#GraphicNovel #Robots #Dystopian #YoungAdult #Poetry #CanLit #Letters"

10.07.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Meet Gail, the author of Songs From This and That Country. πŸŽΌπŸ“š

You can read more about her at www.gailsidoniesobat.com

Songs From This and That Country is available for pre-order now from our website or from your local bookstore! greatplainspress.ca/books/songs-...

10.07.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A new review for Rhapsody Smith, Ice Angel from the Canadian Children's Book News!

Find Rhapsody Smith on our website or from your local bookstore!

@lornasn @kidsbookcentre

#HockeyBooksForKids #MiddleGrade #CanLit #ChildrensLit #ShopLocal #BookReview #PWHL

03.07.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rhapsody Smith: Ice Angel is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!

Find Rhapsody Smith on our website or from your local bookstore!

@lornasn @jrlibraryguild

#JuniorLibraryGuild #OfficialSelection #Hockey #CanLit #MiddleGrade #KidLit #PHWL #SupportLocal #JLGSelection

01.07.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Early bird deal for book lovers! 🐣 πŸ“š

Receive each title published in the 2025 fall season for 20% off for a limited time until the end of July.
greatplainspress.ca/books/season...

26.06.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ATTENTION MIDDLE GRADE WRITERS!

Great Plains Press' Yellow Dog imprint welcomes queries and submissions for its new non-fiction historical series, "Echoes from Our Past."

Real people, real stories. Canadian Prairies.

Find more information on our website: greatplainspress.ca

#callforsubmissions

23.06.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Portage and Main by Sabrina Janke & Alex Judge

Publication Date: November 2025

Portage and Main is available for pre-order now from our website or from your local bookstore! greatplainspress.ca/books/portag...

#WinnipegHistory #ManitobaHistory #Nonfiction #OneGreatHistory #PortageAndMain

20.06.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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That'll Never Work Here: Book 2 of The City Project by Patty Wiens

Publication Date: October 2025

That'll Never Work Here is available for pre-order on our website or from your local bookstore! (Link in bio)

#Biking #YearRoundCycling #BikeInfrastructure #Winnipeg #WinterCycling #CyclingSafety

19.06.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Songs From This and That Country by Gail Sidonie Sobat

Publication Date: October 2025

Songs From This and That Country is available for pre-order now from our website or from your local bookstore! greatplainspress.ca/books/songs-...

#CanLit #WorldWarII #TheOpera #Drama #AdultFiction

18.06.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blood Letters by Ariel Gordon & GMB Chomichuk

Publication Date: October 2025

Blood Letters is available for pre-order now from our website or from your local bookstore!

greatplainspress.ca/books/blood-...

#GraphicNovel #Robots #Dystopian #YoungAdult #Poetry #CanLit #Letters

17.06.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Pride Month!

Keep the celebration going by checking out these books:

This Is It by Matthew Fox: greatplainspress.ca/books/this-i...

Wonder World by K.R. Byggdin: greatplainspress.ca/books/wonder...

#PrideMonth #QueerLit #CanLit #PrideMonth

@presentingmrfox @krbyggdin

16.06.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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During the month of June, we're teaming up with @49thShelf_Reads again to give away 3 copies of Lost Songs of Nature by Michel Leboeuf, translated form French by Neil MacMillan.

Enter you chance to win on 49th Shelf's website (link in bio)

#BookGiveaway #CanLit #bookstagram #indiepublishing

14.06.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A new review for Lost Songs of Nature from @Forewordreviews

Lost Songs of Nature is now available in Canada! Visit your local bookstore to get your copy today.

#FrenchTranslation #Montreal #naturalism #birding #nature #environment #climatechange #conservation

12.06.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The French to English Translation of Lost Songs of Nature by Michel Labouef is out now in Canada! 🌲

This is an invitation to listen, to discover and rediscover the planet’s ecosystemsβ€”its forests, marshes, swamps, bogs and shorelines.

Translated from the French by Neil Macmillan

10.06.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What an incredible and fun evening @mcnallyrobinson for the launch of You'll Pay For This! by Michel-Durand Wood with host Patty Wiens!

#booklaunch #TheCityProject #nonfiction #municipalfinance #Winnipeg
#urbanism
β€ͺ@pattybikes.com‬

Photos by Ian Mccausland

08.06.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Catch You on The Flipside by β€ͺ@leekvern.bsky.social‬ recently received a review!

Read the full review on Picklemethis.com (Link in bio)

#Political #Thriller #AlbertaAuthor #bookreview #CanLit #Casino

05.06.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to Daren Bernhardt for winning a 2025 Manitoba Day award for Prairie Oddities: Punkinhead, Peculiar Gravity, and More Lesser Known Histories.

#MBArchives #MBHistory #Winnipeg #CanLit #NonFiction

03.06.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The French version of Lost Songs of Nature by Michel Labouef has been selected as a finalist of the Hubert Reeves Prize to celebrate the publication of popular science works in Quebec and French-speaking Canada.

Winners will be announced @acs_qc Awards Gala on June 5.

#FrenchCanadian #HubertReeves

29.05.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Listen now on CKUA!

Lee Kvern joins CKUA Arts & Culture to discuss her book, Catch You on The Flipside.

Link in bio for the full interview.

#Casino #Alberta #CKUA #bookstagram #authorinterview #Philippines #Thriller #CanLit

27.05.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You'll Pay For This is OUT NOW in Canada!

Get your copy now on our website or visit your local bookstore!

#StrongTowns #SustainableCities #Urbanism #Winnipeg #DearWinnipeg #TheCityProject #shoplocal #booklaunch

@ben-durham.bsky.social @strongtowns.org @activetowns.bsky.social

20.05.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Strong Towns is a non-profit organization that offers content and education that "analyzes the failures of the post-war North American development pattern while giving citizens the knowledge and tools to start making our places better today."

#StrongTowns #SustainableCities #Urbanism #Winnipeg

18.05.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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This Is It by Matthew Fox is one of the Literary Press Group of Canada’s
50 Books for 50 Years, a celebration of 50 Canadian books coinciding with the
LPG’s 50th anniversary supporting independent literary publishers.

Browse the whole list at the link in our bio. #lpg50

#queerLit #CanLit #booksky

17.05.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@womenurbanismca.bsky.social
#urbanist #ActiveTowns #StrongTowns #CanadianCities #Non-Fiction #Winnipeg #Calgary #indiepublishing

16.05.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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