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Books and Backroads returns for its third year

Join CBC and rural N.B. libraries for a summer of reading and discussion, focusing on stories that explore and celebrate New Brunswick

Book club discussions at New Brunswick libraries to be featured on Information Morning in the Summer

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Calling all New Brunswick bookworms! Books and Backroads has returned for its third year and CBC New Brunswick is partnering once again with provincial libraries to dive into stories with a local connection.

Books and Backroads producer Cindy Grant is thrilled to be back on the road. "Bringing CBC to libraries to meet people in their communities and hear their opinions about what they're reading is at the heart of this program," she explains. "There's something truly special about connecting over stories that reflect our own landscapes and experiences."

This year, six libraries will host book clubs, all focused on books by New Brunswick authors or with a New Brunswick connection. Starting in July, every Friday morning, one of the book club discussions will be featured on Information Morning in the Summer. Be sure to read along and listen in!

Listen

Information Morning - Saint John13:01Books and Backroads
C​BC's Cindy Grant​ is back with a third season of Books and Backroads. She joins ​K​halil Akhtar to talk about the books and communities we're exploring this summer.

Here are this year's books:
 

One Indian Summer by Wayne Curtis - Plaster Rock Public School Library

A smiling man with white hair and a goatee in a gray rain jacket sitting in a living room.
The author of 'One Indian Summer,' Wayne Curtis (Submitted by Wayne Curtis)

Knife Party at the Hotel Europa by Mark Anthony Jarman - Port Elgin Public Library

A man sitting at a table alongside a canal with a row of tall brick buildings in the background and a small boat in the water.
Fredericton author Mark Anthony Jarman, seen here in Italy, said his collection of short stories, 'Knife Party at the Hotel Europa,' was inspired by a news story from New Brunswick, and a trip to teach creative writing in Italy. (Submitted by Mark Anthony Jarman)

Agony's Lodestone by Laura Keating - Nackawic Public School Library   

A woman sitting on a beach with a straw hat on and a light blue dress shirt with rolled up sleeves.
New Brunswick born author Laura Keating says having her novella included in Books & Backroads this season was wonderful because the horror genre often doesn't get as much attention as more traditional literature. (Submitted by Laura Keating.)


Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards - McAdam Public Library    

Pélagie: The Return to Acadie by Antonine Maillet and Philip Stratford - Bathurst Public Library  

The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad & S.K. Ali illustrated by Hatem Aly, and Sea Glass Summer by Heidi Jardine Stoddart - Grand Manan Library 

Books and Backroads is part of the CBC Collab partnership program with public libraries.

 

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